Since the Baker & Banker family just had another baby, they were featured in an article by Jackie Burell discussing Mother’s Day breakfast.

Highlights the different roles that both Jeff and Lori hold in the kitchen, as well as some of our popular dishes!

The breaking news of our newest addition to the family!

Great coverage of our Passover Dinner here at Baker & Banker!

We made the list for our fantastic Easter Brunch Menu

Coverage of our Passover menu that appeared on the homepage of About.com!

Our Passover dinner was a great hit this year, were you able to join us?

What could be more romantic than a restaurant run by its own culinary couple? Executive Chef/Owner, Jeff Banker, and Pastry Chef/Owner, Lori Baker, are a husband and wife team. Valentine’s Day dinner features a special five course prix fixe menu at $95 per person, $45 additional for wine pairings. Indulge in desserts from the bakery including the Red Hot Velvet Cupcake, Strawberry Champagne Cake, Conversation Heart Cake, or Passionfruit Cheesecake.

With a last name like "Baker," could we really expect anything less than perfection from Chef Lori at this Pac Heights neighborhood joint? Probably not. And boy does she deliver on the fresh-out-the-oven goods, including our prized pick, a dark-chocolate cupcake filled with salted-caramel and dark-chocolate frosting. Sound like ecstasy? It is. Pair it with Baker’s much-lauded XXX Triple Dark-Chocolate Layer Cake

, and you’ve got yourself one sweet Valentine’s Day…no matter your relationship status. 

The Super Bowl is always a good excuse to hang out with friends, sip beer, and pile on the junk food, but it’s extra-special this year, thanks to the 49ers’ appearance and their quest to tie the Steelers for the most all-time Super Bowl wins (not to mention maintain a perfect 6-0 Super Bowl record). But while many see the game as an excuse to hit the bars, we’re of the opinion that the Super Bowl, that laziest of American minor holidays, should be enjoyed in the comfort of your own home, with that expensive television you worked so hard to buy. (This strategy is also good for avoiding a reprise of October’s Giants riots.) So we’ve rounded up 12 spots that are offering special Super Bowl takeout options. With plenty of mac and cheese, Cajun spices, andwings, wings, wings, this is definitely not a lineup for the health-conscious, but paired with a few six-packs of your favorite craft brew and some strategically placed Tums

, it should make for a satisfying Sunday evening as you cheer the Niners to victory.

Especially when it comes to holiday treats from San Francisco’s Baker & Banker bakery.

While Chef-Owner Jeff Banker will be offering a five-course tasting menu on Valentine’s Day, his wife, Pastry Chef-Owner Lori Baker will be whipping up a bevy of specialty baked goods.

They include an adorable Conversation Heart Cake (red velvet caked with cream cheese frosting or dark chocolate cake with ganache frosting — both shaped like hearts; 6-inch one for $50 or 10-inch one for $85), as well as Red Hot Red Velvet cupcakes ($14 for four), Strawberry Champagne Cupcakes ($14 for four), and a passion fruit cheesecake with guava caramel (a 6-inch one for $30 or a 10-inch one for $50).

Warning: Valentine’s Day is a mere 31 days away. Take control of the situation and snag a reservation at one of these tables now, and then… relax. The value of the right table should never be underestimated.

Lori Baker loves warm, developed flavors in her baked goods at Baker & Banker. She has an enormous cinnamon roll with brown butter cream cheese frosting that can’t be waxed poetic enough about

. She even found a way to use brown butter in her chocolate chip cookies, which adds a deep toffee flavor. Different-sized chunks of chocolate can be found throughout, some small, and some so large you get a mouthful of rich chocolate. It’s finished in a dainty sprinkle of vanilla salt. 

Whether you overindulged over the holidays, drank too much on New Year’s or made a resolution to lose a few pounds, we’ve rounded up 10 delectable, detoxifying and diet-friendly dishes in the Bay Area to help you get back on track. 

Staying on the cutting edge is an implicit part of a meeting planner’s job description. Wowing attendees and getting them to return year after year requires knowing what’s hot, next and new. At the same time, satisfying stakeholders and CEOs demands that you understand the most efficient, cost-effective ways to do business in the current year’s landscape.

