Italian sausage pizza – Firewood Cafe

Italian sausage pizza Firewood Cafe

Mild Italian sausage, red and green bell peppers, Bermuda onions and homemade tomato sauce.  $10.75
Firewood Cafe, San Francisco

If you like THIN crust pizza, Firewood Cafe in the Castro is the place to go.  They have one of the thinnest crust around which is great for their mostly carb-conscious patrons, hehe!  I personally love thin crust so I often order pizza from here.  They have 5 different pizzas on their regualr menu and usually one daily special, and they’re all pretty good.  The pizzas aren’t the most creative, but they are tasty, decently sized, and very affordable.  Win, win if you ask me.  This Italian sausage pizza was delicious.  I like how the thin crust stayed crispy, and the vegetables did too.  Their homemade sauce isn’t particularly noteworthy, but it’s yummy enough and doesn’t detract from the toppings.  For $10.75, I’m sold!

Marinated olives Firewood Cafe

These marinated olives are complimentary with your order. The small dishes are lined up at the counter. I always want to take more than one! I can’t help it, I’m a sucker for olives…

BBQ pork spareribs – Ton Kiang

BBQ pork spareribs Ton Kiang

You can’t really mess up Chinese bbq pork spareribs, right?  I mean all you have to do is marinate it, cook it, and voila – deliciousness!  Not so.  You certainly can make them really boring and forgettable.  And Ton Kiang succeeds in doing this, sorry.  There was very little flavor in these ribs, and even the fat was somehow bland if that’s possible.  This is also one of their larger dishes you it’s gonna cost you more $$.  Take my advice, don’t pull this one off the roving trays.
Ton Kiang, San Francisco

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