A friend of mine, who works as a cook at a nice restaurant on Pier 39, once told me that a hamburger at his job cost $16. My immediate reaction was, “SIXTEEN DOLLARS! You better at least get a reach-around with your $16 hamburger!” After I explained in Spanish what

There sure are a lot of new things popping up all up on the north side of Williamsburg these days. Lodged within a weird DUMBO-area-looking strip-mall block next to a dry cleaning place on North 11th and Berry is just one of these new “things”– a little (actually sort of

I’ve got some awesome news! We received a grant from the Civic Joy Fund to put out a literary magazine celebrating SF and acting to counter the stupid “Doom Loop” narrative. It’s a gift to the people of San Francisco. And after months of working on this project it’s now available

Little Chihuahua on Divisadero is well-loved in the neighborhood for their range of menu options that goes beyond the normal taqueria burrito/quesadilla/taco options to include some pretty awesome brunch dishes. And although their choice to stock only sustainable meat and fish products means I don’t think any Arizona State Troopers

Hey, remember when that rumor surfaced about Dolores Park closing and you listened to all 1,000 Elliot Smith albums on repeat, felt that there was no need to take showers anymore because where would you even go to show off your freshly-scrubbed body anyway, and hid under the covers for

Ever find yourself sorta stuck in the West Village somehow?  Like, you work around there and don’t want to stray very far, or you have to stick around waiting around there before something else you’re going to?  Well, for some reason, I do…like, A LOT, and I really don’t enjoy

I. Love. Street food. Even in a place like San Francisco with it’s sometimes depressing non-summers, street food brings on that happy-go-lucky “I just sat in a park and did nothing but lay in the sun for eight hours” kind of feeling. I don’t want to jinx it, but the

When I was little, I was slightly horrified and confused when my grandma poured 7Up into our pancake batter. She just told me that it made the pancakes fluffier. And like most grandmas on food-related matters, she was right. (And she made them shaped like bunnies, so they were doubly

Blue Jay Cafe is a happy place, and not only because they give away FREE smiles on Fridays (more on that in a moment).  Like many establishments lining the Divis corridor, the decor at Blue Jay is vibrant, cheery and made complete by the really cool but ridiculously expensive artwork