
Cesar Hernandez
Associate Restaurant Critic at San Francisco Chronicle
Associate restaurant critic @sfchronicle. Writer Out of the Shadows pod. Host @pilotboiz. before: @lataco (James Beard team) and others. [email protected]
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3 days ago |
sfchronicle.com | Cesar Hernandez |César Hernández
Over the past three years, I’ve witnessed a single stretch of Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood transform into a bustling street food hub unlike any other in the Bay Area. In 2021, the options here on Foothill Boulevard were slim, with only a pair of Guatemalan stands. Now, depending on the day and time, there are between 10 and 20 different stalls selling Mexican huaraches, Guatemalan sandwiches, Salvadoran hen soup and Honduran baleadas, a folded-over flour tortilla stuffed with beans and more.
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1 week ago |
sfchronicle.com | Cesar Hernandez |César Hernández
Spread Kitchen’s dip platter with whipped feta and beet, baba ganoush, muhammara and Beiruti hummus. Erik Castro/Special to The ChronicleFried cauliflower from Spread Kitchen in Sonoma. Erik Castro/Special to The ChronicleIt’s impossible to have drab food at Spread Kitchen. The dishes are vividly colorful with even brighter flavors. Look no further than the Lebanese restaurant’s stunning mezzes.
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2 weeks ago |
sfchronicle.com | Cesar Hernandez |César Hernández |MacKenzie Chung Fegan
As a restaurant critic, seeing a burger on a menu poses a dilemma. On the one hand: I want it. On the other, it’s often not the best representation of what a restaurant has to offer. Burgers are often, if not a loss leader, an inexpensive concession to diners’ wallets, a menu item that chefs love to hate. For our 2025 update of the top burgers in the Bay Area, we’ve included several restaurants where, concessions though they may be, the burgers are both ambitious and wildly successful.
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1 month ago |
sfchronicle.com | Cesar Hernandez |César Hernández
Chef and owner John Lindsey drizzles basil cream over tomato soup at Rusty Ladle in San Francisco. The new restaurant is bringing soup lovers and kids to the Outer Sunset. Yalonda M. James/S.F. ChronicleRusty Ladle chef and owner John Lindsey works in the kitchen. He opened the restaurant late last year. Yalonda M. James/S.F. ChronicleRusty Ladle is located at 3645 Lawton St. in San Francisco. Yalonda M. James/S.F. ChronicleFelipe Pereira and Christy Pineda Pereira enjoy their soup inside Rusty Ladle.
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1 month ago |
sfchronicle.com | Cesar Hernandez |César Hernández |MacKenzie Chung Fegan
I never tire of eating in Oakland, a city that’s constantly teaching me more about gastronomy. Some of the Bay Area’s most exciting restaurants reside here, boldly and proudly repping the Town. Defining “Oakland style” proves difficult, but lack of inhibition and fearlessness come to mind. Then there are all the phenomenal Mexican restaurants and taquerias, the likes of which simply do not exist elsewhere in the Bay Area.
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