NRN.Coi.Dec11 In a relatively short five-year span, Daniel Patterson's intentionally low-key Coi, with its "flavors of place", has sparked plenty of culinary excitement. Open since 2006 in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood, ...

There is a sense of fun and a hint of naughty in this neighborhood; but inside, Coi's style is minimal, ...

Of a beautiful coin of beef, caked lightly in lichen, a server says, “It has ancient flavors common to our ...

In global gastronomy, Rene Redzepi (Noma), Massimo Botura (Osteria Francescana), Alex Atala (D.O.M.), Inaki Aiziparte (Le Chateaubriand) have at ...

Organics, locavorism, the foraging renaissance. You name it most culinary trends are in the U.S. are hatched-or at the very ...

The first thing that pops up on Daniel Patterson's website is a weed.  Well, that's probably being unkind.  It is actually ...

Though lacking a grand theme, a common thread ran through Planting Thoughts, a food symposium held in Copenhagen in late ...

Daniel Patterson was still cleaning the Danish mud off his shoes from an ...

Something seismic happened in 2010 when an obscure Copenhagen restaurant, Noma, replaced El Bulli in Spain as the "world's ...

In June, I was invited to San Francisco along with Claude Bosi, chef-patron of Hibsicus in London, to do a couple ...

Mad? Oui, «Mad», un mot qui veut dire «fou» en anglais, mais aussi «nourriture» en danois. Organisé par un ...

Next month, a series of feasts, meals and exhibitions in Northern California will commemorate the 40th anniversary of the opening ...

"She's my alter ego." Chef Daniel Patterson, 42, gestured to Lucy, his Great Dane who had curled her 120 pounds into ...

Most food conferences take place on the impersonal stage of a large hall, with hundreds of onlookers ...

Vandaag Chef Phillip Kirschen-Clark doesn’t merely bake his own bread—he smokes it with hay. And this is only one example ...

This week’s print column of Scoop contains a few new tidbits, most notably some significant developments in the world of Daniel Patterson. ...

Restaurants have done organic. They’ve done local. Now, the next restaurant innovation just might be how they give ...

Segunda parte del recorrido por California, en concreto el comprendido entre Los Ángeles y San Francisco, con una estrella indiscutible, el COI ...

LAST Thursday, Adam Kopels walked into Torrisi Italian Specialties in NoLIta, opened his messenger bag and pulled out Ziploc bags filled ...

Eater's local editors in NYC, LA, SF, Chicago, Portland, Austin, and Miami nominated candidates for four major local categories: ...

Rene Redzepi, executive chef-owner at Noma in Copenhagen, was in the Coi kitchen ...

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American chef Daniel Patterson strives to create unique dishes that showcase the local California ingredients at his ...

Rene Redzepi was crouched and using a sharp knife to scrape lichen from rocks. The tiny green tubes ...

By cranking up the heat or chilling ingredients in the deep freezer, chefs are challenging diners' expectations—and the results ...

Nettles are symbolic of punishment and plague. They are frequently associated with witchcraft and potion making (nettle tincture is supposed to ...

Coi, San Francisco Dish: Inverted Cherry Tomato Tart At Coi, visionary chef Daniel Patterson (an F&W Best New Chef 1997) idolizes produce in dishes ...

Sainted chefs like Daniel Patterson of Coi love putting customers through the paces of a four-hour meal with senses-challenging courses stretching ...

When Coi chef Daniel Patterson hired Bill Corbett, formerly of Michael Mina, as his company's executive pastry chef, we suspected he ...

The pork-centric chef of NYC's Momofuku name's the most revelatory dishes he's had this year - all (gasp!) vegetarian. Beet and ...

You'll be saying hello to foraging.  San Francisco's Daniel Patterson is one of the many chefs turning to the wild to ...

Any normal hard-working chef could be excused for thinking that the life of super-chefs is just one long party as they ...

Time's up for the aughts, so when better to take a look back at the past decade's dining scene? Of the ...

Daniel Patterson has earned local love and national laurels for the high-wire tasting menus at this elegantly understated spot in North ...

