Convenience and Fast Foods

Supervisor Eric Mar's Worst Nightmare: A Stripper Truck Parked at McDonald's

If Supervisor Eric Mar has accomplished anything while in office, it's successfully making himself the butt of every Happy Meal joke out there. And just when you thought there were no more Mar/plastic toy jokes to be had, the District 1 supervisor makes headlines after chasing away a local stripper ... More >>

Bill Banning Food Trucks from Parking Near Schools Is Withdrawn

Hey, Critics of the Happy Meal Toy Ban: Banning Fast Food Advertising Does Work

​San Francisco came in for a heap of ridicule last year -- including some from this very paper -- when the Board of Supervisors passed a ban on selling fast-food meals containing toys. The sentiment intensified, of course, when McDonald's easily skirted the ban. Messages like ours have r ... More >>

Happy Meal Ban: SF Weekly Reporter on Cleveland Airwaves

Robble Robble Radio​For those of you who can't get enough news about San Francisco's de facto Happy Meal Ban -- and McDonald's and other fast food joints sidestepping it with startling ease -- here's more fuel for your fire. Your humble narrator is going to talk Happy Meal bans and San Francisco g ... More >>

Happy Meal Ban: McDonald's Outsmarts San Francisco

He's got good lawyers, that one​On Thursday, Dec. 1, the city's de facto ban of the Happy Meal commences. San Francisco has accomplished what the Hamburglar could not. Or has it? In order to include a toy with a meal, restaurants must now comply with city-generated nutritional standards. Those are ... More >>

Oh, Those Sassy Junk Food Pairings

The challenge of pairing with Hostess Snoballs: Spatlese riesling or junmai sake?​Earlier this week, Food & Wine magazine's Ray Isle put up a blog post making wine pairing recommendations for junk food. Now, Champagne with potato chips SFoodie has heard of, but we've never been asked, nor woul ... More >>

Other States Trying to Dodge Happy Meal Ban Humiliation

Happy Meal fries in Arizona and California ​Even if he had it coming, it was hard not to feel some level of sympathy for Supervisor Eric Mar after watching him get brutally mocked on The Daily Show earlier this year. Aside from perpetuating San Francisco's epic silliness, Mar's poor showing on nat ... More >>

Happy Meal Ban Makes Canadian Ashamed To Share Border with U.S.

At least somebody's sticking up for Happy Meals...​A Canadian correspondent was so appalled by the ordinance passed over the mayor's veto today requiring local restaurants luring children with toys to meet minimum nutritional requirements, that he's embarrassed to share a border with the United St ... More >>

Happy Meal Ban: Even Canadians Laughing at San Francisco Now

The Great One and his countrymen find San Francisco hilarious​Earlier this month, San Francisco established its bona fides as the city that knows how ... to ban toys from fatty Happy Meals. Just as you'd expect from the legislative equivalent of an internet video of a groin shot, San Francisco's c ... More >>

Happy Meal Ban: Middle Schoolers Write to Supes, Critique Toys

Here's what I think you should say, kids​Six dozen students at a middle school in Brentwood, a suburb 55 miles to the east, wrote to San Francisco City Hall Oct. 15 to voice views on Supervisor Eric Mar's proposed ban on Happy Meal toys, which is scheduled to be heard at today's board meeting.Unli ... More >>

Eric Mar Unleashes on the Happy Meal. But What About Public School Lunches?

Public Enemy No. 1? ​San Francisco has been abuzz about Supervisor Eric Mar's proposed legislation that would take the toy out of the Happy Meal. Some say it would improve the health of children. Others say it's like, totally socialist. Our online news editor, Joe Eskenazi, found it a little distu ... More >>

Street-Food Startup Global Soul Cooking Late Nights at Bissap Baobab

Global Soul's salmon tacos with cilantro crema.​Jessica Phadungsilp and Christina Aviles' food truck is being rehabbed, but that's not stopping the chef-owners of Global Soul from hitting the street ― Mission Street, to be precise. Next Friday, Phadungsilp and Aviles are soft-launching Globa ... 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 >>

Kombucha, Salumi, Laotian Cuisine? Prepare for Yet Another Underground Street-Food Event

undergroundstreetfoodevent.blogspot.com​An informal market calling itself the Underground Street Food Event is planned for a SOMA parking lot this Saturday. While the full vendor lineup has yet to be announced, look for an assembly of several new (some are even, gasp, Twitterless) crews peddli ... More >>

PizzaHacker and the Pizza Cognition Theory

T. PalmerInside PizzaHacker's 1000-degree FrankenWeber oven.​In a fascinating interview with Slice Pizza Blog, S.F. street-food purveyor PizzaHacker talks pizza technique, gives local recommendations, and defends his prices. PH: If you think my pizzas are too expensive, Fuck You! Please enjoy ... More >>

