Subject: Ryan Farr

• Mission Street Food's Inauguration Gala and Charity Work

  Mission Street Food is sharing in the country's revelry of Inauguration Day by making this week's installment a dedication to the election of Barack Obama, including a "Rocket's Red Glare" salad, remixes on classics like mac & cheese, BBQ and beans 'n weenies and even Baracky Road and I Have a Dreamsicle ice cream from Humphry Slocombe (2790 Harrison).MSF will also inaugurate a new policy to donate all of its proceeds to charity each week, starting with offerings to Project Open Hand and C.H

  January 20, 2009

• The Five Best Bacon Sweets in San Francisco

  Badge by S.F.'s Snarky McF*ckbuttonsYou may be tiring of all the hype and fuss surrounding bacon, but admit it: You're still not tired of bacon. Or sweets. So what should you consume if you need a fix of both at the same time? Enjoy this countdown of our top five faves.5. Bacon marshmallows from Perbacco (230 California at Front)We tasted these playful confections from Perbacco chef Staffan Terje at a Meatpaper party. They were so good, we slipped one in our bag for later. Strictly for res

  June 2, 2009

• Everything's Coming Up Meat!

  Carnivores can study, taste, and feast on all things fleshy.

  February 13, 2009

• Meatpaper Pig Party at Camino 4/27

  This shindig should definitely be worth the schlep to Oakland.

  April 14, 2009

• On a Mission

  Inexpensive street food as reimagined by guest chefs draws crowds and donations.

  February 4, 2009

• Orson Not Well

  Ambitious, edgy California cuisine flirts with the future in uneven fashion.

  July 23, 2008

• Twitter-Sized Recipes, Pt. 2: Thomas Martinez

  (Photo by Chris Andre) We're having fun with local chefs, challenging them to create a recipe with only 140 characters, the same amount of space allowed for messages on Twitter. After last week's pig head Mu-Shu recipe from Ryan Farr, we have a lovely vegetarian offering to follow. At age 22, Thomas Martinez, who leads the kitchen at Mission Beach Cafe (198 Guerrero), is one of the youngest (if not the youngest) executive chef in San Francisco, and has also worked at Aziza, Greens, and Roots:E

  April 16, 2009

• Teeny Dishes, Oysters, Meat, and Happy Chefs: The Month in SFoodie

  Here are some highlights from the past month in SFoodie, in case you missed 'em:• We launched our new series of Twitter-sized recipes from local chefs, challenging them to create a dish in 140 characters. Check out these itty bitty instructions for Pig's Head Mu-Shu from Ryan Farr of 4505 Meats, Early Spring Artichoke Soup from Thomas Martinez of Mission Beach Cafe, and Uni and Shoyu Gelee in Mint Elderflower Glaze from Eddie Lau of Mission Street Food, with many more to come.• There are nea

  May 1, 2009

• Butchery and Bacon-Spiked Bourbon: Bloodhound Pig Roast Turns Hacking into a Spectator Sport

  One of the evening's victims, in mid-takedownLast night's pig roast at SOMA bar Bloodhound saw two superstars of the city's pig culture go head-to-head in a hack-off. Call it more a demonstration of competing butchery styles than an Iron Chef smackdown: Chicharrones king Ryan Farr of 4505 Meats and Fatted Calf's mortadella meister Taylor Boetticher showed off radically different ways of dismembering. By the end of the evening, it wasn't clear who won. Though, clearly, the losers were the pair o

  May 14, 2009

• CUESA Announces Vendor List for Thursday Street-Food Market at the Ferry Building

  JC Anthony Dee 42 via FlickrStarting in July, the fanciest street food in town will happen right hereCome July 2, street food takes to the waterfront -- haute street food, that is. Riding the wave of mobile food fervor sweeping the city, the Ferry Plaza folks are launching a Thursday farmers' market devoted largely to street food carts, open from 10 a.m. to noon. Don't expect a $1.25 taco á la Oakland's International Boulevard. These carts will serve the most pristine food on the street, with a

