Mission Mission

Here’s shuttle info:

INDIE MART SHUTTLE BUS: Ok yall, we’ve got a bus all set up. You can hop this little lovely Saturday and take $3- shuttle rides. We give ya a little goodie bag, a ride there and best part…no designated driver needed, we got ‘chou! SO you can savor all the $3- Speakeasy Beers you can.

Stops:

Workshop- 1798 McAllister at Baker Street/ 11, 12:30, 2, 3:30
Divisadero & Oak- Outside of Vinyl Wine Bar/ 11:05, 12:35, 2:05, 3:35
Haight & Fillmore- Corner in front of old Walgreens/ 11:12, 12:43, 2:12, 3:43
Valencia by 15th- Center median in front of Four Barell/ 11:20, 12:50, 2:20, 3:50
Valencia & 21st- Ritual Coffee Roasters/ 11:30, 1, 2:30, 4
Valencia & 25th- In front of the Salvation Army 11:35, 1:05, 2:35, 4:05
Speakeasy 11:45, 1:25, 2:45, 4:25

The shuttles will leave Speakeasy by announcement around 12:10, 1:45, 3, and the last shuttle will leave at 5pm. Youll be able to get cabs, the bus, uber or lyft rides as well via your celly!

RSVP and invite your friends!

Ryan Farr has been the king of the meat scene in SF for a few years now, and he’s a very bloggable dude (see the “previously” section at the bottom of this post), so we’re very happy for him and 4505 Meats that they’re finally opening their very own shop. Here we go:

It’s with great excitement that I share the news that 4505 Meats is opening up a small butcher shop in a couple weeks at 1909 Mission St. (at 15th St.), four blocks from Rainbow Grocery, just around the corner from the 16th street BART station and a block away from Four Barrel.

Opening a shop is something we’ve been talking about for four years, and now– after two babies, over 100 classes, and two books (4505 Meats’ Sausage Book will be released by Chronicle Books in the spring of 2014), we are finally doing it.

The shop’s opening hours will be 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday to start. My wife Cesalee and I have lived a block away from this space for over 10 years; we believe in this neighborhood and think our butcher shop will help make it an ever more dynamic place to live and work. We’re also working on a larger concept in a different location of the Mission, which we hope to open next year.

I will be there daily, cutting and grinding meat to order, and will always be happy to answer your cooking and butchering questions. The shop will also be serving ready-to-eat hot 4505 sausages and dogs with house-made sauerkraut and mustard, and smoked meat by the pound. We’ll also have the infamous ’Zilla Dog: our bacon- studded hot dog smothered in chicharrones and Namu kimchee, in addition to the sexy Kink Dog and other tasty dogs in the normal 4505 fashion.

A variety of cuts of beef, pork, lamb, chicken, sausages, bones, fat, stock and other prepared items like pork green chili, deli meats and terrines en croute will be available for you to take home and enjoy. In addition, we’ll have your holiday needs covered with smoked hams, stuffed pork roasts, truffled geese, and an abundance of festive holiday treats. And of course, there will be chicharrones!

We will continue to be at the Ferry Plaza Farmers’ Markets on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturdays, the Mission Community Market on Thursday nights, and the Montclair Farmer’s Market and Divisadero Farmers Market on Sundays as well.

With gratitude,

Ryan and Cesalee Farr, and the 4505 Meats Crew

Congrats, y’all!

[Photo via Inside Scoop]

The Mission Holiday Block Party is tonight! If you haven’t been to this, it’s basically like Halloween except you go to local businesses instead of houses, you don’t have to say anything to get treats, and the treats are often beer and cookies. Oh and I guess there’s sales and shopping if you need to do that. Last year it was a wash (literally) because of the rain, but it should be good this time around.

Looks like most of the participating vendors are on Valencia between 14th and 24th, not actually on Mission St. Bummer, I was hoping to score some extra bargains at One $ Only and Giant Value.

In our haste to report on the future of journalism, we kind of forgot about the actual story on why there happened to be a (seemingly) bloody bag of money on the sidewalk.  Luckily, Gareth the photographer fills us in:

“Not a bag of blood, a bag of paint bombed money. Bank had been robbed, dude ran up the street (this is in temescal, oakland), paint bomb went off in the bag of cash, dude dropped it and the note that said: ‘This is a robbery give me all the cash I have a gun.’”

