Partner Love: Ferry Building
Here’s a rundown on what our Ferry Building & Farmers Market Food Tour partners are doing right now. If you’re in a position to support these Ferry Building businesses, they could use all the love we can give them. —Lisa
Acme Bread Company: Open, daily for crusty baguette, levain, and other signature breads.
Bee d’Vine: Open for online delivery. Have honey wine shipped to your door!
Cowgirl Creamery: Open for a Mt. Tam or Red Hawk fix. Now available via home delivery too. Update: Permanently closed. Wah!
Delica: Open for delightful Japanese deli dishes via takeout or Caviar or DoorDash delivery.
CUESA | Ferry Building Farmers Market: Open for socially-distanced, seasonal produce shopping and pre-ordered farmers market box via curbside pickup. Donate to the market here. CUESA’s Mission Community Market has reopened, thanks to the help of neighborhood dive bar the Make Out Room, which has made its bathrooms available to market shoppers.
Ferry Plaza Wine Merchants: Open for in-store or curbside pickup or shipping for your quarantine drinking needs.
Frog Hollow Farm: Open for online shipping and farmers market purchases. Cafe temporarily closed.
Golden Gate Meat Co.: Open for in-store pickup or online, curbside, contact-less pickup.
Gott’s Roadside: Open for both pickup and delivery for those burger and fries cravings.
Humphry Slocombe: Open for pick up or delivery (via Caviar, Postmates, or DoorDash) for all your quarantine ice cream party needs. Flavors include palate pleasers like secret breakfast, Blue Bottle Vietnamese coffee, and malted milk chocolate.
Imperial Tea Court: Open for online orders; temporarily closed for in-store tasting due to SIP.
Miette: Open for online ordering, including cupcakes and other sweet treats, soft retail re-open later this week. Check IG feed for updates.
Out the Door: Temporarily closed due to SIP.
CheeseQuakes: Open, check online (as with all listings) for hours. And kudos to the CheeseQuakes crew for the sweet cameo on Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist.
Shout out, too, to our friends at bagel shop the Daily Driver and specialty grocer Village Market; both are open for biz.
This week in pandemic picks: Watch photographer Anne Hamersky’s video interview with Dirty Girl Produce farmer Joe Schirmer. Anne’s the artist behind the mural for CUESA called The Food Change, which features farmer Joe. Support an independent bookstore, including Book Passage in the Ferry Building and Omnivore Books in Noe Valley, now open for curbside delivery. Shop for pantry items and produce at Prairie Restaurant’s General Store. Dance like nobody is watching with Rhythm & Motion YouTube classes, Rueda Con Ritmo salsa styling on Facebook, or the smooth DJing moves of D-Nice on IG live. Volunteer to deliver food for people in need with SF New Deal or the pop-up pantries run by the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank, or through the drive-through San Francisco, Oakland ,or Berkeley school programs. Listen to the Andrew Friedman podcast (Andrew Talks to Chefs) with our pal chef Preeti Mistry, offering her signature real talk on the politics of food. And while we’re on podcasts: Shout out to our friend Marcia Gagliardi of tablehopper for her local restaurant industry interviews On the Fly. Sign up for Ferry Building guide Tori Ritchie’s class on “How to Write a Cookbook” now offered online through Stanford Continuing Studies.
Partner recipes to add to your repertoire: Make Charles Phan’s Vietname chicken salad, a popular pick on the menu at Slanted Door. Add Napa cabbage kimchi, courtesy of CUESA , to your kitchen repertoire. Guaranteed to spice up dishes with delicious fermented funkiness. Satisfy a sweet tooth with Miette’s classic brownies or Frog Hollow Farm’s chocolate covered cherries with sea salt.
Sign up for our COVID-19 Quarantine Cocktail Classes, in partnership with top mixologist Dolly Valdez Bautista of Hawker Fare in San Francisco. This week: Whiskey a Go Go. Cheers!
