Eat & Drink

01 Aug 2012

Win a Pair of Tickets to “Climbing the SF Food Chain” + Dinner!!

I’m just gonna copy and paste the info for this one since I’m pretty slammed right now, but in a very San Francisco moment, I looked at the people involved with this rad event and laughed because I’m friends with nearly all of them. SF is the smallest town ever.

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30 Jul 2012

Haltun’s Walk-up Taco Window in The Mission

  Cheap, delicious tacos are found at the far right window at  Haltun The Mission District has many subsections, a few of which are less well trodden by that elusive and hard-to-define group whose omnipresence has helped to define it in contemporary minds, i.e., Hipsters.  That nauseating word, like Alternative, Organic, Indie,

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28 Jul 2012

Oakland Art Murmur: As Good (And Cheap) As It Gets

  The first Friday of every month has Oakland displaying the very best it has to offer; art, crafts, live music, food, and a city full of fun, diverse, and interesting people. Oakland Art Murmur is a city-wide multi-venue event that supports the burgeoning network of art and culture in

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27 Jul 2012

Drying Summer Fruits and Veggies for That Cold Winter

As July rolls to a close you may be realizing that you only have one more month of real summer left. Sure, we can usually count on September for sunshine and warmth, but you never know when that cold front is going to suddenly sweep in and then what will

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25 Jul 2012

Sanguchon: Cheap Peruvian…

What’s to say about the Sanguchon Peruvian food truck that hasn’t already been said? I don’t know. All I can tell you is that the Chicharron sandwich, while being Peruano, tastes like a carnitas burrito, sans tortilla. Or, a torta, sans avocado. Their buns are, where do they have these

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24 Jul 2012

Vacation: A One Day Only Summertime Pop-Up Shop

Looking for some new summer gear? Then Saturday will be an awesome day in the land of getting what you want. R2, Sea Pony, Birdz on a Wire, La Plume Noir, and Mary Weather are getting together for a pop-up trunk show at Wild Feather in the Lower Haight. Each

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23 Jul 2012

The Best Deal in The Marina: The Brazen Head’s Maker’s Mark Mondays

              Brazen Head’s classic interior   I’ll take the risk of repeating an oft-held position by opining that most of the time The Marina District richly deserves its crappy reputation.  Its main streets (Union, Chestnut, Fillmore) of a Friday or Saturday night are overrun

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22 Jul 2012

Cupkates: Key Lime Pie for Peasants…

I don’t normally like cupcakes. At best, I think they’re a great mobilizer of sugar into the system of greedy 5th graders during holiday parties with classmade, construction paper, chain link streamers. Well, that’s the only time I made and consumed cupcakes. Then, when the cupcake craze swept over America

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