Review: Rintaro soars in the Mission

Posted by Maria C. Ascarrunz | Aug 18, 2018 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Restaurant Reviews, Today's Mission

Izakaya Rintaro opened in 2015, by Chez Panisse alum, Chef Sylvan Brackett. Although Chef...

Son’s Addition: It All Adds Up!

Posted by Maria C. Ascarrunz | Jul 28, 2018 | Featured, Food, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Restaurant Reviews, Today's Mission

Son’s Addition opened late last year and brought a family-friendly, approachable, upscale...

Francisca’s: a chef re-emerges in SF’s Mission

Posted by Maria C. Ascarrunz | Jul 1, 2018 | Featured, Food, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Restaurant Reviews, Today's Mission

Chef Manny Torres Gimenez has owned four restaurants in the Mission now, with different degrees of...

The Morris: Your Neighborhood Destination Place

Posted by Maria C. Ascarrunz | Jun 2, 2018 | Featured, Food, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Restaurant Reviews, Today's Mission

The Morris has only been in existence for just over a year-and-a-half, but owing to its location...

Prubechu – Guam in the House!

Posted by Maria C. Ascarrunz | May 19, 2018 | Featured, Food, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Restaurant Reviews, Today's Mission

Prubechu opened four years ago to only a modicum of fanfare. While the cuisine itself caused a...

Rite Spot Café — The Bar that dreams are made of

Posted by Maria C. Ascarrunz | Apr 21, 2018 | Featured, Food, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Restaurant Reviews, Today's Mission

Who knew the Rite Spot had been around for 60 years? Everyone but me, that’s who. I’m horribly...

Vegan Gracias Madre survives well — thank you, Mother!

Posted by Maria C. Ascarrunz | Apr 2, 2018 | Featured, Food, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Restaurant Reviews, Today's Mission

“Gracias Madre” means, essentially, “Thank you, Mother Earth.” The food here is...

Lotus SF — Classic North Indian Fare

Posted by Maria C. Ascarrunz | Mar 10, 2018 | Featured, Food, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Restaurant Reviews, Today's Mission

Lotus SF has barely been open six weeks, but its look so intrigued me, I had to check it out. It...

Picaro and Esperpento, two long-lived tapas restaurants, one family

Posted by Maria C. Ascarrunz | Feb 24, 2018 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Restaurant Reviews, Today's Mission

Picaro and Esperpento have been in the Mission a very long time — 35 and 25 years,...

Fried chicken sandwich showdown visits Buttermilk

Posted by Mark Rabine | Feb 22, 2018 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Restaurant Reviews, Today's Mission

Julian, 20-something, and Mark, 70-something, will be hunting for the Mission’s best fried chicken...

Las Palmeras — Come for the Sopa, Stay for the Pupusas

Posted by Maria C. Ascarrunz | Feb 10, 2018 | Featured, Food, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Restaurant Reviews, Today's Mission

I’ve been walking by Las Palmeras for years — 13, to be exact. But they’ve been around for...

Hawker Fare — Isaan Thai Street Food on Valencia

Posted by Maria C. Ascarrunz | Feb 3, 2018 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Restaurant Reviews, Today's Mission

Hawker Fare is Chef James Syhabout’s San Francisco outpost of his now-shuttered Oakland...

Foxsister, Korean in the Mission!

Posted by Maria C. Ascarrunz | Jan 6, 2018 | Featured, Food, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Restaurant Reviews, Today's Mission

We’ve had a smattering of Korean joints here and there in the Mission, but really not much to...

Gallardo’s: Classic Mexican

Posted by Maria C. Ascarrunz | Dec 23, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Restaurant Reviews, Today's Mission

Gallardo’s was new to me, but certainly not to the Mission. They’d been around for 17 years at...

Alma Cocina – more Peruvian in the Mission!

Posted by Maria C. Ascarrunz | Dec 9, 2017 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Restaurant Reviews, Today's Mission

We are such a lucky neighborhood. We have so many options for places to eat, at every price point...

Spice Jar: Asian Fusion in the Mission

Posted by Maria C. Ascarrunz | Nov 4, 2017 | Featured, Food, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Restaurant Reviews, Today's Mission

Housed in a little shoebox on the corner of Bryant and 23rd, I had no idea Spice Jar had been here...

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