Quick eats in San Francisco
I was in San Francisco back in April and managed to find a few decent eats. By the way, SF's Chinatown may be the biggest in North America, but the eats there definitely aren't the best. We wandered around there looking for something that looked half decent, and the one place that we finally picked was pretty bad. Even though I was anticipating this, I was still pretty annoyed. Anyway, just like in Toronto or Vancouver, I'm sure most of the good Chinese eats in SF are not in Chinatown but in some of the areas more recently populated by Chinese people.
This was an eggplant parmesan sandwich from a little store we found in the Little Italy area. I would have gotten veal, but even though this place had everything from meatball sandwiches to rice balls to every kind of Italian cold cut I've ever heard of, they didn't have veal (I think they had chicken, but that's lame). So eggplant it was...and it was pretty tasty. You could get your pick of a pretty wide selection of buns. I went for a chewy sourdough which stood up pretty well to the saucy insides and gave a bit of extra flavour to pick up the eggplant a bit. Oh, and this place was pricey...this sandwich was like $8. But then again, almost everything in this town is pricey.
This is the famous "Mission style burrito" from the Mission district. I got a burrito al pastor from Tacqueria Cancun, which I picked because of all the magazine "awards" hanging from the window. Well, the burrito turned out to be really tasty. The meat is way tastier than anything in the Toronto burritos and the addition of some cilantro is a nice touch. I still don't know if I dig the whole burrito concept that much (non-Asian style rice just doesn't do it for me) but this was worth a repeat, even for me. Note: I got there a bit early and I was the only non-Spanish speaker in there, but by the time 11:45 rolled around, the place started filling up with hipsters. I guess that's what happens when stuff gets discovered.
In-N-Out double double, animal style. Well, it's better than most fast food burgers, but I'd still rather take a homestyle/steakhouse-type burger from the local family run burger joint.
This was an eggplant parmesan sandwich from a little store we found in the Little Italy area. I would have gotten veal, but even though this place had everything from meatball sandwiches to rice balls to every kind of Italian cold cut I've ever heard of, they didn't have veal (I think they had chicken, but that's lame). So eggplant it was...and it was pretty tasty. You could get your pick of a pretty wide selection of buns. I went for a chewy sourdough which stood up pretty well to the saucy insides and gave a bit of extra flavour to pick up the eggplant a bit. Oh, and this place was pricey...this sandwich was like $8. But then again, almost everything in this town is pricey.
This is the famous "Mission style burrito" from the Mission district. I got a burrito al pastor from Tacqueria Cancun, which I picked because of all the magazine "awards" hanging from the window. Well, the burrito turned out to be really tasty. The meat is way tastier than anything in the Toronto burritos and the addition of some cilantro is a nice touch. I still don't know if I dig the whole burrito concept that much (non-Asian style rice just doesn't do it for me) but this was worth a repeat, even for me. Note: I got there a bit early and I was the only non-Spanish speaker in there, but by the time 11:45 rolled around, the place started filling up with hipsters. I guess that's what happens when stuff gets discovered.
In-N-Out double double, animal style. Well, it's better than most fast food burgers, but I'd still rather take a homestyle/steakhouse-type burger from the local family run burger joint.
posted by Tim @ 6:19 PM
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