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It’s a pretty dramatic improvement from the way the corner previously looked: http://missionlocal.org/wp-content/themes/calpress/library/extensions/timthumb.php?src=http://missionlocal.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Screen-shot-2012-02-17-at-1.16.41-PM.png&w=620
Gentrification, I guess, but I’ll take it.
I’m all for small businesses like locally owned restaurants making their dent in the neighborhood, and restaurants in particular are very labor-heavy industries, and will add a good number of jobs.
But I live directly above a corner store, and it’s an integral part of our little block. It’s not just a place for junk food and beer runs–rather, the store owners know everyone in the neighborhood, and the store acts like an informal gathering place. I’ve met most of my neighbors there while buying $.99 Pepsis.
Just sayin, don’t underestimate the usefulness of a corner store to a neighborhood.
I live in the neighborhood, just off 22nd, and there has not been a functioning corner store here for a good year so please don’t start spouting off on how great this store was. There is also still a store on every other corner. So you gotta walk 2 blocks rather than downstairs whilst hung over so what deal. A new place going in is ideal to bring much needed business and jobs to the neighborhood. However, the outside seating and loud noises from that, I’d agree with you on. That my friend is annoying and the owner should limit outside seating from 10am to 8pm year round.
Agreed. I live two blocks from the corner in question and there are basically corner stores on every single corner in every direction. As much as we all love Swisher Sweets, Tostino’s Pizza, Takka vodka and tallboys of Steel Reserve, there is a radical oversupply of said commodities in this area.
To be soon counterbalanced by a radical supply of hipster eateries and their sidewalk-blocking seating.
“It’s not just a place for junk food and beer runs”
Very true. You can buy cigarettes and scratchers at most of these establishments as well.
Hello!!
Ummm u don’t understand!! The old people and house wives who couldn’t drive depended in the corner stores! And even today many don’t have cars and need their services!! Im a 40 yr SF and appreciate this!!
Ummm u don’t understand!! The old people and house wives who couldn’t drive depended in the corner stores! And even today many don’t have cars and need their services!! Im a 40 yr SF and appreciate this!!
I am coming to this place who refused to serve Latinos!! They will serve me and after I will make it known online and to them of the disservice in R community!!I we will call Supervisor Campos on this matter!
I am happy to say since I was a kid I enjoyed many great places in SF from the Top of the Mark that my father ran to Fishermens warf all over!! Many hipsters have no idea what that’s like!! But they act like it!! lol I still enjoy living in SF mortgage FREE!! THX to my Grandparents!!
What a great improvement to that corner! If it’s even half as good as Local Mission Eatery (http://www.yelp.com/biz/local-mission-eatery-san-francisco) it will be incredible.
Nice cantilever!
Wow, Gentrification is great when hipsters make it happen!
hipsters are the ones laying around all day not doing shit while bitching about gentrification any time a restaurant offering something for more than $10 opens, try again
watch your mouth. you are posting mighty ignorant right now.
i realize my wording could have been better, but my intended point is that the hipster demographic is vaguely bohemian city-dwelling 20 somethings who aren’t known for having high-paying jobs or doing much other than conspicuously hanging out and partying. the idea that they’re responsible for expensive restaurants and bowling alleys in any sense other than that they indirectly paved the way for yuppies to come in seems wrong.
Ummm NO!!! Hipsters need to watch out!! Im from Noe valley form the 60′s and this White bitch put her hands on me!! Oh No she Didn’t!! I had to put her in Check!! I kicked her ASS!! She knows who I am so to the Cops!! lol I give many Hipsters who pass my home attitude!! They know to walk around Me!!
Ummm u don’t understand!! The old people and house wives who couldn’t drive depended in the corner stores! And even today many don’t have cars and need their services!! Im a 40 yr SF and appreciate this!! I wont sell and love living here!!
I think you have hipster confused with worker class/ underemployed people who are getting priced out of the neighborhoods they built. I like nice restaurants as much as the next hipster, but the fact is they are taking over the Mission and have very little consideration for the ways of life that existed here before. Maybe this process is inevitable, but let’s not mistake inevitability for absolution.
The working class? I thought Jefferson Starship built this city.
>the fact is they are taking over the Mission and have very little consideration for the ways of life that existed here before.
Oh give me a break. There are a thousand cheap, mediocre restaurants in the Mission. There are crappy burrito places and crappy rotisserie chicken place and places that serve crappy pupusas, crappy pizza, crappy barbecue, crappy whatever you want. There are a handful of places that are aiming to produce food that is not crappy in a setting that is not crappy.
And this thing about “the ways of life that existed before,” as if third-rate burrito joints were invented by the Gabrielino Indians or something, is also a lot of crap. Life involves change, and the people who lived here 40 years ago changed the neighborhood, just as the people who live here today are changing it. Nobody has a monopoly on cultural validity or authenticity.
