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Thai Sriracha ketchup! One of Heinz's 57 varieties.
Plus Restoration Hardware wants to feed you.
Turn! Turn! Turn!: Axiom Hotel Gets a New Cafe
Just outside the Powell Street cable car turnaround, the Axiom Hotel will get a new eatery in January called
Turn Cafe. It will serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner for sit-down or take-away, including coffee, artisanal sandwiches, and a burger made from Niman Ranch beef.
Turn Cafe, at the Axiom Hotel, 415-3929466 or axiomhotel.com
Instacart Price Hike
According to
re/code,
Instacart is set to jack up its delivery charge from $3.99 to $5.99, and the annual fee for Instacart Express is jumping by 50 percent, from $99 to $149. A lot of this has to do with the way Instacart made money: Originally, it simply marked prices up and pocketed the difference, but that only works when you're tiny, so now Instacart operates more like a credit card, taking a small percentage of retailers' sales. A spokeshuman blabbed a lot of corporate-speak on the company's blog, but it looks like dark times for a company that needs to scale the hell up to justify its $2 billion valuation, as the company is also laying off 12 recruiters after its headcount tripled to 300 in a year.
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Pier 29 Could Become a Dining Destination
The
Examiner's Laura Dudnick reports that the former cruise ship terminal at
Pier 29, which was a pop-up during the America's Cup, could become a restaurant complex. The Port of San Francisco is soliciting bids on what to do with the 20,000-square-foot space, built in 1918. If reconfigured, it could join a revived Ghirardelli Square as a kind of satellite outpost of Ferry Building-style goodness, or at least make it so that locals don't weep at the thought of venturing past the Exploratorium.
Restoration Hardware Wants to Open Cafes
Like ABC Carpet and Home, the bland-sounding but very much upscale NYC home furnishings emporium that houses Jean-Georges Vongerichten's ABC Kitchen, the Corte Madera-based
Restoration Hardware wants to move into the dining scene, according to the
Business Times. After an unadvertised restaurant in its Chicago location managed to do $5 million in business this year, the chain hopes to replicate its success elsewhere, possibly including its San Francisco location in the dining desert that is the Design District/SoMission.
Hangover Cures
Hey, like 60 percent of the adult population, you're probably going to get drunk tomorrow night. Both
Food and Wine and
7x7 offered some
hangover cures for the inevitable photosensitivity and apathy, including a Full English breakfast, and chai. In ascending order of potency, my hangover remedies are as follows: water, sleep, Advil, three eggs cooked in bacon grease, ramen, masturbation, and saying "Fuck it" and just drinking again.
