Upcider I’ll start with a disclaimer: the subject of this article is in no way an example of a “broke-ass” restaurant.  Any perception to the contrary is a result of the reader’s misapprehension, not of any malicious intent on my part. Upcider takes up a sprawling second floor corner in the

Hello, gorgeous BAS readers!  This week we bring you a new feature- City Shutterscape.  Our new photo contributor, Fabian Echevarria, points and clicks his away around town and shares what he sees.  If you think you might know something we need to capture, drop us a line and we’ll dispatch

Things can generally be divided into two categories: things you want, and things you don’t want. I know it’s vague, but this article isn’t about anything you want or don’t want. It’s about something that sits on that fine tightrope between them – that category of things you wouldn’t intentionally

Hiyaaa! is either a popular truck, or I just got there too late. They were out of everything, and so I settled…was forced to settle on curry. But, that’s all right because I don’t know how many times I have said this, but curry is good. It’s one of those

My life mantra has become “Let’s get weird”. In fact, I’m pretty sure that’s what I want it to say on my tombstone. So I’ve decided to throw a monthly party in celebration of getting weird. It’s called Freaky-Deaky Fridays. And… It’s a Costume Box Dance Party! and it happens

Xiao Long Bao’s dumpling factory Strewn along Clement Street, roughly between Avenues Fourth and Tenth, are numerous Dim Sum restaurants, three of which I’ve profiled among the glowing pages of this website as a part of my Clement Street Series.  Wing Lee, Happy Garden, and Good Luck Dim Sum are all stalwarts of that

Pig & Pie  Last week I wrote up La Palma as being a paragon of a Mission District 24th Street that is fast being drowned out by higher-end cafes and eateries that cater not to the longtime residents, but to the recent influx of wealthy tech boomers.  This week, I

Anyone who has spent anything more than 5 minutes with me knows I love to tell stories…ok fine, I’m a blabbermouth. But I also love to hear them too. I mean who doesn’t right (and don’t say “deaf people” asshole)? And since you’re reading this site I imagine you also