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"content": "\u003cp>Many of you probably saw 7x7’s recent issue with \u003ca href=\"http://www.7x7.com/2010-big-eat-sf-100-things-try-you-die\">100 Things to Eat Before You Die\u003c/a>. While I think some of their choices were a bit repetitive this year, it's a fun issue and always gives me a nudge towards spots I've been meaning to try and dishes I need to get my hands on. While studying their inclusions, I noticed a serious omission. For those of you who have had the pleasure of eating the homemade English muffin breakfast sandwich at \u003ca href=\"http://www.missionbeachcafesf.com/\">Mission Beach Café\u003c/a>, you know what I'm talking about. This may be up there with my top three favorite things to eat for breakfast in the city--with or without a glossy endorsement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/03/mbccoffee.jpg\" alt=\"Mission Beach Cafe coffee\" title=\"Mission Beach Cafe coffee\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11013\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Warming up to the morning at Mission Beach Café\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This place rocks on weekday mornings. It's relatively quiet, there are folks reading the paper, and neighborhood locals wander in to grab a cup of coffee and a pastry. They're pulling off quaint neighborhood eatery remarkably well. It's spacious. It's comfortable. The service is laid-back but attentive. And dear god, that sandwich. Essentially, it's a fried egg with melted cheddar, caramelized onions, and mushrooms wedged in between a satisfying homemade English muffin. 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I still don't completely know the territory I just entered, and I definitely had to toss my first ball of dough. But there's something thrilling about kneading buttermilk, flour, and yeast and watching it rise and form into magic breakfast (or lunch, or late night) treats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/03/making-english-mufins.jpg\" alt=\"making english muffins\" title=\"making english muffins\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11012\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Letting the dough rise, forming balls, quickly cooking each side, and popping them in the oven: done!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I didn't try to emulate the breakfast sandwich at Mission Beach Café (not yet, anyway), but I have been slicing halves, toasting them, and eating them with just about every jam in my kitchen. And a quick note: the only time-consuming part of this recipe is letting the dough rise. 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Fatty pork and sugar dominate the holiday table, harking back to a time when ingredients fat and sweet were much more difficult to obtain, precious to use, and delightfully rare to enjoy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While I can now buy a 10-pound bag of sugar and an equal amount of meat for less money than a couple of movie tickets, the most traditional new year's dishes are still special for one resource that does remain valuable: time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10893\" title=\"soi nuoc dough\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/02/soinuoc_dough.jpg\" alt=\"soi nuoc dough\" width=\"400\" height=\"264\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soi Nuoc is one of those meditative, celebratory foods for me. It means, literally, Sticky Rice in Water. Unlike the Chinese, the Vietnamese can be rather literal and unromantic when naming their food. No matter. 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The sweet rice dumpling even inspire poets, such as the famed Ho Xuan Huong, an 18th-century Vietnamese woman famous for her intimate, elegant verses:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem> My body is white and my destiny round,\u003cbr>\nI float and sink, water and mountain.\u003cbr>\nHard or soft, I depend on the skills of\u003cbr>\nthe person who kneads me.\u003cbr>\nDespite everything, I always keep\u003cbr>\na consistent heart.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10887\" title=\"soi nuoc simmering\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/02/soinuoc_simmering.jpg\" alt=\"soi nuoc simmering\" width=\"400\" height=\"264\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In China, where they're known as yuan xiao or tang yuan, the dumplings are traditionally served during the Lantern Festival, which falls on the 15th day of the 1st lunar month. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/02/secret-cartoon500.jpg\" alt=\"secret cartoon\" title=\"secret cartoon\" width=\"500\" height=\"458\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10786\">\u003cbr>\nLast week, Bay Area Bites blogger Stephanie Im \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2010/02/17/not-so-secret-san-francisco/\">called attention\u003c/a> to Secret San Francisco's popular \u003ca href=\"http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=303061190944&ref=ts\">Facebook\u003c/a> presence. A few days before Im's post appeared, I myself joined the group with a few lazy clicks, galvanized into action by the droves of friends doing the same. At least, with its relentless updates regarding their statuses, Facebook made me feel like I was part of a movement. \"Is it because we all love a juicy secret? Is it because we're bored?\" wondered Im in her piece. \"Perhaps we gravitate to these projects because they exude a sense of authenticity, of being 'in the know,' and part of something special and communal,\" she continued. \"Or, it could simply be...some things are just too good to keep to ourselves.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Im listed the Iso Rabins-curated \u003ca href=\"http://foragesf.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/the-market-is-happening/\">Underground Farmers Markets\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://blog.missionstreetfood.com/\">Mission Street Food\u003c/a>'s feasts at Lung Shan, and all manner of street carts as the sorts of secrets worth shouting around, but those examples might as well be echos -- almost old news to studious, Internet-savvy members of the eats-frenzied populous. At this point, despite their youth and D.I.Y. ethos, they are institutions, pillars of the city's mainstream, well-documented food culture. Still, regardless of your personal familiarity with Im's suggestions, Secret San Francisco makes its mission clear enough: \"Share San Francisco's secrets! Post any lesser known great places to see in San Francisco. Please give details of how we can locate it and what makes it a hidden gem.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A certain variety of hard-charging food sleuth elitist loves dropping a rarified knowledge of the city's unheralded offerings. Another group of elitists takes no less pleasure in heaping abuse on the first for drawing attention to the sneaky little places they covet for themselves. Occasionally, they invade Secret San Francisco's Facebook page. The best naysayers employ deadpan sarcasm. One suggests Burger King for a great hamburger; another celebrates a little grocery store called Safeway. Some however directly criticize eager posters for sharing too much, operating under the not unreasonable logic that widespread publicity on behalf of something unknown tends to make that thing known pretty well very quickly. What if your favorite bowl of pho suddenly became half the city's favorite too? Would it suddenly start tasting a little bland and watery? Would you tell yourself that the cook was slipping? Would you maybe start believing that he'd gotten so drunk on the fame Facebook had brought his pho, that he'd -- with pungent irony -- neglected to keep preparing it with quality in mind? Or would you still love that pho but merely hate the swiftly forming crowds -- lines of pho-fanatics at the door, arriving earlier and earlier each morning, leaning against the cafe's glass windows, poking away at iPhones, waiting for the sign to flip. With their incessant chatter and their rows of white order tickets fluttering in the kitchen window, the people on the sidewalk swarming in -- presumably without jobs to attend, errands to run, or any otherwise consuming pursuits -- would scuttle your plans for timely lunch-break repasts. You'd stop going altogether. The cafe would start selling its pho at a stand outside the Ferry Building on Saturday mornings. The price would double. Amanda Gold would write about it. You'd find another favorite pho spot, which might or might not be an attention-seeking copy of the one you started out loving in the first place. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To shuffle in a music world hypothetical: If guttural blips, synthetic gurgles, and ambient drones suddenly enjoyed broad popularity, and noise bands displaced Jay-Z, The Killers, and Coldplay at the top of the charts, would the bands' old fans -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.aquariusrecords.org/\">Aquarius Records\u003c/a> employees, mostly -- take solace in the Black Eyed Peas, by now a fringe retro-pop act struggling to pack Bottom of the Hill on forays through the Bay Area? Probably not, but people stressing out over the decreased edginess of what they consume -- whether it be music or a bowl of pho -- tend to be overly concerned with how their consumption patterns reflect upon them as people -- at least, no less concerned than those who fire up the laptop every time they trip over a good sandwich. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a comment to Im's post, Haggie (one name, like Madonna) accused Secret San Francisco of catering to \"lazy suburb dweller[s]\" trolling websites for cool food scenes to muck up. While it's pretty far-fetched to claim that \"anyone...