Mission Mission

Grub Street has the scoop:

[T]he new bar will have a serious cocktail focus, with a weekly changing cocktail menu, farmers’ market ingredients, and even a Champagne cart on weekends. As for the décor, it’s going to echo the sort of dark-red, heavily draped Victorian interior of their Upper Floor, a set they use at the Armory for a BDSM video site.

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Also, there will be erotic art installations from local artists, and a private lounge that’s available by reservation with its own separate entrance. It also sounds like they’ll be using this private barroom as a launching point for the popular public tours of the Armory.

Champagne cart! Read on.

And if you haven’t watched the short film about the final days of the Ace Cafe, set aside some time this afternoon.

[via Eater SF] [Artist's rendering by Andrew Dalton / SFist]

Looks like Daly City’s Koi Palace has caught on to this whole burrito fusion thing. Check out the “Shredded Duck Burrito”:

Its “tortilla” is a pan-fried scallion pancake, and its insides are peking duck-style shredded duck and cucumber slivers. There’s plum sauce for dipping.

It tasted great, though calling it a “burrito” might be a stretch. Where are the closed-off ends? It’s more of a wrap, I’d say.  Still, I haven’t seen a duck burrito since Mission Chinese’s Chinito (RIP) which brought back some fond memories.

And before you go complaining, “waaaah don’t tell people about my favorite ‘secret’ dim sum spot” ’cause it’s too late. The lines have been crazy long there for years.

UPDATE: Mission Chinese Food insider Chris Ying weighs in…

@missionmission Dude the duck burrito is OG. It is from whence @missionstfood‘s flatbreads came. Also on KP’s menu: the chinito’s dad.

— Chris Ying (@chrisyingz) September 5, 2012

Wow, this hot couple would fit in just perfectly with those fab stripe troika ladies!  Now all I need is a clever way to incorporate four stripes into a pithy phrase.  Stripe quartet just doesn’t strike the right chord…any suggestions?

Also, now that we mention it, hey, Indian summer?  Yeah, you!  It’d be nice if you decided to show up soon!  I wanna wear shorts and a t-shirt at night!

I thought it was an optical illusion at first, but nope. Looks like fun!

[via Shell Bell]

The Fog Bender does:

Our pal Lily lays it bare in a caption to the above pic:

Maybe the reason I didn’t like that movie Inception is cuz San Francisco just looks like all the “cool” effects already. Or maybe it was cuz that movie is stupid and boring. [link]

Or a little bit of both?

Just got a very important message from our pal Al:

Alex: I shampooed with Rolling Rock
Sent at 1:26 PM on Tuesday
me: on purp?
Alex: duh
me: why
Alex: cause I’m supposed to be givin up beer
for like 10 days
part of this thing I’m doing with my aunt
at any rate
I was drunk last night
and bought a six pack
and if it’s around
I’ll break down
and drink it
so I used it to shampoo
me: is that a thing?
Alex: http://www.refinery29.com/beer-hair-rinse
take one in the shower with you
drink half
pour the rest on head

Lookin’ good, Al! Thanks for the tip!

Perhaps this is the entrance to some super-secret Mission book club!

Our pal Brittney just found out:

I was taking an 11:15-ish outbound 27-Bryant home from work, and we’d only gone one stop when at 5th and Mission a blonde blur of a man snatched my iPhone right out of my hand then ran right out the back doors of the bus.

The most I could muster was to stand to my feet and yell, “HEY.” He took me completely by surprise. I had my headphones on and with a single jerk he detached the phone cleanly from the headphone jack and forcibly removed it from my hand. A couple of goths, a couple, ran out after him, while I stood there stunned.

They screamed at him. There was yelling. I didn’t make any of it out. I just stood there.

Read on.

Ash Reiter has been one of my favorite local bands since hella years ago, and now they’re about to release a big awesome new full-length called “Hola,” but it’s a little dependent on funding.

They’ve got a Kickstarter page set up where you can pledge money toward the release and be guaranteed a copy of the record in return. For a small pledge you get a digital version, for a slightly less small pledge you get a CD, and for a lil more you get the vinyl. Or there’s t-shirts, or you can get them to record a cover of your choice just for you, OR they’ll write and record an original song just for you, OR they’ll go skydiving or ballooning with you. Check it out!

Here’s a jam from the band’s most recent EP: