Anthony Myint

Mission Bowling Club: More Focus on Food

Mission Bowling Club Elevates Menu for 2013

Mission Bowling Club opened in March and instantly separated itself from every other alley in the Bay Area with a sleek interior and thoughtful, delicious food from Anthony Myint (Mission Street Food, Mission Chinese Food, Commonwealth). 2013 brings an increased focus on the food at The Dining Room ... More >>

Sale of the Century

Mission Bowling Club opened in March and instantly separated itself from every other alley in the Bay Area with a sleek interior and thoughtful, delicious food from Anthony Myint (Mission Street Food, Mission Chinese Food, Commonwealth). 2013 brings an increased focus on the food at The Dining Room ... More >>

Become a Hipster Pop-Up in 10 Easy Steps

San Francisco is the king of hipster pop-ups. And we love it. Here's what you need to do to throw your fedora in the ring: 1. Put an egg on it: You can slap that free-range, olive-oil-fried egg on everything from burgers to bimbimbap. Eggs come from chickens, chickens are birds, and birds are painf ... More >>

Mission Bowling Club: Anthony Myint Scores Again

San Francisco is the king of hipster pop-ups. And we love it. Here's what you need to do to throw your fedora in the ring: 1. Put an egg on it: You can slap that free-range, olive-oil-fried egg on everything from burgers to bimbimbap. Eggs come from chickens, chickens are birds, and birds are painf ... More >>

Number 31: Kung Pao Pastrami from Mission Chinese Food

​SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition. ​Kung pao pastrami all started, Anthony Myint says, when Ryan Ostler, the former chef of Broken Record and a southern-food popup at Bruno's, loaned the Mission Chinese Food team a smoker, and Danny Bowien got all exc ... More >>

Mission Bowling Club and Noe Valley Wine Merchants Near, and Food Truck News

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Invest in some bowling shoes, because the second restaurant-bowling alley to open in S.F. -- in less than a month -- will start setting up the pins this Monday. Inside Scoop shares some details about A ... More >>

Goodbye Hooters, Hello Hawk's Tavern

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Bird is the word: Earlier Jonathan Kauffman mentioned, via SFist, that S.F.'s Hooters is about to fly the coop. Goodbye chicken wings and waitresses in bright orange short-shorts. See you in the suburbs. ... More >>

Mission Street Food to Bring Technique-Driven Comfort Food to a Bowling Alley

Mission Bowling ClubA 'before' shot of Mission Bowling Club, due to open in February 2012.​In the Mission District, the dream of a brand new sporting center with satisfying, original food grows. After navigating a fiery pit of Planning Department fees that could have destroyed the project before i ... More >>

Oh God It Is Present-Buying Season. Quick, Buy Everyone Cookbooks.

This isn't on anyone's lists yet, but we'd still recommend it.​Piling on the retailers of America, who would like all red-blooded Americans, Christian or no, to participate in Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the food media has come out with a strong message to shoppers: Buy cookbooks for Christmas. ... More >>

Mission Street Food Is Back (for One Night)

​Mission Street Food popup Where: Cookhouse, 253 Columbus (at Broadway) When: Wednesday, Aug. 10, 6:30 p.m. Cost: $65 (includes Mission Street Food book and dinner) If you're like us and you miss Mission Street Food, there's a chance to revisit its hectic glory next week. MSF founder Anthony ... More >>

The Defeat of Mickey D's, Caffeine Jitters, and Duck Eggs: This Week in Food Bloggery

Joseph SchellFrom this week's slideshow of the Peruvian Food Festival​Highlights from SFoodie this week:1. W. Blake Gray checks out Le Cordon Bleu, which claims to be San Francisco's first Vietnamese restaurant (opened in 1968). It's now owned by a Chinese-American woman who's never been to Vietna ... More >>

Mission Street Food Book Launches

​ission Street Food's restaurant memoir-cookbook, which officially launches tomorrow with a party at the Make-Ot Room, is remarkably modest. The word shitshow appears quite a few times, the intro to the recipe section includes the disclaimer "What follows will not impress every chef out there..." ... More >>

