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UPDATE: After just 8 months, AL’s Deli suddenly closed the week of 3/9/20 citing a drop in corporate catering business.
AL’s Place on the edge of San Francisco’s Mission District has built a reputation as an innovative restaurant with a vegetable-focused menu. Chef Aaron London opened a spin-off last year called AL’s Deli, and […]
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There’s no signage or obvious indication outside Bon Voyage bar that shows this is San Francisco’s latest new hotspot. In a way, the frosted glass walls hide the interior that when you enter makes you feel like you’re walking into another world.
The bar, a spin off of the widely popular Trick Dog, plays up […]
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Kahnfections is a 1-year-old Mission neighborhood bakery cafe flying under the radar in a city where people line up for hours for a flakey croissant, cruffin or kouign amann. It doesn’t have a high-profile spot on busy Valencia or Mission Street, but it does have heart.
The tiny spot on 20th […]
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High-end omakase menus continue to trend in the San Francisco Bay Area, and this past weekend I checked out the latest entry from noted Chef Masa Sasaki (Maruya) and his self-named Sasaki on the edge of the city’s Mission neighborhood.
The unassuming corner spot (across the street of the popular Flour + Water) telegraphs the […]
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The story: The Morris is the highly anticipated new restaurant from Paul Einbund, a sommelier who has worked at some of San Francisco’s finer establishments, from Daniel Patterson’s Coi to Melissa Perello’s Frances. He’s now struck out on his own, opening the splashy new restaurant in the former home of longtime Slow Club on Mariposa.
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The story: It’s no coincidence that the rise of Outerlands occurred when its kitchen was under the helm of Brett Cooper. Now the chef is back in a more elegant-but-still-casual dining room in the Mission with Aster, in cooperation with the Daniel Patterson Group.
Why I went: The Mission is a lot easier for me […]
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The story: AL’s Place on the edge of San Francisco’s Mission District is named after Chef/Owner Aaron London, who previously helmed the kitchen of the now-defunct, vegetable-focused Ubuntu restaurant in Napa. At his own place, London continues to celebrate the greens, and all the good things that go with them.
Why I went: I made an […]
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UPDATE: This restaurant announced it will close its doors at the end of July 2015.
The story: Husband-and-wife duo chefs Hiro Sone and Lissa Doumani made a name for themselves with their popular Terra restaurant in St. Helena and the elegant Ame in the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco. Now they’ve opened a casual French bistro […]
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UPDATE: This restaurant closed in early November 2015.
The story: The people who made tacos hip with their Tacolicious restaurants now want to do the same with Chinese food, specifically Taiwanese-style street food through the restaurant Chino. (Note: The name officially has the Spanish-style punctuation where an exclamation point is seen first and last, […]
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I’m continuing my coffee education by visiting some of the city’s most popular coffee houses. And entering the jam-packed Four Barrel coffee house on Valencia Street in the Mission, I knew a lot of coffee gets poured day in and day out.
Even on a weekday afternoon, there was a line of coffee drinkers waiting. […]
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Before there was Bi-Rite or Humphry Slocumbe, there was Mitchell’s – a family-owned business making small-batch ice cream on site for more than 60 years.
A San Francisco classic, families come to Mitchell’s on the southern edge of the city’s Mission and Bernal Heights neighborhoods, crowding the front benches and licking up flavors […]
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The Mission Bowling Club is probably one of the most unusual places to grab some food in the Bay Area.
Building on the retro trend of upscale bowling alleys, Mission Bowling in the city’s Mission District is an intimate spot with six bowling lanes and a food program headed by Chef Chris Kiyuna. (When the […]
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UPDATE: This restaurant closed its doors in early 2015.
There are some beautiful restaurants making a splash in the San Francisco dining scene lately, and one that hasn’t really gotten much press is Abbot’s Cellar.
The restaurant – in the white-hot 700 block of Valencia Street in the Mission district – is by the same […]
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My impression of izakaya – the Japanese casual drinking spots akin to a gastropub – is that of hearty dining with lots of drinking and laughing. The Bay Area has experienced an uptrend of izakaya showcasing grilled food (yakitori) and small bites, but Izakaya Yuzuki seems to break the mold.
Refined. Exquisite. Delicate. Transformational. These […]
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