Mission Mission

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Chef’s Market Box is a weekly program, part of the Mission Community Market (that Thursday-evening thing behind the Alamo Drafthouse), which gets you a recipe from a local chef and all the fresh local ingredients you need to make it. This week’s looks bomb:

4505 Meats Burger and Summer Salad

Cook up Eater SF’s Best Burger in the Bay! 4505′s grass-fed, dry-aged beef, Gruyere cheese and 4505 secret sauce, plus a summer salad with lemon vinaigrette.

Your Market Box includes: The full recipe from Chef Ryan Farr, founder of 4505 Meats, and all the ingredients you’ll need.

Ingredients: All produce is organic! 1/2 lb. 4505 ground beef, special sauce, Gruyere cheese, onion, butter lettuce, buns, lemon, herbs, nectarines, fennel.

And since you’re making it yourself, you can totally make it animal-style!

IMPORTANT: You must order it today if you want it tomorrow.

Oh look, and he’s spray-painting something of his own too.

[via Sleepner]

Tonight at Dear Mom, as part of a special popup dinner menu:

I wonder if you can get it animal-style!

Remember when we saw man-sized ketchup and ranch bottles duking it out in the new Dolores Park playground last month? Well I’m not sure how we missed this, but the full-length commercial that they turned out to be filming came out a month ago and it shows these condiments duking it out all over San Francisco. Here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj5Aa–TytI

Not sure who to call the winner. Looks like at least dogs prefer ketchup.

By the way, I know we just posted a commercial, but don’t think we’re on the take. It’s just a funny commercial.

That being said, I can tell you from personal, unbiased experience that Hidden Valley® brand ranch dressing truly is the world’s finest condiment for fries, steaks, and sushi. In fact, independent studies have shown that it can increase the intelligence in newborn babies if rubbed on the belly daily during pregnancy. Why don’t you live a little and make your dinner tonight a ranch-drizzled dinner? Hidden Valley® makes everything taste better™.

Eater SF yesterday published a list of awesome “secret” menu items at restaurants around the city. Here’s one in the heart of the Mission:

Hog & Rocks
Where: 3431 19th Street, website
What: For late night (10 p.m. to midnight), the bar offers it’s most popular brunch item, a spicy fried chicken and biscuit sandwich. It’s $15 served with their juiced up “half-and-half” fries. You’ll have to try them to find out whatthat means.

I wonder if you can get it animal-style! Read on for more big secrets.

[Photo by Thrillist]

Do you guys ever have that experience?

From American Tripps on Facebook:

It’s been two long months since we had a party in the Mission, but we’re coming back full force! El Rio, if you’re not familiar, is one of the finest party venues in the city, and we’ll have ping pong tables set up in each of its three spaces – front room, back room, patio.

DJ Joe Finkel will be on the decks, spinning rock ‘n’ roll, glam and power pop, and Rocky’s Frybread will be on the scene in case you get hungry. This is gonna be siiiick!!

El Rio rules! Daydrinking rules! Joe Finkel rules! Rocky’s Frybread rules! Ping pong ping pong! RSVP and invite your friends!

That’s him there (allegedly), in the Kelly Kate glasses and stonewashed denim. He and his crew were out in full force of the weekend, taking advantage of the hordes of people out celebrating Pride. Mo, one of his victims, tells her story (on Reddit):

The way he pickpocketed me is this: He came up to me, grabbed me from behind, and told me to take a picture with him. I didn’t know this guy, so this was super confusing, but he seemed like he was trying to grab my camera maybe, so I handed the camera to my friend, who then took the photo. Afterwards, he scurried off with his friends and me and my friend were left wondering, “wtf drugs was this dude on…?”

It wasn’t until a few seconds later, when another woman (who I didn’t know) came up to me and said, “I saw that guy take your phone when he grabbed you!” and I looked in my pocket and indeed my phone was missing. This was long enough that he had disappeared into the sea of thousands in Dolores, though a couple of my friends spent a while trying to hunt him down to no avail. [link]

Yikes. Another Reddit user recognized him:

Him and at least one other person used to run scams in the Union Square area. They would come in and grab large amounts of product to “purchase” around Christmas time. When they got to the sales counter they would provide a credit card and an out of state drivers license(it was from Hawaii when I dealt with them) a form of ID. When the card was run through the computer would kick out a number to call for confirmation and one of their friends would be on the other end and would give you a confirmation number. And for some reason any number will allow the transaction to go through. I loathe him. [link]

And yet another warns that he and his crew are potentially dangerous:

This guy and his shitty friends used to come into the Castro Chevron and shoplift everyday. His friend has lips tattooed on his neck. They are known to pepper spray you if you give chase. Real tough guys. :/ [link]

So the next time you try to take a picture of this guy and his cute outfit for your fashion blog, make sure you keep your valuables locked up tight.

(Thanks, Chris and Danyell.)

[Photo by Mo]

The SPCA announced via Facebook that it is waiving the adoption fee for all kittens under six months until June 30th! If you’ve always wanted to adopt a kitten, but balked at the adoption fees, this is your chance to partake in the joy that is cat ownership. To get you pumped up, here’s a clip of the band Free Kitten at the MTV Beach House in 1994. Kittens!!!

[Photo via the SFSPCA Facebook]