Mission Mission

That is all. Just wanted to say it out loud since for so doggone long it seemed like it would never happen

Mission Bowling Club is getting to work:

For the entire month of June, every time you purchase a Mission Burger or an order of Green Chili Cheese Fries we will donate $1 from the sale to At The Cross Roads! www.atthecrossroads.org

Those fries are the bomb btw. And you already know all about the burger.

[via Mission Bowling Club on Facebook]

Our pal Katherine K. Robinson has been perfecting this routine for a while now, and it sounds worthwhile and fun and yummy:

I started making my own almond milk about a year and a half ago to reduce the trash we produce (the shelf stable packaging is not recyclable in San Francisco) and avoid all the fillers and preservatives in store bought almond milk. Now that I’ve figured out a routine and recipe that works for us, I’ll never go back to the watery, flavorless, packaged variety.

How to make almond milk:

Start with good quality raw almonds, unpasteurized if possible. I purchase mine from Cipponeri Family Farms at the Heart of the City Farmers’ Market. They are not certified organic but they do not use pesticides. Last time I purchased almonds I paid $20 for 4lbs. Other options in San Francisco include Alfieri Farms and Massa Organics at the Ferry Plaza Farmers’ Market.

Read on for the rest of the process.

[via Angela May Chen]

My pal Nattles and I have a beef. We both like both places, but she prefers Boogaloo’s, and I prefer St. Francis, and sometimes it’s a problem. We decided to enumerate what we like about each place. First, Nattles and Boogaloo’s:

• The people watching: Omer at the steps of that government building across the street (when he was around), the sidewalk sales on those steps… The bike lane & increased traffic in general on Valencia means you’re liable to run into more friends (and enemies) and see more strange sights.
• The Boogaloos Classic: vegetarian biscuits and gravy. BOOM.
• Desayuno Tipico: plantain cake!
• I like flipping my coffee cup to indicate that Yes, I would love coffee like at an old school diner.
• Corner shop – All the light!
• Friendly people!
• Coffee to-go at the front is serve yourself.
• Nice to go alone to.
• Straight up I’ve never found a dish at St. Francis that I *really* like, and I have two at Boogaloos that I haven’t strayed from in over 5 years.

Fair enough. Now me and St. Francis:

• St. Francis has FRIES
• It’s on 24th Street
• There’s always a spot at the counter (unbeatable for solo dining)
• It’s not on Valencia
• The mimosas are better
• The people watching is also great (24th Street!)
• It’s not so bright! When you’re hungover, sometimes you don’t want it so bright!
• I almost always order a grilled cheese sandwich with avocado and tomato and an egg over easy on the side, which I then plop on the sandwich. I’ve gotten this at both places and St. Francis just does it better. And it’s way better with fries, doy.
• You get to watch sundaes and floats being made
• Three’s Company trading cards for sale
• On the rare occasion you have to wait for a table, the little bench out front is pretty clutch
• Overflow dining room on the weekends, super-clutch
• I just love the staff so much
• You get to listen to the Clash or Talking Heads almost every single time

I love both places though. (FRIES!) Anyone else have any thoughts?

(Thanks, Nattles!)

[Photos by Google Maps]

Grab a scoop of coconut ice cream from Mitchell's Ice Cream and we'd be happy to make a Negroni Float #negroniweek

— Rock Bar (@RockBarSF) June 4, 2014

(Thanks, Nattles!)

That’s the main thing. Here are some other things I like about Chino:

• They’ve got lumpia, and it is goooood
• The Singapore Slings are really good instead of really bad
• The chicken salad is the bomb
• The dumplings!
• The noodles!
• Their logo is cool
• Super nice staff
• Open late (’til 1 starting tonight I think)
• Perfect volume level; you can be boisterous and not bother anyone
• It’s really fun to order “four Singapore Slings please” over and over
• A server asked how our dinner was and I stood up and did a bootie dance and she was pretty chill with it
• Even the cucumbers they tell you not to eat are actually pretty good

Chino rules!

This week’s “Drink of the Week” is a very special review by the very talented Podboy:

Guess what.

I don’t really want to tell you because I hate it so much I promply tried to forget it. I’ll give you a hint though which is: it is the same amount round as red as it is gross. In case you couldnt guess from those clues I did BUZZ-BALLS. Unluckily even if you guessed right your still wrong because to be honest it was more like BARF-BALLS.

“BUZZ-BALLS RUM-JOB” NAME doesn’t even make sense except unless you count how feeling like drinking it is a STRESSY JOB!

To be honest the strawberry flavor is quite sweet and fresh but the rest of it is very hot on your tounge and barf-like. If I could say one thing to the maker of this it would be you should make it all the way round so it rolls away from me.

Do I reccomend this drink? In fact I DO reccomend this drink. I do reccomend this drink is never drank by a human that is!

Ha! Thanks, Podboy! (Be sure to check out the Podboy archives for some killer X-Files and Walking Dead fanfic too.)

[via Podboy]

4505 Burgers & BBQ is the best restaurant in San Francisco. Here are 4,505 reasons why:

1. The signage is really cool
2. Sitting in the sun on the patio watching the scene on Divisadero is pretty cool
3. The vegetarian sandwich (with deep-fried grits patty, an egg, and green chile) is fucking awesome
4. The fucking special fries with chimichurri and aoili oh my god
5. The staff is really nice                  …..4,500 more reasons after the jump: (more…)

Nicely done, Patxi’s Noe Valley!

(I’m a little stoned.)