Mission Mission

Menu changes and restaurant closings are never easy. The least they could do is open source (is that a verb?) those recipes so you can relive the glory on your own.

Reader Kori, for example, does not approve of Monk’s Kettle’s recent developments:

Can you find out what the hell happened the old chef at Monk’s Kettle?
Don’t get me wrong, the new menu is tasty but it doesn’t hold a CANDLE to what it used to be.

There’s NO MORE Mac & Cheese, NO MORE Chicken, Bacon and Brie sandwich (and don’t tell me their new chicken sandwich is just as good, because it isn’t), and NO MORE fries set-up with the trio of sauces.

What am I supposed to do when I’m drunk at 10am and need my chicken sandwich fix? Where am I supposed to find a place that lets me dip my fries in both chipotle ketchup AND curry sauce?

Any light you can shed on the subject is appreciated.

Eater SF points out that this all came with a recent Chef change:

Now said new chef and former Coloradoan Adam Dulye is ready to release his new menu today. The press release says it’s “more delicate and elegant”

The definition for “delicate and elegant”? Buttermilk-fried rabbit. Hmm.

Well, at least they kept the awesome pretzel. So long, amazing Mac and Cheese. Thanks to you, I will never look at a box of Annie’s Shells and White Cheddar the same ever again.

[photo by SFRichardT]

Update:

MrEricSir delivers the Monk’s Kettle Mac & Cheese recipe on the chef’s blog.

As she came out, the plainclothes guys confronted her, indicated they knew she had something in her purse. She protested, tried to keep walking. They grabbed her, and she kept trying to push past. They were frustrated. They even offered her a pretty sweet deal: “Fine, just give it back and you can go.” But she didn’t bite. Kept trying to fight her way out instead.

So they overpowered her, cuffed her, while the uniformed guy came over and showed her a photo on his iPhone: “Look,” he says, “It’s you.” She’d been busted earlier trying to make off with the same item. And she didn’t even change her outfit for the second attempt.

We all know that Google Street View values the privacy of the luchador crowd. But it turns out Google also hides the faces of colonels with secrets whose factories convert chickens into weapons of mass destruction tasty snacks, as we see here on Duboce & Guerrero (thankfully not in the Mission).

The irony here: given their questionable meat content (and uncomfortable proximity to taquerias), Taco Bell really is the one that ought to be blurred out.  But it’s a bell, not the dog, so I am not sure how effective that would be. Or maybe it’s a witness protection program for the Colonel?

It’s almost cute, except for that its author clearly doesn’t know how Scrabble works.

This is not ‘Nam. This is Scrabble. There are rules.

[Photo by We Built This City]

I was just sitting down to this highly recommended yam sandwich, when I overheard someone at the next table, a little angry, a little sad:

You know what I’ve noticed? There are a lot of crows in the Mission District lately. It didn’t used to be that way.

Didn’t it? ‘Sup with all these crows? Global warming again?

I lived down the block from Tao Cafe for years and never went in. Mistake!

My new favorite meal is their vegetarian “Spring-to-Summer” rolls filled with tofu and warm vermicelli, followed by the “Sweet Mekong Bass” coconut curry dish, all washed down with a cold Ba Moui Ba. The duck confit (pictured) looks pretty good too.

And check out the sweet view from the front window.

[Photo by Eric]

This car should be in an awesome low-key indie movie.

I would’ve rushed over to determine its make and model, but I was eating. Car geeks?

UPDATE: It’s a Corvair. Thanks, FFO. Now, has a Corvair been in an awesome low-key indie movie or what?

That guy’s not even in a real space. He backed into the little triangular area that CR-V behind him is supposed to be able to use to get out. And he’s blocking the bike lane. And he’s probably partying at Blondie’s. Nice, dude.

Subtle work, Jaut!

(You might remember Jaut from that time I went to a panel discussion featuring four real-live street artists.)

Previously:

Slices Go QUICK at Pauline’s Pizza 25th Anniversary Party [VIDEO]