[living] in San Francisco knows about the secret spots\" already, Haggie does have a point, albeit one couched in excessively feisty lingo. Since witnessing a half-block line curling along the pavement outside of Lung Shan on a Thursday evening at 5:35 p.m. nearly eight months ago, I have not even tried to go to Mission Street Food -- not because I think popularity has dulled the value or coolness of the operation's goals in the slightest, but because I don't like to wait. Waiting might not be a problem anymore. And I could always make a reservation, I guess, but just remembering the line makes me think of crowds, which I don't like -- and suddenly the idea of going starts feeling like an ordeal to weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One problem with Secret San Francisco's Facebook page is the fact that restaurant owners post on it about events happening at their own establishments. That is sort of lame, just on principle. I won't mention any of the names I recognized, but I have seen a few things written by a few people probably largely interested in generating business for themselves, not spreading the wealth of shared experience. Likewise, incidentally, some of the exuberant laudatory posts regarding bands I have never ever heard of come off as plants by members, friends of members, or girlfriends or boyfriends of members. The thing has been around for a few weeks and it's already nearly as tainted as Yelp, that dinosaur of a site \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/mbauer/detail?blogid=26&entry_id=28020\">plagued\u003c/a> by posters grubbing for freebies by way of harsh critiques -- many of which seem far-fetched. On Yelp, after all, a reviewer might give a pupusa place two stars and claim a general deep-seated aversion to pupusas as sole cause for the expressed discontent. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Internet insists on constantly providing us with new ways of searching out, organizing, and assessing the stuff we like to do in the city. Restaurants, bars, grocery stores, and street carts enjoy an absurd amount of attention on Twitter, Chowhound message-boards, assorted iPhone apps, \u003ca href=\"http://www.tablehopper.com/\">Tablehopper\u003c/a> (along with less ubiquitous electronic bulletins), and of course, now Secret San Francisco. The subjects are not necessarily new, but the channels of communication are configured differently with each innovation and trend. I don't want to blame them for all of the potential problems associated with the rampant sharing of the city's secrets. The real problem is that people have too much time on their hands, and they're choosing to spend it online, telling everyone they can about what they like and do not like. In addition to actually working at work, getting exercise, and playing with their kids, people should walk around and physically see the city for something other than a flickering stew of html, updates, messages, and links. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a writer who masquerades as a blogger, I frequently fall prey to the tendency. On a daily basis, I must look for fresh topics to cover, and sometimes that leads me to rely too much on the Internet's ever-changing spectrum of social networking possibilities for inspiration. Someone reports something -- a secret, maybe -- and it ricochets off of other websites. It's linked, and re-linked, Tweeted, and re-Tweeted, posted, and re-posted. Writers here and there lackadaisically re-write the news as fresh content for a site, and the process starts again and again with slightly different slants each time. Within 24 hours, the secret is out like a light, nearly all bases are covered, and the story is as dead as a slab of fish on ice -- all thanks to the publicity pinball machine. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At times, I wonder how my very minor contributions to the maelstrom affect restaurants and businesses. I'll walk past a restaurant and think: Wow, I'm here, for the first time; I wrote about their egg salad special last week -- I wonder if they're selling more egg salad now. I'd just as soon turn off the computer and poke around the city and write about what I uncover. When content is required to circulate so rapidly, that vein of information-gathering is inefficient. Though I do my best, I wouldn't have time to do laundry if I relied upon it solely. At the same time, it's much more satisfying that way. When I moved here in 2002, San Francisco was a different city. That wasn't long ago, but the way I learned the city then -- specifically food to seek out -- was through people I met at parties, book club, work, and pick-up basketball games. I read the newspaper food sections and hit up Yelp from time to time, but I also just talked to people and visited the restaurants they recommended -- places like \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/el-zocalo-san-francisco\">El Zocolo\u003c/a> and the now-defunct \u003ca href=\"http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/17611/\">Lorca\u003c/a>. Doing so made me a more social person. It made me attack the city so as to eat what I heard was worth eating. The secrets I've amassed that way have stuck with me the longest, probably because I have faces, stories, and voices to go with them. They are ones I share with others -- in conversation, whenever possible.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>As I get older, I identify less and less with my adolescent self. In fact, not infrequently, I imagine going back in time and smacking myself on the head. I'm only in my very late twenties, but the period of my life has already become a vague unpleasant fog punctuated on rare occasion by vivid waves of memory. I suspect strongly that I was whiny, overly self-conscious, woefully insecure, and generally a twerp. I do clearly remember that, when I was in my mid-teens, I (like most teenagers) didn't get along particularly well with my parents. 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After it happened at every restaurant we visited, we were mortified, irritated and finally nasty -- all because she insisted again and again that she was speaking no differently than usual. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family vacations were known for bad meals -- but usually only on the nights we'd arrive in a new city. At the mercy of indifferent hotel clerks, governed by hasty impulses spurred on by empty stomachs and jet-lag, we'd fall prey to half-cooked, insipid pizza in Rome, succumb to over-priced, grease-laden bistro fare in Paris, and settle for fusion-y Mission-style burrito wraps in San Francisco. It became a chronic thing, a syndrome that permeated all interactions. The bad food and exhaustion would inevitably lead to an argument, and we’d end up trying to put it all back together the next day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, I don't feel like a teenager too often -- except maybe when I'm home for the holidays. Now, when my mom comes to San Francisco for a vacation, good feelings swell to the surface. Our meals together are the highlights of her visits and I try hard to make them meaningful and pleasant. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2003, less than a year after I moved to the Bay Area, my mom visited for the first time. On the evening of her arrival, we were wandering around downtown, looking at buildings. Even though I hadn't yet had one myself, I figured she'd like to eat a fish taco -- because I'd heard it was one of those important California food things. I just didn't know where to get one. Since we were in the area already, we moseyed into the now-defunct \u003ca href=\"http://www.chevys.com/\">Chevy's\u003c/a> at Embarcadero Two and supped on grilled fish tacos with pico de gallo, lettuce, and fresh cheese. If she found the meal revolting, she didn't let on. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, I have found better places to take her, destinations informed by what I've read and experienced as a focused seeker of tasty things -- a portion of my identity I had not quite realized in 2003. My mom digs unusual food, but nothing too strange. She will eat fish sauce, but not fish heads. She likes a clean restaurant with a pleasant atmosphere, but she's also cost-conscious and unswayed by pretentious flourishes. She eats seafood, but eschews meat -- which eliminates Korean barbecue joints, pork-heavy Shanghai-style dumpling houses, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.incanto.biz/\">Incanto\u003c/a> from contention. My mom prefers to eat reasonably healthy food. As a result, sushi, ceviche, or pizza with vegetables appeal more than battered fish, cream-laden sauces, or anything destined to be dabbed with aioli. When I'm picking out a restaurant, I filter these criteria through other sets of necessary circumstance. When she visits, she usually stays somewhere in the Union Square, so I like to take her somewhere within swift striking distance via BART or Muni. Being lazy, I usually stick to my neighborhood, the Mission District, where I've lived for the vast majority of my time in San Francisco. On a few occasions, I have lightly pushed the envelope. In 2004, we went to \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/utopia-cafe-san-francisco\">Utopia Cafe\u003c/a>, a sneaky spot down an alley in Chinatown. I wouldn't call it a \"dive\" exactly. That word is over-used; it shouldn't apply to every restaurant disinterested in putting a premium on inedible trappings like decor and service. Fruit flies circled like helicopters over a battlefield as we attacked clay pot rice with shrimp, mustard green soup, and salt-and-pepper fried bean curd, but the food tasted fresh, and that eclipsed any sanitation concerns. A year or so later, we went to \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/minako-organic-japanese-restaurant-san-francisco\">Minako\u003c/a>, the organic mother-and-daughter-owned Japanese eatery. I thought she'd enjoy the food -- tataki, gobo kinpira, salmon misozuke -- but I also suspected the restaurant's cool quirks would appeal, that she'd get a kick out of the snappy, funny daughter and the odd location -- Mission Street, boasting a sign the size of a playing card you can't see unless, as I recall, you're approaching from a very specific angle along the sidewalk. Another time we visited \u003ca href=\"http://www.kijirestaurant.com/\">Kiji\u003c/a>, an ordinary but inoffensive sushi place on Guerrero just because it was conveniently close to a Valencia shoe store she'd been perusing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She really liked \u003ca href=\"http://www.delfinasf.com/\">Delfina\u003c/a>, but her reaction to the food nonetheless confirmed my suspicions that she would inevitably rather go out to eat what she doesn't cook at home, where pasta, pizza, and risotto frequently grace the dinner table. Even though Delfina is a better restaurant -- albeit a very different one -- she was truly blown away by \u003ca href=\"http://www.destinosf.com/menu.htm\">Destino\u003c/a>. We went there in 2006 or 2007 -- well after its heyday -- but she still talks about it -- because, at the time, it was so unusual to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's coming to town for a few days later this week, and this time around, the first visit in nearly two years, I'm brimming with ideas. There's a Mayan restaurant in Louisville my mom adores. While it's not at all awful, it is something there that it would not be here, which is fine. After all, when it comes to barbecue and beef jerky, San Francisco could learn a few things too. Still, I'd like to take her to \u003ca href=\"http://www.pocchuc.com/\">Poc Chuc\u003c/a> -- even if platters of juicy, thin-sliced pork (the restaurant's namesake) don't jive with her diet. She'd be happy enough with feathery, toasty corn tortillas, a bowl of the smooth black beans, and a few bites of fish -- though I don't imagine she would dive into the head for the best pieces. I thought about \u003ca href=\"http://www.universalcafe.net//\">Universal Cafe\u003c/a>, but I think she'd prefer something less familiar. \u003ca href=\"http://www.laciccia.com/\">La Ciccia\u003c/a> is another option, the current front-runner, I'm afraid. Sardinian flavors -- rich, heady fregula pasta with ricotta and cured tuna heart, smoky, spicy octopus stew -- diverge enough from the Italian fare she knows well. If I were really daring, we would go to \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/yellow-pa-taut-san-francisco\">Yellow Pa Taut\u003c/a> on Bryant and 7th for the best Burmese in the city: Tea leaf salad, fried squash, and catfish noodle soup, perhaps -- all within spitting distance of the courthouse's grim facade. