At Mission Street Food last night I was too busy savoring the fucking triple-awesome nachos to even think about taking any pictures of anything.
Until I was waiting in line for the restroom. What is this lucky charm?
P.S. Karen is positively heroic in the Chronicle writeup, amirite?
I second the fucking awesome nachos! I was also impressed by Mr. Shang’s Vegan Delight – delicious.
(Pssst — dude, you’re supposed to tell me it sucks on the nights I can’t make it…)
Karen rocks — she puts up with bloggers AND the Chronicle. She is the patron saint of line chefs.
Ahh, Chronicle — I love how that article tried to diss them by implying no big chefs are signing up:
“Chris Kronner, former executive chef at Slow Club and Serpentine, was cooking on Valentine’s Day, but not many name chefs have taken up the offer.”
Frankly that was a disappointing night. I’ll take line chefs over executive chefs any day.
And what’s with the selling-out drama? I haven’t run into that since the first few nights. Saturdays are wide open after the first seating.
Re the orange — bet it was for Chinese new year.
In Cantonese, the word for orange and gold are the same, so you get a lot of those (along with your red envelopes) symbolizing luck / happiness / fortune for the new year.
Belated gung hay fat choy!
I like bloggers. Some of my best friends are bloggers.
The Chronicle article says that I never made time to talk with the reporter, but we sat down with her for an hour-long interview, in which we explained that we would be busy working on Thursday.
Also in that interview: she inexplicably asked Anthony if he is a vegetarian, which surprised us both, given (a) the food he cooks and (b) the meatloaf sandwich he was eating at that moment.
Those nachos were terrific, but I’m still thinking about the PB&J. I know it’s a classic, but I had never had it until thursday.
@johnny0- it was terrible, you didn’t miss a thing.