Mission Mission

Starting today, they’re open 11am-2pm Monday-Wednesday at Brick & Mortar on Mission Street just south of Duboce. Starting in March, it’ll be Monday-Friday. Congrats, Rice Paper Scissors! Here’s the menu:

Pate Chaud – 6
savory handheld pie with ground chicken, chicken liver pate and wood ear mushrooms

Mushroom Pate Chaud – 6
savory handheld pie with a shiitake mushroom and cream cheese pate

Banh Mi Op La – Fried Egg Banh Mi – 9
fried eggs with cha lua (Vietnamese ham), housemade mayo, chicken liver pate, daikon pickles, cilantro and jalapeños. can be made vegetarian.

Pho Bo – Hanoi-Style Beef Pho – 13
hanger steak and fresh rice noodles in a six-hour broth. served with shaved onions, cilantro and jalapeños.

Ca Ri Chay – Yellow Vegetable Curry – 13
Madras yellow coconut curry with fried tofu and market vegetables, served with rice.

Housemade Beverages

Cafe Sua Da – Vietnamese Iced Coffee – 3
a shot of slow-dripped Trung Nguyen coffee with condensed milk

Kumquat Ginger Beer – 3
fermented ginger beer with candied kumquats

Boom! See you there!

Bagel aficionados Sonya Haines and Wes “Wes Burger” Rowe are overnighting a ton of bagels from NYC tonight, and in the morning they’ll be serving up this menu at Dear Mom:

BAGELS
* Plain
* Everything

SCHMEAR
* Plain
* Jalapeno
* Charred Scallion-Garlic
* Olive

OPEN-FACED SANDWICHES
* Schmear / Pastrami / Slow Poached Egg / Bell Pepper-Potato-Caramelized Onion Slaw
* Schmear / Lox / Capers / Red Onion
* Schmear / Crispy Kale / Bell Pepper-Potato-Caramelized Onion Slaw / Roasted Tomatoes / Avocado

Damn. RSVP and invite your friends!

Year of the Horse! How to celebrate? Perhaps brunch tomorrow with Rice Paper Scissors at their new permanent home in the Mission! Just look:

Starters

Fried Daikon Cakes – 6
crispy rice cakes made with daikon, Chinese sausage and dried shrimp

Pho Bao – 6
steamed buns filled with beef pho broth, ground beef, scallions, cilantro, and lime

Banh Chung – Tet Sticky Rice Cake – 7
sticky rice with ground pork and mung beans, steamed in banana leaves

Mains

Chicken Xiu Mai Banh Mi – 9
chicken meatballs in a ginger-tomato sauce pate served with housemade mayo, chicken liver pate, cucumbers and cilantro

Pho Ga – Chicken Pho – 13
fresh rice noodles in ginger chicken broth, served with poached chicken, shaved onions, culantro, scallions and lime leaves.

Pho Ga Dac Biet – Special Chicken Pho – 15
same as above plus confit gizzards, quail eggs and chicken feet

Buddha’s Delight – 13
cellophane noodle stir-fry with tofu, shiitake mushrooms, wood ear mushrooms, lily buds and roasted ginko nuts

Thit Heo Kho – Caramelized Pork and Egg Rice Plate – 13
caramel claypot baby backribs braised in star anise, coconut water and fish sauce, served with a soft egg and broken rice and dua gia.

Banh Bia – 5
Vietnamese mooncake with flaky crust filled with mung beans and a salted egg yolk

Drinks

Jasmine Tea – 3

Vietnamese Iced Coffee – 3
slow-dripped Trung Nguyen coffee with condensed milk

Kumquat Ginger Beer – 3
housemade ginger beer with candied kumquats
Kumquat trees are often used to decorate the house for the Lunar New Year.

Daaaang that is a legit menu! RSVP and invite your friends!

