Hooray, Brulee! Hurry, Curry!
CremeBruleeCart and MagicCurryKart on Linda and 19th. We hereby see what Twitter was meant for.
“I once made a creme brulee THIS BIG.”
Any job where you get to play with fire is a good one.
From such a humble kart, such great curry.
White coats indicates food genius. (Surprise of the evening — our two kartistas are brothers!)
Burrito Justice verdict = most excellent green chicken curry (very spicy) + fantastic creme brulee (chocolate chambord, big lebowski white russian, mmm).
Street food in San Francisco remains well represented. I want more food carts.
Obligatory Frank Chu Sign
Since we’re on a sign meme, behold the Frank Chu Sign Generator:
ACME Technologies asks for so little yet gives so much. (Thanks, Telstar Logistics.)
Anthony’s Cookies Twitter
Mission Signs, Or Lack Thereof
Interesting raised relief street names at 26th and Mission:
It was the location of the former Tip Top Inn.
This is a cool building — I love the detail. You can see it in this shot taken from Mission and Cesar Chavez (nee Army) in 1931 (it’s the one with the Redlick-Newman sign on top).
Since we’re talking about signs, Redlick Newman Furniture were the guys who made old the “17 Reasons” sign above 17th and Mission.
Why 17? Just some dudes trying to sell furniture. The Redlicks and the Newmans got in a feud and the Redlicks were trying to distract customers from the name change.
“My father developed this slogan after much study, asking everybody and their cousin,” he said. “He’d gotten the idea from Heinz 57 years back. They had 57 brands of food or pickles, whatever.”
The 17 did refer to the fact the store stood on the corner of 17th Street. But what were the reasons?
“People would ask what the 17 reasons were, and we would guff it off. There were no 17 reasons,” he said.
Tip Top Inn, gone. In 2002, 17 Reasons replaced by a Miller Genuine Draft billboard. (And Mr. Pickles, WTF?) We seem to be losing all our cool signs. No wonder Ribity and Girafa are so popular.
Anthony’s Cookies Grand Opening = FREE COOKIES
Sunset + Yard + Grill-orama
It is the perfect temperature outside right now.
360 spiral-orama via the iPhone — click to zoom 20x for 8409 pixels of perspective warping confusion. Note that the satellite dish on the left is immediately above my grill on the right.
(Correct me if my math is off, but if you printed this out, at 72 DPI I think it would be over 9 feet wide.)
BTW, I highly recommend grilling your asparagus while drinking a Big Daddy and watching hockey via Slingbox.
Guerrilla Muffins, Pastry Justice
BrittneyG of Eye on Blogs interviews Amouse Bouche.
It seems the cops are actually trying to help. But it’s been three years since the city has issues permits? WTF is wrong with this city?
Somalia’s Next Top Pirate – SF Edition
Anthony Bourdain is cut-throat. Anthony Bourdain takes no prisoners. Anthony Bourdain would have no issue making Alice Waters walk the plank. Yet given his panache, swagger, outright deception, and willingness to eat anything (perhaps even other pirates?) it is rather surprising that most in the food world missed his crowning at last year’s “Somalia’s Next Top Pirate“.
“Casting of the contestants took place across the country late last year, and filming was completed about a month ago. Large precautions were taken to ensure we won’t find out who wins ahead of time, but we can only assume he or she will be at least as ruthless and bloodthirsty as last year’s winner, Anthony Bourdain.”
Sadly, UN sanctions, the pending NATO blockade and Sandra Lee have prevented Anthony and media from attending this year’s awards ceremonies at Mogadishu University. (Go MU! Mascot? The Pirates…)
However, given we are one of the few blogs that continuous to finds Somali Pirates humourous (and one eager and willing to ‘jump the shark’, AAARRrrrggghh), the Burrito Justice governing board has recommended that San Francisco hold its own “Next Top Pirate” competition.
Quick list below. Suggestions welcome, especially female pirates. (Note – booty does not automatically make you a pirate.)
Bouche Triste, Faim Furieux
BART PD runs off Amuse Bouche from 24th St BART station, thousands go to work hungry and sad.
Updated map of SF-NFSF (No Fun Street Food):
Methinks we need to take a radically different approach on street food in this city. In Toronto, they have CONTESTS for street food.
(BTW, StreetFoodSF’s twitter is a great one on, well, you know.)
HellDogs of VAW
Valencia Art Wall.
“My god, it’s full of stars…”
Awesome. Analysis, please. (Please?) All I know is I’m glad I’m not the one who made SheWolf angry.
Via “Coin” Barrett — thx!
UPDATE: This is the Rec & Park Department’s newest hire — she will be prowling Dolores Park today making sure people pick up after themselves. Pack-in/pack-out and you should be safe. Otherwise god help you.
UPDATE 2: Second sighting, apparently there’s a pack of starred, winged SheWolves on the loose.
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