Eagle-eyed Chris Waddling of D10 Watch spotted a bizjournals.com article about Home Depot trying again to penetrate San Francisco — this time by taking over 1901 Cesar Chavez, pretty much across the street from a Cole Hardware Commercial Supply, and two miles from Lowe’s and a little over a mile from Center Hardware on Mariposa.
It would be nice to see Cesar Chavez have a little more life, but do we need a big box store on the edge of Dogpatch?
Hair of the Dogpatch
Open from 10-2 Saturdays and Sundays
Yield Wine Bar
2490 3rd Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
Esprit Park’s publicity flaks actually do a pretty decent job of keeping their blog up to date, so it’s up to me to follow up on their scoops and give you a little bit of depth. As such, I coerced my fiancée and two of our neighbors into enjoying the popup’s menu.
Observe:
Dates stuffed with chevre and happiness:
Brandy, who does the front-of-house while her boyfriend Michael makes the delicious tapas in back, confessed that she cried a little the first time she saw the blood orange garnish in the mimosa lit up by the late morning sun streaming through Yield’s big windows.
I saved my crying for the second round of deviled eggs, which are one of my weaknesses. I’m not sure that I shared any of them, but next time I might smuggle in some ground habanero to make sure that no one else eats any. After all, “deviled” means spicy.
Half of our table does’t eat fish (including me), but the steady stream kept us happy anyway. They are changing the menu according to their whims, so hopefully you like surprises.
If it were a perfect world, I’d suggest the Bullitt Soundtrack to play when I enter a room, but I fear that instead it will have to be “Dog Patch Creeper” by virtue of the name alone. Enjoy:
Speakeasy’s Saturday Beer Blowout
Saturday, March 31, 2012 (4-9p)
Speakeasy Brewery
1195 Evans Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94124
People who are really cool might consider going to the open studios and then venturing into Bayview for the Speakeasy Saturday Beer Blowout.
The SFPD Bayview station sends out amazing crime reports every week (D10 Watch posts many of them, and I try to post interesting Dogpatch crime). Recently their letter included a puzzler from the soon-to-retire Captain Paul Chignell.
TRIVIA QUESTION:
Please send answers to the trivia question to
Paul.Chignell@sfgov.orgAt 4701 3rd Street a retail shop operated from 1937
until 1985 when it moved to San Carlos and still
operates in that City today. What is the name of the
shop and what did they sell? First five (5) winners will
receive thirty (30) police stickers for children.
receive
The answer is the Olsen Nolte Saddle Shop. In 1943 the phone number was “water 5151.” 😀
As much as I would love 30 police stickers*, I will let actual children have them.
* a lot a lot a lot a lot a lot a lot a lot a lot a lot a lot
Launch for Lauren DiCioccio
Saturday, March 31 between 11:00 AM and 5:00 PM
The Workshop Residence
833 22nd Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
The Workshop Residence invites you to join us for the opening for resident artist Lauren DiCioccio Saturday, March 31 between 11:00 AM and 5:00 PM
Lauren DiCioccio’s intricate embroidered objects investigate the beauty of mass-produced media-objects facing obsolescence: the newspaper, magazines, office papers, and plastic bags. Her work has been shown at The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, The Bellevue Arts Museum, and Jack Fischer Gallery. In 2011, she was a resident at Recology San Francisco.
Lauren’s residency explored methods of returning function to her finely detailed embroidered objects and results in a collection of machine embroidered tote bags made in the SF Bay and available for sale through The Workshop Residence.
Open Studios: Saturday & Sunday, March 31st & April 1st, 12-5PM
From the Artspan open studios flyer:
American Industrial Center
3 Fish Studios
610 22nd Street @ 3rd
Annie Galvin, #304
Eric Rewitzer, #304American Industrial Center
2325 3rd Street @ 20th
Elaine Coombs, FL. 2R, #15American Industrial Center
2339 3rd Street @ 20th
Ellin Burgin, #29American Industrial Center
Graphic Arts Workshop
2565 3rd Street
Alice Gibbons, #305
Leslie Lowinger, #305
Gloria Morales, #305
Barbara Stikker, #305Noonan Building
Pier 70 @ 20th, Bldg. 11
Phillip Hua, #305
Marti McKee, #316
Adele Shaw, #321SF MasterArtists in ShantyTown
Pier 70 @ 20th
Parking Lot behind the Noonan Building
Michael Rios
Zack Slater900 Tennessee Street @ 20th
Cody Bratt, Lone Panda #18
Sirima Sataman
See also: Dogpatch Art’s list of artists by studio locations
Friday, March 30th at 6pm
Poquito
2368 3rd Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
(415) 643-3900
Richard from Poquito sent me a last-minute notice* of a tasting at his restaurant:
At 6 pm Zu Vodka will be here for a couple of hours to showcase their product. Zubrowka is a Polish bison grass vodka that is really flavorful and a bit spicy. I’ll be making a punch and we will have couple of specialty cocktails with it as well.
So, stop in when you escape the T line after work!
* he sent it yesterday, which is honestly still pretty last-minute
My internet harvesters reaped the following tidbit of information:
1) License Type: 41 – ON-SALE BEER AND WINE – EATING PLACE
License Type Status: ACTIVE
Status Date: 28-MAR-2012
I confirmed it with them this morning, so, congratulations! They are still finalizing their sources, but rumor has it that they might have a lot of South American varieties. Varietals?
A couple of Sundays ago I dropped off my fiancée at the airport and returned just in time to find chocolatier Michael Recchiuti unloading drums from the back of a pickup.
“You’re, uh, the chocolate guy, right?” I asked.
“Yes! I’ve seen you in the neighborhood,” he said. I hoped that he recognized me despite my disheveled state, and not because of it. I introduced myself, and asked when the drill team would get going, and where they would march.
His guesses for time and location were both slightly off, but around one I walked out my front door into a fairly surreal scene: a crowd had formed nearly on my doorstep in preparation for the tiny parade, and a local baconatier was setting up to provide samples of their wares.
Drumming happened, and the group marched around, drawing interested onlookers and pausing for breakdancing. I’ll let the pictures speak several thousand words:
At the end, after the music stopped, the police showed up and arrested a woman who lived across the street for something unrelated.
“It’s not a party until the cops show up,” someone quipped.
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