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm lucky to share life (and a kitchen) with my girlfriend, who has an equally serious relationship with food. Our weeks revolve around dinners together. When we eat somewhere particularly nice, whether an old stand-by or a newcomer, we often imagine how our parents would like it. Hers enjoy eating at least as much as mine, if not much more. That process is natural; it makes the meal better. I feel the same way about music. I have a few big stacks of vinyl, but I don't play records too often around the house. When friends are over, musician friends particularly, I'm galvanized into action. I slip on a record. I tell stories I know about the band. I react to what I'm hearing and the feelings I have about it in their presence, and their reactions combine with mine to enrich the experience. Food is not much different. A steak is better shared; so is \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zpBR6k06-k&feature=related\">Mavis Staples\u003c/a>. The restaurants I pick for dinners with my mom have evolved along with me, but regardless of where we end up eating, every meal speaks to the power of shared experience. To adapt and respond to a well-travelled adage: If a meal falls on your table and there's no one there with whom to share it, its deliciousness cannot help but be diminished -- even if you write about it.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As I get older, I identify less and less with my adolescent self. In fact, not infrequently, I imagine going back in time and smacking myself on the head. I'm only in my very late twenties, but the period of my life has already become a vague unpleasant fog punctuated on rare occasion by vivid waves of memory. I suspect strongly that I was whiny, overly self-conscious, woefully insecure, and generally a twerp. I do clearly remember that, when I was in my mid-teens, I (like most teenagers) didn't get along particularly well with my parents. I also recall that my impatience with their habits and eccentricities tended to erupt at meal-times. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/02/momcartoon500.jpg\" alt=\"andrew and mom with fish cartoon\" title=\"andrew and mom with fish cartoon\" width=\"500\" height=\"312\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10627\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A classic scenario: I was 13, on my first trip to Europe with the family. We were at a good French place in the 14th Arrondissement. My mom ordered in English, but she spoke with what my brother and I felt was a contrived French accent -- rolling R's, stretching out E's, her voice rising up higher than usual at the ends of sentences. She might have been nervous. She might have been drunk. In any event, whatever it was she was doing was unintentional. At first, we giggled into our water glasses, amused. After it happened at every restaurant we visited, we were mortified, irritated and finally nasty -- all because she insisted again and again that she was speaking no differently than usual. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family vacations were known for bad meals -- but usually only on the nights we'd arrive in a new city. At the mercy of indifferent hotel clerks, governed by hasty impulses spurred on by empty stomachs and jet-lag, we'd fall prey to half-cooked, insipid pizza in Rome, succumb to over-priced, grease-laden bistro fare in Paris, and settle for fusion-y Mission-style burrito wraps in San Francisco. It became a chronic thing, a syndrome that permeated all interactions. The bad food and exhaustion would inevitably lead to an argument, and we’d end up trying to put it all back together the next day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, I don't feel like a teenager too often -- except maybe when I'm home for the holidays. Now, when my mom comes to San Francisco for a vacation, good feelings swell to the surface. Our meals together are the highlights of her visits and I try hard to make them meaningful and pleasant. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2003, less than a year after I moved to the Bay Area, my mom visited for the first time. On the evening of her arrival, we were wandering around downtown, looking at buildings. Even though I hadn't yet had one myself, I figured she'd like to eat a fish taco -- because I'd heard it was one of those important California food things. I just didn't know where to get one. Since we were in the area already, we moseyed into the now-defunct \u003ca href=\"http://www.chevys.com/\">Chevy's\u003c/a> at Embarcadero Two and supped on grilled fish tacos with pico de gallo, lettuce, and fresh cheese. If she found the meal revolting, she didn't let on. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, I have found better places to take her, destinations informed by what I've read and experienced as a focused seeker of tasty things -- a portion of my identity I had not quite realized in 2003. My mom digs unusual food, but nothing too strange. She will eat fish sauce, but not fish heads. She likes a clean restaurant with a pleasant atmosphere, but she's also cost-conscious and unswayed by pretentious flourishes. She eats seafood, but eschews meat -- which eliminates Korean barbecue joints, pork-heavy Shanghai-style dumpling houses, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.incanto.biz/\">Incanto\u003c/a> from contention. My mom prefers to eat reasonably healthy food. As a result, sushi, ceviche, or pizza with vegetables appeal more than battered fish, cream-laden sauces, or anything destined to be dabbed with aioli. When I'm picking out a restaurant, I filter these criteria through other sets of necessary circumstance. When she visits, she usually stays somewhere in the Union Square, so I like to take her somewhere within swift striking distance via BART or Muni. Being lazy, I usually stick to my neighborhood, the Mission District, where I've lived for the vast majority of my time in San Francisco. On a few occasions, I have lightly pushed the envelope. In 2004, we went to \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/utopia-cafe-san-francisco\">Utopia Cafe\u003c/a>, a sneaky spot down an alley in Chinatown. I wouldn't call it a \"dive\" exactly. That word is over-used; it shouldn't apply to every restaurant disinterested in putting a premium on inedible trappings like decor and service. Fruit flies circled like helicopters over a battlefield as we attacked clay pot rice with shrimp, mustard green soup, and salt-and-pepper fried bean curd, but the food tasted fresh, and that eclipsed any sanitation concerns. A year or so later, we went to \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/minako-organic-japanese-restaurant-san-francisco\">Minako\u003c/a>, the organic mother-and-daughter-owned Japanese eatery. I thought she'd enjoy the food -- tataki, gobo kinpira, salmon misozuke -- but I also suspected the restaurant's cool quirks would appeal, that she'd get a kick out of the snappy, funny daughter and the odd location -- Mission Street, boasting a sign the size of a playing card you can't see unless, as I recall, you're approaching from a very specific angle along the sidewalk. Another time we visited \u003ca href=\"http://www.kijirestaurant.com/\">Kiji\u003c/a>, an ordinary but inoffensive sushi place on Guerrero just because it was conveniently close to a Valencia shoe store she'd been perusing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She really liked \u003ca href=\"http://www.delfinasf.com/\">Delfina\u003c/a>, but her reaction to the food nonetheless confirmed my suspicions that she would inevitably rather go out to eat what she doesn't cook at home, where pasta, pizza, and risotto frequently grace the dinner table. Even though Delfina is a better restaurant -- albeit a very different one -- she was truly blown away by \u003ca href=\"http://www.destinosf.com/menu.htm\">Destino\u003c/a>. We went there in 2006 or 2007 -- well after its heyday -- but she still talks about it -- because, at the time, it was so unusual to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's coming to town for a few days later this week, and this time around, the first visit in nearly two years, I'm brimming with ideas. There's a Mayan restaurant in Louisville my mom adores. While it's not at all awful, it is something there that it would not be here, which is fine. After all, when it comes to barbecue and beef jerky, San Francisco could learn a few things too. Still, I'd like to take her to \u003ca href=\"http://www.pocchuc.com/\">Poc Chuc\u003c/a> -- even if platters of juicy, thin-sliced pork (the restaurant's namesake) don't jive with her diet. She'd be happy enough with feathery, toasty corn tortillas, a bowl of the smooth black beans, and a few bites of fish -- though I don't imagine she would dive into the head for the best pieces. I thought about \u003ca href=\"http://www.universalcafe.net//\">Universal Cafe\u003c/a>, but I think she'd prefer something less familiar. \u003ca href=\"http://www.laciccia.com/\">La Ciccia\u003c/a> is another option, the current front-runner, I'm afraid. Sardinian flavors -- rich, heady fregula pasta with ricotta and cured tuna heart, smoky, spicy octopus stew -- diverge enough from the Italian fare she knows well. If I were really daring, we would go to \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/yellow-pa-taut-san-francisco\">Yellow Pa Taut\u003c/a> on Bryant and 7th for the best Burmese in the city: Tea leaf salad, fried squash, and catfish noodle soup, perhaps -- all within spitting distance of the courthouse's grim facade. