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1. Roli Roti Gourmet Rotisserie
I keep telling myself it's just a sandwich... it's JUST a sandwich. I mean if I'm so in love with it, why don't I just marry it, right? Proposition 8 bans same-sex marriage but not the bond that comes between a man and his porchetta sandwich. I could…More »
2. 53rd and 6th Halal Cart
New York, NY 10019
Categories:
Food Stands,
Halal,
Street Vendors
Neighbourhoods: Midtown West, Theater District
Jamie W. and I were really excited to make a return visit to the 53rd St and 6th Ave Halal Cart just a year after our virginal experience. And unlike high-end restaurants that lose their fo'shizzle, the cart is still great...it's, hands down, the…More »
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11/6/2007
Eez good.
Eez real good.
I'm not a New Yorker, but I have seen the line go down 53rd on a number of… Read more »
3. Bacon Bacon
If someone is draconian about having bacon, does that make that person Baconian? Actually that term refers to the purported ghost writer of Shakespeare's plays. Instead, perhaps that makes me Baconese. Yes, I'm turning Baconese, I'm turning Baconese,…More »
4. The Chairman Truck
San Francisco, CA 94109
(415) 813-8800
Categories:
Food Stands,
Chinese
Neighbourhood: Civic Center/Tenderloin
Jeez-Louise, I had no idea there was a big brouhaha over the existence of this truck due to a vociferous charge of copyright infringement from an East Coast food truck owner who claimed the name of Chairman Bao for his own pork belly bun. I was…More »
5. The Crème Brûlée Cart
San Francisco, CA 94110
Categories:
Desserts,
Food Stands,
Street Vendors
Neighbourhood: Mission
I've had it in my mind to try the Crème Brûlée Cart, but I just never made any plan to chase it down. Alas, the custard clock has been ticking. After all, it's been well over 2 1/2 years since local taste maker Genevieve Y. Yelped about it, and…More »
6. Creperie Saint Germain
San Francisco, CA 94105
(415) 706-9733
Categories:
Creperies,
Food Stands
Neighbourhood: SOMA
To set you in the mood...http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=nHiZ15x6Vt4
"Boy, it's been a nong time since dem days with da gang. Hi, I'm Buh'weet, amemba me? And I have made, pu you and ya eatin' pejure, some of my fa'vite crepes. It's all here at this…More »
7. Crepes A Go Go
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415) 503-1294
Categories:
Creperies,
Food Stands
Neighbourhood: SOMA
There are moments of haunting revelation when you realize you have become your own father. I had one of those moments when Jamie W. and I went to Crepes a Go Go late last Friday night. We just came out of the Sloan show at Slim's across the street…More »
8. Curry Up Now
San Francisco, CA 94104
(650) 477-3000
Categories:
Indian,
Food Stands
Neighbourhood: Financial District
If I'm willing to try a Sushirrito, surely I'm willing to try a Chicken Tikka Masala Burrito (see photo). For $7, it's a better deal to travel to India than Japan economically speaking and certainly not nearly as long a wait. And this one actually…More »
9. Da Beef
San Francisco, CA 94103
(760) 815-4856
Categories:
Hot Dogs,
Food Stands
Neighbourhood: SOMA
Yvonne must surely be the bravest woman in these parts since she keeps her cart open at such an ungodly hour for all of SOMA's hungry club-hoppers until 3AM. Understand that I am hardly ever out late in the 'hood. As you know, I'm too busy at home…More »
10. Box
Gee, I wish I was a rudely impatient SoMa slacker like the ones who seem to hover around this modest evening operation next to the Tempest nightclub. They just shove themselves in front of you as you are about to order and then smoke next to you and…More »
11. El Tonayense Taco Truck
Tongue taco!...Tripe taco!...Brains taco!...Head and cheeks taco!
Name an internal organ...they'll put a tortilla around it...Que Aproveche!
Y'know, I think "Check, Please! Bay Area" is starting to become more of an addiction than I care to admit. I've…More »
12. Golden Waffle
You know you've reached a point of no return when you automatically know the difference between a Brussels waffle and a Liege waffle. That probably means you've been flipping those griddle irons much too long at the Best Western continental breakfast…More »
13. Hapa Ramen
San Francisco, CA 94111
Categories:
Japanese,
Food Stands
Neighbourhood: Financial District
I'd walk through Libyan land mines for a good bowel of ramen. OK, maybe not land mines, but I'd walk over broken glass. In orthopedic sandals. With thick socks, y'know, the ones with the polyurethane soles, so I don't hurt myself. What was my point?…More »
14. JapaCurry Truck
Categories:
Japanese,
Food Stands,
Street Vendors
Neighbourhood: Civic Center/Tenderloin
I miss regularly going to Muracci's on Kearny when I worked in that part of the FiDi because Japanese comfort food is well... comforting. When my mom was alive, I was thrilled when she made chicken curry rice for dinner. Only Muracci's brought back…More »
15. Japa Dog
Vancouver, BC V6Z 2K6
Canada
Categories:
Hot Dogs,
Food Stands,
Japanese
Neighbourhood: Downtown
Rumor has it that I came to Vancouver just to have a Japa Dog. Well, that's a lie. D'ya hear me? A baldfaced LIE! "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky"... I really didn't. Oh wait, a frankfurter was involved (rimshot,…More »
16. Le Truc
San Francisco, CA 94107
(415) 904-8782
Categories:
Gastropubs,
Food Stands
Neighbourhood: SOMA
Le Truc strikes me as a grade level above your standard food truck since it isn't a truck but a bus, a repainted schoolbus like a fashion-forward Partridge Family who was more into Gucci than Modrian. Because it is a bus, they actually provide…More »
17. Los Compadres Taco Truck
