Carlos Muela

Fresh Eats: SOMA Streat Food Park: Making a Place for Food Trucks

SoMa Food-Truck Pod Breaks Ground This Week

​Carlos Muela may come from a San Francisco restaurant family, but he didn't foresee owning another restaurant in his future. He was more interested in street food. "I'd been to Portland and saw the street-food pods there, and noticed there was nothing like that here. There's Off the Grid, but tho ... More >>

Ken Ken Ramen Opens and Namu's End

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Ken Ken Ramen opens today in it's new, permanent location (3378 18th St. at Mission). We learned, via a tweet, that for now they'll only be open three nights a week (Thu.-Sat.), starting at 6 p.m. As the ... More >>

Fresh Eats: Shawerma at Zaytoon and panino at Arlequin

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Ken Ken Ramen opens today in it's new, permanent location (3378 18th St. at Mission). We learned, via a tweet, that for now they'll only be open three nights a week (Thu.-Sat.), starting at 6 p.m. As the ... More >>

Esperpento Is Still the Happy Place

​Part of a series on restaurants that have been around so long they've slipped into a media black hole.In 1992, Carlos Muela opened Esperpento, part of the great wave of tapas restaurants that ended up changing San Francisco dining forever. So-called authentic Spanish tapas begat global-fusion tap ... More >>