I was sitting inside Shotwell’s, my regularly mentioned favorite bar, when one of the bartenders, Dean, mentioned that he was thinking about starting a food cart. Barbecue, he says. Pulled pork sandwiches to start, with slaw and a couple of different sauces.

I became entirely too excited. Way, way too excited. The barbecue options – good, solid sandwiches with pulled, well-smoked meat, drenched in sauce – are few and far between in my neck of the woods. There are a couple of restaurants on Mission that call themselves barbecue, and I certainly mean no offense to their establishments, but they haven’t been what I was looking for. I wanted barbecue, and Dean was offering me my chance….

I’ll let the photos speak for themselves. A sandwich with a generous portion of meat, your choice of sauce and a side of slaw will run you $6. You can track them on twitter at @leftcoastsmoke. Good guys, good food. And my answer to beer+barbecue in the Mission.

The biggest surprise was the shrimp, holy crap was that good (and you can it get a la carte — want just one?  You can get just one.  Not that you will eat just one, trust me.)

And everyone who works there is cool. Plus they have wicked business cards.

On Mission and Precita, right across from Kragen and El Rio.

(UPDATE — call ahead, they’re installing a new smoker and will have an irregular schedule while the health inspectors do their thing.)

Gotta love it when you can walk to get BBQ. And never mind corn bread, mmmm…