By Renee Frojo
After several unexpected setbacks typical of the restaurant industry, Marla Bakery is finally ready to swing the doors open to its first brick-and-mortar shop in the Outer Richmond, bringing a taste of homemade goodness to the neighborhood's mostly Asia-influenced culinary scene.
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Stumble home too quickly out of the Tempest and you might miss Box Kitchen. I work across the street and have long discovered that the Tempest is the perfect SOMA dive bar to arrive to after a long day: the crowd is unpretentious, the drinks are cheap, the music usually takes me back to middle school, and the food actually tastes good even before I'm tipsy.
Box Kitchen serves bites ranging from $4 to $9 and is operated by the Tempest, so order inside the bar during lunch or walk over to the order window next door in the evenings.
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Dive Bar Bite: Farmers' Market Sundays at Heinold's First and Last Chance Saloon
Farmers and landowners, rejoice!
The Urban Agriculture Incentive Zone Ordinance, a result of Assemblymember Phil Ting's AB 551 bill, was announced Monday morning in a press conference, according to Inside Scoop.
Like burritos and sourdough bread, we've got no shortage of good craft beers in the Bay Area. Just down the street from my apartment are a craft beer pub, a beer garden, and two breweries, with at least two more on the way. This doesn't include, of course, the countless bars serving brews that would be hard-to-find anywhere else. But despite the Bay's affection for rare beers (raise your hand if you've stood in line for Pliny the Younger), there's still a place for that middle-ground beer: the widely available, affordable, and still darn tasty IPA.
American style IPAs are a staple of West Coast breweries, showcasing our locally grown hops in ways that range from subtle to bombastic. There are plenty of small-scale operations making killer IPAs, but for this showdown, we're taking a look at two of the longer-running breweries on both sides of the bay: 21st Amendment in San Francisco's SoMa district and Drake's in San Leandro.
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