The city is expensive, but your next meal doesn’t have to be. The $25 Diner hunts down the best restaurants where you can eat like royalty for a song.
Chef Alfred Schilling has already lived a life. During his recent — and brief — retirement, the former master chocolatier behind SF’s Alfred Schilling Chocolate(opens in new tab) tracked Siberian tigers in Russia and chased gorillas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. At the start of his career, he worked at Maxim’s in Paris; by its apex, he’d cooked for four U.S. presidents.
