Tipped off to its existence by this Tuesday's edition of Tablehopper, I raced down to Dogpatch this afternoon to try the new creative lunchtime sensation Kitchenette SF (958 Illinois), which debuted last week.
Weekdays from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., you can now stop by what's essentially the loading dock for LRE Catering to pick up lunch, with a different menu every day reflecting the best local, organic take on street food that they can whip up from scratch. Chefs Douglas Monsalud and Brian L
Say adios to the loading dock, at least for one nightOne of the biggest food stories in a year destined to be remembered for depressing restaurant closures is Kitchenette, which (in case you just blew in from Fresno) serves up amazing weekday lunches from a loading dock in Dogpatch. Brace yourselves, groupies: On Thursday, June 11, the Kitchenette team invades Mission Street Food, the twice-weekly restaurant phenom that was one of SF's biggest food stories of last year.
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ehavir/FlickrLearning about colonialism wasn't this fun in high school. Kitchenette just Twitter-announced the nine-item menu for its first-time star turn this Thursday, June 11, at Mission Street Food. Last month, Kitchenette (and LRE catering) owner Douglas Monsalud told SFoodie it'd be a "colony concept": Dishes Spanish in origin, as tweaked by its former colonies. Here's a three-course slice of world history, covering Mexico, the Philippines, and Argentina, in that order: house-cured beef to
Last week we reported on Easy Kitchenette, tweets that appeared to be radically simplified versions of the daily menu tweets by Kitchenette, the Dogpatch lunch place. We assumed Kitchenette owner Douglas Monsalud was behind Easy K, posting alternate tweets for followers with zero patience for detailed menu descriptions like this: baguette filled with terra firma tomatoes, willey farm cukes, spring onions, fromage blanc, shaved fennel olivada. And this: fried cod roll with avocado, aioli, kumquat
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