Sure, a bevy of tourist traps will remain open for Christmas Eve (e.g.,Benihana, Cioppino’s on the Wharf, Stinking Rose, et al.), but other places that won’t offend your tissue-tender gastronomical sensibilities are as well. Noted eateries from Hogs & Rocks to Flour + Water to A!6 will be able to fill your gut prior to Santa’s arrival. For those of you who have yet to seal your Christmas Eve plans (some of us come from families who placed greater importance on Christmas Eve dinner than Christmas Day dinner; we fall into the former category), here’s a list of places you might enjoy.

Dining at Baker and Banker is memorable, from the tranquil space and service to husband-wife chef duo Jeff Banker and Lori Baker’s finely crafted food. A chef’s table and tasting menu (at $75 per person) in the active bakery is a key way to sample their range, including Lori’s exquisite desserts, much of which is available at their bakery during the day. Cult classic XXX chocolate cake is merely a starting point. A restaurant dessert that stays with me? Divine candied bacon doughnuts oozing with bourbon cheesecake filling under maple glaze. Bacon doughnuts may be overdone elsewhere, but there’s none quite like B&B’s.

 There’s a new way for restaurant groupies to get up-close-and-personal with the chefs they revere: Kitchit, an online company that connects great pro cooks with fans who want to hire them for parties.  Here, San Francisco chef Jeff Banker grills a rooftop feast. 

Baker & Banker: Jeff Banker was a line cook at the Meetinghouse, an earlier incarnation of the current restaurant space. The space was originally an apothecary. 

During her time at Home Restaurant, Lori Baker developed her signature banana bread pudding. Following the restaurant’s closure, Lori continued the tradition at the Baker & Banker bakery.

Lori’s Killer Bread Pudding at Baker and Banker
Who says bread pudding has to be whipped up using yesterday’s boring old loaves? At Baker and Banker, they like to mix up the traditional recipe by taking ultra-moist banana bread and soaking it in creamy custard. And as if that wasn’t mouth-watering enough, the resto’s bakery likes to serve it up sitting atop syrupy sweet caramel sauce, and garnishing it with house-made vanilla whipped cream that balances out the sauce, for an overall cake-like effect. You’ll never think of banana bread the same way.

Lori Baker and Jeffrey Banker fulfilled a joint dream in 2009 by combining their culinary skills—he’s the chef and she’s the pastry chef—as well as their names to open the San Francisco restaurant Baker & Banker. Together, they maintain the restaurant, care for their 14-month-old baby and still make time for intimate dinners together.  “I like it when [Jeffrey] cooks for us. He keeps it pretty simple—a nice salad, homemade pasta or roasted chicken,” says Lori. For dessert on special occasions, Lori bakes their favorite, Belgian Chocolate Mousse. She presents the warm mousse in martini or wine glasses, garnished with whipped cream and chocolate shavings.

Not a day goes by that I’m not challenged by a reader e-mail, whether it’s someone looking for a place to dine by the airport, a diner who craves cioppino or someone wanting to find the best chocolate desserts in the city.

This last request came in yesterday and I immediately began to compile a list of the best.  Once I started remembering all the ones I’ve had, I was covered in chocolate, so I decided to put together a list of my favorites.

I’d love to hear your thoughts;  I think I see an edition of “Six of a Kind,” my monthly Chronicle Magazine piece, coming into focus.

One of the most memorable is the XXX Triple Dark Chocolate layer cake at  Baker and Banker, created by pastry chef/owner Lori Baker. The slice contains a bottom layer of moist flourless cake, topped with chocolate cheesecake, devil’s food cake and a glaze of bittersweet chocolate ganache.

If there’s one restaurant where I’d like to begin with dessert, it’s Baker & Banker. Even though I don’t even care that much about chocolate, I crave Lori Baker’s XXX- triple dark chocolate layer cake. It’s a mile-high slice featuring a bottom layer of moist flourless cake, topped with layers of chocolate cheesecake and devil’s food cake, and a glaze of bittersweet chocolate ganache.

Dominique Crenn kicked off Fifth Floor’s heritage-based guest chef series yesterday, and today, it’s Jeff Banker‘s turn to join David Bazirgan, which means it’s Scoop’s chance to chat with Banker about life, restaurants, childhood holiday memories and so on and so forth. In late 2009, Banker and his wife, Lori Baker, took over the former Quince, and completely redid the Pacific Heights space to open their cozy three-star restaurant, Baker & Banker. Let’s chat.

Husband/wife duo, Lori Baker and Jeff Banker, interact with diners during Sunday brunch at their restaurant Baker and Banker. Jeff delivers dishes to tables, chatting with patrons, while Lori spends her time between the restaurant and next-door bakery.

Just in time for Thanksgiving, OpenTable Inc., the online restaurant reservation system, has compiled its list of the Top 100 American Fare Restaurants in the United States. The San Francisco-based company gathered its top 100 rankings from more than 10 million reviews by its users, covering more than 12,000 restaurants in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

This year, Lori Baker and Jeff Banker started serving fine-dining brunch at their Pacific Heights restaurant, Baker & Banker. One of the stand-outs is their house-smoked trout on top of a potato latke with pickled beets and a pile of shaved fennel. While their secret to smoking trout is still hush-hush, you can get a high-quality version at most grocery stores to recreate the dish at home.

The Bay Area’s Chez Panisse is still the mothership for foodies, but there are plenty more restaurants serving sustainable, seasonal cuisine, among them, Baker and Banker in Pacific Heights.

Jeff Banker has a global view and creates savory courses that might include a squash salad with Moroccan spices or brioche-stuffed quail with bourbon-maple glaze. Lori Baker ends the meal on a high note.

It’s appropriate that the pastry chef of this Pacific Heights restaurant is Lori Baker, who owns the restaurant with her chef-husband, Jeffrey Banker. They took over the space that once housed Quince and created an elegant brasserie. The signature dessert is XXX Triple Dark chocolate layer cake, a mile-high slice of cake featuring a bottom layer of moist flourless cake, topped with layers of chocolate cheesecake and devil’s food cake and a glaze of bittersweet chocolate ganache.

Last year the excitement was in the East Bay, but this year the focus returns to San Francisco with the opening of such spots as Baker & Banker, Nombe and the three James Beard nominees.

It’s hard to take over the space that once housed a popular restaurant and live up to the comparisons diners make, especially if the previous place was as popular as Quince.  Yet when Quince left Octavia Street and took over the equally popular Myth, the Quince team navigated those waters beautifully. Miraculously, Jeffrey Banker and Lori Baker have pulled off a similar coup in reinventing the old Quince location. Overall rating: 3 stars

Baker & Banker? That would be Pastry Chef Lori Baker and her husband, Chef Jeff Banker, who have taken over the beloved Octavia Street spot that was once home to Quince and the Meetinghouse.

I was sinking my choppers into such a soft, fluffy, flavorful piece of whole wheat and honey bread, and realized, yup, this place is different. It made me think of my mom’s homemade wheat bread, and right then, I felt at home.

"Banker" might not be the most auspicious word to attach to yourself in these parlous times — people used to rob banks; now it seems to be the other way around — but what if it’s your surname? In a series of small ironies and convolutions, you’re a chef not a banker — a chef named ...

See Chefs Jeff Banker and Lori Baker on the local San Francisco TV show,  View from the Bay. They made a romantic Valentine dinner for two featuring potato pancakes, smoked trout and champagne cake with strawberry butter cream frosting!

“We were both obsessed with food,” Banker says. “The whole time we knew we wanted to open our own restaurant. We always had a really clear-cut vision. We were just looking for the right place.”

Once an apothecary, the Pacific Heights Victorian at the corner of Octavia and Bush streets more recently has been home to a number of high-profile restaurants: Robert, The Meetinghouse, Quince and now Baker & Banker,  an inviting small dinner ...

Lori Baker and Jeff Banker, owners of the two-month-old Baker and Banker in Pacific Heights, are not the ones to break a winning streak. They’re the third pair in a row to run a successful restaurant in the same spot on the corner of Octavia and Bush. The first was the Meetinghouse…