SMOKIN': Jasper's recreates backyard cooking in a comfortable setting. TRANSITION: Partners Michael and Liz Symon (below) think Lolita better suits the gentrified setting where Lola was a pioneer. Lola is expected to lend some cachet to its...

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DOUBLE TEAMING: Choices like air fries and wraps bring customers in, but sales on the retail side are the big profit items at KnowFat! METHODICAL: Top guns Spitz, Jacobus and Nadaff have tinkered with KnowFat! to make it a viable...

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Paul Kahan CLEAN: Blackbird's clean, sophisticated look, a James Beard Award winner, puts the emphasis on Kahan's food. Take a look at Blackbird's Chef Paul Kahan and you'd swear the guy looks like he just rolled out of bed. But the...

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Charles Phan VIEW: Slanted Door is now located in the waterfront Perry Marketplace. There are turning points in everyone's culinary life, and surely anyone who has eaten at The Slanted Door in San Francisco has experienced one. Few of us...