Bankrupt, divorced from his Doberman Pinscher wife (..she would later claim that size did matter) and no longer with a corporate sponsor, the little chihuahua staggered on the street with its tiny, bony legs barely able to move. In a state of doggie…More »
18. Los Compadres Taco Truck
Sometimes I feel like a little chihuahua with a little sombrero and shaking my little pair of maracas. I pant quietly in my little work cube and utter my mantra... "¡Yo quiero Los Compadres!"... "¡Yo quiero Los Compadres!"...Oh jes, I love to be…More »
19. Onigilly Japanese Gourmet Rice Balls
San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 671-4706
Category:
Japanese
Neighbourhood: Embarcadero
First things first, I loathe the name of this food cart. Onigilly? Really? Why don't we just open the kimono, shall we? Egad, I hate that expression. That faux-Asian accent of using 'R' instead of 'L' is almost as bad as the revelation I had when…More »
20. Primavera
It took Anthony Bourdain's cynically sinister stroll through the Ferry Building Farmers' Market on his addictive show, "No Reservations", to tempt me to come here against my bitter...uhhh, I mean my better judgment. That and the fact that rising star…More »
21. The Rib Whip
Ah, I finally had the ribs at the elusive Rib Whip truck, which for my benefit, was at the Truck Stop on Mission between First and Fremont today. Following them online, I actually put it in my calendar to haul my derriere over there around 11AM.…More »
22. Rose Pistola @ the Saturday Farmers Market
Have you ever spent a quiet Saturday morning strolling the Embarcadero to the Farmers' Market? ...Yeah, me neither. It's a frickin' zoo here, and I don't think everyone is here to appreciate the bounty provided by our local growers. No, there are…More »
23. San Francisco Lox
What the world needs now,
Is lox, good lox,
It's the only thing that there's just too little of.
What the world needs now,
Is lox, good lox,
No, not just for some but for everyone.
Lord, we don't need another shmendrik,
There are shmendriks and shlimiels…More »
24. Senor Sisig
(415) 608-5048
Categories:
Filipino,
Food Stands
Neighbourhoods: Lower Pac Heights, Pacific Heights
Miss Scarlett, I don't know nuthin' 'bout Filipino food. Now I know who Manny Pacquiao is, and I think Imelda Marcos still has most of her shoes. But truth be told, my only experience with Filipino food was probably the lumpia I had at some company…More »
25. Spencer on the Go
French Laundry should have an express truck, don't you think? I can picture Thomas Keller in a red bandanna making Sweet Butter-Poached Maine Lobster "Mitts" and Butter-Braised Princess La Ratte Potatoes while the motor is running. Alas, that pipe…More »
26. Waffle Mania Truck
San Francisco, CA 94102
Categories:
Desserts,
Food Stands
Neighbourhood: Civic Center/Tenderloin
The Three Stages of Mankind
...or How We May Be Rolling Downhill to a Purgatory of Our Own Making
First, there was Meals on Wheels
...where you give to others who can't cook for themselves...
Then, there was Waiters on Wheels
...where you pay others to…More »
Recently updated lists from Ed U.
Talk to Me of Mendocino (46)"Closing my eyes I hear the sea / Must I wait, must I follow / Won't you say come with me?" ...Ah, I can hear Linda Ronstadt sing that song now. So pretty...and so is this part of California. In navigational order, here are the stops I made along the way to and from Mendocino. |
Over 150 Ways to SoMa-size Me, Baby (154)The good, the bad and the ugly...sometimes you just have to put convenience above anything else. Here are some places within a stone's throw of my home in SoMa...and a few deserve stones... |
A Trail of Fortune Cookie Crumbs Outside of Chinatown (31)There is no law that says you have to go to Chinatown to eat Chinese food. In fact, there may be a law against it if you are seen waiting in line for a table filled with German tourists. Here are some alternatives in our great rainbow city of ours... |
Vegetarian Anyone?...ANYONE? (18)I treat my body like a temple, which is why I must be developing a mold problem. Regardless, I must pay penance for all my carnivorous binges of protein and celebrate healthy eats like tofu and...and... Oh well, here's a list of places I've visited in order to alleviate my guilty, meat-obsessed conscience: |
Go East, Young Man! (125)I'm no SF snob. Honest. I went to Cal and lived in Oakland for umpteen years. That's why I like to venture back periodically across the pond. I just need to find my bulletproof vest... |
A San Franciscan's Guide to His City's Idiosyncracies (57)This above all...San Francisco is perfect. Anyone who makes fun of it has me to deal with...but sometimes you have to plant tongue firmly in cheek, sometimes your own, and call them as you see them. Here are my observations pitched somewhere between hopelessly wiseacre and sincerely adulatory... |
Explore the Roar of the Richmond (45)A jiggity-jiggity jaunt on the 38 Geary can yield both perks and bruises, but the sights and tastes can be enthralling if you navigate with purpose. Let this list be your torch of clarity in the sprawl of the Richmond. |
CASTRObation (55)- n. - 1. the liberating, PG13-rated act of satisfying oneself by visiting the happiest place on earth north of Disneyland. 2. the indecent, NC17-rated act of offending the far right by supporting businesses in what they deem a din of inequity. |
Just Call Me Danish Modern (21)I finally made it to Copenhagen, one of those mythic cities that actually lived up to my expectations. Here are a list of places that put one of my five senses into overdrive while I was there: |
Don't Mess With a Missionary Man! (73)I was born an original sinner. I was borne from original sin. And if I had a free BART pass to 16th Street, there'd be a mountain of salsa piled up to my chin. Hey! Here are the places that have drawn me back there time and again... |
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