Eat & Drink

What Your Server Wants You to Know About Eating in a Restaurant on Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is here and with the Center for Disease Control strongly advising people to not travel for the holiday this year in order to lower the risk of getting and spreading COVID-19, more people may be searching for a restaurant to eat in instead. Depending on where you live and

Orbit Room Launches ‘Lunar Lot’ for Cocktails and Pizza
This year alone, we’ve learned that the moon has water, the atmosphere of Venus contains a chemical so difficult to synthesize that it almost certainly comes from organic life, and the U.S. Navy believes in UFOs now. Only in 2020 would these things barely make a blip, but maybe Mercury

100 Best Cheap Eats in the Bay Area
This list of great places to eat in the Bay Area will leave you smiling and probably drooling. All these joints are incredibly well priced, locally owned, delicious, and serving takeout in 2020. Check their links for store hours, menus, and ordering info, because things are always changing these days,

Are Restaurant Workers Really Essential?
Covid-19 is sweeping across the country as steadily as the scent of weed blows across an Applebee’s parking lot, and more and more employees are having to put themselves at risk to go to their essential jobs. Over the last few months, the definition of an essential worker has turned

101 Year Old Tosca Cafe Has Reopened
Back in the day Tosca was part of what I called “The Holy Trinity of San Francisco Bars”. Along with Specs‘ and Vesuvio, Tosca represented the funky old North Beach bohemian scene that was part of what made San Francisco special. Then in 2012 it was announced that, due to

How to Make a Double-Decker Popeye’s Spicy Chicken Sandwich & Why You Deserve It
In the face of the turmoils of the past four years, both small and large, how does one cope? I picked up the guitar and learned a few new Dylan songs. I got more addicted to video games than ever before. I wrote more, or at least, I told myself

Celebrating 3 Years of Not Completely Shutting Down BAS
As you probably know by now, this website is labor of love. If my goal was to get rich, and I chose running a small independent media company as the way to do it, I’d be a complete idiot. Luckily the goal with Broke-Ass Stuart has always been to serve

5 Times You Do NOT Need To See the Manager, Karen
Making a scene will guarantee that someone will pull out their cell phone in hopes of posting the next viral Karen video starring you.