You’re going to get sick of your own cooking: Takeout at Monk’s Kettle and Mission Curry House

Apr 6, 2020 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Restaurant Reviews

Here is our map of open restaurants in the Mission. This changes often, so check back for updates....

Get out there and order in! More takeout and delivery in the Mission reviews: Prubechu and Castillito Yucateco

Apr 3, 2020 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Restaurant Reviews, Today's Mission

Our map of places open for takeout is here. Prubechu Tonight’s dinner was delivered from...

Support your local restaurants – order food for takeout/delivery

Mar 25, 2020 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Restaurant Reviews, Today's Mission

Most of us are stuck at home, and while a lot of us are enjoying the extra cooking time, now’s the...

Kimbara: there’s never enough Peruvian

Feb 22, 2020 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Restaurant Reviews, Today's Mission

While we have no shortage of Peruvian restaurants in San Francisco (and, certainly, in the...

Review: Lupulandia Brewing – Tijuana en La Misión!

Jan 25, 2020 | Featured, Food, Front Page, Instagram, Newsletter, Restaurant Reviews, Today's Mission

We’ve added yet another brewery to our neighborhood, this one with roots in Tijuana. Its...

Tacos El Patron: like a boss!

Dec 7, 2019 | Featured, Food, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Restaurant Reviews, Today's Mission

Well, we’re back here on this corner again – where Nayarit, sadly, came and went, followed quickly...

Fried Chicken showdown visits the Popeyes apocalypse

Dec 6, 2019 | Featured, Food, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Restaurant Reviews, Today's Mission

Julian, 30-something, and Mark, 70-something, are on a journey to find the Mission’s best fried...

Distillations: The Latin American Club may be the Mission’s best ‘chill bar’

Nov 29, 2019 | Eating Now, Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Restaurant Reviews, Today's Mission, Topics

The bartender at the Latin American Club was in the process of making a long line of nearly 10...

Review: Dear Inga – A love letter to your Oma

Nov 23, 2019 | Featured, Food, Front Page, Instagram, Newsletter, Restaurant Reviews, Today's Mission

Dear Inga, an Eastern European/Georgian restaurant, has moved into the space that housed the much...

Distillations: Big Rec Tap Room a study in contradictions. With beer.

Nov 15, 2019 | Eating Now, Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Restaurant Reviews, Today's Mission, Topics

Ihad expected the Big Rec Tap Room at 24th and Treat streets to be big. An amateur mistake. Both...

Aditi Indian Cuisine replaces an old French favorite and does so with verve

Nov 15, 2019 | Featured, Food, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Restaurant Reviews, Today's Mission

Aditi was a surprise opening for us. Garçon, the long-time and beloved French bistro on the corner...

Dancing Yak: Nepalese in the Mission

Nov 2, 2019 | Featured, Food, Front Page, Newsletter, Restaurant Reviews, Today's Mission

Dancing Yak opened about a year ago. I purposely didn’t go before, because the location it sits in...

Distillations: Alone together at Lolinda … in the dark

Nov 1, 2019 | Eating Now, Featured, Front Page, Inequality, Mobile, Newsletter, Restaurant Reviews, Today's Mission, Topics

We were in Lolinda, talking about loneliness. “I’m told that I lack a sense of emotional object...

Distillations: Virgil’s Sea Room is a bar that won’t sink itself

Oct 25, 2019 | Eating Now, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Restaurant Reviews, Today's Mission, Topics

We ended up having an especially intense conversation, so maybe it was for the best that we were...

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...

Distillations: Barrel Proof is an odd hybrid, with dozens of TVs … and super high-end cocktails. And it works. Sorta.

Oct 11, 2019 | Eating Now, Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Restaurant Reviews, Today's Mission, Topics

“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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