Mission Mission

The SF Berlin-Style Ping Pong League‘s been going strong all through the winter at Dear Mom, but now spring is here and the league’s numbers have grown quite a bit, so they’re moving to the big, enclosed, heated barn at SoMa StrEat Food Park. Here’s the deal:

The SF Berlin-Style Ping Pong League has a new season starting up next week. It’ll be every Monday for six Mondays in a row, this time in the big (enclosed, heated) barn at SoMa StrEat Food Park!!! Beer, wine, sangria — and *tons* of food trucks to choose from.

Form a team, join up, meet the other leaguers, make lifelong friendships, fall in love, perfect your ping pong skills, look forward to Mondays for the first time in your life, eat lots of good street food, win big prizes at the championship, etc., etc., etc., repeat, repeat, repeat! ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ [link]

Sounds good! (Also, in addition to the food trucks, there’s a SKEEBALL TRUCK.) Register your team (or just yourself) here.

Here’s a look inside the barn:

[Barn photo by SFBay.ca] [Other photos by American Tripps]

A little birdie tipped us off that changes were afoot at Bruno’s (#yearofpaul), so we followed up. Acclaimed KronnerBurger barkeep Gabriel Lowe confirms the news thusly:

I’m unveiling a cocktail menu in the pussycat lounge (private room upstairs at Bruno’s) this Friday night. There may be a password. There may or may not be girls doing acrobatic (not stripping) pole performances dressed up like kittens. Kittens are hard to book short notice.

Awesome! Thanks, KronnerBurger for progressively giving us more and more reasons to venture further and further into the belly of Bruno’s.

[Both photos by Matthew Davis]

Or maybe my pal Nattles doesn’t know how to use a fork?

That’s right, can you believe it’s been a full two years since the Galley first changed the face of Clooney’s forever? Help ‘em celebrate the milestone this Friday:

In celebration of two tip-top years in the at kitchen at Clooney’s Pub, The Galley is throwing a party!  On Friday, March 1st, we’ll will be serving up Galley favorites, including our famous French Onion Sandwiches (portable versions of the soup), and Pickled Pepper Eggs.  The food doesn’t stop there: we’ll also have Navajo Tacos and more from Rocky of Rocky’s Frybread, and Guillermo from FogCutter/Dear Mom serving Fried Chicken Bao, Edamame, and other signature items.  Come help us celebrate, and bring your appetite — the Pickled Pepper Egg-eating contest (Starting at 7pm ) isn’t for the faint-of-heart.

It’ll be an epic rager for sure. (I’ve had the pleasure of partying with Chef Justin on a few occasions and I always end up wreckkkkked.)  RSVP and invite your friends!

P.S. Look at this picture of the Galley’s French onion sandwich.

Overheard on 17th and Valencia: “he was, like, ejaculating on my furniture.” #sick

— Emily Wallace (@MissEmilyStone) February 23, 2013

The Ken Ken blog has more pics and details here. (They also say something about “Welcome to the Mission,” but I dunno, my sister’s car got similarly burgled in Hayes Valley, so.)

By Frozen Kuhsterd and Boba Guys! With Jameson-infused boba! At SoMa StrEatFood Park right now!

[via Boba Guys]

Our pal Pen Pop is on the scene:

Hey, not sure of the details except that the bike and a backpack were under the wheels of a muni. Looks like the bus was turning off Harrison into the depot. I don’t know the condition of the cyclist but the police aren’t letting the bus move. Now there are about thirteen buses (combined both sides) waiting to go in. Watch out for buses, watch out for stop signs.

Ugh why oh WHY must Clipper Cards be so BORING???

[via lmc]

Black Jeans, from the Mission, performs tonight in Oakland.