Taco Tree Madness
Love Letters to SF and Eye on Blogs suggests we need to make a March Madness taco playoff a la LA Taco:
Who to list? Tell LLTSF.
Any developers out there have playoff tree code we could manipulate?
Or should we do burritos first?
Don’t Feed The Animals
Best tcos in SnFco, if not the Wrld:
Except for those pesky students:
Who don’t eat at the truck anyway:
Tragic in many senses: O’Connell High students would rather fast for 7 hours than eat the free school lunch, yet they aren’t allowed to eat these. And the city is trying to force El Tonayense to move in a purported effort to protect and improve the free lunch program, even though the truck was there before the school was even built. Yet the students rarely went to the truck. Oh, delicious irony…
Anthony Bourdain should try to eat the O’Connell “lunch” when he’s shooting his show here the week after next.
Brisket, Beer and Latkes at MSF
Mission Street Food may be closed this Saturday, but next weekend, man oh man…
- BEER ICE CREAM made of one of these unsuspecting Shmaltz beverages by Humphry Slocombe (vote!)
- Anthony’s take on Jesse’s beer brisket:
I can’t wait to see what else is on the menu. This could be epic. I am drooling on my keyboard. So everyone show up at 7:30 after I’m done eating, OK?
Mmmm, latkes. I don’t think it’s possible to eat too many latkes. I am going to have to fast that day to fit in all that brisket, latkes and BEER ICE CREAM. And beer.
For the record, I finally got my hands on the Origin Pomegranate Ale. That is one fine beer, as is Lenny’s RIPA. Do yourself a favor and hit up some of the chosen beer BevMo or Whole Foods.
Suriya Thai No More? Whither Valencia 1400 Block.
I love Suriya Thai. Pumpkin curry, ginger rice, coconut ice cream, faded elephant…
But this is not good:
Dr. Memory reports that it is worse:
I happened to walk past Suriya Thai on sunday afternoon, and some of the owners were in the process of emptying it out and setting up most of their furniture for people to haul away. They were somewhat reticent to talk about the specifics of what happened (and fair enough, I was just a random dude wandering by): really all they would say was that they lost their lease. In any case, I’m really sorry to see them go: I loved having a really good thai place within a block of my apartment.
This sucks. Suriyans, please re-open somewhere nearby.
Valencia between 25th and 26th, sea of change. Suriya goes. The Valencia wood window shop (in which for years I have seen neither movement nor life other than fluorescent lights) gets cleaned out of its vast collection of wood shims:
And the Groger’s Western Store remains a testament to sunbeaten, blued out cowboy posters frozen in time.
(Yes, I am officially obsessed with this place. I want to know its story.)
But Valencia btw 25th and 26th, WTF?
What Do BART and Sharks Have In Common?
Other than QuadCamera + QuadAnimator, absolutely nothing. I have officially run out of headlines today.
San Jose / Minnesota game — I missed Mission Melts for this.
It is amazing how much your hand drifts over a couple of seconds.
p.s. iPhones can’t do animated GIFs, WTF?
The original oncoming BART shot (click to enlarge):
I Know Which Way The Wind Blogs
360 panorama of Mission @ Clarion Alley. 10,000 pixels wide, click to zoom.
Slices:
Tonayense Justice Delayed Once More
El Tonayense‘s hearing has been postponed yet again — no longer this Wednesday, Mar 11.
MenuPage’s truckdate = either March 25th or April 8th. Mission Loc@l thinks April 1st (appropriate given how much of a joke the whole thing is). I believe this is the 4th or 5th time a date has been set.
Meanwhile, students at O’Connell High choose to go 7 hours without food rather than eat the free school lunch that El Tonayense supposedly threatens.
Panini Awesometown
mei over at Family Styles recent went on a corporate panini rampage.
as president and executive producer of corporate grilled cheese innovations, i would like to introduce our newest offering: the carefully architected grilled cheese production lunch hour. should you be interested in exploring the comprehensive and exhaustively researched grilled cheese initiative, the resulting achievement of stated business objectives may resemble the following:
mei notes that the technical term for this is “grilled-cheese-at-your-office-and-in-your-face-awesometown“. I fully concur.
I am glad to live in awesometown where the creation of panini at the workplace is encouraged if not celebrated. In fact, governments worldwide hereby DEMAND “corpanini“.
Seeing this, I simply cannot wait until the start of the business week. I move to immediately make a panini for brunch here at the Hall of Burrito Justice. My only value-add is to use olive oil rather than butter, but such is the decision of each paninista.
The Arms Remain The Same
Lou defaced. Literally. Guess the Supreme store won’t be sub-leasing the American Apparel space.
The spirit of Lou lives on though – those faceless arms are still bad-ass.
Beer Ice Cream?!
In a quadruple-epic alignment of the planets, Humphry Slocombe will be making BEER ICE CREAM using Shmaltz He’brew or Freak brews for Jesse’s beer dinner at MSF on Sat, March 21st.
But which beer to use? Coney Island Lager? Lenny’s Double Rye IPA? Messiah Bold? Origin Pomegranate Ale? Indicate your desire below!
Note — you can buy these finely crafted Shmaltz brews at BevMo, Whole Foods, and City Beer. Use this as an opportunity to try a brewing company born in the Mission, right in La Lengua!
Burrito Justice 