  May 21, 2009

• 'Porkapalooza' Offers Another Chance to Mix Butchery with Boozing

  Relive the magic.Remember how much fun Bloodhound's last mashup of butchery and boozing was? Here's your chance to touch the magic (ar at least risk being splattered by it) all over again. On June 16 - next Tuesday - Ryan Farr of 4505 Meats and Taylor Boetticher of Fatted Calf are tag-teaming for Porkapalooza: Two guys, one pig, and several scary-looking knives. Instead of demo-butchering separate pigs as in May's hackoff, they'll work on a single victim suspended from the ceiling, slaughterhous

  June 10, 2009

• Offal Talented: Poggio Chef Named Winner of Sunday's Cochon 555

  Laiko BahrsTrotter Tots with pea-brain aioli, one of Peter McNee's winning dishes.Call him the dark horse: Poggio's Peter McNee was named Prince of Porc at the Fairmont last night, nosing out four chefs to take the crown (well, funky pig trophy) in the latest Cochon 555 challenge. McNee had been considered the underdog in the competition, which seeks to hype heritage pork varieties. In the six days before the event, McNee and Poggio sous chef Ian Banks turned a 110-pound Berkshire pig (raised b

  June 15, 2009

• Explore Meat and Booze at CUESA Class and Go Home with Sausage

  FogCityFog/FlickrH. Joseph Ehrmann of Elixir will demo Perfect Punch.The Center for Urban Education About Sustainable Agriculture (CUESA) is up to its delicious tricks again with a summer-friendly event this Friday, June 26. The Summer Sausage and Perfect Punch class features three of the Bay Area's experts in meat and booze: chef Ryan Farr (4505 Meats), H. Joseph Ehrmann (proprietor of Elixir), and Steve McCarthy (Prather Ranch Meat Co.). Farr will lead a sausage-making and grilling demonstrati

  June 23, 2009

• Ryan Farr Promises Dogs, Gobs, and More at 4505 Meats Stall

  Steven Gdula Miniature gobs -- gobbles -- will be available through 4505 Meats.We're waiting with bated breath and an empty stomach for next week's launch of the new Thursday street-food-focused farmer's market at the Ferry Building. But one of its most anticipated stalls won't be open until the following week.4505 Meats proprietor Ryan Farr told SFoodie that the opening menu when his stall launches on July 9 will include his "golden dog," chicken beer sausage, and narcotic-like chicharro

  June 24, 2009

• New Ferry Plaza Thursday Street-Food Market Off to a Delicious Start

  Meredith Brody Laiola spinoff Tacolicious was serving up tacos inspired by the street. Today saw the kick-off for Ferry Plaza's Thursday street-food market. In the Ferry Building's North Arcade, five carts offered fare made from market-fresh ingredients. We were first in line to taste the results. Meredith Brody Chipotle chicken and short-rib tacos from Tacolicious.Roli Roti (rotisserie meats, featuring a bistecca arrosta, a juicy roast beef sandwich for $5.50) and Cap'n Mik

  July 2, 2009

• Hacking Up Pigs? Kid Stuff. Bloodhound Event Promises to Butcher a Steer

  Maybe pigs are the gateway agilitynut/FlickrSteers = the new hogs.drug of butchery, the giggly little high that leads inevitably to the synapse-busting experience that leaves you watching the fibers in your flokati coalesce into runes. On Tuesday, July 28th, meat gods Ryan Farr and Taylor Boetticher are slated to drop a load of whoa on Bloodhound (1145 Folsom at Langton) in SOMA, when they tag-team butcher the forequarter of a 175-pound steer hanging from the rafters. The creature will have bee

  July 20, 2009

• Show Dogs Unleashes Upscale Wieners on the Tenderloin

  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

  July 21, 2009

• Namu's Asian Street Foods a Big Draw at Ferry Plaza's Thursday Market

  The Korean "tacos" are worth the lines. We'll call it: The Ferry Plaza Thursday street-food market is officially an S.F. institution. Shortly after noon today, the lines for the mod Cali-Korean place Namu and Ryan Farr's 4505 Meats snaked across the sidewalk. A camera crew for 7x7 magazine chilled on the curb, waiting for the cluster to thin a bit before turning its cameras on Namu's chefs, busy churning on BBQ belly sandwiches, kimchee fried rice, and what signage dubbed The Real Korean

