Slowly smoked and cooked for 10 hours, topped with their house BBQ sauce. Ordered with potato salad, steak chili with onions and cheese, and cornbread. $11.95
Smokin’ Warehouse Barbecue, San Francisco
This brisket was cooked for 10 hours, and it tasted like it! The beef was SO tender and flavorful. I’m not a big potato salad fan, but this tasted pretty good. The chili was rich and tasty as well.
Slowly smoked and finished with their house BBQ sauce. Ordered with mac and cheese, baked beans with pork, and cornbread. $13.95
Smokin’ Warehouse Barbecue, San Francisco
I love BBQ, that this was some pretty good BBQ ribs. It had a great smoky flavor and it was SO tender. The macaroni and cheese was such a guilty pleasure. It had the color and texture reminiscent of those from elementary school cafeterias. And that’s not a complaint! It was so yummy!
Diet coke.
Large leg and thigh served with succotash, corn, tomato, shelling beans and basil. $40 for 4-course dinner.
Reform Club @ Specchio, San Francisco
This dish was one of the highlights of this pop-up dinner, partly because it was a full sized portion. The other courses were tiny! OK, the duck was also delicious and it was beautifully plated. I also loved the succotash. The bright vegetables were a great counterpoint to the rich duck. The skin on that duck was SO good and crispy, noms! One guy at our table contemplated ordering another portion. He was a big fellow and he was starving, poor thing…
Roasted pulled pork with pinto beans, salsa and wrapped in flour tortillas. $3.50 each
La Taqueria, San Francisco
My apologies, but this place is SO over rated and over priced! The tacos may be large, but they were bland and the juice from the salsa (seemed to be used as filler) kept dripping down my arm. It baffles me how these tacos made it on the 7×7 Big Eat 2011 list but then again, so did dim sum at Ton Kiang! Both are disappointing and not worth a special trek to try them. I honestly think that any taco truck in the Mission has better carnitas tacos and they’ll be cheaper too. You’ve been warned, lol!
7×7 Magazine’s The Big Eat San Francisco: 100 Things to Eat + Drink Before You Die – 2011, 2012, 2013
Super burrito with soft flour tortilla filled with grilled steak, rice, beans, fresh tomatoes, onions, cilantro, salsa, cheese, sour cream, and avocado. $6.25
El Farolito, San Franciso
Like most Mission burritos, this one from El Farolito is ginormous (and quite delicious if I may add)! The carne asada was tender and flavorful, and the other ingredients are evenly portioned. They don’t over-fill the burrito with rice like some other taquerias. The salsa, however, was SO frickin’ salty! It pretty much destroyed my taste buds and ruined several bites of the burrito. I immediately stopped using more once I figured out that it was the salty offender, lol! If you plan on tackling this huge burrito, save your appetite or stow half for later!
7×7 Magazine’s The Big Eat San Francisco: 100 Things to Eat + Drink Before You Die – 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Savory squid with a delicous chorizo filling, Allstar Organics wax beans, yuzu vinaigrette and lemon.
Eos Restaurant & Wine Bar, San Francisco
Whenever I see chorizo on a menu, I immediately assume that the dish will be heavy and greasy. Not so! This dish was so light and refreshing from the yuzu vinaigrette and lemon. The bicolored wax beans also added brightness, and the chorizo filling wasn’t at all dense or heavy. This dish is a winner in my book!
Credo, San Francisco
This hearty soup tasted surprisingly light considering the amount of ingredients. The trick to soups with this many vegetables is to cook them all to the same doneness. Unfortunately, the carrots and white beans in this soup were mushy compared to the other vegetables. However, it was still a nice, tasty soup for a warm summer day.
I really loved how rustic this dish was. You can’t get much simpler than scrambled eggs with shredded beef mixed in. They must have seasoned the beef with something prior to mixing it in with the eggs because it had such a great flavor! I will definitely come back and try more of their authentic dishes. I’ve had much fancier machacas (Nopalito’s in San Francisco for instance), but I like the simplicity of this preparation.
This taqueria was quite a find in Palm Springs! The prices were great and you get SO much food. The ranchero sauce was delicious – actually, everything on the plate was delicious!
Vittle Monster 