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Townsend

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2013

    The Return of The Dollar Oyster List

    Since editor Anna Roth recently put Hangtown Fry back in our brains, we've decided to revive an old tradition at SFoodie called the Dollar Oyster List. Like Taco Tuesdays, cheap oysters is still thankfully a thing around these parts. Feel free to let us know of any additions in the comments and we'l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2012

    Twenty Five Lusk Offers Monthly Beer and Food Flights

    Craft beer has come a long way in Bay Area restaurants. Thanks to local chefs such as The Monk's Kettle's Adam Dulye and The Homebrew Chef, the phrase "beer dinner" no longer raises eyebrows. Neighborhoods are increasingly serviced by brew-centric bars, bottle shops, and restaurants with a knowledge ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2012

    Kasa Indian's Second Truck, and Cold Beer! Cold Water! Gets Some Wheels

    The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Kasa Indian's second truck will take to the city's streets starting tonight. Eater SF reports the truck will park on Second Street (at Townsend) from 5:30 to 8 p.m. And the best part? The first 50 people ... More >>

  • Dining

    October 26, 2011

    Fresh Eats: SoMa's New Burmese Gourmet Food Truck

    The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Kasa Indian's second truck will take to the city's streets starting tonight. Eater SF reports the truck will park on Second Street (at Townsend) from 5:30 to 8 p.m. And the best part? The first 50 people ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2011

    SOMA Fire Closes Moya Ethiopian and Nico's Tacos Official Cinco de Mayo Opening

    The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Grub Street reports that yesterday's SOMA fire in the Park Hotel SRO has closed ground-floor restaurant Moya Ethiopian. The SFFD declared the building "structurally unsound" and the restaurant will remain ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2011

    Ponzu Nears the End, Decantr Stays Dark, and More Proof That Spire is Gone

    The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Grub Street reports Roostertail Rotisserie's liquor license was approved, and hypothesizes the opening date of the Lower Pac Heights restaurant to be right around the corner. Also from Grub Street, they ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2010

    San Francisco's Year in Biking

    Cyclists finally get a portion of their due.​Injunction Eased! Ridership Up! Is Tipping Point Near?On Aug. 6, 2010, a San Francisco judge lifted a ridiculous five-year court injunction that had prevented the city from making improvements to facilitate bicycle traffic. Soon thereafter, the city got ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2010

    The Summit's Kinko's-Style Guerrilla Marketing

    John BirdsallCalling all beanie-rocking, studded-belt-wearing art students.​Looks like Desi Danganan is engaging in a bit of old-school guerrilla marketing, Kinko's style. Summit, the ex-Poleng proprietor's café, restaurant, and art gallery slated for 780 Valencia, is due in September. Yester ... More >>

  • Dining

    July 21, 2010

    Recent Openers

    The newest dining and drinking spots around town

  • Dining

    July 14, 2010

    Recent Openers

    The newest dining and drinking spots around town

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2010

    Spire's Spaetzle Gratin

    John BirdsallOven baked spaetzle gratin ($8).​Tuesday, July 13, 2010 Requirements for opening a restaurant in SOMA's ballpark corridor: big bar, dishes you can eat without the dangly tails of your panda hat wicking up extraneous sauces, slouchy lounge. Once its liquor license arrives (possi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2010

    What to Have for Lunch: Cuban Sandwich from Goza-Goza

    Jonathan KauffmanGoza-Goza's no-nonsense, cheese-filled Cuban sandwich ($6).​Thursday, June 4, 2010burritowings​We confess ourselves taken with San Francisco's enduring Cuban sandwich fixation, one taken up by both forces at work in the food scene ― the facifiers and the gut-bombers ― and al ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2010

    What to Have for Lunch Today: Epiphany Cheeseburger from Holy Grill

    John BirdsallThe Epiphany with cheddar ($6.25). ​Fri., May 7, 2010 Toro E./Yelp​Everyone knows there's burger dualism, two irreducible types you scarf on radically different occasions. The first you order from the Nopa barstool you were aggressive enough to ingratiate your ass cheek ont ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2010

    Chronicle Books Warehouse Sale Starts Thursday

    Cover price: $19.95. Sale price: $6.98​Chronicle Books' annual warehouse sale starts tomorrow. From Thursday through Saturday, the San Francisco publishing house will be selling hundreds of titles from its back catalog ― for 65 percent off. (Note: The sale only takes place at the store located i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2010

    Seen in S.F.: Crosswalk Instructions Are Not F*@cking Around

    Spotted at Townsend and 8th St.​Really? The middle finger? How pedestrian.

