596450 Sun Feb 15 15:39:55 -0800 2009 4 1 San Francisco Bay Area 0 4419925 [This is my first query on Chowhounds in a long time. The last time I asked a question, Chowhounds was a news group (I think).] Are there any walk-in restaurants in the SF Bay Area that serve whole roast pig head? Estragon, a tapas restaurant in the Boston area, serves pig's head on request. A blogger & her friends give it a try: http://limeyg.blogspot.com/2009/02/how-to-eat-pigs-head.html If there was a local restaurant that serves this, I'd give it a try! I've never been at a meal where roasted pig head was the entree. I've been to Hawaiian luaus where whole pigs had been pit roasted. Sun Feb 15 15:39:55 -0800 2009 267130 SpamAndBeans 1 4420066 You could probably special-order one at Incanto or Oliveto, they both break down whole pigs. There are also a number of Filipino places where you can get a whole roast piglet, including the head. http://blogs.sfweekly.com/foodie/lauriston/ Sun Feb 15 16:37:24 -0800 2009 4419925 11369 Robert Lauriston 1 4420496 The French Laundry Cookbook has a pig's head recipe. Maybe you could talk Tom Keller into roasting one up for you? http://carolcookskeller.blogspot.com/2008/05/head-to-toe-part-two-pigs-head.html Pig head tamales are something of a Mexican Christmas tradition. At least, in the part of Mexico that the folks who settled in Texas come from. Christmas in Dallas and the meat case in the grocery store stocked with dozens of frozen cabezas de puerco in clear plastic bags starts to get pretty eerie. Does this happen around here too? Sun Feb 15 19:43:25 -0800 2009 4419925 25310 Chuckles the Clone 1 4420572 Here in Oakland's Chinatown there are several restaurants which have chickens, spare ribs, barbeque pork, roast pork, and so forth hanging in the front window. Frequently there will be the head of the roasted (not barbequed) pig in the window. Crispy ears, crunchy skin--everything you might want. Is that what you are looking for? Sun Feb 15 20:33:19 -0800 2009 4419925 15172 Michael Rodriguez 2 4420612 I think sitting down in a restaurant with friends around a fresh-roasted item would be the better experience than bringing something home and heating it up. Although, maybe warming it up at low oven heat over an hour or so might work. I don't know if one would fit in my microwave! Sun Feb 15 20:55:14 -0800 2009 4420572 267130 SpamAndBeans