Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond.
Weight of opinion: Kathy of Food and the City turned away from the KC Masterpiece-slathered cliches of the holiday weekend to take a bite out of five of the city's best Vietnamese sandwiches (plus three also-rans). The winner? *Surprise*: Saigon (okay, no surprise, 'specially since Gene Miguel, new cheap eats correspondent for the Ex, drooled over Saigon last week). The Larkin Street locus of jalapeƱo-spiked deliciousness packs in hefty gobs
Slurpable: Hoodscope's Gene Miguel launched a recurring feature today: parsing 7x7 magazine's list of 100 Things to Try Before You Die, published last April. Miguel frames it as a service: I know many of you out there have been trying to finish this list one item at a time. Hopefully with some personal insight and opinion, I can keep you from wasting your time and money by focusing on the items that truly are to die for. Really? Really? Have a lot of us been trying to finish this list? Mi
Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond.
Tuesday morning quarterback: It'll be in your DVR until you forget to click Save after inexplicably overlooking the last will-delete-to-make-room warning. Want another way to relive the glories (dubious or otherwise) of last night's S.F. episode of No Reservations? Check out Gene Miguel's postmort at Hoodscope. Gotta agree with Gene about the Hopper.
Please stop. Please?: We know: Bacon should've long ago gone the way of fondue and su
Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond.
City of small eats: We like Gene Miguel. So much we asked the Hoodscope blogger and Examiner Cheap Eats guy to do some posts for us. Miguel has a keen eye for the unspectacularly arresting, like these spicy fries from Java restaurant (or the prosthetic-size burrito he blogged for SFoodie). Not crazy-ass good, probably, nothing that'd ever rate Bauer notice. Just stuff that reveals the texture of life in the city.
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