Moose organized a softball team, the Lapins Sauvages, composed of famous and influential people who were regular restaurant patrons. ". CONTINENTAL HOTEL -- 999 California Street at top of Nob Hill, S.F., (415) 392- 3434: 25 cents for the first martini, the original price Herb Caen paid during World War II. Paul Child really liked the food, but in Woods article, Childs thoughts about the meal remain vague throughout. "Most of the time the seriousness was about some weekly screwup by me," says Brown. Graffiti covers the site of the Tu Lan Vietnamese restaurant on Sixth Street in San Francisco, Calif. on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013, which was shut down by the health department last year. SEAL'S COVE -- Pier 33, S.F., (415) 788-4343: Herb Burger, $5; half-price martinis, $2. GRACE PHOTO -- 456 Montgomery Street, S.F., (415) 788-5587: Bring in film from the Herb Caen candlelight march and receive free developing with prints. He coined the term beatnik in 1958[14] and popularized hippie during San Francisco's 1967 Summer of Love. Most Californians can put off filing taxes until Oct. 16 but should they? CAFE PESCATORE -- 2455 Mason Street, S.F., (415) 561-1111: Herbed Crab Cakes a la Caen, $6.95; Sackamenna Sling (Stoli martini with three dots of vermouth), $5.50. pizza favorite shuts down after 13 years, plus more closings, Your Privacy Choices (Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads). Thank-yous for a mention in the column roll in during lunch at Moose's restaurant on Washington Square, where Mr. Caen's meal of designer pizza is interrupted so he can present a trip to Paris to the lucky lady who named the bronze moose that graces the dining room (she named it Ambrose, after Ambrose Bierce, the acerbic journalist and satirist who wrote a column in San Francisco in the 1890's). The legend has been repeated in the newsroom, and the rest of the city, for decades. FRANCESCHI'S -- 489 Jefferson Street, S.F., (415) 771-9371: Half-price martinis all day. [1], A special Pulitzer Prize called him the "voice and conscience" of San Francisco. SCOTT'S SEAFOOD GRILL & BAR -- 2400 Lombard Street, S.F., (415) 563-8988: Herb's Heavenly Pasta, tagliarini with clams ($5.50); Vitamin V martinis, $1. BOULEVARD RESTAURANT -- One Mission Street, S.F., (415) 543-6084: Big Band music all day and a complimentary taster plate of meat loaf and mashed potatoes when ordering a Vitamin V martini. Caen, Menus du Vaugueux / Entre - Plat ou Plat Dessert 22, .css-m1nlp2{text-transform:uppercase;white-space:nowrap;font-weight:300;padding:0.25rem 0.5rem;font-size:0.8125rem;border-radius:0.25rem;color:hsl(218, 9%, 17%);background-color:hsl(52, 100%, 50%);font-weight:400;width:m;height:m;display:inline-block;}YUMS x2 PAY Japanese, 33 Rue Saint-Sauveur, 14000, CHALKERS BILLIARD CLUB -- Spear and Mission, One Rincon Center, S.F., (415) 512- 0450: Meat loaf and mashed potatoes, $5.95; Gordon's vodka martini special, $2.50 all day. The Bank of America now owned the block where it wanted to build its headquarters. After Wood died, his obituary writer Patricia Yollin remembered the Tu Lan/Julia Child story. But hell, a lot of columnists find a favorite candidate and plug them without being called a . He pays his own way everywhere, he insists, and jostles for a modest lunch check at Moose's to prove the point. Then it's back to the office to answer the mail, with every letter, Mr. Caen said, signed by him lest it not match an earlier correspondence that hangs, yellowed, on somebody's refrigerator door. 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HOTEL GRIFFON/ROTI RESTAURANT -- 155 Steuart Street, S.F., (415) 495-6500: Herb Caen Memorial Cocktail Hour from 6 to 9 p.m. Stoli martini's Herb's Way $3. This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. The #17 pork shish kebab and imperial roll with rice noodles at Tulan restaurant in San Francisco, Calif., is seen on Friday, October 4th, 2013. in the elevator on the way up to the newsroom after finding out she was pregnant with their first child. Bars all over town rolled back prices in the writer's honor and, in the city's top-flight restaurants, experts in nouvelle cuisine cranked out meatloaf, Mr. Caen's favorite dish. The names make people happy, a lesson he learned when he wrote the Corridor Gossip column at Sacramento High School under the byline Raisin Caen. Alcohol abuse is dangerous for your health. [35] A tribute was inserted in the Congressional Record.