After a week of uncertainity as to what the fuck up is with Guns n' Bunz, Mission Local reports the brand that was basically created to drive more business is no more:

Mike’s Deli hadn´t been doing well for a while, and its owner, Mike Jweinat, thought it was time to give the spot a sexier look. He created some new sandwiches, colorful signs, and a brand-new name: Gunz and Bunz. […]

In fact, he said, the name came from the Lebanese fast-food restaurant Buns and Guns. Now closed, it was located in a suburb of Beirut and caught the attention of the media back in 2008. There, it was good for business.

The thought that his neighbors believed he was promoting violence still offends him. Jweinat arrived in the United States from Jordan when he was 15, and has lived and owned businesses in the Mission for more than 25 years.

After neighbors started spreading word that the shop promoted violence (which, I mean, it kinda did, right?) and encouraging people not to eater there, yet another “community meeting” was scheduled to address the matter.  Rather than deal with that aggravation, Mike removed the signage and brought back it's old name, “Mike's Deli.”

Annnndddddddd scene.

[Mission Local]

The Mission's own Killing My Lobster has been producing video shorts, plays and sketch shows since 1997. If you haven't seen their live sketch shows, you might be familiar with some of their SF centric digital shorts. 

KML is now looking for their own dedicated theater, which would also be rented out to other groups. They have found a space on 24th and Mission and could use your help.

Killing My Lobster has finally found the perfect location to build a premier theater space. A project which brings to an end 15 years of wandering from theater rental to theater rental. The space resides in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission district on 24th and Mission St.

The new venue would be a creative hub to hundreds of artists including actors, writers, choreographers, musicians, stand-up comedians and whoever else requires a theater for their production. Killing My Lobster also needs a versatile work space to allow them to expand the classes they make available to the community.

Check out their kickstarter and their show schedule. KML also offers sketch-centric writing and acting classes for those inclined.

And it's at La Victoria Bakery, so you'll be able to stuff your face with pan dulce and empanadas at the same time.

I know it's my job as a 'journalist,' or whatever the fuck people are calling assholes with websites these days, to “go to the source” and “ask the tough questions.”  But I just want to know: what the fuck is up with this place?

Upon discovering this joint's signage at 2am one night while drunkenly searching for a bucket of salsa verde to shove my face in, I asked a few surrounding people what was with the name. “It sounds like a gay Hooter's,” was pretty much the most coherent answer given.  Another person suggested it was a front for gun running and miserable grammar.  Pretty much everyone assumed you could go there to lift weights and grunt a lot.  Pretty much no one assumed you could buy actual food there.

Now, this shop has open for two months at 24th and Folsom and still does not have a single Yelp review, giving credence to the Pollos Hermanos theory, but I'm not convinced.  Is it just a poorly-named sandwich and pizza shop opened by someone unaware of the area's history with gun violence, or the work of a witty entrepreneur trying to capitalize on faux local blog outrage?

Also, has anyone actually eaten here and will I die from ordering a hoagie?