Mission Mission

Found this weird arrangement of stuff out front. What’s the deal? (Guerilla marketing attempt by Puccini Group?)

Good Eggs is this new thing where you can do your farmer’s market shopping online. You’d think maybe it would negate the need for an IRL farmer’s market like the Mission Community Market, but actually it looks like they’re working in tandem, which is great. (Some people seem to think it’s always real life vs. the internet, but I say why can’t we enjoy both, am I right or what?)

Anyway, to celebrate their launch, they’re roasting up a pig this evening! RSVP and invite your friends!

And if you want to know more about Good Eggs, Mission Local has a big feature up right here.

[via Funcheap SF] [Thanks, Kate S.!]

That’s supposed to be parallel parking there, so this guy must’ve gotten creamed in the intersection and spun ’round like crazy.

[via @flywithsig]

We’ve already heard quite a bit about this project, but I thought this official message, circulated this morning, might also be of interest:

****FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE****

ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE IS COMING TO SAN FRANCISCO!

Austin, TX— Wednesday, July 25, 2012—Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is pleased to announce its plans for Alamo Drafthouse New Mission in San Francisco, CA.  Alamo Drafthouse New Mission is slated to open during the fourth quarter of 2013 at 2550 Mission St. in the historic New Mission theater.

“With the possible exception of Austin, San Francisco is my favorite city in the world.  My parents met there, I was born in Berkeley, and my wife was working in the city before I begged her to come help me start my first theater venture in Bakersfield, CA,” said Alamo CEO and Founder Tim League.  “There is no accident that the first theater outside of Austin that my wife and I pursued is in San Francisco.”

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I’ve always thought Bryant was one of the prettier thoroughfares in the neighborhood, but I guess the southernmost end needs just a little more juice. They’re gonna remove some left-turn lanes and add medians and bulb-outs in an effort to make things prettier and safer. Mission Local reports:

One of the new medians will go up at Bryant and 26th streets, and another at Bryant and Cesar Chavez streets. The medians will be 8 feet wide, 110 feet long and filled with greenery planted by Friends of the Urban Forest.

Read on for testimony from neighbors and info on how this will affect parking.

Holy moly. Okay, you know how Dear Mom‘s kitchen made that awesome French-style hot dog and a bunch of other French stuff? That’s all over. Fogcutter is taking over, and I’m hoping this means their savory Olive Oil Waffle (basically a big fluffy waffle with a big delicious salad and a couple of poached eggs on top, and bacon if you want it) will start making appearances outside of pop-up Sunday brunch. But I’m happy either way, because everything these guys do (including the “Chupacabra” pictured above) seems to rule.

I’m thinking the thinking here is that this stuff might prove more bar-friendly than all that serious French stuff, but here’s the official announcement from Dear Mom’s Jay Beaman:

Hey you guys. Y’all have probably noticed some changes in the Dear Mom kitchen lately and we figured it’s time to let everyone know what’s been happening and what’s gonna happen and other whatnots. After helping us launch the kitchen program, our pal and total all around french chef badass, Laurent Katgely is returning his focus to Chez Spencer and other projects. Our slice of the mission kitchen space is now being taken over by Guillermo Perez and Caroline Hummer; also known as the scrappy duo who stuffed your faces out of the Fogcutter food truck and various pop-ups at Dear Mom over the last year.

Perez has been working in restaurants for over fifteen years, most recently with Todd Humphries and Kelly McCown at Martini House in St Helena, and downtown at Hiro Sone’s Ame. Perez and Hummer have both been working in street food for the past two years. They helped open The Chairman food truck in 2010, and in 2011 launched their own truck, Fogcutter.

These two are bringing that street food mentality to Dear Mom, prepping a menu with full on fat man (big plate) dinner food and all kinds of items that can be eaten standing up. Think American, Asian and Latino bar bites. Start your lemon juice cayenne pepper fast now because August 1st you’re gonna want to go too far. And by too far, I mean just far enough.

Can’t wait!

P.S. R.I.P. awesome French-style hot dog

P.P.S. But yeah here’s a picture of the Olive Oil Waffle, oh man…

[Top photo by Fogcutter and bottom photo by C'mon Pony]

This is but one of the songs on it that slays me every single time (and the album art ain’t too shabby either, right?):

Tickets here.

P.S. Opening act Jaill seems pretty good too.

For those not in the know, green chile means the world to fans of New Mexican cuisine. (I know a little about it from that time I went to Albuquerque on a Breaking Bad tour.) It’s not always readily available out here on the west coast, and when it is, it’s not necessarily done up right, but if there’s anyone in the Mission tonight that can nail it, it’s Rocky:

GREEN CHILE!!! TONIGHT !! @EL RIO!! 8pm!! 3 Bands!! $1PBRs!!

— RockysFrybread (@RockysFrybread) July 23, 2012

Plus some rock ‘n’ roll? Sounds like a plan.

Just look at this sandwich:

That’s smoked trout, fancy bacon, fancy lettuce, soft-cooked egg, herby cream cheese on rye. Sooooo good. I know it’s easy to forget about this place since it’s so far out 24th Street, not very close to Dolores Park — but it is worth the trek like crazy. (And maybe try picnicking at Potrero del Sol for once?)

New menu every day here. Or follow them on Twitter.