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/02/matchinghalflatte.jpg\" alt=\"Lattes at Matching Half Cafe\" title=\"Lattes at Matching Half Cafe\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10191\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Lattes at Matching Half Cafe\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> So I moved to the city a few weeks ago. After enduring many sweaty hours of \u003cem>I can't imagine anything I'd rather be doing less\u003c/em>, I've vowed never to move out of my apartment for as long as I shall live. Yes, the size of the kitchen will take a little getting used to, and I may never have a grown-up dinner party. But moving is just no fun. Getting the couch up the four flights of stairs was an unspeakable feat. That being said, I've put it all behind me and am settling in just fine: finding my favorite grocery store, getting the bus route figured out, exploring yoga studios to find one I like and--of course--drinking lots of coffee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> Now the Internet's a pretty big part of my life since I do a lot of writing from home. And since Comcast rarely works with anyone's ideal schedule, they couldn't come out for five days after I moved in, so I set out researching some free Wi-Fi which brought me to the following neighborhood gems in the NOPA/Western Addition neighborhood. While the free Wi-Fi is what initially attracted me to these coffee shops, I love each for different reasons and still go frequently despite the fact that the wireless is up and kickin' at home. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.matchinghalfcafe.com/\">The Matching Half\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/02/matchinghalfmenu.jpg\" alt=\"Airy and industrial interior of Matching Half Cafe and menu\" title=\"Airy and industrial interior of Matching Half Cafe and menu\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10187\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Airy and industrial interior of Matching Half Cafe\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Matching Half\u003c/em> is one of those places I'm excited to bring people to. \u003cem>Yes, come and check out the new digs, and I'll take you to my new favorite coffee place.\u003c/em> Those are words I've uttered numerous times in the last few weeks. And before telling you all about how rad it is, a quick disclaimer for the laptop crowd: there are very few outlets, so if you've got a laptop battery that's hanging on for dear life, this may not be the best choice. However, it's great for so many other reasons, and I'm almost hesitant to talk about it because I like its tucked-away, not-too-crowded, neighborhood appeal. I appreciate places that pay close attention to each detail, from the lovely ceramic cups to the metal bar, to the stark but warm industrial space. I love the menu penned on craft paper. I love the vivid, industrial painting by \u003ca href=\"http://www.mikeshankman.com/\">Mike Shankman\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When not working, settling into one of the window-side tables is prime people watching territory. There are dog walkers, young families buying treats and hanging at the outdoor tables, and runners cruising towards the Panhandle. And the coffee: this is not quick in-out-and-on-with-your-life coffee. It really is slowly and carefully prepared and it shows. The lattes are beautiful and strong, and they have numerous single-origin drip coffees brewed to order. They also have a small but nice selection of breakfast pastries (the croissants are buttery, flaky goodness), sandwiches and salads. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/02/croissant500.jpg\" alt=\"croissant from The Matching Half \" title=\"croissant from The Matching Half \" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10190\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while I haven't had the pleasure of having a glass of beer or wine--it's sure to happen in the coming week. They do happy hour specials from 4pm-6pm daily, and have some interesting bottles of beer available. Like Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout and PBR in a bottle. Right now they actually have a breakfast panino and PBR special. I can't say that I've ever had PBR in a bottle and I definitely haven't had PBR for breakfast...but here's to a new home and new beginnings, perhaps PBR and all. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.matchinghalfcafe.com/\">The Matching Half\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n1799 McAllister (@Baker), San Francisco, CA 94117\u003cbr>\n(415) 674-8699\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Hours:\u003c/strong> Mon.-Thurs.: 7am-7pm; Fri. 7am-10pm; Sat. 8am-10pm; Sun. 8am-6pm.\u003cbr>\nCash only.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.dajanigroup.net/establishments/cafe-abir/\">Café Abir\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/02/abir.jpg\" alt=\"storefront of Cafe Abir \" title=\"storefront of Cafe Abir \" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10188\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Storefront of local favorite, Café Abir\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Café Abir prides itself on roasting their own coffee daily in their micro-roasting machine. They make a rock-solid Americano and a nice, strong latte. But so do many places in the city. So what sets Café Abir apart? What I like is their varied workspace: they have a giant, communal table along with raised round tables with red velour booths that feel like little work nooks. They play good 80's music: I've been sitting here writing for the past hour and there's been some classic Heart, Bruce Springsteen and Men at Work. Good stuff. And they also have tons of individually wrapped treats, from slices of cake, to apricot bars and chocolate-dipped Rice Krispie bars. I'll admit, before I'd stocked the kitchen and actually gotten a feel for the 'hood, I had my fair share of their giant Rice Krispie treats. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Café Abir serves \u003ca href=\"http://www.worldpantry.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/ExecMacro/numitea/home.d2w/report\">Numi\u003c/a> tea, and a few different selections of beer and wine. 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I love the vivid, industrial painting by \u003ca href=\"http://www.mikeshankman.com/\">Mike Shankman\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When not working, settling into one of the window-side tables is prime people watching territory. There are dog walkers, young families buying treats and hanging at the outdoor tables, and runners cruising towards the Panhandle. And the coffee: this is not quick in-out-and-on-with-your-life coffee. It really is slowly and carefully prepared and it shows. The lattes are beautiful and strong, and they have numerous single-origin drip coffees brewed to order. They also have a small but nice selection of breakfast pastries (the croissants are buttery, flaky goodness), sandwiches and salads. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/02/croissant500.jpg\" alt=\"croissant from The Matching Half \" title=\"croissant from The Matching Half \" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10190\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while I haven't had the pleasure of having a glass of beer or wine--it's sure to happen in the coming week. They do happy hour specials from 4pm-6pm daily, and have some interesting bottles of beer available. Like Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout and PBR in a bottle. Right now they actually have a breakfast panino and PBR special. I can't say that I've ever had PBR in a bottle and I definitely haven't had PBR for breakfast...but here's to a new home and new beginnings, perhaps PBR and all. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.matchinghalfcafe.com/\">The Matching Half\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n1799 McAllister (@Baker), San Francisco, CA 94117\u003cbr>\n(415) 674-8699\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Hours:\u003c/strong> Mon.-Thurs.: 7am-7pm; Fri. 7am-10pm; Sat. 8am-10pm; Sun. 8am-6pm.\u003cbr>\nCash only.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.dajanigroup.net/establishments/cafe-abir/\">Café Abir\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/02/abir.jpg\" alt=\"storefront of Cafe Abir \" title=\"storefront of Cafe Abir \" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10188\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Storefront of local favorite, Café Abir\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Café Abir prides itself on roasting their own coffee daily in their micro-roasting machine. They make a rock-solid Americano and a nice, strong latte. But so do many places in the city. So what sets Café Abir apart? What I like is their varied workspace: they have a giant, communal table along with raised round tables with red velour booths that feel like little work nooks. They play good 80's music: I've been sitting here writing for the past hour and there's been some classic Heart, Bruce Springsteen and Men at Work. Good stuff. And they also have tons of individually wrapped treats, from slices of cake, to apricot bars and chocolate-dipped Rice Krispie bars. I'll admit, before I'd stocked the kitchen and actually gotten a feel for the 'hood, I had my fair share of their giant Rice Krispie treats. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Café Abir serves \u003ca href=\"http://www.worldpantry.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/ExecMacro/numitea/home.d2w/report\">Numi\u003c/a> tea, and a few different selections of beer and wine. 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So while there are dozens of incredible coffee joints around town, I'm thankful Abir's close by, and that they're open a bit later than most. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.dajanigroup.net/establishments/cafe-abir/\">Café Abir\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n300 Fulton Street (@ Divisidero)\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco, CA 94117\u003cbr>\n(415) 567-6503\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Hours:\u003c/strong> Daily, 6am-10pm\u003cbr>\nCash only.