Local Flavor: Adobo Hobo's Sisig Tacos

L. ChongLean cuisine: Adobo Hobo's sisig is less fatty than the traditional version.​We were lucky to be able to sample Adobo Hobo's pork sisig tacos before they sold out at last Wednesday's street-food lunch in South Park. Featuring pork butt, Hobo's version of Filipino tacos contained leaner ... More >>

Magic Curry, Crème Brûlée Carts Plan One-Year Anniversary Party

T. PalmerIt's been a year since the birth of the new S.F. street-food movement.​It was just about a year ago that two brothers wheeled their handcrafted carts filled with homemade eats into a Mission District alley. And while they weren't the city's first forays into street-food culture by any mea ... 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 >>

SFMOMA's Turning 75 -- Celebrate With Street Food and Free Museum Admission This Weekend

T. PalmerSeoul on Wheels will serve Korean tacos near SFMOMA this weekend.​SFMOMA turns 75 this year, but instead of having a birthday akin to something that someone of a similar age might plan, the museum has planned a three-day, practically non-stop blowout for Jan. 16-18 that could tire someone ... 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 >>

Tomorrow at Mission Street Food, Warm Your Insides with Those of Animals

​Our heater is wheezing like a pug on last legs. Our ribs are icicles radiating sticky little chills across our torso. If you're similarly situated, combat the cold with an offal mess. Tomorrow night, Mission Street Food presents a menu prominently featuring those economical nasty bits. If the ... More >>

Mission Minis is Launching a Cupcake Kiosk in North Beach Tomorrow

Mission MinisMission Minis' freshly unveiled street-food cupcake cart.​Diminutive cupcake company Mission Minis is firing up its kiosk in North Beach tomorrow at 524 Union (at Grant), starting at 10 a.m. Company owner Brandon Arnovick told SFoodie he's stocking the cubby-size location with 28 ... More >>

Indian Taco Truck Curry Up Now Headed for San Francisco

cfarivar/californiatacotrucks.com/blogGet ready for biryani burritos, San Francisco.​With any luck, it'll be a particularly spicy New Year for San Franciscans who love street food. Peninsula Indian taco truck Curry Up Now is hoping to begin selling in S.F. by the third week of December, compan ... More >>

Street-Food Vendor Eschews Twitter (and Political Correctness)

T. PalmerThe name is humorous, but the food is serious.​When we first heard of an Israeli street food dude that calls himself Kike on a Bike a few weeks ago, we thought it was a joke -- the kind of inappropriate joke that we, as a member of the tribe, actually appreciate.We finally ran into him in ... More >>

Wife of Detained Amuse Bouche Vendor Hopeful Deportation Isn't Inevitable

At a street-food event at 111 Minna Gallery last night, fellow vendors wore shirts expressing support for Celebi-Ariner.​UPDATE 11 a.m.: Immigration attorney for Celebi-Ariner calls the ICE crackdown on the street-food vendor's visa waiver overstay highly unusual, and might mark the beginning ... More >>

Street-Food Vendor's Likely Deportation Might Mark the Start of an ICE Crackdown on Visa Waiver Overstays

Meredith BrodyA message of support at last night's street-food party at 111 Minna Gallery.​The immigration attorney for Murat Celebi-Ariner told SFoodie the street-food vendor's detention and likely deportation might mark the beginning locally of a new initiative by the Immigration Customs and ... More >>

Ditch the Lean Cuisine and Grab a Street-Food Lunch in South Park Today

T. PalmerHere's your chance to get fired up for street food, South Park.​Attention, denizens of South Park and nearby: Forget the brown bag, because street food is on the menu for lunch today. South Park's weekly midday cart conversion has been happening for the last few weeks. Do hit the square b ... More >>

Fuel Your Lit Crawl with Street-Food Goodies

T. PalmerLiterature and lumpia, together at last.​Need fuel for Litquake's Lit Crawl in the Mission on Saturday night? Some 17 (and counting) street-food vendors, including Lumpia Cart, Sweet Constructions, Amuse Bouche, Bike Basket Pies, and Sexy Soup Lady will be selling their treats nearby.The ... More >>

Baklava Man Getting Ready to Hit the Streets with Syrian-Style Treats

roboppy/FlickrNah, this isn't from Baklava Man, but you get the picture.​Mark doesn't want you to know more than his first name. He's half Syrian, and grew up eating his aunt's baklava. Many years and a couple of job layoffs later (two in the past year, actually), Mark's ready to try selling h ... More >>

Fabric8's Street Food Friday is a Benefit for Disaster Relief. Which Disaster Isn't Exactly Clear

kewlio/FlickrThe gallery's trying to do the right thing.​Hungry to support another street-food event for a good cause? The Mission's Fabric8 Galleries (3318 22nd St. at Valencia) is promising to set aside a portion of the proceeds from tonight's Street Food Friday for hurricane relief in the P ... More >>

