Tamara Palmer, Contributor, Pavement Cuisine, SF Weekly – Moderator
(Is it wise to have that many street food people inside at once? Will they have their wrists bound and engage in a Beat It-style knife fight? If so, my money’s on Anthony. Oh man, Gdula’s so screwed. He will rue the day he focused on cream-filled treats rather than working in a full kitchen.)
Following the discussion, there will be a concentration of street food so massive, so profound, that SONGS WILL BE SUNG AND TALES WILL BE TOLD.
Bacon Potato Chips
Bike Basket Pies
Creme Brulee Cart
Gobba Gobba Hey*
Magic Curry Kart
Mission Street Food
Soul Cocina
Sweet Constructions
Smitten Ice Cream
*This presumes all SFPs survive the knife fight.
Location: SF Club Office (program), 111 Minna (post-panel street food tasting) Time: 6 p.m. check in, 6:30 p.m. panel, 7:30 street eats party at 111 Minna Cost: $12 members, $20 non-members, $7 students (with valid ID)
He slices and fries up ordinary russets in vegetable oil, but with an innovation sure to send a ripple through the hearts of the LDL-unconcerned: He tosses bacon into the oil. When the chips are drained and seasoned, the fried and crumbled bacon joins them, with an extra piece on top. Just for eye candy, as it were.
That extra piece of bacon on top is what makes Bill our Crispy Food Marketing Scientist of the Month. Bravo, Bill, Bravo.
Magic Curry Man. Sexy Soup Cart. Creme Brulee Man. Amuse Bouche. No, these are not budding chefs at Burning Man camps — at least not to my knowledge. Rather, they seem to be leaders of a cutting-edge food movement in San Francisco, serving up budget-priced treats from food carts that liven up forgotten blocks and back alleys in the Mission district. — LA Times Daily Deal Blog (via Sexy Soup Cart)
Forgotten? Uh, sure, if it means the lines don’t get out of control.
Yet StreetFoodSF thinks LA is beating us on the street food front. (I agree, if only by quantity, though I think NY is the real threat here.) Brittney asks what street food would you like to see in SF. (I add no value but to create a poll.)
(Editorial bias: Noodles, most definitely!) Feel free to add suggestions.
UPDATE – PollDaddy is lame and doesn’t show anyone but me the suggestions, arrrgh. So far:
They will be moving indoors, sharing space with existing restaurants (hmmm…)
I’m not in love with the indoor idea, but I understand. Our little MSF is growing up — the lines couldn’t get much longer
I do like the idea of guest chefs though. I secretly wanted dozens of cooks to line 21st in a sea of silver and fluorescent street-food goodness like some William Gibson functional Singapore dystopia. But I don’t think James the Hater would like that.
“This sounds great, but will the sandwiches be as fun to eat sitting at a table, indoors? Will it still be street food?”
A philosophical debate indeed, like what the sound of one hand clapping? It’s not quite the same, even with the benefits of beer and wine. It all depends on the atmosphere. Best of all would be something that has a big garage door in front so people can come to and fro, and mill about freely.
Maybe they can partner up with Janitzi on Valencia and 23rd — needless to say they could use the traffic, and it’s a nice, big open space. Take out the tables and chairs, and just have a bunch of high tables…
Wherever they go, I want a new sandwich called “James the Hater” with something bitter, like arugula, and with something so insanely hot you start shouting like a crazed son of a bitch and no one can get a word in edgewise.
A bit of drama tonight before the opening — “James the Hater” from Vanguard Properties (the stone building on the corner) came out all agro, getting in the MSF team’s face, yelling that their permit was bogus, they were dirty, they had no right to be there, etc. (MSF does have a permit, they hose down the sidewalk after closing, pick up after themselves and are nice people.)
Anyway, the guy was a douchebag. I don’t think he likes sandwiches. Or people. Was he attacked by a taco truck as a child? Maybe he had just come down from Medjool and was disoriented. So if you see him, tell him to hug it out and buy him a Mission Melt. Karen gets big points for unflappability, especially since The Hater came in with no intent of listening to anyone but himself.
Obligatory pictures of Mr. Benton’s bacon. Dear god is that amazing. I almost considered putting it on my brownie.
I learned how they make the bread so fluffy. The flatten down a ball of dough, roll it up into a cylinder, roll THAT into a spiral, and then flatten it again. Apparently they fight over who gets to press and roll the bread since it’s a great ab workout.
Oh, and there IS panorama software for the iPhone!
I took this with Panolab — it’s free. You line up ghost images of photos (live or from your library) around a hemisphere. Pretty interesting, but it doesn’t adjust light levels (though I kind of like it that way). Click to enlarge:
And there’s Panorama – $10, but it stitches and adjusts lighting quite nicely. Good support — they’re out of New Zealand and got back to me right away. Click to widen:
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