Jen SiskaNote to aspiring restaurateurs: The fiercest Chinese eateries are in diaspora neighborhoods, places like the Outer Richmond or northern Peninsula, where second- and third-generation Asian Americans actually live. Seems like nobody told the owners of Bund Shanghai (640 Jackson at Kearny), a restaurant in the heart of Chinatown that SF Weekly critic Meredith Brody says is pumping out some of the best Chinese food in the city. Start planning where you're gonna park the Prius, even as you b
Friday, July 24, 2009
Let's do lunch:
What the hell, it'll be foggy all over the city today, so why not lunch in the Outer Richmond. Keep warm, says SF Weekly food critic Meredith Brody, with soup dumplings, knife-cut noodle soup, and garlic chicken wings at cash-only Shanghai House (3641 Balboa at 37th Ave., 831-9288).
Drink therapy:
Oh, like you're too cool to hang out in the Marina with financial analysts in untucked club shirts. How do you feel about $10 all-you-can-guzzle Busch dra
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Sheng jian bao: Worthy of coronation.
Old episodes of Check, Please! Bay Area aren't always the best barometer of local restaurant excellence, but in the case of Shanghai Dumpling King, one came through like the Earl of Warwick. Local Filipino-American writer and St. Mary's College English professor Lysley Tenorio, the 2008 recipient of a Whiting Award, appeared on the show back in March, and effectively made his case for the eatery's xiao long bao, or soup dumplings.&nbs
Friday, October 9, 2009
If you're anywhere near the Outer Richmond at lunchtime, chances are you're articulated extremities will feel as frosty as Otter Pops. Understandably, cold fish is a hard sell. But, suggests SF Weekly restaurant critic Meredith Brody, the sushi here is so good you might not care. Go for the toro and scallop nigiri, with a bowl of clam miso soup. You know, just to keep your body temperature up. Yu Zen, 4036 Balboa (at 41st Ave,), 386-9800.
​Earlier today, the Municipal Transportation Agency unveiled the results of a study regarding its tentative plan to extend parking meter hours to weekday evenings and on Sunday. There's no shortage of details -- reporters were even handed a city map with "pink" and "teal" parking zones -- but whether this plan moves forward or goes down like a wooden nickel depends largely on just one thing.
Namely, will the folks who don't want to pay for what they're now getting for free have more sway tha
cygnoir/FlickrYu-Zen's futo maki.An early nibble from the Weekly's Wednesday food review.
We all know the taste of mid-grade sushi-joint food like we know the taste of a McDonald's burger: starchy tempura, elaborately gooshy fantasy rolls, watery miso soup. Get something better, and it seems like revelation. That's the case at Yu-Zen (4036 Balboa at 42nd Ave.), a no-frills Outer Richmond sushi bar where the sprawling menu offers up modest delights in the form of chirashi sushi, izakaya
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