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SoMa StrEatfood Park may be really hard to type, but it’s a fun place for lunch or dinner or even late-night snacks and beers, and for one night only, as part of SF Cocktail Week, it will become a serious cocktail hotspot:

We guarantee that you will be served drinks in a way that you’ve never been served drinks before. Unique, fun and interesting – come out to enjoy the great food truck culture of San Francisco when it is paired with the amazing cocktail talent of our city. Guests will experience bottled cocktails provided by Rye on the Road, carbonated cocktails provided by Elixir out of soda siphons, kegged cocktails provided by Jasper’s Tap and Kitchen, and canned cocktails by 15 Romolo that will be canned onsite with The Can Van. Guests will be given a food voucher for dinner from a food truck of their choice, while mingling and stargazing during an Indian summer night in San Francisco.

To win a pair of tickets (a $90 value) tell us your best fancy cocktail-related anecdote in the comments section below. Contest ends at noon on Monday. Winner will be picked based on merit.

Buy tickets here.

I can’t seem to find the menu anywhere, but It’s brunch, and it’s at Boogaloo’s, and it’s on a Friday night! ChefRoulette is the name of the organization organizing these things. Here’s the deal:

Featuring the dynamic chef duo of Nicole Poirier and Nikole Lent, chefRoulette and Kitchit (http://www.kitchit.com/) are pleased to be your hot date on Friday, September 14. This brunch will be held at Boogaloos, which typically closes its doors at 3pm. But we are re-opening them just for you! You can come line up for your miracle food cure starting at 7pm, going until you just can’t eat anymore.

Sounds good! RSVP and invite your friends!

UPDATE: MENU

SF Comedy & Burrito Festival??? Comedy and burritos?? Makes sense kind of, I guess. But we asked festival co-founder Ameen Belbahri to explain for real:

As a San Francisco native and burrito aficionado I had always wondered why there were no events celebrating what I think is our greatest culinary contribution. I had thrown around the idea of having such a festival, but it just seemed too difficult logistically. At the time I was working at a comedy club part-time and was trying to figure out how to make a career out of it. Someone suggested I put together a comedy festival and somehow the two ideas merged in my brain. I told friends about it, usually under the guise of a “silly idea I had” until eventually their enthusiasm for the project convinced me that it was viable. [Co-founder] Jeff [Cleary] had also been tinkering with the idea of a comedy festival so we joined forces and thus the festival was born.

Hurray! And get this: early-bird tickets are available at early-bird prices for just another couple days, so best get on it! (They come with burrito vouchers, and after this week they go from $55 to $75. Events take place at various venues around the neighborhood.)

There’s been a whole bunch of guac talk on this blog lately, and for very good reason:  we live in the land of delicious 25 cent avocados!  Got a killer guacamole recipe you’ve just been dying to unleash on the public?  Well, now’s your chance to pit it against all other contenders in a battle to the death (death for the avocados only, since they will be eaten) at the First Annual Indian Summer Guac Off going off this Saturday:

A party that will be showcasing the best Guacamoles that the city has to offer.  The winner to be crowned with the guacamole glory trophy, bragging rights until next Indian Summer, the title of official “Guacamole of San Francisco”, and a secret mystery prize.

You can talk all the talk you want, but can you actually walk the guac?  See if you have what it takes and check out all the details here.

Previously:

• Guacamole is good on anything
• How to make guacamole

Eater SF reports:

[A]n active full liquor license just crossed the ABC wires, and opening should be imminent. [link]

So that’s it right? Those things ain’t cheap, so they better open the doors and start capitalizing on it quick. Right? Any day now, I’m sure.

And comes on this dope checkered wax paper! The bonito flakes obviously aren’t vegetarian, but you should probably just pick them off since if you don’t get them you don’t get to see them do that thing they do.

I just can’t get enough of this place.

On a bowl of Chex:

On a sushi roll:

Anything else? Anything it wouldn’t be good on? I’m at a loss.

[via C'mon Pony and Honey Jets]

And Namu is ostensibly a Korean joint for goodness’ sake! Anyway, seriously, this was the absolute highlight of a meal full of highlights. It was even better (though not as visually stunning) than the CREATURE FROM THE DEEP, but goes equally good with a glass or three of the house rice beer.

Seriously, this is THE BEST GNOCCHI.

I don’t even know what a Hungarian pepper is, but it sounds cool, and this shade of orange looks reaaaally good. Apparently INNA jam subscribers are receiving a jar of this this month, but hopefully some leftovers will show up at Rainbow or somewhere.

I haven’t gotten excited about a Lagunitas beer in awhile, but this my favorite new IPA since Ranger. It’s a “fractional” IPA, which presumably means the opposite of a double IPA (doubles typically have more hops and more alcohol.) With only 4.65% ABV, about the same as a Budweiser, this beer is custom-made for drinking all day and then overeating at Benders. And it tastes like marijuana and peaches, and it’s delicious. If anyone’s seen it on tap, let me know where and I’ll meet you there in 15.

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