Tonight I finally made good on a long-standing promise to myself and ate at Mission Street Food. MSF is an organization that rents out a Chinese restaurant on Mission street every Thursday and Saturday in order to host a different guest chef every week. The extremely reasonable prices(i.e. most plates less than $10, and everything less than $15) and the $5 corkage fee make this a relatively cheap way to experience great food. (more…)
Archive for the ‘Food’ Category
Aug
01
2009
Detox
Tracey and I are in the last week of a 3-week “nutritional detox” program. The motivation here was to participate in something that would force us to think a little more about what (and when) we eat. I’ll be the first to admit that all two often, we fall back on whatever is easiest to prepare (or, let’s face it, order in) rather than giving careful consideration about what constitutes a nutritious, balanced meal.
The basic premise is (more…)
Jul
29
2009
Regent Thai
Regent Thai is located right in Noe Valley’s “Gourmet Ghetto”, a 5 or 10 minute walk from our house. Despite its proximity, we had never eaten there before today. This was due to a misremembered cleanliness score from the SF Department of Public Health; a situation resolved today by a quick, serendipitous visit to SFScores.com. Turns out that Regent most recently scored a stellar 98 out of 100; so as of this writing, there’s no need to worry about their food safety. (more…)
Jul
21
2009
Basil
At the height of the dot-com boom, I worked for a (very) hip web consultancy at the corner of 8th and Folsom. Every once in a while, a project manager might notice all of the hard work that we developers were doing and take us out to lunch–and Basil was a very popular choice with both the benefactors and the beneficiaries. Managers liked it because (more…)
Feb
06
2009
Foreign Cinema
Just got back from Foreign Cinema, where, on a Friday night, we were able to walk in and get a table. That’s not a slight to the restaurant at all… more a comment on the ongoing economic crisis. Who says it’s all bad?
Anyway, the food is still pretty fantastic. I started with (more…)