Distillations: Café la Boheme, an oasis of chill

Sep 27, 2019 | Eating Now, Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Restaurant Reviews, Today's Mission, Trouble

Café la Boheme is one of my ringers for “chill” any day, any time. Alice said she wanted to drink...

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.

Distillations: At Royal Cuckoo, dark and mysterious, you can expect the unexpected

Sep 13, 2019 | Eating Now, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Restaurant Reviews, Today's Mission, Topics

Every time I’ve met a woman at The Royal Cuckoo, something unexpected has happened. I don’t think...

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.

AL’s Deli: Mash-Up or Mish-Mash?

Sep 7, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Newsletter, Restaurant Reviews, Today's Mission

AL’s Deli is the offspring of AL’s Place – yes, that AL’s Place, the one voted Best New Restaurant...

Distillations: At Bond Bar, every day is casual Friday

Aug 30, 2019 | Eating Now, Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Restaurant Reviews, Today's Mission, Topics

A moment later, Gena stepped over and put shots down in front of them. They stared at her, surprised.

“I heard about the break-up,” she said, and walked away.

It’s one of the most awesome things I’ve seen in a bar in a long time.

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.