[36]. "If he had decided to run for mayor, I would have supported him and asked to be police chief. VIVANDE RISTORANTE -- 670 Golden Gate Avenue, S.F., (415) 673-9245: Pasta carbonara for lunch and dinner ($11.50); Vitamin V martinis, $3. Pogash said there are no photos that shes aware of documenting either of Woods meals with Child; the private one or the Tu Lan lunch. SPLENDIDO -- Four Embarcadero Center, S.F. Waiter (and one-time part owner) Edsel Ford Fung, who became famous for berating and insulting the customers, all with tongue in cheek, died Tuesday at age 55, and the skinny old eating place is in mourning. Offer good until Valentine's Day. he'd say. [2], Caen was born to a Jewish father and a non-Jewish mother. Sidney Poitier wore the best-tailored traditional outfit, opines Brown, but Samuel Jackson was best-dressed overall. "The level of my arrogance," says the mayor, "assumes that everything I say is publishable.". SAM'S GRILL -- 374 Bush Street, S.F., (415) 421-0594: Vitamin V martini ($1); meat- loaf and mashed potatoes ($7.50). PEER INN RESTAURANT -- Pier 33, S.F., (415) 788-1411: Bowl of mussels, shot of whiskey and a glass of beer, $3.95. 14000, Its a Chronicle tradition to appoint a pair of veteran journalists to take new employees to coffee, with a budget of $30. Cook Hai Le cooks at Tu Lan on Sixth Street on Oct. 4, 2013. GABBIANO'S RESTAURANT AND OYSTER CAFE -- One Ferry Plaza, S.F., (415) 391-8403: Martinis $1.38 from 10:30 a.m.-9:30 p.m.; In the Bay Room: meat loaf with mushroom sauce, garlic mashed potato and fresh vegetables, $3.38. Then he'd really regret it later. . He always bitched.". And the 77-year-old scribe, thought to be America's longest-running columnist, will write it himself, right down to the last three-dot item. "Herb offset the unfairness of the rest of the paper," he says. "Why don't you retire?" YANK SING -- 427 Battery Street, S.F., (415) 781-1111: Complimentary siu mye, one of Mr. Caen's favorite dim sum items. "The city is 10 times bigger today that it used to be," says Bashford, not at all meaning that bigger is better, "because Herb isn't here to bring us together. "You're in Caen today," one San Franciscan will say to another first thing in the morning, and even the most sophisticated among them are pleased. WATERFRONT RESTAURANT -- Pier 7, S.F., (415) 391-2696: Herb lunch/dinner special. World famous chef, cookbook author and television show host Julia Child, shares a laugh with students from her alma mater, Smith College Thursday, Oct. 11, 2001 in Northampton, Mass. Excepting Caen's four years in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II and a 19501958 stint at The San Francisco Examiner, his column appeared every day except Saturday until 1990, when it dropped to five times per week[10][11]"more than 16,000 columns of 1,000 words each an astounding and unduplicated feat, by far the longest-running newspaper column in the country." 18 Rue Porte au Berger, 14000, Caen Despite more than 50 years of columnizing, when Caen vacationed abroad, says de Wildt, he'd tell friends he had to call home to "find out what's going on.". Hartlaub and columnist Heather Knight co-created the Total SF podcast and event series, engaging with locals to explore and find new ways to celebrate San Francisco and the Bay Area. [31] "I used to watch Herb," says Bashford, "and all the people always on the make with Herb. Readers who turned to Herb on Feb. 14, 1966, learned that Willie Mays' home was on the market for $110,000. We talked that night about politics and butter, both of which she loved.. Herb Caen in the Crown Room atop the Fairmont Hotel in 1996. "Of indebtedness," speculates Brown. Typical is Mimi Farina, sister of Joan Baez,who shouts her thanks from a nearby table because Mr. Caen recently saluted her mother's 80th birthday. Several other names of people who dropped into the group and didn't last are mentioned. Kelly sighs. He crowns "Namephreaks" like Buzz Minnow, a local fisherman, or Shirley Nice, a kindly schoolteacher. The wondrously named and actually quite charming Edsel was the son of Fung Lok, a former owner of Sam Wo, who named his sons Edsel, Edmund and Edwinafter the first names of the Caucasian doctors who delivered them. Mr. Caen says that "people come from miles around," field-trip style, to see the only remaining typewriter in the Chronicle building. But wouldn't the red carpet welcomes