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14 Jan 2011

FREE Appetizers at Muguboka

Muguboka has everything I look for in a Korean restaurant. When I first picked up the menu, I was like, “Wait, why is this bibimbap $20?” Then, after I ordered it anyway, my waitress brought out a huge assortment of complimentary starters including kimchee, bean sprouts, anchovies, and literally at

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31 Dec 2010

Best Bakery in San Francisco: Schubert's Bakery

A funny pattern has popped up in my life for the last couple of New Years. About a month into January, a lot of people I know get engaged. I’m not sure if this is because they’re getting knocked up in a holiday eggnog fog or if proposing when the

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30 Dec 2010

Happy Hour at Olive

If someone’s going to coax me into traipsing through the streets of Little Saigon, sidestepping crack pies and used condoms, they better be taking me somewhere worth it. Enter: happy hour at Olive. From 5-7pm, you can munch on artisan pizzas for $8, as well as stuff like pomme frites,

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10 Dec 2010

Happy Hour in SOMA at Maya

My coworker is obsessed with dropping in on Maya after work. Her words: “Yeah, it’s full of douchers, but I can handle assholes for a good deal.” Spoken like a true broke-ass. What sort of deals, you ask? For starters, their happy hour happens every day of the week and

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03 Dec 2010

Bury Your Heart in Beans at Taqueria Cancún

Taqueria Cancún in the Mission gets name dropped pretty often on this site, but it’s never had a full post dedicated to it, which is weird because it’s so good and so cheap. So if you kind of know but aren’t really in the know, these are the reasons you

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26 Nov 2010

Poon Can Fix Anything

When I was in New York a few weeks ago, I stopped by a Soho boutique called In God We Trust and made what I consider to be my best jewelry purchase to date: a brass necklace that has “kiss me where I pee” inscribed in pretty little cursive on

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12 Nov 2010

Specialty's WarmCookie Radar

Being an adult means that I no longer come home from school, tired and books in tow, to a warm plate of cookies baked by my loving mother cooling on the stove top. There is no one to pour me a glass of milk, pet my head, and tell me

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