Purchase tickets for Le Grand Fooding, which will take place on September 24 and 25, 2010 here: http://www.legrandfooding.com/reservation.php?partner=coirestaurant.com As Bon Appetit describes: Burritos ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...