Mission Mission

At El Cafe Tazo. It’s not my favorite place, they always seem really disinterested in interacting with me. But for the sake of my sanity I may need to start buying these breakfast specials.

Reader Krissy P. alerts us to this hot item:

2 cans vintage 2010 4 Loko caffeine + alcohol (mission district)

I have two cans of vintage 2010 Four Loko. This is the original formula, chock-full of alcohol, taurine, and caffeine–so powerful the FDA banned it. This is the original Tiger Blood, nevermind 7 gram rocks, Charlie Sheen was shotgunning cans of this stuff. I have one can of Lemon Lime flavor and one can of Lemonade flavor. They’ll be refrigerated and ready for consumption. Best offer gets ‘em. 21+ only please

I wonder why they’re unloading ‘em already. Think how much they’ll be worth in five years! (Maybe they really really need a seven-gram rock.) [link]

Thanks, Krissy!

UPDATE: There’s also a big feature and interview with Four Loko’s founders making the rounds today. It’s hell of long.

Eater SF this morning published a list of the 15 Bay Area restaurants with the hottest staffs. The top two are in the Mission. Here’s what they have to say:

2) Heart: Brooding owner Jeff Segal chose a pulsating organ as the logo for his Mission wine bar; he serves wine in Mason jars and describes them with guts. “More soul than Marvin Gaye. This wine just fucking sings,” for example. Add in louche hipster servers and this wild card is not only steaming up the wine scene, but twisting it into bendy new positions.

1) Flour + Water: There’s a beau in the back and the servers can wear whatever they fancy. Our reader favorite is a swarm of plaid-clad, hottie hospitality.

Congrats, all! Read on for lots more hotness.

We took an in-depth look at this forthcoming restaurant’s progress a few weeks back. This week Radish launched their website, and apparently a guerilla marketing program.

Does this lo-fi marketing effort make you crave their fresh, seasonal cuisine or what?

[Photo by Talent is an Asset]

P.S. This is totally a joke, relax.

These look pretty good, for vegan cookies. They’re up for grabs now at the San Francisco Center for the Book Earth Day Celebration.

[via Theresa]

So, Scoutmob seems supercool. They are kind of akin to all these new group-buying sites like Groupon, but all their deals are free. FREE, dude! Futhermore, they seem to focus on stuff like tacos and books and cool restaurants (rather than spa treatments and cologne and jewelry), so it’s more our speed.

Today, Scoutmob is offering 50% off at Pancho Villa ($10 max discount) TOTALLY FREE. (Plus, Mission Mission gets some cash for helping promote this wicked discount, so by taking advantage of it, you’d be helping us pay the rent, which would be awesome.)

And to make things even more interesting, Scoutmob also wants to send two lucky readers (and their entourages) on a very special trip to Pancho Villa, in which you get to dine with the entire Mission Mission staff! And Scoutmob picks up our bill! We’re pretty cool to hang out with I think, so, win, win, win, win, win, win, win, am I right?

To enter (and get your 50% off thingy) just follow this link. (And if you’re already a Scoutmob member, just re-enter your email address for a chance to win.)

And for more on Scoutmob, please check them out!

You haven’t been to Oddball Films yet? It’s this weird film archive in a warehouse space above Capp Street that hosts curated film screenings on a regular basis.

This Thursday evening, they’re showing a bunch of films about beer. Some are old, some are new. Some will be of interest to beer aficionados, some will be of interest to people who want to see a cat drink beer and use drugs.

A cat drink beer and use drugs. A cat drink beer and use drugs.

Plus, there will be a selection of microbrews on the scene, for drinking.

Click here for a PDF rundown of the whole program. [via Mission Local]

Today just might be a Serrano’s day.

(For 2cute2puke, yesterday was the day.)

I can’t wait to see how this plays out. I hope somebody gets some pics of the process.

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Melissa shared this amazing picture on her Tumblr last week.

This is my great-great-grandfather Elijah with his family, in front of their house in the Mission district, a house I walk by all the time. Why is there a tea kettle and miniature stove on the sidewalk, you ask? Well, on this particularly portentous day, an enormous earthquake had struck San Francisco, and many families moved their kitchens into the street so as to prevent fires (83 years later, I have a distinct childhood memory of all the families on our block barbecuing the night after the ‘89 earthquake struck for the same reason).

Read on here.