Janelle Bitker

@JanelleBitker

senior editor food & wine @sfchronicle | send tips and pitches to [email protected]

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Demian Bulwa@demianbulwa · May 19

Jaw-dropping read: "Thomas Keller is fidgeting on the bench next to mine in the empty courtyard of the French Laundry ... This is not something he is accustomed to doing, he says — asking a critic to leave." By MacKenzie Chung Fegan GIFT LINK: sfchronicle.com/food/restauran…

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Janelle Bitker@JanelleBitker · May 13

Here's an incredible opportunity: The San Francisco Chronicle is looking for our next Food & Wine editor. Is it you? eevd.fa.us6.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

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Mario Cortez@macortez619 · Apr 10

Was your favorite restaurant left off the Chronicle's Top 100 list? Here's your chance to tell us about it! sfchronicle.com/projects/2025/…

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Janelle Bitker@JanelleBitker · Mar 31

TOP 100 RESTAURANTS IS BACK! And it looks pretty different this year. sfchronicle.com/projects/2025/…

JanelleBitker's tweet card. The San Francisco Chronicle’s restaurant critics rank the best places to eat in the Bay Area, from 100 to No. 1. See what’s on the list.

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Chronicle Food@SFChronicleFood · Mar 6

We're throwing a party to celebrate the return of Top 100. You should come. trib.al/lV44S6A

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Janelle Bitker@JanelleBitker · Mar 4

The San Francisco Chronicle's Top 100 restaurants list is coming back this spring for the first time since the pandemic sfchronicle.com/food/restauran…

JanelleBitker's tweet card. We’ve been furiously working to bring back the Top 100 restaurants list — and for the...

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Janelle Bitker@JanelleBitker · Dec 12

A huge new Korean food complex unlike anything else in the Bay Area is opening early next year. @ekadvany got the first tour sfchronicle.com/food/restauran…

JanelleBitker's tweet card. A massive Korean food complex unlike anything in the Bay Area is gearing up to open in...

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Janelle Bitker@JanelleBitker · Dec 4

The best new restaurants of the year... with critic MacKenzie Chung Fegan's favorite revealed tomorrow sfchronicle.com/food/restauran…

JanelleBitker's tweet card. From electric Cantonese cooking to an alluring Southern spot, these are the Bay Area’s...

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Janelle Bitker@JanelleBitker · Nov 29

What does Samin Nosrat want for the holidays? We decided to ask sfchronicle.com/food/article/g…

JanelleBitker's tweet card. We asked Samin Nosrat and other food people with excellent taste what gifts they would...

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Janelle Bitker@JanelleBitker · Nov 22

This driveway coffee shop story is so cute and so Oakland sfchronicle.com/food/restauran…

JanelleBitker's tweet card. One family has started a popular coffee shop right outside their front door: “Every...

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Janelle Bitker@JanelleBitker · Nov 20

Daytrip, one of Oakland's most buzzed-about restaurants nationally, is shutting down for good. Here's why: sfchronicle.com/food/restauran…

JanelleBitker's tweet card. Bon Appetit named it one of the best new restaurants in the country in 2022, but this...

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Sarah Feldberg@sarahfeldberg · Nov 15

@sfchronicle has a gorgeous new cookbook & we’re having a party! Hear about recipe creation & cooking tips from star columnists Christian Reynoso + Amisha Gurbani, wine critic @Esther_mobley + editor @JanelleBitker — plus try bites from the book! sfchronicle.com/events/article…

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Janelle Bitker@JanelleBitker · Nov 14

Good morning, here is an exhaustively researched guide to breakfast burritos in the Bay Area: sfchronicle.com/food/restauran…

JanelleBitker's tweet card. So many restaurants offer breakfast burritos, but only a few make truly great ones....

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Janelle Bitker@JanelleBitker · Nov 12

I wrote about thayir sadam aka curd rice aka South Indian yogurt rice sfchronicle.com/food/restauran…

JanelleBitker's tweet card. Each bowl of Indian yogurt rice is finished with sizzling curry leaves.

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Janelle Bitker@JanelleBitker · Nov 12

Our critic has been eating tasting menus all over the Bay Area. At last, we have the results: These are the 12 best fine dining restaurants right now sfchronicle.com/projects/2024/…

JanelleBitker's tweet card. The fine dining restaurants that will be worth your money, including transportive tasting menus, inventive haute cuisine and Michelin star winners.

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Janelle Bitker@JanelleBitker · Nov 11

Here's everything to know about the food coming to San Francisco's iconic Transamerica Pyramid sfchronicle.com/food/restauran…

JanelleBitker's tweet card. An acclaimed chef brings babka, fresh pasta and more to an iconic city landmark.

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Janelle Bitker@JanelleBitker · Nov 7

MacKenzie Chung Fegan found delicious lamb chops AND a beautiful love story at this San Francisco food court sfchronicle.com/food/restauran…

JanelleBitker's tweet card. Go down the escalator at the woebegone Emporium Centre San Francisco and, amid the slick...

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Janelle Bitker@JanelleBitker · Nov 7

Oakland. Politics. Rumors. Ice cream. sfchronicle.com/food/restauran…

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Janelle Bitker@JanelleBitker · Nov 5

wake me up tomorrow, i'm getting lost in these buttery swirls sfchronicle.com/food/restauran…

JanelleBitker's tweet card. Tarts de Feybesse is poised to become one of the Bay Area’s most serious bakeries with...

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Chronicle Food@SFChronicleFood · Nov 2

Our favorite recipes from the new San Francisco Chronicle cookbook: trib.al/G8S1VOo

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