Get out there and order in! More takeout and delivery in the Mission reviews: Prubechu and Castillito Yucateco
Our map of places open for takeout is here. Prubechu Tonight’s dinner was delivered from...
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Restaurant Reviews
Support your local restaurants – order food for takeout/delivery
Most of us are stuck at home, and while a lot of us are enjoying the extra cooking time, now’s the...
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Kimbara: there’s never enough Peruvian
While we have no shortage of Peruvian restaurants in San Francisco (and, certainly, in the...
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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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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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