The Fabulous Fior Weblog

Recently customer Barry Wester wrote to us with this comment:

“We recently enjoyed a very good meal at your restaurant, but were surprised that you have a surcharge added to the bill. Why is this?”

Barry, we don’t like it either!

Over the past year the City and County of San Francisco have imposed charges…

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From the blog, Tommy Lasorda’s World: My Favorite Restaurants

Having managed the Dodgers for 20 years, I have had the chance to travel these great United States extensively. I have been enriched because I have met many great people, and have been fortunate to have eaten in the greatest restaurants in the country. Many Americans…

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It was not uncommon among Italian immigrants of that era to desert the gold fields and resume a trade in San Francisco and its environs that they knew from the old country. Angelo Del Monte was one who made good with this fall-back strategy. Although he had left the gold camps in disgust, he learned…

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The Fior d’ Italia, as it has for the past 10 years, was a sponsor of the 2007 Grand National Rodeo and Stock Show at the Cow Palace, April 4 to 16. The Fior’s proprietors Bob and Jinx Larive always enjoy the action — bareback riding, steer wrestling, barrel racing, saddle bronc and bull riding,…

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