Plumpjack Pulls Foie From Menus

Looks like the mayor’s own restaurant group has pulled foie gras from its menus after last week’s media flurry around the Board of Supervisors’ resolution commending restaurants that stopped serving the controversial pate in advance of a 2012 state ban.

According to the Chronicle’s City Insider, Mayor Gavin Newsom, who does not directly control the restaurant group while in office, received more than 100 critical e-mails after last week’s news that the Plumpjack restaurants (which include, in San Francisco, Balboa Cafe, PlumpJack Cafe, and Jack Falstaff) serve foie.

Gavin’s sister, Hillary Newsom, who runs the restaurant group right now, told a different Chronicle blog that the decision had nothing to do with a recent letter from PETA calling on the Plumpjack group to stop serving the foie gras.

The move marks a distinct change for the Newsoms. In 2003, the Chronicle’s food section interviewed then-mayoral candidates Gavin Newsom and Matt Gonzales, asking them which should be illegal between foie gras and marijuana. Gonzales said foie, Newsom said neither.

The prize quote for this story goes to legislation sponsor Ross Mirkarimi, who told the Chron, “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.” Indeed.

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Plumpjack Pulls Foie From Menus