Partner Love: Mission/18th St.
Craftsman and Wolves favorites—sweet & savory baked goods—available for pre-order & in-person pickup. Two locations, three days, details here.
Here’s a rundown on what our Mission 18th Street Food Tour partners are doing right now. If you’re in a position to support these businesses, they could use all the love we can give them. Glad I got my Matzo Ball Soup order in before they sold out at Delfina. —Lisa
Bi-Rite Creamery: Temporarily closed; Pints of perfection available through Bi-Rite Markets or online via Instacart.
Craftsman and Wolves: Satisfy your quarantine cravings for pastries, patisserie, and other tasty baked goods by pre-ordering online for in-person pickup.
Delfina: Temporarily closed; (gift cards here). Pizzeria Delfina to-go only, open for takeout and delivery.
Duc Loi Market: Open for business, selling organic produce, quality meat, and a wide range of ingredients with an international flavor. Also home to the best banh mi in the ‘hood.
Flour & Water: Temporarily closed (find gift cards here); as is the Flour & Water Pizzeria (gift cards here), or support their GoFundMe.
Hawker Fare: Open for to-go dinner (salads, share plates, chicken & rice, curries and more), to-go Sunday brunch (hello French toast with Sriracha honey & chicken with coconut waffles), and cocktails to-go (pre-order those cabin fever cocktails here).
Mission Community Market: Seasonal opening pushed back, find CUESA market updates here. Some Mission Community Market vendors will pop up at the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market.
Tacolicious: Mission location is temporarily closed; Marina location open for to-go. Tacos kits & batched cocktails anyone? Or buy gift cards, cookbook, and other merch at their online shop.
Wesburger: Currently closed; show ‘em some love with a gift card purchase.
20 Spot: The wine bar is closed for now. Show support via their staff GoFundMe or a gift card.
Hawker Fare open daily from 12 to 3 and 5 to 9 for Lao Isan specialties and cabin fever cocktails. Ordering details here.
This week in pandemic picks: Support La Cocina businesses via their CSA-style community box. Take my sister’s kick ass online workout. Volunteer or donate to East Bay FeedER or Frontline Foods in SF, to help feed the warrior nurses & doctors fighting this virus on the frontlines. Listen to Warrior Steph Curry interview virus warrior Dr. Anthony Fauci. Sew cloth face masks—hello craft project—for folks in need.
Partner recipes to add to your repertoire: Learn to make fresh ricotta, courtesy of Flour + Water chef Thomas McNaughton. Try your hand at the finger-lickingly good Isan BBQ chicken by chef James Syhabout of Hawker Fare. Treat yourself to Taco Tuesday with this recipe for butternut squash, kale and crunchy pepitas tacos from the Tacolicious cookbook. Serve with a Lolita squeeze. Cheers to that.
Tacos & tequila any day of the week from Tacolicious: Make these tacos at home or pre-order & pickup from their Marina location. Details here.
Sign up for our COVID-19 Quarantine Cocktail Classes, in partnership with top mixologist Dolly Valdez Bautista of Hawker Fare in San Francisco. Cheers!