  July 23, 2009

• Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

   Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. Stoner specs: Yeah, we all made fun of it -- the messenger-bag-turned-beer-cooler by Timbuk2, named for Dolores Park. Last Sunday, Mission Mission's Allan Hough actually spotted some guy using one, unleashing a string of reader comments about obnoxious hipsters befouling the, well, authentically hipsterish byways of the Mission. We know - confusing. Our favorite comment may be from Lapidgeon, who in true DP style has a suggestion for th

  July 23, 2009

• Want to Make Your Place Feel More Lived In? Try Butchery

  J. Birdsall Farr at work: This could be your dining room table.You know, a house just isn't a home these days without a little pig butchery. Just so happens that if you score the winning bid in the San Francisco Street Food Festival's silent auction, you'll be able to give your flat exactly what it's been lacking -- a personal hog-hacking demo from 4505 Meats' Ryan Farr. Festival organizers recently published their growing list of auction items. If the Farr butchery turns you off, c

  August 5, 2009

• Bite the Zeitgeist Next Week at Acme's Artisanal Wiener Tasting

  J. Birdsall4505 Meats' Dogzilla-style hot dog: Cultural icon in a bun.​What is it about the hot dog -- traditional lunch of toddlers, work-boot wearers, and Costco shoppers -- that's turned all zeitgeisty? Sure, it's the curdled economy -- big duh. For the price of a turkey club, you can get a deuce of dogs, and everyone knows that two of something is always better than one of another. Always. And in an age when street food of any kind is sexy -- even, perversely, curried frog legs, which,

  August 11, 2009

• Ryan Farr Pork Posters Come Pre-Smudged with Lard

  4505 MeatsGuaranteed to make any room feel more porcine.​Gotta get that pork poster! For those who can't afford to bid for the chance to have 4505 Meats' chef Ryan Farr conduct an in-house butchery demo (an S.F. Street Food Festival auction item), consider shelling out a little over $35 for a limited-edition letterpress porcine piggy poster that can find a permanent place in your home. For swine fans, the images could be a natural addition to a kitchen, office, or other wall space. Farr wo

  August 14, 2009

• Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

  ​Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. Are there any actual rock stars?: It's kind of a Manhattan bitch fight, really. But in advance of a Nightline segment ("Butchers: New Rock Stars of the Culinary World") Grub Street New York gets kind of pissy about what it regards a mugging of the original New York mag piece about the sexy-burly world of meat cutters (Grub Street being New York mag's food blog bitch). None of that is totally interesting, except that, in whining, Grub S

  August 14, 2009

• Local Flavor: 4505 Meats' Bacon Peanut Butter Brownie

  Can you handle another bacon dessert?​"We inhabit a subculture peculiarly steeped in pork fat," blogged SFoodie editor John Birdsall earlier this afternoon, speaking of the porcine pleasures available in the Ferry Building. To that we humbly add the bacon peanut butter brownie, available on select Thursdays (when there's a street food-focused Farmers Market from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.) at star butcher Ryan Farr's 4505 Meats stall.Bacon sweets may have jumped the shark a long time ago, but this is c

  August 27, 2009

• Feast With a Chef Dream Team (and Support CUESA) at Sunday Supper

  cuesa.org​Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture (CUESA), the non-profit organization responsible for the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market and its associated educational programming, will host its largest annual fundraiser in October. Attendees of this year's "Sunday Supper" will sit in communal tables in the rarely-seen upper floor of the Ferry Building; each will enjoy a different four-course meal cooked by a dream team of local chefs. Some notables in a long list of participatin

  September 10, 2009

• Friday Street-Food Market Reportedly Set for Folsom and Second

  J. BirdsallNamu's ssam (aka Korean tacos): Coming to the absurdly named SF Blu.​Eater SF reports that, starting next week, lovers of the Thursday Ferry Plaza street food market will be able to get sloppy seconds, as it were, on Fridays. Beginning September 25, a trio of Plaza stalwarts (Tacolicious, Namu, and Ryan Farr's 4505 Meats) will serve up lunchtime faves that may or may not include Coca-Cola braised beef tacos, ssam, and Dogzillas (respectively) from the courtyard of 631 Folsom (at

  September 16, 2009

• Hey, That's Ryan Farr Grilling Lamb on a Mission Sidewalk!