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2010

    Memory's Knuckle Ball: Your SFoodie Lunch Planner

    J. BirdsallA la recherche de game days past.​Mon., Feb. 22, 2010 Some restaurants you imprint with certain memories gleaned from your first meal there, impressions reproducible no matter how different the reality of later visits. Which is to say that a grilled cheese with tomato soup at Parag ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2010

    Little Skillet Chef Stepping Down

    Ciscle, holding up the current issue of 7x7, whose cover features Little Skillet's chicken and waffles.​After nearly nine months of warm reviews, Little Skillet chef Christian Ciscle is stepping down at the end of February for unstated reasons. In a clipped e-mail message addressed to "Friends ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2010

    A Cuban Sandwich Worth Lifting the Ban For: Your SFoodie Lunch Planner

    J. BirdsallThe roll makes all the difference.​Weds., Feb. 3, 2010 Your average pan cubano? A lardy-tasting slice of pork roast, bracketed with ham and Swiss in a bready roll. At Ironside, chef Bob Cina takes the Cuban sandwich to the border of ethereal. Mostly it's the airy roll, compressed o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2010

    Cutting Through the Gloom, Alsatian Style: Your SFoodie Lunch Planner

    J. BirdsallIronside's flammkuchen, the anti-Cali.​Tues., Jan. 19, 2010 It's as gray and sodden as Northern Europe out there, so why not lunch on something with roots in Alsace? Ironside's flammenkucken flatbread is a pizza not exactly in the Cal-Med tradition. Moistened with crème frâiche, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2010

    SFoodie's 92: Brown Sugar-Black Pepper Biscuits from Little Skillet

    J. Birdsall​As a windup to the Weekly's Best of S.F. 2010 on May 19, we've teased out 92 of our favorite local dishes that taste like here, a different one each day. Tweet your own nominations ― extra points for pics ― to @SFoodie. Number 89: Brown Sugar-Black Pepper Biscuits from Littl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2010

    Grits You Can Bask In: Your SFoodie Lunch Planner

    Christine L./YelpThe Snuggie you wrap your insides in.​Weds., Jan. 6, 2010 Little Skillet's grits with andouille and cheddar is the lunchtime equivalent of the Snuggie: grits haunted with butter -- gluey in a good way -- with an orange-gold scurf of melted cheese and hunks of sautéed sausage ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2009

    Vendor Announces Sequel to Last Month's 'Outside In' Indoor Street-Food Party

    T. PalmerOrganizer Roger Feely of Soul Cocina in action.​Chef Roger Feely of Soul Cocina has teamed up with Little Skillet to organize the sequel to last month's Outside In event, an indoor party featuring street-food carts and live DJs.The roster of mixmasters for the evening features popular hip ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2009

    Early Bird Special: Ironside

    Jen SiskaIronside's cuban sandwich​An early nibble from the Weekly's Wednesday food review. Point your finger at the jobless rate or the housing bubble's bust: We're living through a moment of intense repurposing. And while we may not be at the point of sock darning, we're seriously digging ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2009

    Photo of the Week: Obama or JFK?

    Click to enlargeWe can't tell either.​ Found on Townsend and Fourth Street.

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2009

    The Iron Cactus: SOMA Gets Its Very Own Hunk of the Mission Burrito

    J. BirdsallDisplay plates behind the sneeze guard.​Shouldn't every micro-neighborhood have its own Mission-style burrito place? The kind with a sneeze guard, pump tortilla steamer, and lady burrito makers with a flair for creative cosmetology? It's arguable. Today saw the launch of The Iron C ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2009

    Iron Cactus Taqueria Plans to Open Next Week Near Caltrain

    Once it starts spinning, you should probably grab your train.​An update on Iron Cactus (683 Fourth St. at Townsend), the SOMA taqueria adjacent to The Creamery (and from the same owners): The revised opening date is next Wednesday, Oct. 21. Iron Cactus' wagonwheel logo, an interior of repurpos ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 18, 2009

    Creamery Owner Weeks Away from Launching Iron Cactus Taqueria

    J. BirdsallThe facade includes wooden doors reclaimed from an Argentinian hacienda.​SOMA café The Creamery (685 Fourth St. at Townsend) is nearing a launch date for its adjacent taqueria, The Iron Cactus (683 Fourth St.), which has been rumored since March. A restaurant spokesman cited Wednes ... More >>