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Apollo Coffee\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/02/apollo.jpg\" alt=\"A quiet Sunday afternoon at Apollo Coffee\" title=\"A quiet Sunday afternoon at Apollo Coffee\" width=\"500\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10189\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>A quiet Sunday afternoon at Apollo Coffee\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I first moved in, Apollo had a sign on the front door that they'd be closed for the next week. 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In what other major city does the ouster of a sausage vendor at the farmers market become a platform for public debate?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First of all, a little background: This week, the Chronicle \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/19/BA7R1BJSGT.DTL\">reported\u003c/a> in a column by CW Nevius that the Aidells booth at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cuesa.org\">Ferry Plaza Farmers Market\u003c/a> was being asked to leave by the end of the month. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.aidells.com\">Aidells\u003c/a> is the popular sausage company that was begun in 1983 by Bruce Aidells. In her book \u003ci>Comfort Me With Apples\u003c/i>, Ruth Reichl recalls first meeting Aidells, having no idea that one day he would become the \"sausage king of America.\" Fast forward nearly thirty years, and Aidell's is a $20 million operation with sausages available in your corner store. 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The vendors who have come into the market recently -- \u003ca href=\"http://drinkwellsoda.typepad.com/\">Drinkwell Soda\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.4505meats.com/\">4505 meats\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.cuesa.org/markets/farmers/farm_16.php\">Catalan Family Farm\u003c/a>, for instance -- are small business with fantastic, sustainable products and a ton of potential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ouster of Aidells is causing a public outcry, replete with signature gathering and a threat of protest by a sausage-dressed human this Saturday. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All day, every day, I make difficult decisions about what I am eating: whether it is sustainably grown, whether it was produced well and whether the people who grew it were treated correctly. The Ferry Plaza Farmers Market is one place that I would like to go where I don't have to think about whether the food I am purchasing meets with my exacting standards -- I know that the vendors have been vetted by a full-time staff who has my best interest at heart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This morning, I wrote an email to CUESA executive director Dave Stockdale (dave@cuesa.org) thanking him for making the tough decision: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"A 10-year market shopper here saying that I support your decision to move Aidell's out of the Saturday market, leaving space for smaller, more sustainably-run vendors. When I go to the FPFM, I want to know that you have done the work for me -- asked the tough questions of vendors -- and that I can trust everything I buy there. I appreciate your making sure that all vendors meet the strict FPFM standards.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>I don't think that Aidells is a bad company, and neither does CUESA. An email from Stockdale stated, \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Aidells is a story of success. They started with us as a small local company. They are now a national brand with annual sales reported in excess of $20-million, whose products are available in 46 states, including 31 stores in San Francisco and several area farmers markets. We are proud to have been one of the early venues for the company's products and we're thankful to Aidells for helping our market becoming a success. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ouster of Aidells is causing a public outcry, replete with signature gathering and a threat of protest by a sausage-dressed human this Saturday. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All day, every day, I make difficult decisions about what I am eating: whether it is sustainably grown, whether it was produced well and whether the people who grew it were treated correctly. The Ferry Plaza Farmers Market is one place that I would like to go where I don't have to think about whether the food I am purchasing meets with my exacting standards -- I know that the vendors have been vetted by a full-time staff who has my best interest at heart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This morning, I wrote an email to CUESA executive director Dave Stockdale (dave@cuesa.org) thanking him for making the tough decision: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"A 10-year market shopper here saying that I support your decision to move Aidell's out of the Saturday market, leaving space for smaller, more sustainably-run vendors. When I go to the FPFM, I want to know that you have done the work for me -- asked the tough questions of vendors -- and that I can trust everything I buy there. I appreciate your making sure that all vendors meet the strict FPFM standards.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>I don't think that Aidells is a bad company, and neither does CUESA. An email from Stockdale stated, \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Aidells is a story of success. They started with us as a small local company. They are now a national brand with annual sales reported in excess of $20-million, whose products are available in 46 states, including 31 stores in San Francisco and several area farmers markets. We are proud to have been one of the early venues for the company's products and we're thankful to Aidells for helping our market becoming a success. We see our market as an incubator for local businesses, and we want to use our limited space to provide this same opportunity to other local companies.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>CUESA is simply trying to stick to their own mission, which is to shine a light on impeccably produced food from the best our region has to offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Further reading:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sfweekly.com/foodie/2010/01/if_aidells_is_out_of_the_ferry.php\">If Aidells is out at the Ferry Plaza, shouldn't Scharffen Berger have to go too?\u003c/a> SF Weekly, 01/21/10\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://sf.eater.com/archives/2010/01/21/cuesa_makes_its_case_against_aidells.php\">CUESA makes its case against Aidells\u003c/a>. SF Eater, 01/21/10\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/19/BA7R1BJSGT.DTL\">Hotdogging earns Ferry Plaza booth an ouster\u003c/a>. SF Chronicle, 01/19/10\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Someone must close down the bar, but I am through volunteering for the position. This is not to say bourbon has lost its bloom, or that work days do not begin with brief foamy fantasies about the first cold beers to be cracked eight hours later. I can say (with a straight face) that serious carousing is an occupation for swollen wallets and spare time, and claim that, as of late, I have neither. I can rationalize moderation because I wake up very early and tire before last call the following morning. I can insist that going out is harder than staying in, especially when it's raining and there's work to do and Netflix in the mailbox. I can affect a jaded outlook, yawning that the sport of drinking doesn't hold the appeal it had ten years ago. I can label it a secondary activity, something I associate with games to watch, gigs to play, food to eat, and good conversations with friends. Big nights happen, yes, but usually on accident, I can say -- candidly, with no regrets. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those are all parts of the problem (if embracing moderation can ever be considered one) but the real reason, the one that really has me avoiding bars and heading home early when I can't, is that these days, when I drink too much, my hangovers hit like \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MY3RtJUrD8\">Mike Tyson circa 1986\u003c/a>. After a few too many, I wake up stuffy, morose, disoriented, ugly, and sore. I don't ever get sick, but I forget details about where I went and who I saw. I don't have the energy to do the things that the day ahead demands, and my mood plummets correspondingly. When I was 20, I could shake off boozy sweats, dehydration, and body aches, and spring out of bed after five hours of sleep to bound around the house, read, study, and socialize -- all miraculously on an empty stomach. Now, on those increasingly infrequent occasions where I over-indulge, I am discovering that I desperately require food -- breakfast maybe, or at least a snack of heroic proportions -- to piece myself together again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Restorative noshing is welcome immediately after the party, or hours later, upon waking. The fact that I've only really realized this in the latter half of my twenties probably says something about my learning curve in general. If hunger pangs strike on the way home from the bar, possibilities are limited. Most restaurants aren't open. Chorizo tacos from \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/el-farolito-san-francisco-2\">El Farolito\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps/place?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=la+vallarta+sf&fb=1&gl=us&hq=la+vallarta&hnear=sf&cid=3981052901989885288\">Taqueria Vallarta\u003c/a> hit the spot. I haven't been, but \u003ca href=\"http://myizakaya.com/\">Nombe\u003c/a>, the new-ish izakaya on Mission St., has a late-night take-out window selling ramen to revelers staggering home. Sometimes, an attack on the refrigerator is the best and cheapest recourse. I went out on Saturday night and stayed out -- gasp -- until 1 a.m. When I came home I realized nearly everything in the house that I felt like eating was being saved for a dinner with my dad the following night -- sausage for pizza, bread for croutons, and olives. Instead, I microwaved some leftover white rice and added salt and a few squirts of srirachi sauce. Something with srirachi sauce usually does the trick. Lately, I've also been especially enjoying plain corn tortillas roasted on a cast-iron skillet and then topped with srirachi and a few creamy squiggles of \u003ca href=\"http://www.thekitchn.com/thekitchn/condiments-dressings/what-is-kewpie-mayonnaise-044639\">Kewpie mayonnaise\u003c/a>. I do two at a time, folded over like miniature fusion-y quesadillas, and eat them fast, usually burning my mouth in the process. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those disinclined to wallow in gastronomic gutters, there is also, of course, street food -- bacon dogs, tamales, and the ever-growing assortment of heavily Twittered carts that tend to pop up on corners outside the doors of drinking establishments. As good as some of this stuff is (I'm thinking about you, gumbo guy), such trendy offerings come with long lines, and waiting fifteen minutes for a grilled flatbread behind a bunch of ravenous drunk people is rarely an attractive option when you're ravenous and drunk yourself. Fifteen minutes? I could be home by then, putting the final drizzle of srirachi on a corn tortilla, wearing the sweats, watching a little Larry David before passing out with a smile on my face. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/01/tortilla-srirachi-mayo500.jpg\" alt=\"tortilla with srirachi and Kewpie mayonnaise\" title=\"tortilla with srirachi and Kewpie mayonnaise\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9815\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Tortilla with srirachi and Kewpie mayonnaise. You won't see this in Saveur.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alcohol stirs the strangest cravings the morning after. Some people wake up and go for eggs, pancakes, waffles, sausage, and other conventional breakfast-y things. There is scientific logic to this. Eggs contain cysteine, a substance that breaks down the hangover-causing toxin acetaldehyde in the liver. Fruit juice actually hastens the rate at which a body gets ride of toxins like those generated by alcohol metabolism. Bananas, also common at breakfast, replace potassium lost to alcohol's diuretic tendencies. Fried or stupendously unhealthy foods appeal because sufferers suspect that grease will soothe their irritated stomach linings -- nevermind the fact that it's more likely to have the opposite effect. Psychology is powerful, however, especially the morning after losing brain cells, and I think that sometimes people condition themselves to crave the very things that will hurt them more. It's, in the long run, a fairly harmless sort of self-loathing -- sitting down to a plate of battered chicken, savoring the punishment disguised as a cure, letting your over-taxed body pay the tab your inconsiderate brain racked up. Some treat their morning afflictions like illness and self-medicate with more austere feasts -- steamed vegetables, spicy broths, and so on. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every year, usually when New Year's Eve approaches, publications feel it necessary to run stories about hangovers and how to avoid them. Typically, these pieces involve interviews with bartenders, operating under the assumption that these callous dispensers of liquid poison know something about recovery too. On Christmas Eve, Grub Street \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.grubstreet.com/2009/12/sf_bartenders_share_their_favo.html\">consulted\u003c/a> some mixologists on the subject, and the responses were fairly telegraphed, with most suggesting hair of the dog remedies. Likewise, a Dec. 31 Examiner article \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/entertainment/Handy-cures-for-holiday-hangovers-80371202.html\">expanded\u003c/a> the sample group and saw similar results, with respondents largely sticking to the guns articulated by their respective professions. The bartender recommended more booze. The personal trainer advocated drinking plenty of water and working out. The doctor condemned drinking too much in the first place. The acupuncturist suggested acupuncture. I'm not sure if I have a profession to stick to, but I have done both drinking and thinking in my day, and for that reason, I hesitate to press any so-called \"cures\" on others. Hangovers are, after all, very personal things. I will however share a few meals that I have managed to enjoy under the bleariest of circumstances:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Indian buffet.\u003c/strong> This goes back to a summer home from college. The morning after a long night, some friends and I went to an Indian restaurant attached to a worn motel. After three plates of chicken korma, saag paneer, and samosas, I felt well enough to spend the rest of the day at the zoo. I'm not sure if there's a San Francisco equivalent, but once I woke up in San Jose, went to \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/new-indian-cuisine-san-jose#hrid:4hAyRH5dgltohBCagstFaA/src:search/query:buffet%20indian\">New Indian Cuisine\u003c/a>, and came away again convinced that naan is merely Advil slicked with ghee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A breaded chicken torta with chipotles\u003c/strong> from \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/la-torta-gorda-san-francisco\">La Torta Gorda\u003c/a>. I'm always momentarily tempted to get a junior, but the full is the way to go. Go home, eat half, and put the remainder in the fridge. Get some covers and stretch out on the couch. Watch basketball or half a season of a television show you've already seen. Look up at the clock. It's nearly dinner-time. Good thing you have a brick-sized piece of torta to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A pickle, dill.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Soup.\u003c/strong> I'm a soup person -- that could be a post in and of itself -- but it doesn't help my hangovers unless it's French onion from \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/ti-couz-san-francisco\">Ti Couz\u003c/a>, with some seafood salad and maybe a mushroom crepe on the side. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chicken fingers and waffle fries with ranch dressing\u003c/strong> from \u003ca href=\"http://www.phatphillys.com/\">Phat Philly\u003c/a>. This is actually my girlfriend's thing. She's yelling at me from the other room to include it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.johncampbells.com/\">John Campbell's Irish Bakery\u003c/a>. Once, a few years ago, I was staying out at my dad's in the Richmond District -- dog-sitting, house sitting, and cable-watching -- and I woke up after a night out with a painkiller-resistant headache, a sour hollow stomach, and my dad's whippet dashing around the bed in frantic circles. I had hopped off the 38 at 1:30 a.m. and decided to grab one more at the Blarney Stone. Pulling on a coat, leashing the dog, and stepping out into the stabbing mist, I walked back to the scene of the crime and had a piece of pizza (it might have been called \"focaccia\") from John Campbell's, the fantastic bakery next door to the 'Stone. This was like nothing you'd see at A16, Flour + Water, or even Pizza Hut. There was turkey or ham in cubes, peppers and onions, maybe. A white sauce and cheese, I want to say. The dog was whimpering, begging for a taste. I can't recall the details, but the slice (a slab, really) was like a combination of stew and scone, or an upside-down pot pie even -- bread-y, bland, and bad, at least as far as pizza goes. Yet held to a different standard -- alcohol absorption -- it delivered -- nearly as well as a corn tortilla with hot sauce and mayo.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Big nights happen, yes, but usually on accident, I can say -- candidly, with no regrets. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those are all parts of the problem (if embracing moderation can ever be considered one) but the real reason, the one that really has me avoiding bars and heading home early when I can't, is that these days, when I drink too much, my hangovers hit like \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MY3RtJUrD8\">Mike Tyson circa 1986\u003c/a>. After a few too many, I wake up stuffy, morose, disoriented, ugly, and sore. I don't ever get sick, but I forget details about where I went and who I saw. I don't have the energy to do the things that the day ahead demands, and my mood plummets correspondingly. When I was 20, I could shake off boozy sweats, dehydration, and body aches, and spring out of bed after five hours of sleep to bound around the house, read, study, and socialize -- all miraculously on an empty stomach. Now, on those increasingly infrequent occasions where I over-indulge, I am discovering that I desperately require food -- breakfast maybe, or at least a snack of heroic proportions -- to piece myself together again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Restorative noshing is welcome immediately after the party, or hours later, upon waking. The fact that I've only really realized this in the latter half of my twenties probably says something about my learning curve in general. If hunger pangs strike on the way home from the bar, possibilities are limited. Most restaurants aren't open. Chorizo tacos from \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/el-farolito-san-francisco-2\">El Farolito\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps/place?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=la+vallarta+sf&fb=1&gl=us&hq=la+vallarta&hnear=sf&cid=3981052901989885288\">Taqueria Vallarta\u003c/a> hit the spot. I haven't been, but \u003ca href=\"http://myizakaya.com/\">Nombe\u003c/a>, the new-ish izakaya on Mission St., has a late-night take-out window selling ramen to revelers staggering home. Sometimes, an attack on the refrigerator is the best and cheapest recourse. I went out on Saturday night and stayed out -- gasp -- until 1 a.m. When I came home I realized nearly everything in the house that I felt like eating was being saved for a dinner with my dad the following night -- sausage for pizza, bread for croutons, and olives. Instead, I microwaved some leftover white rice and added salt and a few squirts of srirachi sauce. Something with srirachi sauce usually does the trick. Lately, I've also been especially enjoying plain corn tortillas roasted on a cast-iron skillet and then topped with srirachi and a few creamy squiggles of \u003ca href=\"http://www.thekitchn.com/thekitchn/condiments-dressings/what-is-kewpie-mayonnaise-044639\">Kewpie mayonnaise\u003c/a>. I do two at a time, folded over like miniature fusion-y quesadillas, and eat them fast, usually burning my mouth in the process. