Meredith BrodyA lamb merguez sausage (left) and the 4505 dog.The irony of passing two long soup kitchen lines to sample upscale hot dogs at the new Show Dogs sausage emporium in the Tenderloin didn't escape us.
But owners Gayle Pirie and John Clark's Foreign Cinema has had a singularly salubrious effect on revitalizng its swath of the Mission, and this stretch of Market Street is in dire need of destinations far beyond restaurants. Besides, Show Dogs is convenient for grabbing a haute dog befor
Foreign CinemaThink of it as a kind of retrospective.A week from today -- on Thursday, August 20 -- chefs Gayle Pirie, John Clark, and their crew are celebrating the 10-year anniversary of Foreign Cinema (2534 Mission at 21st St.) with a blowout fundraiser that starts at 6 p.m. Tickets cost $65 per person and benefit DrawBridge, a nonprofit arts program for homeless kids in the Bay Area.
The chefs plan on highlighting menu favorites from the restaurant's last decade, paired with libatio
The eatery will take up three floors of the historic building.SF. Business Times reports today that the owners of Mission District eatery Foreign Cinema plan to open a huge, 255-seat restaurant in the vacant Warfield Building at 988 Market (at Taylor), near the Warfield Theater. The restaurant will reportedly sprawl over three stories -- including a speakeasy-style bar in the basement that'll connect to the theater -- and outdoor seating on what reporter J.K. Dineen describes as "a steel
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