On Sunday, the San Francisco Chronicle released their list of top 100 restaurants in the Bay Area, or as I like to call it “Top 100 Restaurants for People with Money”. This is what they had to say about Bar Bambino:
Owner Christopher Losa has created one of the coolest Italian restaurants in one of the most unlikely (read dicey) areas of the Mission District. It feels like New York’s East Village, but the nod to organic, sustainable and recycled products is very West Coast. [Link]
Is the Chronicle seriously that pretentious? Tartine Bakery is listed every year, but they never said it was in a bad neighborhood. And actually, they’ve never said that because it’s next to Delfina, which the Chronicle loves.
Maybe Stuff that White People Like should add the Chronicle Food Section to their list.
You don’t think that 16th and Mission is dicey, especially compared to 18th and Guerrero?
dicey means different things to different people. i find 18th and Guerrero to be dicey because at any moment i could be run down by a hopped up bread pudding junkie steamrolling down the pavement with oversize designer stroller
SFPD’s crime map backs up the Chronicle’s “dicey” claim. That said, that’s my neighborhood, and I feel loads safer there than in the ‘Loin … and it has far less of a police presence than North Beach on a Saturday night. I wouldn’t leave anything of value in my car, though.
Okay, so if you look up the Chronicle’s list of fancy restaurants in the Tenderloin, there’s no mention about dicey-ness.
edog, we’ve already established that the SFPD crime map is less than dependable: http://missionmission.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/sfpd-crimemaps-skimp-on-homicide-stats/