Cheap Eats

11 Feb 2010

Why Haven’t You had Brunch at the Thai Temple yet?

Do you like Thai food? Do you like Brunch? Of course you do, these things are dealbreakers. So, you should combine these great loves with that other love of your life (your girlfriend/boyfriend, you jerk) on the holiest of corporate holidays this weekend and treat her/him to some cheap brunch

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29 Jan 2010

Upgrade Your Comfort Foods: Broke-Ass Girl Scout Cookies

Ha! I bet you thought I was going to give you some cheap and crafty recipe to make your own samoas or whatever. Nope, this week I’m flipping the usual “Upgrade Your Comfort Foods” because I want to talk about one of my favorite things in the grocery store: knockoff

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27 Jan 2024

The San Francisco Beer Passport is Here!

Step into a world of adventure with the San Francisco Beer Passport. There’s no better way to explore San Francisco than to literally drink it in. This passport is amazing! Each one contains 27 coupons to buy one beer, get a second beer FREE at 27 of the finest locally

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26 Jan 2010

Kiss and Tell Speakeasy + $5 Pasta Dinner

Anyone remember Chumley’s?  This restored 1920s speakeasy-turned-restaurant/bar was described in New York Magazine as ‘œcluttered with dog-eared photos of famous writers and the jackets of their most influential tomes’ It’s not hard to imagine Hemingway and Fitzgerald bickering in a back corner over a few too many whiskeys.’  With a

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20 Jan 2010

Access Café Vegan Brunch

My sister wrote a book called That’s Why We Don’t Eat Animals and she constantly encounters people who say really inane things like, ‘œI don’t think I’ve ever actually eaten any vegan food.’  She usually responds with ‘œWell, have you ever had an apple?’ and then they feel pretty stupid. 

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14 Jan 2010

More Drawing Contests! Free Money and a Boatload of Ice Cream!

First Oakland needed a new t-shirt, now it’s Three Twins Ice Cream that’s looking for your fashion instincts and/or graphic design skills. All you’ve got to do is email your design to threetwinstees@gmail.com and make sure it’s got the Three Twins name or logo in it. If you’re the talented

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25 Dec 2009

Upgrade Your Comfort Foods: Peanut Butter and Jelly

Look, we know you’re broke. We’re all broke but you just look silly sitting there with your Kirkland Brand Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches. Sure, it’s a comfort food, but you know what? The “PB&J as comfort food” thing is basically like replacing all the posters in your apartment with

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15 Dec 2009

Ital Calabash: Vegan Rastafarian Spot in Berkeley

If you’ve ever gotten off at the Ashby Bart station (and by ‘œgotten off’ I mean exited the train, not what the dude in the seat behind you was doing), looked across the street, and wondered what that tiny shack painted with the bright colors of Jamaica is, here’s the

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24 Nov 2009

Keeping Up with SF Food Carts 24/7

I was walking with a friend in Duboce Park the other day when we stumbled upon a bunch of food carts.  Although the delicious fumes wafting from ‘œWholesome Bakery’ and  ‘œThat Guy’s Fries’ were trumped a minute later when my friend stepped in dog shit (the perils of Duboce Park),

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