Scenes from Mission Chinese Food's Shenzen Dinner

Janice Leung/E*ting FoodMission Chinese Food's Shenzen meal: Clam sashimi with tomato water and melon. ​Thanks to a tweet from Gary Soup this morning, SFoodie discovered series of posts from food bloggers in Hong Kong and China about a dinner that Mission Chinese Food cooked during the staff's rec ... More >>

No. 3: Sichuan Pickles at Mission Chinese Food

Albert Law/porkbellystudioMission Chinese Food's mixed pickles, $3.​SFoodie's countdown of our 92 favorite things to eat and drink in San Francisco, 2011 edition.The longer Danny Bowien and Anthony Myint's restaurant sticks around, the farther afield it spins, growing wilder and more elaborate wit ... More >>

Tell Tale's Maiden Lane Space a No Go, Mission Bowling Club to Resuscitate the Mission Burger

​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Tablehopper broke the news that Tell Tale Preserve Company's search for a home base continues. William Werner's pastry shop has been destined for a Maiden Lane space for more than a year, but pro ... More >>

The Barbecue Zeitgeist: A Few Sides to Go with Today's Review

Hekela R./YelpSouthern Sandwich Co.'s pulled pork manwich.​About two months ago, I noticed that SFoodie was covering the appearance of an awful lot of new barbecue businesses. Slow Hand, Southern Sandwich, Smoke, Smokin' Warehouse, the Rib Whip, T-Dub's on Fridays, the not-yet-open Hyde Away Blues ... More >>

McSweeney's Taking Preorders for Mission Street Food Cookbook

McSweeney's​Last month we tipped you to the book Mission Chinese Food/Commonwealth's Anthony Myint and Karen Leibowitz were writing, Mission Street Food: Recipes and Ideas from an Improbable Restaurant, to be published this summer by the new McSweeney's cookbook imprint. Today comes word that ... More >>

Mission Chinese Food Gets Smoker, Starts Offering BBQ

Jesse Friedman/FlickrDanny Bowien: What's he been smoking?​Just when SFoodie thinks we have Mission Chinese Food's Danny Bowien figured out, he goes and does something sort of, well: crazy. In a good way. We think. Two weeks ago, SFoodie blogger Alex Hochman reported on strange sightings at ... More >>

McSweeney's to Publish Mission Street Food Cookbook

Warning: This is not the offical cover.​An article today in Publishers Weekly revealed that San Francisco-based published McSweeney's is launching a cookbook imprint. The first release will be a quarterly publication from Momofuku's David Chang, to appear as a 12-page print periodical and an iPad ... More >>

Fresh Eats: Our weekly roundup of SFoodie news

Warning: This is not the offical cover.​An article today in Publishers Weekly revealed that San Francisco-based published McSweeney's is launching a cookbook imprint. The first release will be a quarterly publication from Momofuku's David Chang, to appear as a 12-page print periodical and an iPad ... More >>

At Commonwealth, most of the experimental dishes are memorable

Warning: This is not the offical cover.​An article today in Publishers Weekly revealed that San Francisco-based published McSweeney's is launching a cookbook imprint. The first release will be a quarterly publication from Momofuku's David Chang, to appear as a 12-page print periodical and an iPad ... More >>

Fresh Eats: Our weekly roundup of SFoodie news

Warning: This is not the offical cover.​An article today in Publishers Weekly revealed that San Francisco-based published McSweeney's is launching a cookbook imprint. The first release will be a quarterly publication from Momofuku's David Chang, to appear as a 12-page print periodical and an iPad ... More >>

Chow Crafts a Fine List of 2010's Most Influential Food People

Marcos Chin/Chow.comAnthony Myint.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Know it or not, you're living in year two of The Chow 13, Chow.com's just-published reckoning of the food world's 13 most influential people of 2010. It's fine list that spans the coasts. Our favorites? The under-appreciat ... More >>

Anthony Myint Goes 'I-Thai-lian' at Pal's Tomorrow

Anthony Myint.​It's getting as predictable as garbage pickup ― the Wednesday guest-chef sandwich at Pal's. Tomorrow's creator: Anthony Myint of Commonwealth and Mission Chinese Food. Myint is masterminding something he calls the "I-Thai-lian meatball": Thai-style meatballs with something Pal ... More >>

