With the second week of the Winter Olympics in Sochi underway, we turn our attention to Russia. Though San Francisco's Little Russia is in the Outer Richmond, Russian eating in the city is centered on Cinderella Bakery and Café in the Inner Richmond. Mostly a bakery, Cinderella does have a tiny café component with mostly outside seating. Just pretend Balboa Street is Red Square as you dine al fresco on blinis and be glad San Francisco winters aren't quite like Moscow's.
Admittedly, nothing about this makes much sense. The Presidio Pizza Company is located at Pine and Divisadero, a location that cannot, by even the furthest stretch of the imagination, be considered the Presidio. And while it does indeed sell pizza (and very good pies in fact), the reason we went was for the garlic knots.
Up-and-coming brewery Triple Voodoo's new taproom is located -- where else but? -- in the Dogpatch, giving them creative neighbors, room to breathe and grow, and a community of passionate beer freaks to lean on and argue with. But with all due respect given to a large, multi-use facility with more details to fret over than a typical restaurant, it's a bit underwhelming just yet.
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Whether or not hot dogs turn out to be the next It thing to get (re)discovered, everyone should make haste to the Mission to try one at Los Shucos. After becoming hugely popular in Guatemala after hot dogs first became a thing there decades ago, the quintessential American food has now boomeranged back to the U.S. as a regional delicacy of sorts. If you've ever been to Providence, Rhode Island and experienced the curiously insular food culture there, you know what a New York System is. Los Shucos is just as good.
