This past weekend, Mission Street Food played host to one of my favorite chefs in San Francisco: Chad Newton.  Normally seen peeking through the star shaped kitchen window at Fish & Farm, he took this Saturday off to come decorate some delicious plates with edible flowers in the Lung Shan kitchen.  He also joined in [...]

It felt good to be back at Mission Street Food this week.  In the back, Anthony, Danny and Emma (the core MSF kitchen team) knocked out a stellar offal-tastic meal that featured some of the my favorite plates to ever come out of that Chinese kitchen.   I got the real sense they weren’t just [...]

Whew.  21 cases of beer later, we’re done. What a great night.  Service seemed to flow smoothly, the beer was cold and plentiful, and the food was stellar as well. Let’s jump right into it, shall we?

I returned to the scene of the crime at Mission Street Food this past weekend.  Chris Ying, who is one of the original taco truck cooks of the whole Mission Street Food enterprise took over the kitchen to serve Mission Stoned Food, which was described as “a munchie space station here to rain tender morsels down [...]

I’ll get strait to the point: foie on a stick!     Actually it’s not just foie – there is also a duck heart and mushroom on there too. Now that we have that out of the way, let’s go back to the beginning.  This week, MSF played host to Jordan Grosser and Ted Fleury, the [...]

One of my favorite things about Mission Street Food is the level of creativity it breeds.  I’ll give you an example: while planning this meal I sent Anthony home with a collection of home brew ingredients, instructing him to play around with them, and find a bit of inspiration. One of the dishes he came back with [...]

The final menu is out at Mission Street Food Blog for Saturday night! You’re really, really going to want to stay for dessert.  Anthony (and his crack kitchen crew) will be cooking up: Fresh Lucques and Castelvetrano Olives – $4  Scallop Crudo with Beer-Carbonated Pomelo, Fennel, and Upland Cress – $8 Caramelized Maitake Mushrooms with [...]

I while ago, while taking pictures in the kitchen at MSF, I ran into a reporter from NPR.  Her story finally aired on NPR.  In the interview, he discusses one of my favorite dishes, the Butter fried cornbread with buttermilk panacotta.    

Well, it was bound to happen eventually – I had a meal I didn’t particularly like at Mission Street Food.  I suppose it’s inevitable - you can’t be this experimental, week after week, without there being some valleys to equal out peaks.  I just didn’t expect that when it came down, it would come down this hard. [...]

Mission Street Food was returned at its usual spot this week and was hosting Chef Jeff Banker, who put out a soulful menu which was perfect on a wet San Francisco evening.  This week, we’ve got shots of the kitchen in action, assembling food during a rush, treading just a few dishes above the weeds.  A few thoughts [...]