Mission Mission

Hayden wrote in with news of her Mission-based online vintage shop called Mother’s Daughter a few days ago and I’ve only just now had a chance to peruse the website.  I’m a sucker for online shopping and one-of-a-kind dresses and was excited by what I saw.

Such quality finds!  Such decent prices!  Such friendly user interface and lovely photography!  Oh, and here’s what Hayden has to say:

Hi! I just opened an online vintage shop based in the mission. I shot a lot of the photos for the store on film on the roof of the building next to my apartment at 18th and mission, i’ve attached a couple just to give you an idea. The website is called Mother’s Daughter and can be found at: www.mothersdaughter.com. We hope to not just limit ourselves to selling clothes and soon want to begin selling local artists & photographers prints, handmade items and really whatever my friends in the mission are making. Hope you enjoy-wanted to give a heads up!

Seriously. If you walked into a party wearing this late ’60s Pierre Cardin number, panties would DROP:

Check it out if you want. Or whatever, Mission Thrift is fun too.

Say what?

Luna Park has lost it.  You’ve gotta be CRAZY to give out deals this good!  And IN THIS ECONOMY!  EVERYTHING MUST GO!  Dine, NOW!  Before they change their minds!

Hush.  Thanks for the tip, Vegansaurus!

Amber writes in with an update on Four Barrel’s business model and accompanying photo:

Four Barrel has returned to it’s roots and reopened the alley for coffee service!

In addition to the full cafe in the front, you can now get tasty espresso and coffee drinks to enjoy in one of SF’s picturesque alleyways, located around the back of the cafe/roastery on Valencia between 14th and 15th.

Enter off 15th, just east of Valencia, and walk down Caledonia alley.

Glad to hear the shop is keeping it real.  Looking forward to scoping out the new barista (or should I say BARKista, HELLO!) in person.

P.S.  If anyone can think of a pun that incorporates both dogs and coffee, PLEASE, for the love of blog, help a girl out.

Pie party!  Fill ‘er up.

From Don’t ask me, I just work here.

Whoa!  So I don’t mean to start a Mission Mission sausage fest, but I came across an ad for this and got stoked:

Union SF Presents: The Classics: Makin’ Bacon and Sausage 101!

Let us demystify the process of curing and smoking your own bacon. We will also demonstrate sausage blending, and provide some simple tricks that can transform a basic cut of pork into something to savor.

Led by Rick Abruzzo and organized by members of Slow Food, this intimate workshop will first focus on the basic bacon-making technique of flavoring, curing, and smoking your own slab of pork belly. We’ve selected a savory dry cure recipe, and Rick will lead a demo and tasting of two bacon recipes.

Yep.  It’s Sunday, December 6th from 1-4 p.m. at $25/person.  2125 Bryant Street between 19th and 20th.  More info here.

Good idea or bad idea?:  Make this a swine flu benefit with the tagline “Cure swine flu by curing swine.”

Wow!  A week or so ago, I made jokey reference to replacing the frogs in Mission Mission’s header.  In response, reader Pat sends in a suggestion:

Random!!  I read that you guys were wanting a new mascot to replace the 2 frogs in the header.  I keep Cartoon Brew in my RSS reader right below Mission Mission.  Today they posted about Mish Mish:

He’s public domain by now.  In case you want some crudely animated antique egyptian propaganda, that’s as far as I can possibly think of from having anything to do with the Mission.

Mish Mish!  Things get pretty trippy around the 3:30 mark.

Thanks very much for the suggestion, Pat, but I really don’t want to alienate any more of our Egyptian readers.  It’ll have to be a no on Mish Mish for mascot.

Sigh.  I suppose that pair of  simultaneously-farting frogs will have to stay.

Reader Eric sends in an update on the Cafe Arguello space:

Arguello was limping along there for a while, but it seems they’ve actually closed now.  No sign of any changes inside, but hopefully soon there will be sausages and beer.

Progress!  Rosamunde here we come!  As a stereotypical Pole (haven’t you noticed how crazy dumb I am?), I’m stoked on sausage and happy to have more of it in the neighborhood.  That’s what she said + joke about the Castro, maybe.

They’ll have vegan dogs too, dudes.  Get ready!

Valencia sidewalks being put in!  Now’s the time to trace your initials into the cement.

Photo from Spots Unknown.

Eater points out an interesting generalization made about Mission bars in a Chronicle article about North Beach’s Tosca:

The implication is that time has passed Tosca by and so have the young drinkers who give bars energy. They’ve migrated to the Mission District, where a bartender must have a pedigree in “mixology” and a modeling portfolio, plus be handy with a muddler for grinding Kaffir lime leaves into organic citrus syrup.

Now, I don’t know which bars Chronicle Staff Writer Sam Whiting is going to, but the burly mixologist serving me my whiskey ginger ale at the Latin American Club the other night didn’t muddle shit for me.  He’s pretty chill, though.

Side note: would love to see some cocktail ingredient muddling on Handjobbin’.  Just a suggestion.