Mission Mission

Just when you thought that today couldn’t get any better, you hear something like this from our favorite neighborhood sauce-less pizza purveyors:

We wanted to let you know that this Monday, the 17th, we will be celebrating our one year anniversary.  In honor of the day, we will be giving away a free slice of pizza with a purchase of $2 or more (while supplies last).  Giveaway will be from 12-4 only.

Has it really been one whole year already?  I guess it has!  So anyway, you’re telling me all I have to do is get something delicious like this mint chocolate chip cookie and I get a free slice of pizza?  This is what I have to say to that!

[Photo by Mike Chino]

Previously:

Arizmendi Opens For Realz

Arizmendi Is Done

Best Arizmendi pizza I’ve had in a while

Why pay attention to Weekend’s set at Treasure Island when you could be eating two different kinds of deep-fried mac and cheese?

If you happen to be at TIMF right now and reading this, the one on the left is from the Eat Curbside truck next to Silent Disco and costs $5, and the one on the right is from the Andalu stand and will set you back $8 (but it comes with a great spicy tomato sauce). Mission Mission liked the Andalu variety better.

It’s gonna be just like their bread! Eater SF explains:

[T]hey’re working with Oakland’s Linden Street Brewery on a batch of beer made from leftover Tartine bread yeast, which may eventually show up on the drink menu.

Read on.

[Photo by Mr. Eric Sir]

Eater SF reports:

On Sunday night the Ken Ken Ramen pop-up served its last noodle at The Corner. Meanwhile, the managers gave away free ice cream to diners as they moved everything out of the basement during service. There was a flood, they said, so they had to leave. But The Corner is in deeper water than that. SFoodie spoke with chef Joanna Karlinsky of the Sweet Joe’s pop-up, who said the Health Dept. recently inspected the space, finding it was only set up to be a wine bar, not a full service kitchen. Naturally, they had to cease operations.

Read on for info on the fates of all the pop-ups this news affects.

[Photo by Google Maps]

Reader Kristin was confounded: “I’ve had all kinds of fun with Google Translate and tuna doesn’t appear to mean anything in Spanish– certainly not prickly pear.”

Well, Kristin, Wikipedia explains:

Most culinary uses of the term “prickly pear” refer to this species. Prickly pears are also known as “tuna”, “nopal” or nopales, from the Nahuatl word nōpalli for the pads, or nostle, from the Nahuatl word nōchtli for the fruit; or paddle cactus. This and similar species are native to Mexico. [link.]

So, yeah, it’s just what’s it’s called. Not as funny as that whole smoked lion thing.

Get yourself over to 18th and Mission right now! The Boba Guys x Ken Ken Curry operation is now in full swing, and they’re slinging delicious boba tea (milk or soy, $4) and Japanese curry rice (pork or veggie, $8) while supplies last!

Boba Guys are in full effect starting NOW. Here’s an update:

Two quick things: 1) Cash Only (sorry, we couldn’t get our credit card machine to work) and 2) If you can come around 1pm, you might avoid the mad lines. Boba time!

See you at 1pm!

My friend Sole ran across this on her way to work this morning. I guess they hadn’t opened yet though.

Street Food meet Street Drink.

[Thanks Sole!]

We were walking down Valencia this past Saturday evening when someone passed us from the other direction carrying a fairly standard ordinary metal chair.  Not too odd, until someone further behind yelled “CHAIR!!!” quite loudly, which caused the first to drop the chair and hurriedly walk away.

The voice turned out to belong to a waiter from Grub down the street who collected the chair and started walking back to the restaurant.  When asked what had caused the commotion, he explained that someone had simply grabbed the seat from an outdoor table as they were strolling by and tried to walk away with it.  They had gotten about a block and a half away before getting spooked by the pursuing waiter and dropping the loot.

Does this sort of thing happen often?  I also remember sitting in the Gracias Madre front patio area eating an overpriced but delicious nopales taco when a person who looked like late ’80s/early ’90s Robert Smith passed by on the sidewalk, then doubled back and into the patio to nab a few of the decorative blankets piled before the front windows.  All I did was chuckle that time, and the waitstaff didn’t seem to notice.

A blanket I can understand given San Francisco’s schizophrenic weather, but this begs the question:  Who steals a chair?

An urgent request, via our Tumblr ask box:

So, how about it, readers and friends? Where’s some chocolate mousse?

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