disappear, the invitations stop, if he were to retire? FIOR D'ITALIA RESTAURANT -- 601 Union Street, S.F. The four look down the table at the reporter scribbling in her notebook. MOOSE'S -- 1652 Stockton Street, S.F., (415) 954-0744: Meat loaf and mashed potatoes, $1.50; Mini Mooseburgers, 95 cents; Skyy vodka martinis 75 cents. ", Did he ever make a mistake? Despite the traditional male camaraderie of mutual insults, "If he were rude at the table," says de Wildt, "he would call before five o'clock that day and ask, 'Are you still thinking of it?' VIVANDE PORTA VIA -- 2125 Fillmore Street, S.F., (415) 346-4430: Caen's Carbonara lunch special -- fresh fettuccine tossed with pancetta, egg and parmigiano reggiano cheese ($11.50). AT LUNCH WITH: Herb Caen; Romancing San Francisco In 1,000 Words or Less, https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/26/garden/at-lunch-with-herb-caen-romancing-san-francisco-in-1000-words-or-less.html. Dated Nov. 11, 1971. "He gave us a heartbeat for the city. THE SALOON -- 1232 Grant Avenue, S.F., (415) 989-7666: Stoli martinis 75 cents, from 12 to 7 p.m.; recordings of Herb Caen playing drums with the Barry Melton Band. "Doesn't hurt a bit," the warden had said. The menu of Vietnamese restaurant Tu Lan, with an undated Herb Caen item about Julia Child's visit to the establishment on Sixth Street in San Francisco. MAXFIELD'S -- 2 New Montgomery, S.F., (415) 512-1111: Lunch special filet mignon meat loaf with garlic mashed potatoes, asparagus and crispy shallots, and winter fruit tart with creme anglaise, $13.50 from 11.30 to 2 p.m. MCCORMICK & KULETO'S -- 900 N. Point Street, S.F., (415) 929-1730: Well Vitamin V martinis all day for $2. PUCCINI & PINETTI -- 129 Ellis Street, S.F., (415) 392-5500: $2 Stoli martinis. Served all day. When Cecilia first opened the Mandarin in 1960, business was slow. "Herb never needed a note," says Bashford. If so, when, where, how and why did that pairing happen? Caen never mentioned the incident in his column. [20][21][22], Caen took special pleasure in "seeing what he could sneak by his editorshis 'naughties,'" such as this item about a shopper looking for a Barbie doll: Promotional offers are subject to conditions displayed on the restaurants page. Mr. Caen's version of the Winchell three-dot has its own conventions. A Google search in 2019 reveals no backstory, just one guide book-y write up after another repeating Tu Lan, which was once recommended by Julia Child . Playwright and culture writer Michon Boston questioned the myth in a 2012 blog post, and checked Julia Childs papers at the Schlesinger Library in Massachusettes. "I'd get blamed," says Bashford, whose store is practically around the corner on Sutter Street. Its a side you used to see at Christmas time when the local liquor store gave out sandwiches to all comers and the porn theaters put up holly and pine boughs (no mistletoe, they werent that crazy) and the cops, particularly an old timer named Ed Casazza, were there to help, not punish, unless a person was too out of line - that was the Sixth Street I thought Julia Child, the top cook in America, the successor to James Beard, would appreciate. ONE MARKET RESTAURANT -- One Market Street, S.F., (415) 777-5577: $3 Stoli martinis all day; meatloaf and garlic mashed potatoes for lunch ($12.50); live music with Gini Wilson and Paul Breslin from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. PALOMINO -- 345 Spear Street, S.F., (415) 512-7400: Reissue of the Herb Caen Way . But like a Lord of the Rings movie, or perhaps a good Tu Lan meal over too many beers, there are multiple false endings to this story. The Best Restaurants in Caen. "And here I am, 110 pounds at best. "It's like I let them down. he says. French. No date has yet been set for the vows, and there's much teasing over delays, but Brown refuses to join the speculation. KULETO'S -- 221 Powell Street, S.F., (415) 397-7720: Vitamin V Stoli martinis ($3); Big Band music recordings. Mooky's 242 reviews Open Now French, Wine Bar $$ - $$$ Menu "A brilliant restaurant" "IMPATIENCE" 2022 2. LA PASTA -- Ghirardelli Square, 900 North Point Street, S.F., (415) 749-5288: Half-price martinis. Start shopping online now with Instacart to get your favorite products on-demand. One per table. . Heres why California has seen so much active weather, San Francisco is at its most unaffordable point in at least a decade, S.F. While you're making out your Christmas