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those disinclined to wallow in gastronomic gutters, there is also, of course, street food -- bacon dogs, tamales, and the ever-growing assortment of heavily Twittered carts that tend to pop up on corners outside the doors of drinking establishments. As good as some of this stuff is (I'm thinking about you, gumbo guy), such trendy offerings come with long lines, and waiting fifteen minutes for a grilled flatbread behind a bunch of ravenous drunk people is rarely an attractive option when you're ravenous and drunk yourself. Fifteen minutes? 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"content": "\u003cp>When you move to the Mission District from somewhere far away, you learn about taquerias and what they offer. You realize that tacos are special snacks, plebian tapas, almost, and a topic worthy of a conversation all their own. Platters of grilled meat with fluffy rice, puddles of beans, negligible watery salads, and stacks of tortillas are for dads and adolescent boys. Quesadillas are tempting because their fully suiza'd incarnations incorporate a burrito's most appealing elements -- the meats, the flag-hued trifecta of guacamole, salsa, and sour cream, and so on -- but every time you try to down one, you sweat cheese and suffer cramps. Nachos are a little silly, masochistic, a nutritional mockery; they belong in sports bars, where they should never be ordered. Portable, tasty, and immensely filling, burritos are your thing. Ohio had burritos too. So did Kentucky. But, until California-style wraps invaded the fast food lexicon, those were vile orange cheddar-and-ground beef roll-ups populating the refrigerated cases of gas stations and college dining hall steam tables. You never ate them before, but now, having thrown down new roots in America's burrito basket you try many variations on this startling new discovery, too many, in fact, your stomach wearily tells you again and again, as you retire to bed at least two or three nights a week with a baby-sized slug of meat, beans, rice, and tortilla burrowed into your gut. After a few months of playing the field, following recommendations and wandering blindly into the taquerias with the catchiest names, you home in on the burritos you like best. For a time, with each salsa-flecked triumph, you have a new favorite destination. With like-minded connoisseurs, you debate the merits of various establishments' interpretations of the form. Out-of-town visitors always want to know where to find a good burrito. By the time they get around to asking you, you're wiser, over the course of weeks and months, a true aficionado. You come to understand that, while there are many very good burritos in your neighborhood, seeking out the perfect specimen is a impossible undertaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best taquerias are frequently inconsistent. Even at the top of the heap, most earn their stripes for doing a specific few things really well -- a sublime meat or two, expertly seasoned and stewed or grilled, a special salsa, perhaps, or a unique portioning and folding method permitting an ideal and harmonious mix of wet, dry, spicy, rich, and acidic substances within. You never find a burrito that synthesizes all the traits you hold dear, but you do learn, for example, that \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/el-metate-san-francisco\">El Metate\u003c/a>'s burritos are smaller than most you see in the Mission, a dependable, yet mildly sporty sedan navigating streets dominated by cumbersome trucks. Devotees tear up like Paula Abdul over the taqueria's sensational pork in chile verde. El Metate's burrito-crafters refrain from toasting the outsides of burritos prior to wrapping them in foil, but their innards more than compensate. If you ask at the right time, you might get your mitts on a bag of confetti-colored flour tortilla chips and a cup of extra-spicy salsa. A late-night hotspot for hungry drunks, \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/el-farolito-san-francisco-2\">El Farolito\u003c/a> toasts admirably. Its strongest filling is boiled chicken, sublime moist shreds that could have been birthed in a cauldron of noodle soup. The salsa bar at Farolito is puny, but the green, as it's invariably called, puts it on par with the grand spreads you see at frillier taquerias – a creamy, avocado-slicked puree you want to slip into an i.v. after dipping a chip or two. \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/taqueria-el-castillito-san-francisco-2\">El Castillito\u003c/a> really toasts, more thoroughly than Farolito, until the shell of a burrito is flaky and singed, almost like a shawarma. Re-fried beans, often eschewed, excel here; they act as edible glue, fusing with melted cheese to unite the more flavorful components. \u003ca href=\"http://www.papalote-sf.com/\">Papalote\u003c/a> has a rust-colored salsa so smooth and unctuous you can easily convince yourself it contains cream and butter. Irrigate the interior of your fresh shrimp burrito, and take home a few jars to eat ice cream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don't get me wrong though. I'm not telling you where to go for a burrito. Anyone you meet out here can tell you where to find one -- if you don't already know by now. As local media has noted over the last few years, there are numerous websites dedicated to the enjoyment and evaluation of burritos around town. I'm thinking primarily of the diligent and judicious \u003ca href=\"http://www.burritoeater.com/main.php\">Burrito Eater\u003c/a>. Similar operations drop knowledge in other California cities. For instance, my friend Crawford runs \u003ca href=\"http://drburrito.com/mission/\">Dr. Burrito\u003c/a> in San Diego, and regularly schools ignorant folks on his terrain's regional particulars. These are experts. Lay-people obsessed with finding the perfect burrito -- again, a preposterous endeavor -- usually possess too much free time, and probably log an unhealthy amount of time crafting witty Yelp reviews. The taquerias I patronize most are the ones closest to my house or the bar. The idea of going out of your way for a six-dollar meal you'll eat in ten minutes contradicts the essence of a burrito. Nonetheless, if you engage the debate, you come to the conclusion that most taquerias you end up liking a lot are better at something than most others. When you go out for a burrito, you head to a destination with areas of strength that suit your predisposition at that moment. In this sense, you're re-visiting an experience, like putting on a beloved record or watching re-runs. I would like to listen to the White Album again. I would like to see Season Three of The Wire once more. I would like a fish burrito with no sour cream from El Metate. Dialing in a go-to combination from a reliable purveyor is the only recourse a dedicated burrito-hound has, though daydreams about the impossible persist -- the fantasy of a mutant hybrid burrito boasting the best traits of a dozen of the neighborhood's best. A garrulous housemate once eloquently outlined the concept: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"In a perfect world I would buzz around the Mission with a rocket pack on my back, collecting my favorite meats from each taqueria. And I would fold all the juicy delights into a giant burrito, probably the size of a heavy bag for boxing. I would eat some of the burrito, and then sit it up on the couch next to me, like a friend.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>What if you could take El Metate's chile verde pork, squeeze it into an El Farolito-sized shell, take it to Castelito for toasting, and then crown it with dollops of Papalote's salsa? Shortly after the exchange, I visited \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/taqueria-san-francisco-san-francisco\">Taqueria San Francisco\u003c/a> on 24th St., near York –- incidentally a Burrito Eater favorite -- and couldn't, for the life of me, decide between ordering mine with chile relleno or chicken. In a moment of loopy clarity, I ordered them both in one burrito. The guy at the counter kind of smiled faintly. Ten minutes later, I was back at the house, hauling something silver and as heavy as a brick out of a thin plastic bag. It proved to be one of the most exciting burritos I have ever attacked. The doughy batter surrounding the hacked-up pepper had melted into the foundation of beans and rice. The juicy stewed chicken found a ready foil in the acidic salsa and the pepper's mild heat. Chunks of buttery avocado studded the interior. I had skipped the sour cream, but not the cheese, so this burrito was queso-heavy, a twisted, solid mass from the chile relleno running down the middle like a spine, and another layer melted against the inside of the tortilla. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have not revisited this particular adventure, though other mildly outside-the-box burrito variations followed suit. Two years ago, upon recovering from a two-day bout with a stomach virus, slogging through a final cautionary day of bread and jam, and, on the fourth day, enjoying 2.5 hours of taxing pick-up basketball, I limped into El Farolito and ordered a super chicken burrito with extra meat, rationalizing that the extra calories would do me good. When I sliced the massive cylinder down the middle and turned the halves to expose the cross-section, it looked as if a turducken had exploded inside the glittering foil sheath. I ate 2/3 of it, and immediately collapsed for an hour, with the lights dimmed in my room, listening to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sibyllebaier.com/home.html\">Sibylle Baier\u003c/a> and cursing myself. Incidentally, a frugal friend with a serious appetite has a good technique for extending the sustaining power of a burrito. He pulls off the foil, cuts a surgically precise slit lengthwise across the side without folds, and scoops out the \"guts\" with chips. Then he fills the hollowed middle with pico de gallo, packs the tortilla back together into a semblance of its original shape, and sucks it down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/01/burrito-closeup.jpg\" alt=\"burrito\" title=\"burrito\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9623\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Taqueria Guadalajara's steak and shrimp burrito, regular\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just last week, I was standing, cold and somewhat frazzled in the dining room of \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/taqueria-guadalajara-san-francisco-2\">Taqueria Guadalajara\u003c/a>, another 24th Street establishment. I hadn't had a burrito in a month, and was trying to decide what to order. I thought about the relleno-chicken mash-up I'd downed three years earlier, how it had awakened burrito 'buds I never knew existed. I knew most taquerias didn't mind letting patrons double up on fillings, but Guadalajara actually has a \"mixto\" option clearly listed on the bright, broad menu positioned above the counter. I ordered a burrito with steak and grilled shrimp. The result –- salty and chewy with a hint of the shellfish's brine peeking through the mix –- was good but not as balanced and magical as the relleno-chicken combination. I wondered if two flavors over-crowded in most arrangements, if a burrito was best served by a subtle backing section supporting a dominant soloist –- say, soothing boiled chicken, or bold, zesty carnitas -- not a duet. Still, I wondered which combinations would work best. Tripe and carnitas? Steak and chicken?