Subject: DJ Darren

• Good Food and Beats at Triple Crown's Happiest Hours

  Triple Crown (1760 Market at Octavia), which was awarded Best New Club in the most recent edition of our Best of SF issue, offers some tasty snack and drink specials during what it calls its Happiest Hours. While the drinks and the music lineups vary daily (Fridays: $2 pints and the chilled grooves of DJ Darren D), the menu is buy one, get one half off on weekdays, 5:30-9:30 p.m.SFoodie slid into a comfy seat there last Friday to enjoy some relaxing rhythms, suck down Stellas, and munch

  June 26, 2009

• American Greens, Cheap Eats and Beats, and a Japanese Hideaway: A Foodie Day Planner

  Friday, July 3, 2009 Let's do lunch: There's no more American place to nosh this pre-Fourth Friday than a barn, albeit one packed with the tanned and the yoga toned. SF Weekly food critic Meredith Brody advises the roasted beets-and-greens salad (with pomegranate, goat cheese, caramelized onions, candied pecans, and garlic croutons) at Blue Barn Gourmet (2105 Chestnut at Steiner, 441-3232). Drink therapy: Escape all the red, white, and blue crap in a dim, chandelier-hung bar: $2 pints, $3 wel

  July 3, 2009