260 Valencia
San Francisco, CA 94103
Category: Restaurant > Italian
Region: Mission/ Bernal Heights
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2590 Mission
San Francisco, CA 94110
Category: Restaurant > Peruvian
Region: Mission/ Bernal Heights
What was next? A meatball banh mi at Saigon Sandwich on Larkin? An emperor's pancake at Suppenküche? These weren't the meals that changed my life — most of those dinners occurred at restaurants like Flying Saucer, R&G Lounge, the French Laundry, Incanto, and the emm-effing Chez P. They were the meals a thousand outings with friends centered on. They were the foods that sustained me through the barely-paying-the-rent years and the dot-com bubble and bust. This was just the way most of the San Franciscans I knew ate, the catholic appetites that drew me back.
No, the final meal would have to be the dish that marked the dead center of my San Francisco map: a regular carnitas burrito (whole beans, mild salsa, guacamole please) at El Toro (598 Valencia at 17th St.). Once again, I perched awkwardly on a sway-bottomed stool at a table smothered in California sunlight and unwrapped the foil, failing once again to tear it into an unbroken spiral. One bite — and I was right where I belonged.
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