Melisa's in SF makes this but with fried tofu...dunno how they do it but it's great! Normally I can't stand tofu but theirs with green beans is amazing!
SF has this on sale right now for a flat 10 bucks a bottle. not great but better than stupid ancient age and that moss taste it leaves in your mouth.
btw it's 8.99 a 12 pack in SF this weekend, much less than Sam Adams, Lagunitas, Racer 5 and Sierra, which are just under 13/12 pack. Still holding off buying it until I try one at a bar...
any booze + lemon and lime juice, maybe some club soda = home cocktails here.
sure are a lot of entries from burger king lol. they should stop making crazy stuff and stick to a few things. their normal chicken sandwich is just fine, no need for crazy ass toppings.
hot dogs, spaghetti sauce (as a flavor enhancer, not too much), fried chicken, dim sum from the to go place up the street, salad dressing mix, and some fast food (i.e. mcdonalds double cheeseburger)
Campbell's Chunky Steak and Potato is really good, but you need to dose it with some coarse ground pepper.
Cupola has a good happy hour deal - buy a specified wine or beer, and get a free small pizza. Pairs nicely with a matinee at the movie theater upstairs.
Some McDonald's restaurants offer bacon on any item for .50. I've had a quarter pounder with bacon and it's great. Everything's original + Bacon and it works.
This Hostess situation extends beyond the twinkie. I just found out today that because of the shutdown, Colombo sourdough (available in various sizes and rolls and whatnot) in SF is going to disappear along with the Twinkie.
This is seriously f*cked, since we already lost Parisian, and, well, it's just one of those things...
I like it. They needed an update, and this is simple and easy to reproduce. I just wish they had a restaurant in San Francisco...
adding a little Frank's Red Hot to Kraft makes all the difference in the world...
Excellent place....haven't been back to SB in too long...
If you can find it, Rainier Ale (aka green death) is strong (7.2%) and it's actually not bad,taste-wise. IDK if this counts as a malt liquor, but Molson XXX (again if you can find it) is 7% ish and is very smooth. Great on a hot day.
Terminal 2 at SFO has some pretty amazing food. When we fly out of there we'll often just get something simple at the Tyler Florence restaurant and it's generally quite good. There's also a good breakfast sandwich at the burger place too. You generally can't go wrong at SFO in general as they gave all the food concessions to locals (or more accurately local chains) and they even have an Ebisu there now.
I would really like to try Sonic sometime. I keep seeing their ads on cable ,but alas there are none within distance of SF. Next road trip for sure.
I just noticed that the sushi bar near me now is selling Suntory beer (what happened to that one?) and you can get six packs of Yebisu, but they charge a fortune for it, even in Japantown where you can get a giant bottle of decent sake for cheap!
Radeberger is one of my favorites, but the price has gone up a lot since it arrived in SF in 2005. BitBurger was my favorite at this great locals bar in Venice Beach, CA, where they were only 2.50 at happy hour on tap!!!!
getting Canadian beers was a lot easier when I lived in Seattle - it is almost impossible to find anything but Molson Canadian or Labatt's blue in SF. My favorite was Molson Ice - smooth and packed a little more alcohol punch. Labatt's 50 was also good. My favorite cheapo beer whenever I was in Canada was this super strong version of Molson, Molson XXX, which was stronger than most malt liquors and tasted great. When I saw one in NYC I had to buy a few just to take on the train to DC.
The tayto ones are good but they are super expensive here in SF - 2.50 for a tiny bag!
had a vegetarian meal on Virgin America and it was shockingly good. I rarely eat airline food as most of my flights aren't long enough to get more than a snack. but that vegetarian meal (and I'm no vegetarian) was damned good.
A+ for creativity but a Q for taste (Q as in I question how this would actually taste).
for those that have a McD's open later at night, this an excellent way to end the night after a night of barhopping lol.
seriously though.
McDonalds often does experiments that are great, but then never see the light of day. Back in 2000 LA area Mcdonalds featured Mexican food, including one heck of a torta that put to shame anything Chipotle or Taco Bell makes, and they had burritos too. Later, at a South San Francisco McD's near my office, they made "taqueria" style tacos. The Mexican guys who worked there said that they were good so I bought some and DAMN if they weren't the closest thing to a taqueria taco at a chain place.
That said , South City has some of the best Mexican places in the Bay Area, so after ordering them once, I realized there wasn't any point to buying them. Still for those Elsewhere they woulda been awesome.
there used to be a kosher deli down the street from me and they had ALL the Osem snacks but I never knew the flavors were as such. I should have bought some at the time as the deli moved away....
I'm going to Venice Beach/Santa Monica this week. I lived here several years ago and a lot has changed. I could use a few recommendations for newer places to try out (restaurants, bars, etc). Although I'll have a car I am staying right by the beach so I can walk to most places.
I'll also likely hit Canter's and a few other non west LA places, but I would like to keep this mini vacation as relaxed and as casual as possible. any suggesions would be great.
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My favorite bread was the now collateral damage in the Hostess collapse, Columbo, from San Francisco. It was an industrial sourdough that made for a good grilled sandwich, and it handled the other ingredients perfectly (usally 2 slices of Kraft American Cheese but not those individually wrapped ones)
The other boost was to spread some HP sauce on the inside. Perfect.
Of course, adding some bacon doesn't hurt, but it's not needed if you don't have it.