Yesterday, I dropped in on Butter Love Bakeshop's new pop-up shop at Adorabella's (4401 18th St.) in the Castro, and owner and head baker Esa Yonn-Brown immediately got to work cooking one of her new yeast-risen waffles for me. Just after peeling the golden, light-as-air confection from the iron, she gave it a healthy shellack of soft maple butter. And with good reason:  "If you've got 'butter' in our name," says Yonn-Brown. "You kind of have to do the butter thing right." 

At the city’s best coffee shops, a fresh batch of bakeries is bringing inspired pastry pairings. Mornings never looked so bright.

San Franciscans are generally a well-fed bunch, but clearly they’ve been starved for pastrami—and not simply between two slices of double-baked rye. They’ve been hankering for pastrami cheese fries (a mess of pastrami plus béchamel, onions, Russian dressing, and pickles), a burger made of beef ground with pastrami and smeared with a beet-horseradish spread, and a crispy pastrami and fried egg sandwich (called The Semite).

The best chefs in San Francisco are getting together for dinner, and you’re invited. SF Chefs, in partnership with 7x7, Campari, and KCBS, has created The Dinner Party Project — a dinner series showcasing the longtime friendships between some the city’s best chefs. Chef friends will collaborate to create once-in-a-lifetime meals, sharing with diners a unique glimpse into their friendships, cooking styles and culinary visions. Each dinner will begin with a handcrafted Campari aperitif. The series will benefit the Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture.