I’m both sad and excited to announce that on January 1, 2010, I will be moving back to San Francisco to become the restaurant critic for the SF Weekly. For the past three and a half years, I’ve had the privilege of writing about food in Seattle at a time when this city’s restaurant scene is exploding. Covering everything from the Korean suburbs to the newest crop of artisanal butchers has been a blast, and I’m sad to leave a paper that I think is producing some of the sharpest, most interesting writing in Seattle. At the same time, I’m excited to return to San Francisco. Not only is it another one of the nation’s best restaurant cities, it’s the place where I learned to cook, where I ordered my first bowl of pho, where I ate my first bowl of octopus-shrimp cocktail off the side of a taco truck in a grim Oakland parking lot. My roots there run deep.