Review: Lupulandia Brewing – Tijuana en La Misión!
We’ve added yet another brewery to our neighborhood, this one with roots in Tijuana. Its...
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Restaurant Reviews
Tacos El Patron: like a boss!
Well, we’re back here on this corner again – where Nayarit, sadly, came and went, followed quickly...
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Fried Chicken showdown visits the Popeyes apocalypse
Julian, 30-something, and Mark, 70-something, are on a journey to find the Mission’s best fried...
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Distillations: The Latin American Club may be the Mission’s best ‘chill bar’
The bartender at the Latin American Club was in the process of making a long line of nearly 10...
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Review: Dear Inga – A love letter to your Oma
Dear Inga, an Eastern European/Georgian restaurant, has moved into the space that housed the much...
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Distillations: Big Rec Tap Room a study in contradictions. With beer.
Ihad expected the Big Rec Tap Room at 24th and Treat streets to be big. An amateur mistake. Both...
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Aditi Indian Cuisine replaces an old French favorite and does so with verve
Aditi was a surprise opening for us. Garçon, the long-time and beloved French bistro on the corner...
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Dancing Yak: Nepalese in the Mission
Dancing Yak opened about a year ago. I purposely didn’t go before, because the location it sits in...
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Distillations: Alone together at Lolinda … in the dark
We were in Lolinda, talking about loneliness. “I’m told that I lack a sense of emotional object...
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Distillations: Virgil’s Sea Room is a bar that won’t sink itself
We ended up having an especially intense conversation, so maybe it was for the best that we were...
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Restaurant Review: Great Gold – what’s in a name?
Chef/co-owner Brandon Kirksey told me that “Great Gold,” the name of his newly rewired restaurant...
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Distillations: Barrel Proof is an odd hybrid, with dozens of TVs … and super high-end cocktails. And it works. Sorta.
“Hey,” I said, before he went to make it. “So, I’m trying to figure this place out, and here’s the story I’m telling myself about it. This bar was founded by two guys, business partners, and one of them wanted to own a sports bar that would show all the other sports bars up, and the other guy wanted a chill-but-hip whiskey cocktail lounge. And instead of not making a bar together they just each did what they wanted to do, and this is the result.”
The bartender thought about it. “I like that story,” he finally said.
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Distillations: Café la Boheme, an oasis of chill
Café la Boheme is one of my ringers for “chill” any day, any time. Alice said she wanted to drink...
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World of Noodles and Banh Mi: A Little Too Much to Swallow?
Along the short 22nd Street corridor between Mission and Valencia, there has been a flurry of new...
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Finding Mission District pupusas that take me back to my mother’s kitchen
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.
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Distillations: At Royal Cuckoo, dark and mysterious, you can expect the unexpected
Every time I’ve met a woman at The Royal Cuckoo, something unexpected has happened. I don’t think...
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Wed
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Gray Area Grand Theater: The End Of You Series: The Symbiosis Laboratory Workshop
February 19 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
