Mission Mission

Southern Pacific Brewing opens for real this Friday, but we were lucky enough to get a tour yesterday. Here’s the view from the mezzanine. Two trees inside, one tree out on the patio, lots of light, lots of space. Capacity is 175 seated, 300 standing, so, yeah, lots of space.

Long communal tables give it a classic beer hall feel for sure, and in addition to the beer there’s a well-stocked full bar:

Inside Scoop published a first look at the menu yesterday as well, and it looks good. Here are the sandwiches and burgers:

Sandwiches

Smoked Pastrami, rye bread, pickles 11
Confit Chicken salad sandwich 10
Bahn mi, ipa roasted pork loin, kohlrabi slaw, cilantro, black garlic aioli 11
Sandwiches are served with Fries or Yukon gold chips

Burgers

House Burger, crispy shallots 8
Black and Blue, chili rub and bleu cheese 9
Lentil Burger, spent grain, fontina, grilled onion jam 11
Add bacon, avocado, aged white cheddar, 1.5

Opening weekend they’re only open in the evenings, starting at 7, but come Monday they open at 11AM every day, and push through ’til 2AM Thursday through Saturday. It’s on Treat just south of 19th. Here’s a map in case you can’t quite visualize it:

[Map by Google]

All photography by Ariel Dovas. After the jump, pictures of the brewing setup, and the grain silo (to give you another idea of just how huge this space is):

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Especially when compared to the flimsy protection offered by their Valencia St. counterparts.  I count nine intended spots to lock up bikes, and the imposing architecture makes for plenty of other opportunities to find purchase should they be full.  Let’s see a car try to take that out!

Previously:

Bike racks of Vancouver

[via Meesha]

Not as good as the Christmas tree method, but good.

(Sorry it’s blurry; I was on the move.)

Ok, so this is meme-y, but it was filmed in Four Barrel:

While we’re on the subject of coffee snobbery, anyone know how to get cafe-quality microfoam at home without dropping $500 on equipment? I wanna pour me some latte demon spawns.

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Looks good to me! And it looked good to some commission that approved it or something yesterday. New Dolores Park, here we come!

Mission Local has more pics and a full report here.

The Bold Italic today takes a look at the state of hummus in San Francisco. Mission Street’s Old Jerusalem gets an honorable mention:

“I came here and I wanted to make a restaurant exactly like home,” the chef told me. His recipe uses no garlic and he looked offended by the mention of lemon juice. “Lemon salt,” he clarified. “The process is very important, that it’s timed, how long to soak, how long to grind, like a dance done to music.” The hummus was covered with lakes of olive oil, scattered clusters of paprika, and finely chopped parsley. It was slippery, disappearing down my throat quickly, but very filling when served with warm pita, and thicker than the summer humidity of Tel Aviv’s beaches.

Read on for lots more hummus.

[via Talent Is An Asset]

After three months at sea, American Tripps returns to the Secret Alley, with a party rendered EXTRA-TRIPPY by DJ JustStella‘s far-out collection of psychedelic rock ‘n’ roll. Do NOT eat the brown acid, people.

RSVP and invite your friends!

To mark this joyous occasion, our pal Cody Frost is printing up a limited edition of high-quality hand-screened posters, seen below, which will hopefully be for sale onsite for a modest price:

They were just right out in the lane, following some bros on the sidewalk, for a full block at least. Dumb.

Also, how dumb is it that “film crews” nowadays just have a DSLR on a gigantic mount? I want a film crew to look like a film crew:

http://youtu.be/ruei3y9O1BI?t=42s