Our buddy J-Lub reports:
Not sure if you guys have blogged this yet or not, but the El Tonayense taqueria on 24th and Shotwell closed a few months back. There has been some renovation going on in there lately, so I poked my head in this morning and asked what was up. Apparently Wise Sons is opening a permanent Jewish deli in that location. Don’t know the projected opening date, but they have been extensively overhauling the place. Should be right!
Will my quest for a truly great hot pastrami sandwich outside of Los Angeles and New York finally come to an end?
Not really. It is homemade, hand carved pastrami, but it’s not as good as Saul’s in Berkeley, much less, Cantors or Katz… But I’ll still be looking forward to going there, (once I feel safe enough to be black and in a hoodie on 24th street).
Millers East West Deli on Polk is awesome… It’s a Baltimore Deli.
Some competition for Guns and Bunz, I mean Mikes Deli.
Seating and/or adequate counter staff is key — if they can’t accommodate initial enthusiasm, then long-term business will not happen. I haven’t bothered to check-out these guy’s pop-up thing again because the one time I tried to get in there, weeks after the start-up, they still had a line going around the block. That kind of crap only lasts so long before your fanatics move on to the next big thing — and the merely curious never come back.
Yeah, well said, I could not agree more.
get a room girls
Good idea! I bet your mama’s twat is big enough for two!
pretty sure they’re the same dude
Oh man. You caught us.
I mean me. Damn, this is confusing.
Places with long lines never succeed long term.
Signed,
Boogaloos, Tartine, Ike’s Crustacean, Brenda’s,
OK, maybe they will survive — but they’ll do it without the people they would like to succeed with, unless they are the next best thing to Walmart heirs. Welcome to Pottersville, assholes.
In other words, “Boogaloos, Tartine, Ike’s Crustacean, Brenda’s” = Marina in The Mission. Thank you for that, “Old Mission Neighbor”.
OH! And by the way! The last two named place aren’t even IN The Mission, so you might as well be picking names out of a hat from any place in the country.
And furthermore, Brenda’s has this to say: “We’ve completed our expansion with the remodel of our original space—just in time for the holidays.” So I guess they agree with me.
No where in the original post that I responded to did you mention anything about places with long lines IN THE MISSION ONLY. Places have long lines everywhere in the city, and those places succeed everywhere in the city.
Also, Brenda’s expansion is proof of your point that they are failing? What?
Brenda’s expansion is proof of my point that businesses need to keep up with the neighborhood’s interest in their product, or become soul-sucking, trend-based, doomed parasites on the neighborhoods they inhabit. Good for Brenda’s that they are responding!
Boogaloos’ recent shutdown for vermin infestation is a perfect example of what I’m talking about — they are so caught up in their apparent success that they can’t keep up with the essential details of restaurant operation. Next thing you know, they’ll be the next La Rodalla.
God what a shame to the neighborhood if the place was so good that people came from (gasp!) outside the mission to eat it!
OOOOH, they have some really legit stuff, particularly their brisket and pastrami. I eat at their stand at the ferry building every tuesday. Truly and awesome addition to the neighborhood!
I’ve eaten their food a couple times and though I think it could use more salt, I did like it enough to keep coming back. I already warned them that since I live two blocks away, they will probably be annoyed with me pretty quickly… but then again, I guess my money will take care of any annoyance I may bring.
I’m super excited for this.
They have the best Jewish Corn Rye west of the Mississippi. Reminds me of the bread I ate back east when I was a kid
Sweet Jesus just let me be able to buy a loaf of good rye bread. I love San Francisco, I love sourdough, but there’s room enough for more than one yeast culture, dear bakers.
If you don’t have money to indulge in all these new eateries, then it really doesn’t make a difference which ones come and go.
Cannot wait, bring it on! Hope they have a frequent diner program. I’m going to fress like a Polish wedding.
Not excited at all. I hit this place up in a previous location and it was weak. It is not in the same galaxy as real Jewish delis.
It is true that it’s not as good as Saul’s. But Saul’s sucks.