Say what?: Scanning the menu after your hour-plus wait for a spot at Nopa, do you really whip out your Seafood Watch card and go all save the oceans? Probably not. At The Ethicurean today, Mental Masala considers findings in a publication called Oryx on the effectiveness of consumer sustainability info. The problem with seafood? It's complicated as hell, with nomenclature as variable as family names in a 19th-century Russian novel. Ahi: Isn't it ruinous? Mental describes his own recent confusion in an Oakland restaurant:
One of the dishes featured "ahi tuna," and so I looked for it on my copy of the newly released January 2010 Seafood Watch card. Although there were almost a dozen tuna listings, ahi was not among them and our mental seafood thesauruses weren't coming up with any answers. So we passed on the dish, even though we could have pulled out an iPhone and done an Internet search, but didn't.Turns out the "ahi" in question was probably either bigeye (Thunnus obesus) or yellowfin (T. albacares), and either acceptable or not, depending on how the fish in question was caught. Why, it's enough to make a man give up and go for the rib eye.
Of course, it's also indoors, which might challenge the definition of street food for sticklers, but that hot (and often spicy) food sure will hit the spot late at night. At a bar with alcohol.
Event details:
Food Carts at Bissap Baobab
Date: Fri., Feb. 25 and Sat., Feb. 26, 10 p.m.-1 a.m.
Location: Bissap Baobab, 2323 Mission (at 19th St.), 826-9287
Cost: Free (bring cash for snacks)
Following a floor-staff walkout, the former front-of-house manager at Horatius is alleging overtime violations and sexual harassment at the Potrero Flats café. Yesterday, Chris Vittorino filed a claim with the city's Office of Labor Standards, accusing Horatius owners Horacio Gomes and Michael Greaney of failing to pay overtime wages, an amount that, in Vittorino's case, is alleged to total some $20,000.
Vittorino also accused Gomes and Greaney of routinely harassing workers, inappropriately touching male employees. "They would go around rubbing the male staff," Vittorino told SFoodie, "and saying what guys should wear to make their asses look better." So far, neither Gomes nor Greaney has responded to calls seeking comment. Read Gomes' statement above.
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The guy who's going to make it that way is Jared Beck, a Harvard grad who plans on being the bulldog. Though he works in real estate, the Miami lawyer ― who also practices in California, where the suit was filed ― is one nasty litigator.
Here's what he has to say:
"This case goes to the heart of Yelp's business practices. It is a very popular Web site that has gained tremendous reach. The essence of our lawsuit is unfair business practices. Some have called it extortion and others blackmail.
"Our client is a veterinary hospital in Long Beach. They came with an issue that a number of negative postings were there about them. Flat-out falsehoods. They contacted Yelp directly. 'What can you do about these negative reviews?' they asked. 'The content is completely false.'
This all comes as quite a shock: Roland's has garnered quite a loyal following for its baked goods, including chewy New York-style bagels ― probably the closest San Francisco's going to get to Big Apple favorites like Ess-A-Bagel and Oasis. Check back for rumblings of a Lower Haight reopening, and the status of Roland's second outpost, rumored to surface in Hayes Valley in April.