You ready for this? Rice Paper Scissors is coming at us FULL FORCE first thing in 2014. This year, rather than on a sidewalk or in a garage, it’s in a real brick-and-mortar establishment — Brick & Mortar Music Hall, right here in the Mission! (Which means, FULL BAR!) Here’s the menu, in full:

Starters

Ham Sui Gok – Fried Mochi Dumplings – 8
fried mochi dumplings filled with pork and shiitake mushrooms

Mushroom Pâté Chaud – 6
puff pastry filled with ground chicken, pate, and wood ear mushrooms
(+) add a fried egg – 1

Dry Fried Chicken Wings – 11
crispy chicken wings served with a lemongrass and chili glaze

Mains

Breakfast Banh Mi – 9
two fried eggs and cha lua (Vietnamese ham) with housemade pate, mayo, daikon pickles, cucumbers and cilantro

Vegetarian Breakfast Banh Mi – 9
two fried eggs with housemade pate, mayo, daikon pickles, cucumbers and cilantro

Hanoi-Style Beef Pho – 13
fresh rice noodles in beef broth with hanger steak, shaved onions, cilantro, scallions and limes

Vegetarian Ca Ri – 13
Madras yellow coconut curry with market vegetables. served with rice, buttered baby carrots and dill

Drinks

Jasmine Tea – 3

Vietnamese Iced Coffee – 3
shot of slow dripped Trung Nguyen coffee with condensed milk

Kumquat Ginger Beer – 3
housemade ginger beer with candied kumquats. cure for the common hangover.

Full bar from Brick and Mortar bar – bloody marys and mimosas for all!

Nothing has ever made me feel sooo good on a hungover New Year’s Day morning as brunch by RPS. Do not miss! RSVP and invite your friends and family!

Sure, you know all about Green Day starting out at 924 Gilman, and you probably know the Rancid song this night is named after, but the history of Bay Area punk goes a lot deeper than that. And, at long last, our pal DJ Trigger Cut, who grew up here and over the years has amassed a seemingly endless collection of Bay Area punk classics all on vinyl, is gonna teach us all about it! Check it out:

This Place Is Fucked!
Happy Hour at The Knockout with Beth behind the bar.

DJ Trigger Cut is digging deep into the archives to play “classic” Bay Area punk from The Dils to Onion Flavored Rings. Come hear music from people who used to live in the Mission, but can’t afford to anymore!

Come worship with the Naked Cult! Experience the Mr T Experience! Suckle at the teat of the Swingin’ Utters! Get a deal with the Rip Offs! Come for the alcohol, stay for the Panty Raid! We’ve got 50 Million ways to satisfy your desires!

Plus, “Beth behind the bar” means LOTS of good drinks all happy hour long. Can’t wait! RSVP and invite your friends!

Excited about tomorrow's Wes Burger @MojoBicycleCafe Oktoberfest burger: fresh pretzel bun, obatzda, kraut, red onion, german mustard. 6-10

— Wes Rowe (@Thewesburger) October 1, 2013

Local historian David Enos, recalling days gone by:

I remember back in 2008, right after the economic collapse, there were great deals all over town.  The Onion was always doing free drink nights at various bars, and there was a “nudist’s society” event where older naked people talked on a stage into a feeding-back mic about their nude lifestyles.  Guests averted their eyes and poured free beers from a keg across the room.  “For me it’s about being free, and accepting that I…want to be nude.”  All the lights were on in the room.  I almost ruined my then-new relationship that night, by forgetting to include her and generally not being attentive. Irritated on the way home, she asked, “Is this what you and your friends do, get off on looking at naked freaks and getting wasted?”

Read on for the dramatic conclusion, and some advice. And by all means attend this event on Friday featuring artwork by Enos — and free admission and free drinks:

It’s kind of falling apart in the above photo, but this sandwich has made me, on more than one occasion, feel like my life was complete, like I could lay down and die as soon as I was done.

