The Super Bowl is over, which means that we'll have to wait until July 4 for another holiday that celebrates the old-fashioned American values of red meat and cold beer -- but wait!
For Beer Week, Almanac joins 4505 Meats to throw the second annual Butchers & Beers event, a shindig devoted to all things meaty and malty. Next Friday, seven Bay Area brewers will be pouring unlimited tastes of their beers, alongside "porky deliciousness" from 4505 for dinner. Plus, the event will be held at St. Gregory's Church as a fundraiser for the Food Pantry, which means you can feel good about yourself even as you destroy your liver and arteries.
In this morning's recap of our favorite mixology parodies in recent memory, we neglected to mention last year's "Shit Bartenders Say," a fact many of you pointed out to us on Twitter. We apologize -- we never saw it the first time around, because we tired of the "Shit [People] Say" meme almost as soon as it started.
But whether because the concept seems fresh again 12 months later, or because it's actually pretty funny, we admit to LOLing at this one more than once. (Favorite lines: "Aquavit bores me." "You should try my cherry bark cayenne bitters." "Am I the only one that gets smoke on this?")
It's not quite as good as Parks & Rec's masterful skewering of "molecular mixology" a few weeks ago, but it's pretty funny. Watch it after the jump.
See also: Our Three Favorite Mixology Parodies, in Honor of This Week's Review
Trick Dog: The Mission's Latest Hotspot Has Colorful Charm
Portlandia's Food World Satire Just Keeps Getting Better: Our Favorite Sketches
Now that SF Weekly offices have moved to the Financial District, we've been exploring the workday lunch options with some gusto. And among the favorites we've already found, one of the standouts is the week-old BiBimBar in the newly reopened International Food Court. It offers rice bowls, cold soba noodle bowls, and (coming soon) ssam wraps topped with banchan and meats like bulgogi, spicy pork belly, marinated chicken, and jangjolim -- all familiar Korean barbecue flavors made healthy and portable for the workday.
See also: Jang Soo BBQ's New Owners Are Swankifying Up Korean
In this week's review, I called out new Mission hotspot Trick Dog for coming dangerously close to being a parody of the worst kind of mixology bar (it isn't, by the way, because the food and drinks are almost uniformly awesome). This was very much on my mind during my visits, partially because the pretentions of mixology can get ridiculous in a hurry -- you know, just give me my goddamn drink already -- and partially because the past few years have been rich in mixology parody videos. Here are three of the best.
See also: Trick Dog: The Mission's Latest Hotspot Has Colorful Charm
Portlandia's Food World Satire Just Keeps Getting Better: Our Favorite Sketches
