Simon Wistow casually tossed me his copy of Lucky Peach last night. I couldn’t put it down for an hour. Amazing design, well-written articles, and ridiculous-sounding recipes. I often find it hard to read McSweeney’s publications, but this one was genuinely accessible.
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These dudes rock. They weren’t sure if Taqueria Cancun took phone orders, so they offered to take our order down for us AND drop off our burritos. AND they delivered super-fast. AND they were super-nice.
Question to all: What is it with San Francisco’s reputation concerning pizza?
Is it because I only ever eat from Little Star and Delfina that I’m ignorant to some twisted, dark underbelly of San Francisco, where terrible cheese-lathered bread-product unworthy of the name ‘pizza’ is rubbed against a dog and baked in the warmth of someone’s flatulence? Is there really pizza that bad in this city? Is New York really that good? Am I going to have to fly across the country to find out? Who wants to come? When?
(via benw)
Delfina is fine. Paxti’s is fine. So are Beretta, Pauline’s, Pizza Nostra and Flour + Water. (Little Star is very fine.) But none of them are great, really. I have no idea what the magic ingredient is, but visit Lost Dog Pizza in Arlington, Pizza Paradiso in Georgetown, or Two Amys in DC and you’ll have had a better pizza than I’ve ever had in San Francisco.
I haven’t had a lot of pizza in New York—definitely nothing exciting, anyway— and I’ve never been to Chicago to try their deep-dish offerings. So this is just me, saying, after only having great pizza in DC, that San Francisco’s pizza really, really, weirdly!, oddly!, isn’t that great.
My running theory is that, since American-style pizza is kind of the anti-slow-food, Bay Area chefs really can’t get into it.
Highly recommended by James as reasonably priced & incredibly fresh.
“The best bang for your foodie buck”, aside from MSF, says Buzz.
Tonight I went to Healthy Spirits, my 100% absolute favorite place to get beer in the city. This is why:
Mmm. Rows and rows and rows of beautiful beers. I’m pretty excited about what I got tonight. Some of it was random of-the-shelf grabs, like J.W. Lee’s Harvest Ale, but Dave gave lots of great recommendations, and particularly pulled out the Black Albert Royal Stout & the Holiday Ale. (Thank you Dave! You’re awesome!)
(Click through to see the beers labeled on Flickr, if you like.) From left to right:
*Quote: “Among the three giants, you slide into a vortex of delirium, captivated, and wrapped in satin-esque fire. No need to choose your master. The masters have conquered.”
—Timoni
