Eat & Drink

27 May 2016

BROKE-ASS KITCHEN: HABICHUELAS RECIPE (PUERTO RICAN BEANS)

  Puerto Ricans don’t call beans frijoles, we call them habichuelas. Pink beans stewed with tomato sauce, sofrito and sometimes some form of smoky meats (hock or bacon). Much to my chagrin, dried pink beans are incredibly difficult to find. Perhaps this is the reason why so many online habichuela

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26 May 2016

(Almost) FREE Wieners: 5-cent Dogs at Nathan’s Famous (NYC)

Looking for a classy way to kick off your Memorial Day Weekend? How about a plump, juicy and, most importantly, cheap-as-fuck hot dog? This Saturday Nathan’s Famous in Coney Island is celebrating its 100th birthday by going back to its original prices. They want to put their wieners in your

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24 May 2016

We Wanna Send You On A Food Tour in the Mission District!

Avital Tours offers high-end social dining experiences in San Francisco and Los Angeles for locals and travelers alike. Their walking food tours are built by locals for locals. Their goal is that someone who lives in the Mission comes on our Mission Food Tour and learns something about her own neighborhood –

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20 May 2016

The 12 Craziest Things You’ll Find at Foods Co.

Please note: This piece is not meant to make fun of the people who shop here. It’s to humorously draw attention to the unhealthy and ridiculous ways poor people are marketed to. Incredibly strange grocery outlet Foods Co has existed here more than 10 years, offering broke-ass-friendly prices on an

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20 May 2016

Roy Choi & Daniel Patterson’s Locol Oakland Location Finally Opening!

It was in January 2016 that I alerted readers that Roy Choi and Daniel Patterson were in the makings of opening a Locol in the old Plum brick and mortar in Oakland. We waited…and waited. And we hadn’t heard not a fucking whisper about it ever again.

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17 May 2016

Broke-Ass Kitchen: Kit Kat Croissants

This kit kat croissant recipe really isn’t a recipe. I was lying in bed thinking about my visit to Paris in 2010; the moment where I discovered that Americans charge about quadruple what Parisians charge for the flaky delights known as pain du chocolat. That’s when the horrifying images appeared

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16 May 2016

We wanna send you to The 12th annual CHEFS SummerTini Gala!

  The 12th annual CHEFS SummerTini Gala will take place on June 3 at the Village (969 Market Street). Enjoy eats and drinks from over 30 restaurants and bars from around the Bay Area, bid on exciting auction packages you just can’t find anywhere else, and support ECS programs, featuring

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12 May 2016

Safeway Monopoly: Does Anyone Actually Win? An Analysis.

These Safeway Monopoly cards are the Glengarry leads. To you, they’re gold. But does anyone ever win so much as a 99-cent box of macaroni & cheese playing Safeway Monopoly? I’ve seen a lot of card-collecting and not much winning in the years that this highly complicated grocery store game

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