Thankfully I didn’t though, because now I can eat it again! Tonight! At Rice Paper Scissors’s Sunday Dinner at Dear Mom! Here’s the rest of the menu:

Menu
(v) vegetarian (vg) vegan (g) gluten-free

Ham Sui Gok – 8
fried mochi dumplings filled with pork and shiitake mushrooms

Fried Smelt (g) – 8
fried small fish served with fried cilantro and nuoc mam aioli, a fish sauce, ginger and lime dip

Pâté Chaud – 6
puff pastry filled with ground chicken, pate, and wood ear mushrooms
Add a fried egg + 1

Mushroom Pâté Chaud – 6
puff pastry filled with shittake mushrooms and cream cheese pate
Add a fried egg + 1

Buddha’s Delight (vg) (g) – 9
cellophane noodle stir-fry with tofu, shitakke mushrooms, woodear mushrooms, lily buds and roasted ginko nuts

Pho Ga – Chicken Pho – 12
fresh rice noodles in ginger chicken broth, served with poached chicken, shaved onions, culantro, scallions and lime leaves.

Grilled Pork Banh Mi – 9
caramelized pork and housemade chicken pate and mayo, with daikon pickles, cucumbers and cilantro

Breakfast Banh Mi – 9
two fried eggs and cha lua (Vietnamese ham) with housemade pate, mayo, daikon pickles, cucumbers and cilantro

Vegetarian Breakfast Banh Mi (v) – 9
two fried eggs with housemade mayo, daikon pickles, cucumbers and cilantro

Snickerdoodle Ice Cream Sandwiches (v) – 5
housemade Vietnamese cinnamon cookies with vanilla bean ice cream

Omg can’t wait! RSVP and invite your friends!

[Photo by invertigo]

As may have been mentioned, KronnerBurger is the best thing. Unfortunately, somebody blabbed about it and now I have to wait for a table when I go there. Fortunately, it’s not hard to pass the time, because the third best thing about KB (which is the best thing) is their bangin’ cocktail selection, which includes such classics as the Carbonated Mother Fucking Margarita and the Scotcholate Milk. (The best thing is the burger, and the second best thing is the onion rings. The onion rings are seriously among the best I’ve ever had and come in a huge portion for $6. Go ahead and hate on that, you monster.)

Continuing the twin traditions of punny and profanity-laced cocktail-naming, the most recent addition to the menu is entitled the Buck Yeah. I was like “I’m gonna order that one” and then Ariel was like “what’s in that” and I was like “well, a buck is a kind of drink, it’s like a whiskey and ginger ale, I think, or like, it’s similar to a mule, y’know, like a Moscow mule, although that’s vodka, so…” and then I realized I don’t really know what a buck is. But this one is basically mezcal, lemon juice, fresh ginger, and soda in a tall glass, ideally served alongside a burger and onion rings. Another example of 2013′s hottest new trend: cocktails to eat meat with.

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That’s right, can you believe it’s been a full two years since the Galley first changed the face of Clooney’s forever? Help ‘em celebrate the milestone this Friday:

In celebration of two tip-top years in the at kitchen at Clooney’s Pub, The Galley is throwing a party!  On Friday, March 1st, we’ll will be serving up Galley favorites, including our famous French Onion Sandwiches (portable versions of the soup), and Pickled Pepper Eggs.  The food doesn’t stop there: we’ll also have Navajo Tacos and more from Rocky of Rocky’s Frybread, and Guillermo from FogCutter/Dear Mom serving Fried Chicken Bao, Edamame, and other signature items.  Come help us celebrate, and bring your appetite — the Pickled Pepper Egg-eating contest (Starting at 7pm ) isn’t for the faint-of-heart.

It’ll be an epic rager for sure. (I’ve had the pleasure of partying with Chef Justin on a few occasions and I always end up wreckkkkked.)  RSVP and invite your friends!

P.S. Look at this picture of the Galley’s French onion sandwich.