cards, you might remember to send one to Francis Gary Powers, c/o American Embassy, Moscow, USSR. And yet beyond those details, theres almost no information readily available to the public. The Cornish Pasty Co is a European style restaurant serving pasties, which are pastries with unique and savory fillings. "Most of the people looked like they were wearing uniforms from hotel school," huffs de Wildt. Alternatively, you may use. Email: phartlaub@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @PeterHartlaub. He pokes merciless fun at any place that isn't San Francisco, like Oakland ("The Bay Bridge has to end somewhere"), Berkeley (he coined the now ubiquitous "Beserkeley"), Marin County (home of his patented only-in-Marin stories about precious people and their precious lives) and even distant Chico (the Velveeta capital of foodaholic California). Caen, 15 quai Franois Mitterrand, Ed Moose, the convivial owner, tidies up, schmoozes. 'Barbie comes with G.I. "You did not let him be scooped," says Brown, "including stuff on you. Is Californias drought finally over? This page was last edited on 22 December 2022, at 03:21. Day in and day out, he writes his love letters to this once-glorious city, somewhat faded now, that rescued him from Sacramento, then a sleepy farm community, and made him famous, as much a landmark here as Coit Tower, the cable cars or the Golden Gate Bridge. FAIRMONT HOTEL -- 950 Mason Street, S.F., (415) 772-5000: Meat loaf and mashed potatoes in the Crown Room on the buffet; giant $5 Vitamin V martinis in the New Orleans Room and martini specials at the Masons Bar; three-course meal on the Table d'Hote menu, featuring meat loaf, mashed potatoes and a martini $19.97 in Masons Restaurant. Now, prices here are out of reach for all but the lucky few like Mr. Caen, who lives in an apartment atop Nob Hill. 14000, Which means I had a daily call from him. We can make each other laugh." It will be on page 1 of The San Francisco Chronicle, if he has his way, smack in the middle of the page and bordered in black. The Fruity Cafe 129 reviews Closed today Healthy $ "Nice coffee, juice, etc!" There was no record of a visit to the restaurant. Talk turns to the Oscars, and particularly, in this impeccably attired crew -- in Caen's words, "clotheshorse Willie Brown," "the elegant Harry de Wildt," "expensive haberdasher Wilkes Bashford," and "arbiter of yesterdays' fashion Matthew Kelly" -- what was worn. Herb Caen is considering his own obituary. actually, but the ones I do receive are entirely disgusted. He gets up to take the call outside, beginning the conversation by asking Davis, "Hey, brother, how are you?". Biography. ", But "if I don't write an old San Francisco column every couple of months, people get angry," he adds. TADICH GRILL -- 240 California Street, S.F., (415) 391-1849: Meatloaf a la Caen, served with mashed potatoes and a vegetable ($11.95). (415) 931-7710: For lunch, meatloaf with apples served with Rosmarino's garlicky potatoes ($1.38); dinner appetizer: Caenfetti Herbitizer, mushroom caps stuffed with fresh herbs for 38 cents. Best Restaurants in Tempe, AZ - The Porch, Ghost Ranch: Modern Southwest Cuisine, Social Hall, The Peppermill Steakhouse, Alter Ego, The Hudson Eatery & Bar, Word Of Mouth Grill, Society by Evo, Culinary Dropout, Zu Izakaya Alex's favorite is the Staten Island. BUENA VISTA CAFE -- 2765 Hyde Street, S.F., (415) 474-5044: 75-cent martinis on the rocks; BV Burger (Herb's favorite), $3 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. BUTTERFIELD'S SEAFOOD -- 202 Townsend Street, S.F., (415) 281-9001: Meat loaf and mashed potatoes, lunch $8.95; dinner $11.95; Vitamin V Elixir (vodka martini), $1 from 3 to 6 p.m. CADILLAC BAR & RESTAURANT -- One Holland Court, S.F., (415) 543-8226: 99 cent Cadillac martinis all day. