Cafe de Olla Brings Oaxaca to the Mission

Dec 10, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

It was pouring rain outside on Saturday, but the new owners of Cafe de Olla inside MEDA at 19th...

Neighborhood notes: Lupulandia opens, Dance Mission, Friday Salsa and more

Nov 22, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics

Lupulandia, a restaurant that seeks to bring the emerging Tijuana food and drink scene to Mission...

New restaurant Prubechu paints over Hunt’s Donuts sign and last remnant of the Mission District’s ‘epicenter of crime’

Nov 18, 2019 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics

An aging sign advertising the long-shuttered Hunt’s Donuts on the side of the building that formerly housed Michelin-starred Commonwealth restaurant at 2224 Mission St., has been painted over by the building’s new occupant. That would be Guamian restaurant Prubechu, now slated to open Dec. 3.

Yasmin, new Middle Eastern eatery, set to open at former Ali Baba’s Cave site this month

Nov 12, 2019 | Business, Eating Now, Featured, Food, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics, Valencia Street

Eltawil said he and his family prepare ingredients daily and aim to be as hospitable as possible to their patrons. Eltawil said he tries to keep customers happy, even if it slims down his profit.

Slice of life: Outside Aramex restaurant, the Mission is gentrifying. But not in here.

Sep 18, 2019 | Eating Now, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

On a recent hot Friday afternoon, the Aramex restaurant near 16th and Mission Street is bustling with action. Noise from the street bleeds in, mixes with the sounds of deep fryers cooking baskets full of chicken while merengue plays from a bluetooth speaker in the kitchen and industrial fans blow the warm air outward. It’s warmer inside Aramex than the rest of the Mission by at least two degrees.

Piri Pica on Valencia closes abruptly, gets evicted the next day

Aug 30, 2019 | Business, Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics, Valencia Street

Piri Pica, a Portuguese style restaurant at 590 Valencia St., closed its doors abruptly on Tuesday...

Young Nepali-born siblings open second Nepalese Mission restaurant

Aug 14, 2019 | Business, Featured, Food, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Topics

Goodbye Germany. Hello Nepal. In the former place of Schmidt’s German restaurant on 20th and Folsom, which closed last year amid rent hikes, a new Nepali tapas restaurant, Base Camp, will open in November.