A seasonal 11- course tasting menu is the only option at Coi, but what a glorious option it is-- gourmands of ...

An 11-Course meal at Coi presents astoundingly diverse local ingredients - wild leaves, seaweed, coastal grasses, and heirloom flora and fauna ...

Tourists and seagulls are drawn to Municipal Wharf No. 2 on California’s Monterey Bay — both for the seafood. While picturesque, ...

Incongruously set amid tacky strip clubs in North Beach, Coi (373 Broadway Street; 415-393-9000; www.coirestaurant.com) is a magnet for culinary thrill seekers. The chef ...

At the World Business Summit in Copenhagen two weeks ago today, the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon urged the business leaders of ...

According to this chef who routinely pushes the boundaries of how food is prepared and presented, the ideal kitchen will look ...

A high point of my recent California road trip occurred in, of all places, a San Francisco grocery. The shelves veritably burst ...

While scanning the Russian press a while back, I came across an interview with Anatoly Komm, the country’s top chef. Komm ...

Daniel Patterson, The Chronicle’s newest four-star chef, is also one of the Bay Area’s most creative. On his fixed-price tasting menu ...

Can't get a table? Never mind. At the city's most buzzed-about restaurants, the bar is the place to be. A guy ...

When compiling this annual list of great tastes, it’s my custom to riffle through notebooks and stacks of menus. The hope ...

Dear BA Foodist, What was the best restaurant dish you ate in 2008? —Roberta Russo, Naperville, IL Dear Roberta, Naming just one is impossible. Here ...

Other than the immediate locale, which is a touch on the seedy side, everything else about Coi (pronounced "kwa") is carefully calculated toward ...

Anyone who goes to the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market on Saturday mornings will see Daniel Patterson, looking like a clean-shaven college ...

You may have heard of the Lunar Men, that outrageously high-achieving 18th-century group of friends that included potter Josiah Wedgwood, Charles ...

In this tranquil North Beach restaurant, Daniel Patterson (an F&W Best New Chef 1997) combines his passions for local ingredients and ...

Frank Bruni dined at 15 significant restaurants that opened in 2006 or 2007, and ranked his top 10. This is the ...

Tras su calmada apariencia, Daniel Patterson, del restaurante Coi, en San Francisco, esconde una polémica personalidad que le ha convertido en ...

Our customers don’t seem to notice that they’re eating mostly vegetables. (Except for things like pig’s head, of course.) I’m hardly ...

Mi casa es tu casa. Lo spazio è esiguo, raccolto tra fasce di bambù e soffitti bassi. Luci balsamiche e servizio ...

The complicated genius of chef Daniel Patterson is on display in Coi's muted, earth-toned dining room, in which you feel as ...

Chef-owner Daniel Patterson wears his commitment to the environment on his sleeve at Coi, from the grass-cloth wallpaper to the irregularly ...

Ever since the gold rush, when womenless men and menless women far from their beginnings sought solace in the ad hoc ...

On peut être addict de l'adventure, du saut dans l'inconnu et savoir se recevoir. Pas question donc de s'envoler sur les ailes du hasard: "On ne partira qu'avec une réservation ...

Tucked away in an impossibly intimate sliver on the North Beach fringe, COI fuses the alchemy of micro cuisine with the ...

Chef-writer Daniel Patterson (formerly of Frisson, Elisabeth Daniel, and Babette's) cowrote a book on fragrant food (Aroma), and now he is ...

Most Creative Chef: Coi This 30-seat spot is the new home of Daniel Patterson, known for his experiments with infusions and perfumed ...

Air, Miles Davis et The Durutti Column en bande-son, il y a de la musique dans la cuisine de Daniel Patterson, ...

San Francisco is known for its outspoken radicals, and brilliant if eccentric chef Daniel Patterson is the culinary version. He may ...

Washington Food Critic Tom Sietsema's monthly report from the road. Pow! Daniel Patterson grabs us by the collar at first bite with ...

Chef-writer Daniel Patterson's three-month-old restaurant Coi brings something fresh and unique to San Francisco's crowded dining out  scene. This thoughtful chef ...