A Slice of Life by Lola Chavez

SF Weekly gives Arinell Pizza a shout out:

While we can’t seem to go a San Francisco block without some by-the-slice joint promising a taste of the East Coast, we are all too often left with nothing but a grease-stained napkin and an unsatisfied craving to show for it.

Arinell Pizza in the Mission is a welcomed exception to this rule. Stepping into the unadorned Valencia Street hole in the wall feels a bit like entering a 1980’s New York time warp. Read more here. 

We ran a  video on life at Arinell’s in 2010 and it doesn’t sound like it’s changed much. 

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I’ve been a Mission resident since 1998 and a professor emeritus at Berkeley’s J-school since 2019. I got my start in newspapers at the Albuquerque Tribune in the city where I was born and raised. Like many local news outlets, The Tribune no longer exists. I left daily newspapers after working at The New York Times for the business, foreign and city desks. Lucky for all of us, it is still here.

As an old friend once pointed out, local has long been in my bones. My Master’s Project at Columbia, later published in New York Magazine, was on New York City’s experiment in community boards.

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