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and 5-9:30 p.m. GAYLORD (INDIA) RESTAURANT -- Ghirardelli Square, 900 North Point, S.F., (415) 771- 8822: Half-price Vitamin V martinis at dinner. Jim was a larger than life, brilliant, worldly and funny man, Pogash wrote. "He would call Willie on it," says Bashford. "I would love to think Herb Caen pays for everything," said an executive of a well-known downtown restaurant who once managed another favorite night spot of Caen's. "But I know he doesn't. Herb Caen, April 2, 1958. [6] His many recurring if irregular features included "Namephreaks"people with names (aptronyms) peculiarly appropriate or inappropriate to their vocations or avocations, such as VANESSI'S -- 1177 California at Jones, across from Grace Cathedral, S.F., (415) 771-2422: $1 vodka martinis. home to Smith College. It was a very dirty place, but I enjoyed it and had no ill effects., Peter Hartlaub is The San Francisco Chronicles pop culture critic. ; live music performed by Marilyn Larson until 10 p.m., including Ella Fitzgerald standards and songs from the Big Band era. A martini, soup or salad, choice of: Herbed Chicken, Caen's pasta primavera or petrale sole; and dessert vanilla ice cream (no chocolate or strawberry ice!). Still, he composes a new one from time to time. 14000, THE FLY TRAP RESTAURANT -- 606 Folsom Street, S.F., (415) 243-0580: Tortellini with a sauce of Roquefort cheese, pine nuts and Vitamin V vodka, $12.75, 11:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Reservations required. 14000, Your Privacy Choices (Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads). The chef remembered Wood. The meal was wonderful, although Im not sure that Julia liked it as well as I did, Wood wrote. Joeshe fakes it with Ken.'" After a motorcade and parade ending at the Ferry Building, Caen was honored by "a pantheon of the city's movers, shakers, celebrities and historical figures" including television news legend Walter Cronkite. He involved himself in everything. And would Brown give his close pal the same explanation for the "screwup" that he'd been giving the public? The game is boss dice, explains Brown -- unruffled and perfectly pressed despite spending part of his morning riding a camel in connection with a Silk Road Asian Art Museum event -- not liar's dice, because everyone knows "you can't play liar's dice with a politician. What are the best restaurants in Caen that deliver? "Accuracy was the most important thing," says Brown. But the genre is harder to write these days, Mr. Caen says, now that San Francisco has homeless encampments, graffiti-scarred buildings, overcrowded highways and overpriced real estate, just like other, less self-congratulatory cities. SCOMA'S RESTAURANT -- Pier 47, S.F., (415) 771-4383: Half-price martinis. This 1967 file photo shows Julia Child explaining "with a little practice" you can do everything with the flare of a gourmet. There were public figures who couldn't take the heat. ", "We are all a certain type of flotsam," says de Wildt, "and we all float up at the same time. "Because my name wouldn't be in the paper and I wouldn't know if I was dead or alive," he says, his tongue sharp and his face crisscrossed with the red veins that come from too many shots of what he blithely calls vitamin V. Mr. Caen, a columnist here since 1938 and the last living Walter Winchell imitator, has no plans for retirement. The conversation suddenly slows as Bashford gets serious. POMPEI'S GROTTO -- 340 Jefferson Street, S.F., (415) 776-9265: Vitamin V martinis for $1, from 5 p.m. POSTRIO -- 545 Post Street, S.F., (415) 776- 8358: Herb Caen's name on the menu; $2 Herb Caen martinis. But now his readers are "more defensive than superior. How much snow did Tahoe get? Julia Child approaches cooking in the swashbuckling fashion that has made her the darling of public television. That was the conclusion of several chefs and food magazine editors asked to describe Child's memorable contributions to American home cooking as a new movie about her life is about to open. The Bay Area will catch a break from winter storms for a couple days, but it wont last very long. Lunch begins, as it always began, with each of the gents throwing dice for his drink tab with Toni Staiano, the bartender at Le Central. ". The Bay Area is catching a break from winter storms. The radio assignment lasted but a few years, replaced by the current column, a blatant imitation of Walter Winchell, then the man about town in New York. THE FRANCISCAN -- Pier 43 1/2, S.F., (415) 362- 7733: Herb Caen Martini Special, Tanqueray Gin Martini, Ketel One Vodka Martini, Absolut Kurant Cosmopolitan, Maker's Mark Bourbon Manhattan in a choice of two sizes: $3, $5. This was particularly appropriate given the recent demolition of an eyesore against which Caen had long campaigned: the elevated Embarcadero Freeway, built astride the Embarcadero forty years earlier and derided by Caen as "The Dambarcadero." Caen, 2023 La FourchetteSAS - All rights reserved. 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