As someone who can never get enough Asian street food, I'm delighted that Street Food Dojo has been up and running on Market and Post for a while now, filling hungry bellies with kimchee fried rice and Spam masubi. And it's way tastier than the crap that the Cobra-Kai Dojo from The Karate Kid churned out. Indeed, casual dining on Market continues to improve.
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Just admit it: You don't want to put in the kitchen time to make Super Bowl snacks for your guests (or to make something to bring to a shindig), especially since the Niners aren't in the running anymore. And that's okay, because you live in San Francisco, where great food is a phone call and a few bucks away. Whether you're craving wings, fried chicken, tacos, barbecue, or something else entirely, some of the city's best have got you covered.
Just off the main bustle of the Fillmore as it transitions in Pacific Heights is a new and wonderful niche shop for home chefs. Like a modern apothecary, Spice Age contains hundreds of jars full of seasonings both fabulous and everyday, all arrayed on clean, white shelving. It's Kiehl's for pink Himalayan sea salt -- which, incidentally, you can purchase as flat blocks to use as cooking surfaces for the stovetop or barbecue, or even as a mortar and pestle, formed entirely of sea salt.
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When the Cheese Board came into being a million years ago, in 1967, the Gourmet Ghetto was still just the ghetto, and "California cuisine" didn't really mean anything yet. It began as a small cheese shop, and it's still a small cheese shop (with pizza), but in the meantime it catalyzed a food revolution, brought Alice Waters to the neighborhood, and pioneered a business model that is slowly becoming the next big thing.
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East Bay Bite of the Week: Southeast Asian Paella at Spice Monkey
