Coming soon: you failing to get some random play over a Tecate and slice of mushroom-black olive
In the post-American Apparel / Mr. Pickles era of Mission blogging, authors are desperate for controversial material to fill our lonely pages. Luckily, the upcoming “Pi Bar” seems to be providing the necessary blogging fodder. Since mid June, the new restaurant has had to endure a protest of vegans, a little bit of controversy surrounding the painted-over Suriya Thai mural, and even had to publicly address their neighbors (sounds familiar?). And the general buzz? 3 posts on vegansaurus!, 3 on Burrito Justice, 5 on Eater SF, 3 on SFoodie, and countless other posts elsewhere. If blogging was real life, you would have to wait 2 months to get a table.
Clearly, we are missing out on something here.
To bring you up the speed, vegansaurus! has been taking the investigative lead on this topic. If you have not been acquainted with vegansaurus! yet, it is a quirky Mission-based food blog about eating cupcakes and calling people assholes in caps lock. vegansaurus! recently placed a phone call to the new establishment to pressure them into making vegan pizza when they accidently uncovered a nefarious plot to open in a few weeks:
“Thank you for calling Pi Bar. We’re looking forward to a mid-August, early September opening; look for us then. Thanks for calling!”
That is pretty much verbatim with some license taken in the fact that we are lazy and didn’t want to call back to get it verbatim, you dig? (link)
(By the way, my post count about “Pi Bar” is now at 2. I love being a part of something.)