Patricia Unterman has been a restaurant critic, chef, and food writer in San Francisco for over 30 years.
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Patricia Unterman currently writes restaurant reviews and food columns for the San Francisco Examiner and articles for Gourmet, Food and Wine, Bon Appetit, and other publications. |
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Patricia Unterman's San Francisco Food Lovers' Guide (3rd. ed., Ten Speed Press) is available in bookstores in April, 2003. |
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For five years, Patricia Unterman has published Unterman on Food, a bi-monthly newsletter. Her private newsletter is a guide to food, wine, dining, and travel. |
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Patricia Unterman is chef and co-owner of the Hayes Street Grill in San Francisco. The restaurant specializes in grilled fish and local, seasonal foods, much of it purchased directly from farmers and producers. Hayes Street Grill is now celebrating its twenty-fourth anniversary. |
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She is a founder and board member of the Ferry Plaza Farmers' Market in San Francisco, a market devoted to sustainable agriculture. See ferryplazafarmersmarket.com |
Unterman grew up in Evanston, Illinois and graduated from Stanford University. She attended the graduate school of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. Instead of writing a thesis, she opened a small restaurant in Berkeley in the early seventies called the Beggar's Banquet. Shortly after that she became the Underground Gourmet for New West Magazine. In 1979 she opened the Hayes Street Grill in San Francisco and became the restaurant critic for the San Francisco Chronicle for the next fifteen years. Later, after writing the San Francisco Food Lovers' Guide, she joined the San Francisco Examiner as restaurant critic and food columnist, where she continues to write today.