  M. LaddThe 4505 Meats chef stuffed the leg with various other parts.​Yes, that was 4505 Meats' Ryan Farr manning the grill in front of the McSweeney's headquarters at 839 Valencia (at 19th St.) earlier today. As you read this, the McSweeney's crew is noshing on baby lamb. Farr -- with help from McSweeney's Chris Ying and photographer Jackson Solway -- grilled a 4-month-old milk-fed baby lamb from Napa Valley Lamb Company. The lamb shoulder was cubed and blended with the lamb's kidney; tend

  October 20, 2009

• Marin Goes All Backwoods Next Month for Swamp Cabbage Feast

  perrygrl/FlickrWear your fishing vest.​On Sunday, Nov. 15, Mill Valley is where the wild things are -- smoked, roasted, and stewed. Savory Thymes, an organization dedicated -- in large part -- to the "cross-pollination" of inspired ideas about sustainable food systems in the global economy, is hosting a stupendous-sounding feast of wild game and foraged delicacies to benefit the production of Swamp Cabbage: A Dark and Sweaty Survival Guide, a documentary by Hailey Downs and Julie Kahn. The

  October 22, 2009

• Please, Don't Bring Your Toddler to This Petting Zoo. Unless They Have a Thing for Butchery

  kimoWear something splatter-proof.​Another carving party led by meat superstars Ryan Farr and Taylor Boetticher will throw down when Petting Zoo hits at Bloodhound (1145 Folsom at Seventh St.) next Tuesday, Nov. 3. Forty large will get you all the (spit-roasted) food you can eat, demonstration viewing, and one free cocktail at the bar. The chefs will tag-team butcher a goat and a lamb, as well as spit-roast an entire hog over an open fire. Chicken beer sausages, pork-crack chicharrones, ra

  October 30, 2009

• Thanksgiving is Coming Fast. Know What You'll Be Serving?

  4505Meats.comTurducken from 4505 Meats: Why settle for one bird when you can have three?​Mission dwellers have a grazing option today. Starting at 5 p.m., Bi-Rite Market (3639 18th St. at Guerrero) is setting up a Thanksgiving tasting station set up in front of the store -- samples of Bill Niman's BN Ranch heritage turkey, cranberry relish made with honey from the Bi-Rite Sonoma farm, pumpkin and pecan pies, and related Thanksgiving dishes. Bi-Rite is the only San Francisco retailer to car

  November 2, 2009

• Another Display of Butchery and Upscale Eats -- This Time in Napa

  J. BirdsallRyan Farr dispatching a beast at Bloodhound.​Yet another butcher-chef-fire event (this one called Primal) is happening Saturday in Napa -- observe the breakdown of a pig, a goat, a cow, and a lamb, and taste the results. Incanto's Chris Cosentino, Perbacco's Staffan Terje, Fatted Calf's Taylor Boetticher, 4505 Meats' Ryan Farr, and Ubuntu's Jeremy Fox will all celebrate the art of butchery and heritage breeds at an outdoor party at Chase Cellars at Hayne Vineyard (2252 Sulphur S

  November 4, 2009

• Doggy Bag: Reading the Future in a Bag of Pork Skins

  Meatmeister/FlickrThere goes the neighborhood.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Going too Farr: Mission Loc@l's Kate Kilpatrick probes chicharrones both Bi-Rite and ghetto, sampling swine skin from sources as diverse as 4505 Meats and La Gallinita. Her guides? Papalote's Victor Escobedo and David Lew. Here's their take on a bag of Ryan Farr's 4505 Meats' version they score from Ritual: They're not holding up with Escobedo and Lew. Lew's assessment is less forgiving than Escobedo's. His

  November 20, 2009