Not me!! We been her form the 1960′s have a two story Victorian we live mortgage FREE!! We earned it!! WE enjoy watching the so called Hipsters walk by us in Noe Valley!! They cant touch this!!! lol
Ummmm!! U got that right!! No one wants to admit that as u see many people of color in the Mission many of us r not renters but long time home owners!! So I make it clean to Hipsters and neighbors We been here for many many yrs!! So move on by!! lol
I believe the proprietor of this new restaurant lives at that intersection, so it doesn’t get much more local than that. I don’t see anything wrong with someone opening a restaurant in his neighborhood. If the “way of life” that existed there before was a defunct corner store, this is one hell of an improvement. Besides, no one is being forced to eat here. What, should there be a KFC at this corner instead to accomodate the underemployed? Just like the mission burger at the new bowling alley . . . if you don’t like it don’t throw your money at it. It’s that simple, really.
I with Capt Oblivious on this one. I would love for it to be as simple as not throwing money at it. I don’t throw any money at things I don’t like or can’t afford. The problem is that these trends mean there are less and less affordable alternatives across the board for me and other folks to patronize. I literally can not find a small cup of coffee cheaper than $2.50 within walking distance of my house.
More expensive places do sometimes eliminate affordable options. Wise Sons is the latest example. Now, you can grab an expensive pastrami sandwich right where you used to be able to buy a cheap taco.
In this case, however, there is absolutely no food for sale at the corner of 23rd and Bryant, and I would rather have an expensive option over no option. Most neighborhoods in this city have a variety of restaurants for all income levels. The mission is a fabulous example where you can literally eat a gigantic meal for $5 at El Farolito or have a much more upscale affair at Foreign Cinema right down the street. In my opinion, that’s what makes the ‘hood so great. I don’t believe the opening of Local’s Corner is any threat to the hundreds of cheaper options in the mission.
I think the bigger question is whether a restaurant has a duty to be affordable to those living within walking distance. If I moved down the block from Fleur de Lys, should it lower its prices to accommodate my measly salary? Some restaurants will always be special ocassion, destination restaurants. Others will serve the local community on a daily basis. There is a need for both. I just don’t think it’s fair to force ALL restaurants to offer cheap options, just because some neighbors would prefer it that way.
Assuming you live in the mission, Grand Coffee on mission has a $2 small coffee (Four Barrel). Check it out!
I hear you and I’m not attacking this particular restaurant or even this particular corner. The trend I’ve seen over the last several years is that one by one, most of my favorite/affordable places are closing and/or being forced out by more expensive replacements. We used to laugh at the $7-8 burritos on Haight, but they’ve now become the norm. The overall effect has a greater impact than just one menu in one location…realtors are now calling Valencia the “Foodie Corridor”.
I don’t live in the Mission and barely hang out there anymore because it isn’t productive for me to walk around complaining about how increasingly lame it is becoming. Most new folks don’t seem to care about community or context, which is exemplified by fortress-style condo buildings with zero street frontage/access (or rehabbed Victorians with key code gate locks rather than open stairways). I moved deep into the Western Addition to get away from that, which is why it is frustrating to see the same thing happening here….Four Barrel and Bi Rite are on the way and who knows what will follow. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Harding became condos filled with folks who think the music from the Independent is too loud. At least I can still get a full breakfast w/ coffee and tip for under $10 at Eddie’s, but I don’t expect that to last much longer.
“Wise Sons is the latest example. Now, you can grab an expensive pastrami sandwich right where you used to be able to buy a cheap taco.”
Yeah, but you can buy a cheap taco at a dozen places within two blocks of Shotwell/24th, whereas Wise Sons is one of the few legit delis in the entire city.
True. It’s damn good too! I just meant that it literally eliminated a more affordable option (El Tonayense). It certainly did not remove other cheap tacos from the neighboring blocks. That would certainly be a tragedy.
I just got the FYI from long time peeps form la Mission! That that place in 23rd n Bryant rejected Lations In!! So I plan to Go and be seated and after give them a piece of my mine!! We been here since the 1040′s it is now 2013 I wont stand for it!! Watch me!!
I eat on Valencia the Fairmont china town—I don’t appreciate ur comment that it is better now!! In the 60′s this was a much better place very good white people ect!! you only see what is convenient 4 U!! I own homes in Noe Valley Am her to Stay!! We lations u see on the streets in cuz we been here long time and own R own homes!! We R not leaving!! lol
It’s that simple when you don’t really give a fuck about anything.
+1
Local’s Corner? I can provide birth cert (Mt Zion, bitches) for entry?
Midwesterners, Massholes, East Bay tunnel rats, gtfo.
These threads are the best for dispelling the notion that people here are somehow more tolerant here than elsewhere in the country. Congrats man, you won the birth lottery now here’s your free sense of entitlement! Shit is downright provincial and those of us that have actually lived in more than one place realize that, so you can point that finger up your ass.
lol show me ur papers Gringo!! My Family created SF!! We still her 1980s!! lol
It’s never a good thing when the majority of a neighborhood feels priced out of participating, but we’ve all become accustomed to cheap, industrially farmed food, the unhealthiest of which is subsidized by the government. Local Corner is trying to support our local food system by procuring things locally. It costs more money. If you want to talk about the way things used to be, take a look at this link and think about how agricultural communities have changed over the last 30 years.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/04/05/149997097/what-americans-buy?sc=fb&cc=fp