Little Skillet Announces Vendors for Friday's Street-Food Fundraiser for Ondoy Victims

slowpoke_sf/FlickrLittle Skillet's donating a portion of its own sales.​Little Skillet (360 Ritch at Townsend) has firmed up the vendor list for tomorrow's street-food fundraiser for victims of hurricane Ondoy in the Philippines, 5-8 p.m. Skillet chef and manager Christian Ciscle told SFoodie ... More >>

Hot Chaat: Soul Cocina Brings India to Mission Street Food

T. PalmerSoul Cocina's panuchos: Neither Indian nor on the MSF menu, but also hot.​Roger Feely, the culinary instructor/street food purveyor behind Soul Cocina, will once again collaborate with Mission Street Food this Thursday, September 10 at Lung Shan (2234 Mission at 18th St.). Feely told SFoo ... More >>

Bay Area Street Food Festivals Rack Up Big Numbers

M. BrodyBig crowds showed up for the Eat Real Festival in Oakland.​Some 70,000 people showed up for last weekend's Eat Real Festival, according to the event's communications director. Susan Coss said the busiest day was Saturday, which had the longest program of the three-day dual celebration ... More >>

Lard Potato Chips Not Just for the Pork Obsessed

J. Birdsall Pale and crisp as communion wafers. We inhabit a subculture peculiarly steeped in pork fat. At the Ferry Building, you can lunch on a gorgeously unctuous porchetta sandwich at Il Cane Rosso, and afterwards snack on a bag of lard shortbread from Humphry Slocombe (for sale at Bocc ... More >>

S.F. Street Food Festival: Crowds, Long Waits on Folsom

J. BirdsallLines stretched across Folsom and onto the sidewalk.​Crowds eager for street food thronged Folsom between 25th and 26th streets in the Mission Saturday for the first-ever San Francisco Street Food Festival. Organized by small-business incubator La Cocina, the fest brought together nonpr ... More >>

Pavement Cuisine: BLT Huarache from El Huarache Loco

J. Birdsall A diner-lonchera mashup. Over the weekend, D.F.-style street-food vendor El Huarache Loco rolled out a BLT huarache ($7) at the Alemany market: A tongue-shaped base of cooked masa dough, topped with mashy salsa, bacon, heirloom tomatoes, avocado, iceberg, queso cotija, a ... More >>

Snacktion: Bacon Potato Chips from the Streets of the Mission

J. Birdsall Surprisingly delicate, with a subtle taste of bacon. Name: Real Bacon Handmade Potato Chips Brand: Who's Your Daddy Origin: San Francisco Found at: Um -- weekends, somewhere on the streets of the Mission. Cost: $3 for a bag that weighed in at just over 2 ounces on our kitchen ... More >>

Want to Make Your Place Feel More Lived In? Try Butchery

J. Birdsall Farr at work: This could be your dining room table.You know, a house just isn't a home these days without a little pig butchery. Just so happens that if you score the winning bid in the San Francisco Street Food Festival's silent auction, you'll be able to give your flat exactly w ... More >>

Street Food in the Napa Valley? Whatever

FTPoed/FlickrThe view from the Brix patio: Watch out for street urchins.​Jumping the shark. Sooner or later, everything has to, whether it's the Brady's in Hawaii, Blossom in Paris, or that Kara chick on American Idol. As for local street food, it may have glimpsed its shark today, with the a ... More >>

New Street Food Aggregator Eases the Hunt for Pavement Cuisine

Now, finding street food is even easier.Believe us, it can almost be a full-time job trying to keep track of all of the exciting developments in street eating, but a new site aims to make this an easier process. Created by Matthew Cohen, founder and developer of food/beverage mobile content company ... More >>

The 10 Strangest Fast Food Chain Items

Ah, fast food chains -- where ingredients that may or may not have really been edible to begin with are formulated into something defying logic and physics that also may or may not be worth eating in the end. While one would assume that these big companies don't make a single move that isn't pre-app ... More >>

Street Food to Star at Oakland's Eat Real Festival in August

Nothing is hotter these days than street food, but some of the newest sidewalk chefs are rolling out their carts without the blessings of local authorities. Even if you track them down via Twitter, you may show up to find they've been busted before you get there. If you're hungry for the latest, ... More >>

Raw and Sweet: 'Vegan Diva' Ani Phyo Presides Over CandyBar Dessert Soirée Tomorrow

No cow was milked in the making of this bookWe get a mental picture of some petulant, preachy tofu eater when we hear the words "vegan diva," but that's just what LA author and cooking teacher Ani Phyo calls herself. She'll be at CandyBar tomorrow night, flogging her book Ani's Raw Food Desserts, at ... More >>

Big Poultry And The USDA Passing Off Pumped-Up Chicken As Natural

Big Poultry And The USDA Passing Off Pumped-Up Chicken As Natural

National Pretzel Month: Bow Down To The O.G. Snack Food

National Pretzel Month: Bow Down To The O.G. Snack Food

Going Dutch: Kassys' Kommer at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

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Prewar Snack

As war drew near, consumption of junk food at the Snaxpo convention soared