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I dived again and again into my selection, I wondered: What might up the ante, and take the burrito further out into the void while remaining respectful? Stupid wrap franchises have ruined fusion burritos with their jasmine rice-and-curry concoctions to be sure, but what if fried chicken replaced boiled chicken in an otherwise straightforward preparation? Or if thin-shaved lamb from Old Jerusalem's shawarma spits cozied up to green salsa and re-fried beans? A shrimp rolled out of the burrito and onto my lap. I ate it. The possibilities were as endless as the half-eaten tube before me.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When you move to the Mission District from somewhere far away, you learn about taquerias and what they offer. You realize that tacos are special snacks, plebian tapas, almost, and a topic worthy of a conversation all their own. Platters of grilled meat with fluffy rice, puddles of beans, negligible watery salads, and stacks of tortillas are for dads and adolescent boys. Quesadillas are tempting because their fully suiza'd incarnations incorporate a burrito's most appealing elements -- the meats, the flag-hued trifecta of guacamole, salsa, and sour cream, and so on -- but every time you try to down one, you sweat cheese and suffer cramps. Nachos are a little silly, masochistic, a nutritional mockery; they belong in sports bars, where they should never be ordered. Portable, tasty, and immensely filling, burritos are your thing. Ohio had burritos too. So did Kentucky. But, until California-style wraps invaded the fast food lexicon, those were vile orange cheddar-and-ground beef roll-ups populating the refrigerated cases of gas stations and college dining hall steam tables. You never ate them before, but now, having thrown down new roots in America's burrito basket you try many variations on this startling new discovery, too many, in fact, your stomach wearily tells you again and again, as you retire to bed at least two or three nights a week with a baby-sized slug of meat, beans, rice, and tortilla burrowed into your gut. After a few months of playing the field, following recommendations and wandering blindly into the taquerias with the catchiest names, you home in on the burritos you like best. For a time, with each salsa-flecked triumph, you have a new favorite destination. With like-minded connoisseurs, you debate the merits of various establishments' interpretations of the form. Out-of-town visitors always want to know where to find a good burrito. By the time they get around to asking you, you're wiser, over the course of weeks and months, a true aficionado. You come to understand that, while there are many very good burritos in your neighborhood, seeking out the perfect specimen is a impossible undertaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best taquerias are frequently inconsistent. Even at the top of the heap, most earn their stripes for doing a specific few things really well -- a sublime meat or two, expertly seasoned and stewed or grilled, a special salsa, perhaps, or a unique portioning and folding method permitting an ideal and harmonious mix of wet, dry, spicy, rich, and acidic substances within. You never find a burrito that synthesizes all the traits you hold dear, but you do learn, for example, that \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/el-metate-san-francisco\">El Metate\u003c/a>'s burritos are smaller than most you see in the Mission, a dependable, yet mildly sporty sedan navigating streets dominated by cumbersome trucks. Devotees tear up like Paula Abdul over the taqueria's sensational pork in chile verde. El Metate's burrito-crafters refrain from toasting the outsides of burritos prior to wrapping them in foil, but their innards more than compensate. If you ask at the right time, you might get your mitts on a bag of confetti-colored flour tortilla chips and a cup of extra-spicy salsa. A late-night hotspot for hungry drunks, \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/el-farolito-san-francisco-2\">El Farolito\u003c/a> toasts admirably. Its strongest filling is boiled chicken, sublime moist shreds that could have been birthed in a cauldron of noodle soup. The salsa bar at Farolito is puny, but the green, as it's invariably called, puts it on par with the grand spreads you see at frillier taquerias – a creamy, avocado-slicked puree you want to slip into an i.v. after dipping a chip or two. \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/taqueria-el-castillito-san-francisco-2\">El Castillito\u003c/a> really toasts, more thoroughly than Farolito, until the shell of a burrito is flaky and singed, almost like a shawarma. Re-fried beans, often eschewed, excel here; they act as edible glue, fusing with melted cheese to unite the more flavorful components. \u003ca href=\"http://www.papalote-sf.com/\">Papalote\u003c/a> has a rust-colored salsa so smooth and unctuous you can easily convince yourself it contains cream and butter. Irrigate the interior of your fresh shrimp burrito, and take home a few jars to eat ice cream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don't get me wrong though. I'm not telling you where to go for a burrito. Anyone you meet out here can tell you where to find one -- if you don't already know by now. As local media has noted over the last few years, there are numerous websites dedicated to the enjoyment and evaluation of burritos around town. I'm thinking primarily of the diligent and judicious \u003ca href=\"http://www.burritoeater.com/main.php\">Burrito Eater\u003c/a>. Similar operations drop knowledge in other California cities. For instance, my friend Crawford runs \u003ca href=\"http://drburrito.com/mission/\">Dr. Burrito\u003c/a> in San Diego, and regularly schools ignorant folks on his terrain's regional particulars. These are experts. Lay-people obsessed with finding the perfect burrito -- again, a preposterous endeavor -- usually possess too much free time, and probably log an unhealthy amount of time crafting witty Yelp reviews. The taquerias I patronize most are the ones closest to my house or the bar. The idea of going out of your way for a six-dollar meal you'll eat in ten minutes contradicts the essence of a burrito. Nonetheless, if you engage the debate, you come to the conclusion that most taquerias you end up liking a lot are better at something than most others. When you go out for a burrito, you head to a destination with areas of strength that suit your predisposition at that moment. In this sense, you're re-visiting an experience, like putting on a beloved record or watching re-runs. I would like to listen to the White Album again. I would like to see Season Three of The Wire once more. I would like a fish burrito with no sour cream from El Metate. Dialing in a go-to combination from a reliable purveyor is the only recourse a dedicated burrito-hound has, though daydreams about the impossible persist -- the fantasy of a mutant hybrid burrito boasting the best traits of a dozen of the neighborhood's best. A garrulous housemate once eloquently outlined the concept: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"In a perfect world I would buzz around the Mission with a rocket pack on my back, collecting my favorite meats from each taqueria. And I would fold all the juicy delights into a giant burrito, probably the size of a heavy bag for boxing. I would eat some of the burrito, and then sit it up on the couch next to me, like a friend.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>What if you could take El Metate's chile verde pork, squeeze it into an El Farolito-sized shell, take it to Castelito for toasting, and then crown it with dollops of Papalote's salsa? Shortly after the exchange, I visited \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/taqueria-san-francisco-san-francisco\">Taqueria San Francisco\u003c/a> on 24th St., near York –- incidentally a Burrito Eater favorite -- and couldn't, for the life of me, decide between ordering mine with chile relleno or chicken. In a moment of loopy clarity, I ordered them both in one burrito. The guy at the counter kind of smiled faintly. Ten minutes later, I was back at the house, hauling something silver and as heavy as a brick out of a thin plastic bag. It proved to be one of the most exciting burritos I have ever attacked. The doughy batter surrounding the hacked-up pepper had melted into the foundation of beans and rice. The juicy stewed chicken found a ready foil in the acidic salsa and the pepper's mild heat. Chunks of buttery avocado studded the interior. I had skipped the sour cream, but not the cheese, so this burrito was queso-heavy, a twisted, solid mass from the chile relleno running down the middle like a spine, and another layer melted against the inside of the tortilla. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have not revisited this particular adventure, though other mildly outside-the-box burrito variations followed suit. 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But no worries: a few minutes later, owner/pastry chef Mutsumi Takehara emerged from the back with a platter of oven-hot raisin swirls and sweet cheese croissants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2009/12/sandbox_17.jpg\" alt=\"sandbox scone\" title=\"sandbox scone\" width=\"260\" height=\"173\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9154\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's worth hanging around for these; the raisin swirl we tried was ethereally light and barely sweet, shards of a dream that disappeared like snowflakes. A strawberry scone was more earthbound but still light and easy to crumble into mouthfuls, and well larded with sweet fruit. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond croissants, scones, and muffins, Takehara's workhorse is a light, eggy yeast dough, like an airy challah, that she uses to make her version of kashi-pan, the filled buns popular in Japanese bakeries. 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