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Restaurant reviews by Patricia Unterman
| Hearty, heartfelt fare served authentically at Hakka | 05 March 10 |
| Superlative, flavorful barroom dining at Bruno’s | 26 February 10 |
| Kokko grills up great Japanese chicken skewers | 19 February 10 |
The above are only the latest three reviews.
See a list of all available reviews.
About Patricia Unterman
Food has been my main interest since my adolescence, so much so that in the early 70’s, I changed careers to become a cook. Naturally, since that time, I have always followed the significant reviews of restaurants in the San Francisco Bay area, my home since 1964. In the early 80’s, I discovered the most respected restaurant critic in the region, Patricia Unterman, at the time writing reviews for the San Francisco Chronicle.
She busted me for using old garlic when I was the chef at short-lived Cafe San Lucas on Bush in the mid 80’s; and a second time in her Food Lover’s Guide when I let the food at Timo’s slide a little. She was right both times. I have actually seen her only twice: once in the mid 90’s, when I was fortuitously introduced to her at one of the local farmer’s markets; then some years later when I waived to her from a distance (I am not even sure she noticed) at a very special dinner cooked by Marc Meneau at Ernie’s.
In the early to mid-90’s, I lost track of her for a while, when she left the newspaper – that was the Chronicle’s loss. I caught up with her again, at the Examiner, where she is to this day writing her weekly reviews. If you ask me, she is still the best food/restaurant critic the Bay area has seen since I arrived in 1964.
I am very fortunate, and consider it an honor, that she is allowing me to re-publish her Examiner restaurant reviews, something we arranged recently by e-mail. Now you can read these reviews in English or Spanish – translated by me personally. These reviews are not her only food-related writings. If you live in the Bay area and don’t know who she is, you need to get out a little more – or learn more about her on this page in her restaurant web site.