— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |
Natalie reports that the ladies room wallpaper at Ronny's in Chicago is a blinding mess of cut out PBR cans. Dunno if this is the right amount of creativity to be cool or just 'trying too fucking hard,' but either way, it's better than the Toronado bathroom.
— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |
No sure how rad this place will actually be, but with their fancy new beer and wine license and proximity to The Lex, you'll be able to hella faded and dine on their alleged Soul Food menu. Anyway, not sure how “cool” the name “Radish” is. Are they admitting that their food is only “kinda rad” or are they just doing a little play on the root vegetable? Fuck it, it's a better name than Grub.
— By Kate Horton |
In high school, Royal Ground on Fillmore Street was my go-to spot to meet up with flanneled friends to drink lattes and smoke cigarettes (indoors!), but apparently all the real action was going down at the Polk Street location.
(awesome find via yr momma)
— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |
Reader Rob C. peeped this last night. After years of sitting by idly, it looks like they are finally picking out their wine list, which implies they'll be opening in 2-72 months. Since this place appears to not be interested in serving Charles Shaw and PBR (dudes in suits), I'll probably never get around to trying it out. Also, I'm fucking livid that they're considering opening because that door was always a solid graffiti target. Tears.
— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |
BIG FUCKING NEWS GUYS: THERE'S A COFFEE SHOP OPENING UP ON VALENCIA ST. IT'S ABOUT GODDAMN TIME.
Now that I have that out of my system, I popped my head in there yesterday. The ghost of American Apparel's hopes and dreams will be bagels, sandwiches, salads and caffeine. We can only hope that the bagels will be overnighted from the east coast daily. Sorry for the crappy pic, but by “popped my head in there,” I really meant “I took some shitty pictures of the menu from the street” because I'm an antisocial fucktard.
— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |
Do you like Street Food? Are you single? Are you shitty at picking up people in bars? Well, you're in luck. July 27th at 7pm on Linda and 19th, the street food clan is having a “stop light party.” That's right, dress your relationship status:
I'll be the guy dressed in black, the color of my soul, and wearing a messenger bag full of 40oz. See you there!
— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |
Paul, owner of Dirty Thieves, who must have been reading this blog by accident, emailed us a correction:
[The tagger] wrote on our bathroom walls that it is four bucks; we charge three for Coors. If you were charged four, I apologize. If you were basing your story on some bathroom graffiti rendering of our menu, well that's still my fault for not painting over the graffiti—it's a tough bathroom to keep clean and an even more difficult to keep the toilet in working condition. In any case, I own the bar and cannot stomach the idea that someone was charged four bucks for a Coors. I also own two other bars in sf and will be working at Whiskey Thieves this wednesday (839 Geary) from 5-8. As penance for, at the very least, not painting over graffiti, I will charge one dollar for Coors during my shift. Once again, 5-8 this Wednesday.
In case you don't understand what he's saying: it's a crime against humanity to be charged $4 for Coors (it is). Anyway, go drink up for cheap folks! Might I recommend drinking your non-light Coors as a Stranahan's chaser, which distilled mere blocks away from Coors Field in downtown Denver.
Also: we love bathroom graffiti.
— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |
The more time I spend in Dirty Thieves, the more I love it. As previously mentioned, they stock one of the best goddamn whiskeys that I've tasted, their bathroom is almost always out of order (not that any self-respecting person would shit in a Mission bar), and their bartenders are world-class. But recently, they've really stepped their game up:
That said, they charge $4 for Coors, so fuck those bastards.
Update: Coors is only $3!
— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |
AS GOOD AS IT LOOKS.
Last night I had the pleasure of stuffing my face with most of their vegetarian options and HOLY HELL I WANT MORE. Their vegan chinito (pictured) was by far the highlight of evening, with a strong second place going to the Lung Shan's Vegan Delight (mushroom dumpling soup). It's pretty obvious they are still getting the kinks out of the system (some items were not available for order, delivery came much later then expected, there was no total on the receipt so TCB Courier had to figure out how much I owed them), but the food is still delicious and reasonably priced. I'm sure in a few weeks when all the buzz dies down, they'll be at the top of their game.
I give them 5 out of 5 mullet haircuts. (Ordinary would have received a 4 out of 5 but they get bonus points for animated ninja's flying across their menu).
— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |
Yeah the seitan tacos were delicious but LOOK AT THAT FUCKING BIKE. Trash can, place to wash your hands, A FUCKING GRILL NEXT TO THE HANDLEBARS. This motherfucker could cook my ass a tofu scramble during critical mass and never even need to stop pedaling. All he needs to do is put some turntables, a kegerator and a Phil Wood hub with some Japanese cog on there and he'll become the envy of American Apparel burners everywhere.