Marcel's Kitchen is now banging food out of El Rincon on that Louisiana tip. If you like fantasies and/or straight up lies, you can read about how Marcel use to be Celly Cel on the thrillist site. According to Marcel that was the writer's doing but shit it's not a bad lie, at least it's an amusing one. Last I heard the real Celly Cel is pushing an IROC out in Pittsburg but who knows. Anyways Marcel's Kitchen will be serving a full menu Tu-Sat from 4-9 pm & some kind of bar menu from 10pm-2am

The King of Silicon Valley was visiting San Francisco's trendy Mission District for a second weekend in a row and Uptown Almanac has all the juicy details!

Click here for the appalling photo of Steve getting kicked out of Flour + Water!

That's right, after notoriously getting the shaft from the New York Times' favorite Flour + Water last Saturday, Steve Jobs was spotted outside of St. Francis Fountain on Sunday morning.  Our sources indicate he ordered the peanut and ginger tofu scramble.  In a daring move, he even subbed his toast for a slice of banana bread!

Click here for more of the shocking photos of Steve outside of Flour + Water!

This all comes on the heals of an investigation into last week's controversy at Flour + Water by TMZ and the SF Weekly.  Flour + Water's publicist has confirmed to TMZ, SF Weekly, Tech Church, Digg, /b/, Reddit, Mashable, and Twitter user @clambake01 that Steve Jobs was at the restaurant and they gave him the boot!: “He was a stand up guy about it with no throwing of weight around, but like everyone else he's gonna need either a reservation, walk in and get lucky or wait for a bit with a nice glass of vino.”

Click here for more details in SF Weekly's devastating investigation!

Well, Steve didn't seem at all affected by the controversy, happily walking down 24th after his meal at St. Francis to Philz Coffee, where sources spotted him drinking a coffee and even indulging on a delicious Mission Mini cupcake.  Better watch that waistline, Steve!

It's been over six hours since mainstream news source SF Gate covered the eviction of popular sandwich shop Ike's Place and nearly three since Eater blew up the spot, but the non-foodcentric big local blogs are still eerily quiet.    Instead, sizzling hot trending topics like iPhone donut finder apps, how shitty this weekend's weather will be, and tainted meat in Modesto seem to be all the rage.  

Is Ike's 'old news'?

Will anyone miss it when it's gone?

If a trendy establishment closes in SF and nobody blogs it, was it ever really there?

Or are the local/hyperlocal blogs merrily building up to drop the mother of all posts and bust this Ike's story 'wide open'? 

Bonus Question: Am I reading too much HRO?

I guess the city believes I should dump another $500 in their coffers.  Way back on July 15th (we're really current with the news here), the California Music and Culture Association basted out an email to their members warning of a new tax on booze:

SAY NO TO THE ALCOHOL FEE!
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors in considering an alcohol fee that would tack $0.076 on to every ounce of alcohol in a beverage. After hearing a presentation and public comment on the item, the Small Business Commission successfully requested that ordinance sponsor Supervisor John Avalos hold the legislation until an economic impact study is conducted.

CMAC opposes the proposed fee. Restaurants, hotels and bars and their employees have been among the hardest hit by the economic crisis and simply cannot afford to absorb the costs brought on by new fees. Click here for more information on the fee and email us at government@cmacsf.org to learn about how to get involved.

Save the date: The Small Business Commission will likely hear the legislation again on Monday, August 9. Depending on their decision, the legislation is anticipated to be heard at the Board's Budget and Finance Committee in early September after the Board's August recess. 

Before you go raid a Foot Locker screaming “I'm not paying 91 cents extra a PBR!!,” remember it is only 7.6 cents on every cent of alcohol.  Considering how low the alcohol percentage in a PBR is, it only amounts to 5 to 10 cents per drink.  Of course, it's already being labeled as a job killer:

So why does the Board of Supervisors want to destroy America?  KTVU reports:

A San Francisco Supervisors committee is considering a proposal to charge a new fee on alcoholic beverages to help cover the costs of alcohol related health care.

Seems reasonable enough to me, especially because I've argued in favor of this sort of tax in the past.  However, CMCA says many smaller venues already run on a low profit margin and because the tax is going to be levied on distributors, they actually expect the price to venue to be higher than 5-10 cents a drink.  The effect of such a tax? Those smaller venues won't be able to eat the cost of the tax, they'll go out of business and we're going to drink in Oakland to save money.  From the KTVU article:

“The customer is going to choose to drink in Oakland or Sonoma or Napa or wherever, but why here?” asks Ron Silberstein, owner of the Thirsty Bear Brewery. “How special is San Francisco at the end of the day when we're all scrimping and saving?”

Why would we drink here in the face of such a tax?  Because, at the end of the day, no one is going to go to Oakland every time he/she/it wants to get wasted.

(photo by natalie)