  • Dining

    September 2, 2009

    New Restaurants

    J. BirdsallThe facade includes wooden doors reclaimed from an Argentinian hacienda.​SOMA café The Creamery (685 Fourth St. at Townsend) is nearing a launch date for its adjacent taqueria, The Iron Cactus (683 Fourth St.), which has been rumored since March. A restaurant spokesman cited Wednes ... More >>

  • Dining

    August 19, 2009

    New Restaurants

    J. BirdsallThe facade includes wooden doors reclaimed from an Argentinian hacienda.​SOMA café The Creamery (685 Fourth St. at Townsend) is nearing a launch date for its adjacent taqueria, The Iron Cactus (683 Fourth St.), which has been rumored since March. A restaurant spokesman cited Wednes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2009

    Flush or F%@#ed: Pineapple Burgers at the High and Low End

    We know it sucks. In May, the U.S. Department of Labor reckoned the jobless rate in the S.F.-Oakland-Fremont area at 9.7 percent -- call it a leading indicator of all those steak-frites and dirty martinis not being consumed in local restaurants, either by those of us recently hustled out by securit ... More >>

  • Dining

    July 1, 2009

    Little Skillet's stellar takeaway can brighten a summer day

    We know it sucks. In May, the U.S. Department of Labor reckoned the jobless rate in the S.F.-Oakland-Fremont area at 9.7 percent -- call it a leading indicator of all those steak-frites and dirty martinis not being consumed in local restaurants, either by those of us recently hustled out by securit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2009

    Pop Review: Little Skillet, Farmer Brown's Street-Food Cousin

    Little Skillet 330 Ritch (near Townsend), 777-2777. Street food? These days, anything you can snarf while seated on a curb is smokin' hot. That's why today, the third day Little Skillet has been open, the line snaked down alleyesque Ritch Street in far eastern SOMA. Think Farmer Brown: Same owners, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2009

    The Dollar Oyster List

    Yeah, that's right, FREE oysters on Fridays at El Rio--until they run out.

  • Dining

    March 18, 2009

    New Restaurants

    Yeah, that's right, FREE oysters on Fridays at El Rio--until they run out.

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2009

    Now Open: The Creamery

    It's been an exciting couple of days for those of us who have to forage for food in the somewhat sterile section of SoMa known as Mission Bay. Just last Thursday we got Tsunami, a new Japanese joint for after-hours sake and sushi. And yesterday The Creamery opened its doors on Fourth and Townse ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2009

    Global Pantry: Wattleseed

    This exotic Australian spice tastes a lot like mocha.

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2008

    Fleet Foxes, Movies in the Park, Tilly and the Wall: The Weekend Hitlist

    This exotic Australian spice tastes a lot like mocha.

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2008

    Attack of the Heirloom Tomato Week! August 14 - 24

    This exotic Australian spice tastes a lot like mocha.

  • News

    April 2, 2008

    Free Parking for Sale

    Many say homeless guys who help commuters find street parking provide a valuable service. But others complain that they cause trouble.

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2008

    SFWeekly's 7-Day Dish

    Many say homeless guys who help commuters find street parking provide a valuable service. But others complain that they cause trouble.

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2007

    Quit Bitching: Monday Night Club Picks

    Many say homeless guys who help commuters find street parking provide a valuable service. But others complain that they cause trouble.

  • Dining

    April 11, 2007

    A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

    Many say homeless guys who help commuters find street parking provide a valuable service. But others complain that they cause trouble.

  • Dining

    April 4, 2007

    A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

    Many say homeless guys who help commuters find street parking provide a valuable service. But others complain that they cause trouble.

  • Dining

    March 28, 2007

    A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

    Many say homeless guys who help commuters find street parking provide a valuable service. But others complain that they cause trouble.

  • Dining

    March 21, 2007

    A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

    Many say homeless guys who help commuters find street parking provide a valuable service. But others complain that they cause trouble.

  • Dining

    March 14, 2007

    A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

    Many say homeless guys who help commuters find street parking provide a valuable service. But others complain that they cause trouble.

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 11, 2005

    Best Place for a Walk (Indoors)

    Many say homeless guys who help commuters find street parking provide a valuable service. But others complain that they cause trouble.

  • Calendar

    April 20, 2005

    The Light Fantastic

    All free, all dance, all week

  • News

    June 18, 2003

    Dog Bites

    An Anniversary for the Rest of Us

  • Dining

    May 31, 2000

    The Luddite Eats

    Paragon

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