More over at SFist.

[Photo by John Birdsall]

Previously:

• Instagramming the crime scene

Who here’s in the HOLIDAY SPIRIT??? The trees are going up, the Mission is almost entirely underwater, and the city’s youth are booking their plane tickets back to Michigan.

One local institution that knows what I’m talking about is Anchor Brewing, who has released their 37^th? annual Christmas ale. Each year the recipe is different, but from the taste I had, the 2012 is a rich, nutmeggy brown ale that represents the season well. The thing that makes it irresistible, however, is the beautiful 1.5 liter bottle, pictured here with a bottle of gin just to make sure you realize how big it is.

Available wherever fine magnums of Christmas beer are sold.

Drink of the week is brought to you by Poachedjobs.com.

Eater SF reports:

Starting today, the Mission’s Tacolicious is featuring a hot pastrami taco to get in the Hanukkah spirit. Chef Telmo Faria gets his pastrami from Peter Temkin at Machine Meats, and serves it with mustard mazano aioli and cabbage slaw. The Hanukkah taco will be on the menu through Wednesday. [link]

Also, don’t forget that the fine folks at Old World Food Truck are hosting a pair of full-on Hanukkah dinners this weekend.

What’s the deal with this building on Chavez with a diagonal facade for no reason? Bernalwood figured it out.

Yesterday’s blog post about an 1888 photograph of the intersection of Mission and Army (Cesar Chavez Blvd.) generated a lot of great comments… including a very geeky digression about the apartment building at 3365 Chavez, right next door to the Principality of Chicken John.

You can see the building above; it’s set back from the street, with an unusual, angled facade. The oddness is even more obvious from above.

So what’s the deal? Read on for the answer.

Our buddy Broke-Ass Stuart, who bartends at Evelyn Lee on Thursdays, brings us news regarding the disgustingly beautiful creation known as Frito pie:

What’s a Mission Frito Pie? I’m glad you asked. A Frito Pie is a Texas thing where a serving of Fritos is topped with chili and nacho cheese. While those are great, I’ve decided to put a Mission style twist on it. We’re adding chicharrones, as well as hot sauce like Tapatio or Cholula, to the mix. Honestly, I just tried some and it was amazing. Possibly the best drunk food ever. And we’re giving them out totally FREE.

So, I’m assuming I’ll start seeing all you lovely people on Thursday nights now? I mean, not only are you getting FREE Mission Frito Pies, you can get a shot and a beer for $6. See you soon.

I hope they serve it straight out of snack-sized Frito bags.

Whenever I see a cool car around the neighborhood, I take pictures and send them to my pal Eric up in Portland who runs Other People’s Things, my favorite car blog. He responds with some knowledge and we post the results here and it’s called “Car Beat.” Here’s what Eric has to say about this sporty little Honda:

Looks like you found a pretty sweet first generation Honda Civic.  This one looks like is a 78-79 and it seems to be in fairly good original condition.  The JDM (car nerd speak for Japanese Domestic Market) fender mirrors are certainly not original as this is a US spec car, but they add a little eccentricity to it.  I’ve always wanted to ride in car with the mirrors so far forward; apparently it eliminates the blind spot and you don’t have to take your eyes off the road as much, but it seems like it would be a little disorienting.  Looks cool though.

Anyways I digress. This car, much like the similar BMW 2002 was really a case of having the right car at the right time for America. Introduced during the Oil Crisis in 1973 this “larger” Honda was a good fit for most people, got great mileage, and could run on leaded or unleaded gas, sort of like having a car today that can run on E85 or standard fuel, but actually useful. For those who want to level up such a vehicle, they can opt for services like Ceramic Coating Gold Coast.

One last strange thing I noticed is the hatchback of this little Civic doesn’t open like you think it would.  Though they changed to the more traditional method we see on hatchbacks today, this one works similar to the the way the original Mini Cooper’s did, only more annoying because it doesn’t drop down like a truck tailgate, it opens up into your face so you can’t see what you’re doing.  Strange.

Thanks, Eric! Now let’s take a look at this strange hatchback:

The future of journalism is already here.

[Metagram by Gareth]