Restaurant Review: Great Gold – what’s in a name?

Oct 14, 2019 | Featured, Food, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Restaurant Reviews, Today's Mission

Chef/co-owner Brandon Kirksey told me that “Great Gold,” the name of his newly rewired restaurant...

Cheers! El Rio patrons drink to its survival after nonprofit buys Mission Street building.

Oct 12, 2019 | Business, Featured, Food, Front Page, Instagram, Mission Street, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

El Rio, the Mission’s celebrated LGBTQ dive bar, is nearing its 41st birthday — and on Wednesday,...

World of Noodles and Banh Mi: A Little Too Much to Swallow?

Sep 21, 2019 | Featured, Food, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Restaurant Reviews, Today's Mission

Along the short 22nd Street corridor between Mission and Valencia, there has been a flurry of new...

Finding Mission District pupusas that take me back to my mother’s kitchen

Sep 15, 2019 | Eating Now, Featured, Food, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Restaurant Reviews

The sight of freshly cooked Pupusas warms my soul. I’m the child of Salvadoran parents, so pupusas were served for every occasion. Breakfast, lunch, dinner—pupusas are an all-day kind of food. Mexicans and Hondurans make pupusas too, but El Salvador is credited with creating the beloved disk-like treat.

Two family-owned businesses arrive in the Mission: District Tea and Eterna Primavera

Sep 11, 2019 | 24th Street, Featured, Food, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Restaurant Reviews, Today's Mission, Topics

Two family-owned businesses owned by first-generation immigrants opened this summer in the Mission District – District Tea, a Boba tea shop on Mission Street and Eterna Primavera, a Guatemalan bakery in the spot on 24th Street that was once occupied by Dominguez Bakery.

Troje: a silo of good eats

Aug 24, 2019 | Featured, Food, Front Page, Instagram, Newsletter, Restaurant Reviews, Today's Mission

Efram has been in the industry 17 years, and Troje is his first restaurant. But unfortunately, it’s not in a great location, as Nayarit learned. However, along with his wife, who hails from Cuba, and who served us, and their adorable daughter Maya, this is definitely a family affair.

Zaytoon Mediterranean restaurant to set sail from Mission after 10 years

Aug 23, 2019 | Featured, Food, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics, Valencia Street

Owner Christopher Totah said a combination of a staffing shortage and a rent increase caused him to rethink staying.

Bissap Baobab owner Marco Senghor dodges prison sentence in immigration case

Aug 22, 2019 | Featured, Food, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics, Trouble

Staring down a potential 10-year hitch in federal prison for obtaining his citizenship through a sham marriage, Marco Senghor, the owner of the restaurant and dance club Bissap Baobab, was instead today handed one year’s probation and a $1,000 fine.

“I’m very happy with the verdict,” said a misty-eyed Senghor outside the courtroom at the U.S. District Courthouse at 450 Golden Gate, surrounded by friends and family.

Mission Pie holds its 13th, and final, pie contest

Aug 17, 2019 | Featured, Food, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics

Like some of the nearly two dozen pies featured Saturday afternoon at Mission Pie, the day was...

Young Nepali-born siblings open second Nepalese Mission restaurant

Aug 14, 2019 | Business, Featured, Food, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics

Goodbye Germany. Hello Nepal. In the former place of Schmidt’s German restaurant on 20th and Folsom, which closed last year amid rent hikes, a new Nepali tapas restaurant, Base Camp, will open in November.