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Welcome to the Era of the "I Ate Sichuan Peppercorns With Danny Bowien" Piece

Last year, everyone in the national food media was going wild over Copenhagen's Noma and its forager chef, Rene Redzepi, to the point where Eater started tracking the evolution of the "I Foraged With Rene Redzepi Piece." The fascination with New Nordic has since waned, but there's a new story to tak ... More >>

Omnivore World Tour Kicks Off Tomorrow

This weekend, for the very first time, the Omnivore World Tour will be pit-stopping in San Francisco. The program includes a slew of classes, cooking demos, and a mighty glamorous lineup of chef collaborations and dinners. The festival is a traveling showcase of the culinary world's young and innova ... More >>

Party with Local Chefs and Photographer Todd Selby, Author of the Eclectic Edible Selby

Photographer Todd Selby's made a career of photographing interesting, creative people in their natural environments. His first project, The Selby is in Your Place, focused on photographing creative people in their spaces, both at home and at work. For his new book, Edible Selby, the photographer tur ... More >>

Mission Bowling Club: Anthony Myint Scores Again

Photographer Todd Selby's made a career of photographing interesting, creative people in their natural environments. His first project, The Selby is in Your Place, focused on photographing creative people in their spaces, both at home and at work. For his new book, Edible Selby, the photographer tur ... 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 >>

Jasmine Tea House Is Back, La Barca Readies for the End, and More

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Jasmine Tea House is back to life under new ownership. Bernalwood discovers, via a reader, the Chinese restaurant reopened about a week ago, and is striving to make the dishes just like past customers rem ... More >>

Alanna Hale Photographs Mission Chinese Food From the Inside Out

Alanna HalePreparing for battle.​Photographer Alanna Hale, who's been filing SFoodie's "Behind the Menu" series of chef portraits, is working on another project: a profile every day, which she posts on her Tumblr, alannahale.tumblr.com. Most of them are insiders' shots of  Mission Chinese Foo ... More >>

Mission: Battleship Puts the 'Eat' in Fleet Week

Where: S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien, Pier 45, Embarcadero (at Taylor) When: Thurs., Oct. 6th, 5 p.m. - 10 p.m. Cost: $30 online; 21 and over. Food and drink not included in entry price. The rundown: Fleet Week docks in San Francisco and kicking the party off like a bottle of champagne on a new ship is Mis ... More >>

Screw Authenticity: Asian Food in America

Lummmy/FlickrShould Americans even be calling pad thai "Thai" at this point?​This week, Gilt Taste is running a fantastic series about Asian food in America -- or rather, Asian American food. The series led with an article by former SFoodie editor (and current East Bay Express critic) John Birdsal ... More >>

Bring Wine to Mission Chinese Food (But Which Wines?)

Mission Chinese Food chef-owner Danny Bowien goes through this many chiles pretty fast. ​Mission Chinese Food is a great challenge for wine lovers. It's great, because corkage is only $8. It's a challenge, because some of Danny Bowien's food, like the kung pao corned beef, is so spicy that dri ... 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 >>

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 >>

Mission Chinese Food's Kung Pao Corned Beef

Alex HochmanCorned beef? Pastrami? It doesn't seem to matter.​"This shit is no joke," Mission Chinese Food's Danny Bowien warned yesterday as he set down a plate of kung pao corned beef ($11) on day one of MCF's new BBQ menu. Corned beef? To paraphrase Spinal Tap's David St. Hubbins, was this ... 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 >>

Mission Chinese Food's Westlake Rice Porridge

Alex HochmanMission Chinese Food's Westlake rice porridge ($9), a riff on a classic Guangdong soup.​Slurping our bowl of Mission Chinese Food's Westlake rice porridge ($9) ― one of several new items rolled out in recent weeks ― we caught ourselves humming the Cowboy Junkies version of "Swe ... More >>

Danny Bowien's New York Chinatown

Alex HochmanCumin lamb hand-pulled noodles at Xi'an Famous Foods in New York's Chinatown, a favorite of Mission Chinese Food's Danny Bowien.​After a few bites of the savory cumin lamb hand-pulled noodles ($6) at Xi'an Famous Foods in New York's Chinatown, it became clear why Danny Bowien had s ... More >>

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joebeone/FlickrWas Le Cheval too big to fail? Apparently not, thanks to an adversarial landlord.​With the great scything-down of 2008 well past us, San Francisco's restaurant industry sent up hundreds of blooms, some of them quite brilliant. Yet competition, normal restaurant-world pressures, and ... More >>

Someone Besides Us Takes Notice of Danny Bowien

Alex HochmanBowien in the dumpling station at Mission Chinese Food.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Chow senior editor Lessley Anderson files a feature-length profile of Mission Chinese Food's lovable Danny Bowien, the chef with a personal style as quirky as his food vision. Actually, as ... More >>

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Alex HochmanBowien in the dumpling station at Mission Chinese Food.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Chow senior editor Lessley Anderson files a feature-length profile of Mission Chinese Food's lovable Danny Bowien, the chef with a personal style as quirky as his food vision. Actually, as ... More >>

