When Trick Dog opened this past January, its slick Pantone color guide-themed menu was talked about as much as the innovative cocktails. Now Serious Eats brings news that the Bon Vivants have shaken things up at their Mission bar with a whole new drink menu based on classic records. The result is a seriously cool-looking record album (check out the whole slideshow), and Serious Eats senior editor Maggie Hoffman reports that the cocktails -- most with "Pacific Rim, almost tropical flavors" according to bar manager Morgan Schick -- taste as good as their packaging looks.
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It might not have the magic of 30 Rock's storied Sandwich Day, but it's Free Slurpee Day at 7-11. Which means that a small Slurpee can be yours until 7 p.m. We stopped by the 7-11 on Market near Bush a bit ago and found a short line that moved fairly quickly (tip: get the cup from the counter before you get in line). Half of the flavors were out already, but some middle school instinct kicked in and we found ourselves automatically filling our cup with half Coke, half cherry. Walking down the FiDi streets afterwards, we exchanged proud smiles with everyone else who had their free drinks, like we were part of a secret Slurpee society.
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Chefs are battling for a rather meaty title on July 21, when the 4th Annual Lamb Jam returns to San Francisco. While we could debate the merits of New Zealand or Australian lamb over Colorado and California lamb any day, this event is strictly for American lamb, and is put on by the American Lamb Association -- hence the promise of "hands-on American lamb butcher demos" from 10 unique and local lamb producers. Organizers likely honed in on the fact that the Golden State is the largest producer of lamb in the country.
I couldn't figure out what was crusted on the cover of my East of Eden paperback until halfway through a re-read, when I was hit with a sudden and intense urge for fried chicken. The characters are forever eating fried chicken or talking about it, and my sudden lust brought back a memory I'd suppressed. Four years ago, when I first read the novel, I'd been so overcome by a fried chicken craving that I'd speed-walked to the KFC down the block from my L.A. apartment and inhaled a three-piece, extra-crispy dinner like an animal, telling myself that I wasn't as sad as the motley crew of solo regulars because I was reading Steinbeck while sitting at the hard plastic table. Hence the pale green coleslaw residue that remains as a mark of my shame so many years later.
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