What the Hell Is Danny Bowien Thinking? A Snapshot

Jesse Friedman/Beer & NoshDanny Bowien.​When I called Danny Bowien up last week, trying to find out what the hell he was doing at Mission Chinese Food, my few simple questions turned into an hour-long chat that spiraled from his obsession with Sichuan cuisine to an intriguing offhand commen ... More >>

Hog and Rocks Opens, Cafe Prague Closes Its Doors

​Monitoring the past 96 hours of gossip and cold, hard facts about restaurant openings and closings in San Francisco.SFoodie doesn't know what you all did over your three-day weekend, but we spent most of it on the couch, catching up on True Blood episodes and ruing the millions of dollars the cit ... More >>

Mission Chinese Food Launches Monday

​Eater S.F. has a phantom guest editor today, and while she's a newbie, she's certainly no slouch. As evidence, the snagging of the opening menu for Mission Chinese Food, the Mission Street Food/Mission Burger successor that fires up the woks Monday at Lung Shan. From Eater: The opening menu c ... More >>

Mission Street Food Guys Set to Launch Mission Chinese Food at Lung Shan

Jesse Friedman/FlickrAnthony Myint.​Hold on to your chopsticks, San Francisco: In just about two weeks, the guys who bought you Mission Burger and Mission Street Food will begin to roll out Chinese food. Mission Chinese Food is set to launch July 5 at Lung Shan, long the site of charitable po ... More >>

Who Wants Your Microlending Dollars? These Local Businesses Do

​A barbecue truck. A food documentary. An artisan cheese maker. These are all Bay Area food projects seeking startup funding online.A few weeks back, Chow's Roxanne Webber wrote a great piece about Kickstarter and Indiegogo, two websites that allow small businesses or artists to advertise for micr ... More >>

Old Favorites, New Beginnings at Saturday's Mission Street Food Farewell

Tamara PalmerAbout two dozen people waited for Mission Street Food to open on Saturday night.​Looking forward to the launch of new restaurant Commonwealth, Anthony Myint's Mission Street Food project concluded its regular weekly service at divey Chinese restaurant Lung Shan with a "greatest hi ... More >>

Last Call at Mission Burger

John BirdsallRIP, you hideous old thing.​Saturday's the last day for Mission Burger ― chef and burger maker Danny Bowien's leaving for South Korea to get married, while founder Anthony Myint looks ahead to Commonwealth. I'm sad, the city should be sad ― name the last original burger you h ... More >>

Mission Burger's Closing for the Month of June. Then What?

John BirdsallIt couldn't hurt to eat your fill of Mission burgers this month.​Is Mission Burger closing? Mission Mission opened the throttle on the rumor machine when it floated a tantalizingly opaque post of burger lack at Duc Loi. The truth? Well, sure it's closing. MB fry cook Danny Bowien ... More >>

Future of Mission Street Food in Flux

Jesse Friedman/FlickrAnthony Myint.​Mission Street Food founder Anthony Myint is uncertain about the future of the twice-weekly pop-up featuring guest chefs, and which donates proceeds to charity. "Nothing is firm yet," Myint said by e-mail, referring to the future of the project that began in ... More >>

Bar Tartine Redux at Mission Street Food Spin-Off Commonwealth

jbeasla/Mission MissionThe designer of Range is on board for the interior remake of the old El Herradero space. ​Here's the first thing you need to know about Commonwealth, the Mission restaurant due to drop in early summer, whose co-owner is Mission Street Food founder Anthony Myint. Though t ... More >>

Mission Street Food Spokesman Calls Report on Commonwealth Premature

Jesse Friedman/Beer & NoshMyint's so far mum.​Mission Street Food founder Anthony Myint isn't (yet) returning calls, after yesterday's Grub Street report that MSF's full-time charity-driven restaurant ― called Commonwealth, according to GS ― will land in the shuttered El Herradero at 2224 ... More >>

Mission Street Food Seeking to Launch Full-Time Restaurant

Jesse Friedman/Beer & NoshMission Street Food proprietor Anthony Myint​Though it only operated two nights a week (and sometimes not even that), Mission Street Food donated over $22,000 to charities that feed the hungry in 2009. This year, MSF founder Anthony Myint hopes to secure a full-time r ... More >>