Dolores, Lamb Dumplings, and Fries On a Sandwich: This Week in Food Bloggery

Lou BustamanteFrom Giordano's, with love.​Five highlights from the blog this week: 1. The Blue Bottle Dolores Park cart drama has ended with BB pulling out of the park and canceling its lease. John Birdsall's post-mortem post is a lovely elegy for a scene that could have been. 2. Catch up, foodist ... More >>

Fresh Eats: Our weekly roundup of SFoodie news

Lou BustamanteFrom Giordano's, with love.​Five highlights from the blog this week: 1. The Blue Bottle Dolores Park cart drama has ended with BB pulling out of the park and canceling its lease. John Birdsall's post-mortem post is a lovely elegy for a scene that could have been. 2. Catch up, foodist ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

Lou BustamanteFrom Giordano's, with love.​Five highlights from the blog this week: 1. The Blue Bottle Dolores Park cart drama has ended with BB pulling out of the park and canceling its lease. John Birdsall's post-mortem post is a lovely elegy for a scene that could have been. 2. Catch up, foodist ... More >>

Lamb Belly Is the Meat of the Moment

Allecia Vermillion/All-ConsumingLamb belly in golden raisin sauce at SPQR.​I spotted it at Hog and Rocks. The next week, I ate it at Mission Chinese Food. And when I dined at Gather in Berkeley a few weeks afterward (off-duty, FYI ― there's no review coming), the waiter recited a special of lam ... More >>

Mission Chinese Food offers a Matrix mind-twister of a meal

Allecia Vermillion/All-ConsumingLamb belly in golden raisin sauce at SPQR.​I spotted it at Hog and Rocks. The next week, I ate it at Mission Chinese Food. And when I dined at Gather in Berkeley a few weeks afterward (off-duty, FYI ― there's no review coming), the waiter recited a special of lam ... More >>

Jonathan Kauffman Burns for Mission Chinese Food's Danny Bowien

At Mission Chinese Food, Danny Bowien cooks up a short list of searing tributes to his favorite Chinese dishes.​Maybe Danny Bowien couldn't thrive anywhere else but in San Francisco. Maybe the same is true of Mission Chinese Food, the Chinese-restaurant-in-a-Chinese-restaurant Bowien orchestra ... 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's Debut Was the Hottest Meal in Town

Tamara PalmerDanny Bowien's ma po tofu is super hot.​Mission Chinese Food began eat-in, takeout, and delivery service yesterday at Lung Shan, site of the past Mission Street Food dinner events. We slid in for lunch (operating hours are 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.) and spent quite a few minutes debat ... 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 >>

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 >>

Mission Street Food Floats Final Thursday Menu

Danny Bowien.​Danny Bowien made it official today: Thursday night's wrap-up Mission Street Food will be a celebration of seafood (Bowien's leaving town soon to celebrate his nuptials in South Korea). At lunch at Lung Shan yesterday, Bowien was engaged in MSF menu discussions with Anthony Myint ... 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 >>

Kauffman's Five: This Week in Food Bloggery

Five things I learned from SFoodie and beyond this week:​1. That SFoodie editor John Birdsall has great taste in doughnuts, only matched by his generosity in splitting a cornmeal-cherry-rosemary doughnut from Dynamo with me. It was even better than the huckleberry-Meyer lemon doughnut that had me ... More >>

Mission Burger/Mission Street Food's Danny Bowien: The SFoodie Interview, Part 2

Jesse Friedman/Beer & NoshDanny Bowien.​Mission Burger's 27-year-old short-order cook Danny Bowien has serious kitchen chops. In yesterday's first installment with Mary Ladd, Bowien talked about his inspiration, favorite cuisines, and the genesis of what might be San Francisco's most unusual b ... More >>

Mission Burger/Mission Street Food's Danny Bowien: The SFoodie Interview, Part 1

Danny Bowien.​Show up at Mission Burger ― the daytime food counter at Duc Loi Supermarket ― and you might not know that the guy cooking your fat slab of a burger is one of the city's smartest young chefs. Along with Mission Burger founder Anthony Myint, 27-year-old Danny Bowien is the guy ... 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 >>

2009 Alt Foodie Trend No. 4: Major DIY-ness

Now till Dec. 31, SFoodie is counting down the city's top alternative food and restaurant trends of 2009 ― the ones you won't be reading about in the Chron. See also: No. 5: Profit Margins Crashed; No. 6: Beer Busted Out; No. 7: Twitter Ruled; No. 8: Sportin' Wood; No. 9: Street-Food Busts; No. 1 ... More >>

Only in the Mission: Eat Beans, Meet 2008 World Pesto Champ at Gravel & Gold's Happy Hour

pestochampionship.itEpic pounder Danny Bowien​About a year and a half ago, a 25-year-old Korean American from San Francisco won the Pesto World Championship in Genoa, Italy. Call it the Miracle on Ice of Italian regional cookery contests, but Danny Bowien, then chef at Farina (now at Magnolia) ... More >>