Doggy Bag: The Case for Charity

Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Good food: Via The Quotidian, a fantastic video on the history and aims of Mission Street Food and Mission Burger. Founder Anthony Myint walks back through the genesis of his idea to launch a charitable food business in the Mission, and how, in a way, Mission Bur ... More >>

Commonwealth Club Panel on S.F. Street Food Now on Video

In October, SFoodie's Tamara Palmer moderated a panel at the Commonwealth Club of diverse cooks with something to say about street food, pop-ups, and the new cart scene that helped define life in the Mission during the summer of '09. Last week, the Commonwealth Club released video of the discussion, ... More >>

Audio from Last Month's Commonwealth Club Street-Food Panel Discussion Now Available

Meredith BrodyAnthony Myint (left) and Brian Kimball​Missed last month's panel discussion on street food at the Commonwealth Club? No worries -- audio is now available. To refresh: On Oct. 29, SFoodie contributor Tamara Palmer moderated The Street Food Movement: SF Hearts the Cart, a discussio ... More >>

At the Commonwealth Club Last Night, a Diverse Panel Chews on Street Food's Challenges

m. BrodyMission Street Food's Anthony Myint (left) with Magic Curry Kart's Brian Kimball.​A full house celebrated San Francisco's street-food scene at last night's panel discussion at the Commonwealth Club, The Street Food Movement: SF Hearts the Cart, moderated by SFoodie blogger Tamara Palme ... More >>

Don't Forget: Commonwealth Club's Look at S.F. Street Food is This Thursday

markevnic72/FlickrIt was the summer of love for S.F.'s food carts.​A reminder: SFoodie's Tamara Palmer is moderating a panel of high- and low-end contributors to S.F.'s street food scene this Thursday at the Commonwealth Club's The Street Food Movement: SF Hearts the Cart. Speakers range from ... More >>

San Francisco's Hottest Chef Dudes

Ever dated a chef? It can be a dysfunctional slog: enabling his 12-hour work days, waking up at 1 a.m. to a kitchen of his work buddies doing Fernet shots around the dinette, and living through the perennial reek of garlic on his fingers. But seriously? We'd put up with all of it -- every last blast ... More >>

Sans Cart

Ever dated a chef? It can be a dysfunctional slog: enabling his 12-hour work days, waking up at 1 a.m. to a kitchen of his work buddies doing Fernet shots around the dinette, and living through the perennial reek of garlic on his fingers. But seriously? We'd put up with all of it -- every last blast ... More >>

The Commonwealth Club Goes All Street-y Later This Month with Panel Talk

​Not too long ago, the city's street food offerings caught the attention of late-night borrachos fixing for bacon-wrapped hot dogs, hammered Zeitgeist hipsters heeding the arrival of the Tamale Lady, and hopeful day laborers with an appetite. Later this month, street food becomes the subject o ... More >>

Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

​Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. Canned: Yeah, we're not buying 50-buck bottles of Montepulciano either these days. Beer & Nosh flogs what might be the ultimate Great Recession-buster event: tomorrow's Mission Street Food celebration canned-beer menu -- a summer meal orch ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

​Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. Canned: Yeah, we're not buying 50-buck bottles of Montepulciano either these days. Beer & Nosh flogs what might be the ultimate Great Recession-buster event: tomorrow's Mission Street Food celebration canned-beer menu -- a summer meal orch ... More >>

Twitter-Size Recipes: Anthony Myint's Charred Scallion Sour Cream

At barely 7-months-old, Anthony Myint's Mission Street Food is already a San Francisco institution. Myint and crew are setting examples not only with the playful spirit of experimentation (different themes and menus each time), but also with their business model of supporting local charitable organi ... More >>

On a Mission

Inexpensive street food as reimagined by guest chefs draws crowds and donations.

Last Night: Mission Street Food Mash-Up Night

(Palermo vs. Tokyo by Chef Ian Muntzert)Notes and Photos by Tamara Palmer We've written previously of our love of Mission Street Food, the brainchild of Bar Tartine line chef Anthony Myint that began life as a truck in October and now takes place most Thursday nights at Lung Shan (2234 Mission). G ... More >>