A four-year-old friend of ours often asks, “will you do me a favorite?” and we like to comply--by reading her a book or helping her with the sprinkler. This Saturday, we’re going to do a favorite for all the people who haven't had MSF Rice or butter fried cornbread in a while. We’ll be serving up a whole menu of favorite dishes from MSFs past and present, with no pesky guest chefs getting in the way.
Also, did we mention that we’re officially a “Favorite Place” on Google’s ever more detailed map of the known world?
Profits for this evening will go to The Food Pantry, which does not play favorites. (Their motto is “Peace on Earth and Food for All!”)
MENU:
Mango Salad: with tomatillo, black olive, fennel, red onion - $5.5
Fish 'n' Chips: Halibut with batter-fried lemon "chips" and homemade caper tartar sauce - $13
Aged Prime Ribeye: with wild mushroom, shelling bean and golden chive - $14
MSF Rice: Smoky Rice fried in Duck Fat with Duck Confit, Duck Cracklins, Shitake, and Cauliflower- $8
VSF Rice: Smoky Rice fried in olive oil with Shitake, Cauliflower and Tofu Tempura - $6.5
PB & J: Berkshire Kurobuta Pork Belly with marinated jicama, pickled jalapeno and cilantro aioli - $6.5
Lung Shan's Vegan Delight: Shitake and Oyster Mushroom Dumplings in Miso Soup - $5.5
Butter Fried Cornbread with Buttermilk Pannacotta and Mint Julep Honey - $6
Humphry Slocombe Secret Breakfast Ice Cream - $3.25
13.7.09
Thursday July 16th: 826 Valencia and Meals on Wheels
This Thursday Tommy Halvorson has prepared a menu inspired by summertime. He is the founder of The Fire Society, a roaming supper club, and former sous chef of Bix and Betty Zlatchin Catering.
Tommy will be donating a portion of his proceeds to 826 Valencia, which is dedicated to supporting students ages 6 to 18 with their writing skills and to helping teachers get their students excited about writing. MSF will be donating to Meals on Wheels which has been providing isolated, homebound seniors with nutritious meals, daily human contact and supportive services for 38 years.
MENU:
Ceviche a la Minute: Australian Suzuki, avocado, cilantro, lime, habanero, ginger, sea salt, house fried tortilla - $9
Chilled Cucumber Soup: with seared prawns, avocado and tomato confit - $7.5
Cast-Iron Chicken: crispy skinned boneless chicken thigh, heirloom tomatoes,lemon cucumber, basil - $11
Parisienne Gnocchi: Brentwood corn, broccoli di ciccio, Padrón peppers, preserved lemon, chile oil - $8
Rare Beef Tostada: aged prime ribeye, basil, lime, tomatillo, caper aioli, radish, watercress on a crispy tortilla - $8
King Trumpet: mushroom with triple fried potato, garlic confit and charred scallion sour cream on a homemade flatbread - $6
"Corn Dog" and Sweet Potato Fries with homemade ranch dressing - $7
Lung Shan's Vegan Delight: shitake and oyster mushrom dumplings in miso soup - $5.5
Homemade Brioche Bread Pudding: blackberries, nectarines, soft cream and muscat - $5.75
Humphry Slocombe Sweet Corn Ice Cream - $3.25 per scoop
Tommy will be donating a portion of his proceeds to 826 Valencia, which is dedicated to supporting students ages 6 to 18 with their writing skills and to helping teachers get their students excited about writing. MSF will be donating to Meals on Wheels which has been providing isolated, homebound seniors with nutritious meals, daily human contact and supportive services for 38 years.
MENU:
Ceviche a la Minute: Australian Suzuki, avocado, cilantro, lime, habanero, ginger, sea salt, house fried tortilla - $9
Chilled Cucumber Soup: with seared prawns, avocado and tomato confit - $7.5
Cast-Iron Chicken: crispy skinned boneless chicken thigh, heirloom tomatoes,lemon cucumber, basil - $11
Parisienne Gnocchi: Brentwood corn, broccoli di ciccio, Padrón peppers, preserved lemon, chile oil - $8
Rare Beef Tostada: aged prime ribeye, basil, lime, tomatillo, caper aioli, radish, watercress on a crispy tortilla - $8
King Trumpet: mushroom with triple fried potato, garlic confit and charred scallion sour cream on a homemade flatbread - $6
"Corn Dog" and Sweet Potato Fries with homemade ranch dressing - $7
Lung Shan's Vegan Delight: shitake and oyster mushrom dumplings in miso soup - $5.5
Homemade Brioche Bread Pudding: blackberries, nectarines, soft cream and muscat - $5.75
Humphry Slocombe Sweet Corn Ice Cream - $3.25 per scoop
9.7.09
Saturday July 11th: Mission Stoned Food
This Saturday, Mission Street Food is Mission Stoned Food, a munchie space station here to rain tender morsels down on the blazed. We'll be reinterpreting classics of the stoner food genre, and inventing a few new ones. Chris Ying--Meatpaper editor, former cook, and sometimes blogger--is the guest chef.
MSF will donate its profits to the St. Anthony's Foundation, which operates one of our favorite food pantries in the city. They're open every day of the year.
MENU:
Chips and Dip: foie french onion dip with Bugles, Cheetos, Ruffles,
Pringles, Doritos, Funyuns, Hot Fries - $6.5 (veg dip available)
Humboldt Fog: Cypress Grove goat milk nacho cheese with hash browns - $7
PB & "Js": spicy peanut butter dipping sauce with two taquitos of duck confit
and Benton's bacon -or- vegetarian taquitos with banana and smoky lychee - $5
Inverted Nacho: roasted corn, avocado, jalapeño crema, parmesan frico - $7
Hot Pocket: Portuguese-style chicken curry with onion, potato, and coconut
milk in a fried pastry pocket - $6.5
Dinner for Two for One: a three-meat and ricotta meatball sandwich with
tomato sauce and gruyere fonduta on homemade focaccia -and- a homemade biscuit loaded with sausage gravy - $12
Pineapple Express: grilled pineapple with sweet garlic rice and crispy
pancetta (veg option available) - $7
Lung Shan's Vegan Delight: shitake and oyster mushrom dumplings in miso soup - $5.5
Milky Snwixerteers Kat - terrine of candy bars with vanilla ice cream - $6
Munchie Special - scoop of Humphry Slocombe's peanut butter ice cream laced with chocolate-covered pretzels - $3.50
ADDITIONS
your brain on drugs (ie, a fried egg) - $1
crumbled Famous Amos Cookies on any dish- $.75
ranch sauce anywhere - $.75
MSF will donate its profits to the St. Anthony's Foundation, which operates one of our favorite food pantries in the city. They're open every day of the year.
MENU:
Chips and Dip: foie french onion dip with Bugles, Cheetos, Ruffles,
Pringles, Doritos, Funyuns, Hot Fries - $6.5 (veg dip available)
Humboldt Fog: Cypress Grove goat milk nacho cheese with hash browns - $7
PB & "Js": spicy peanut butter dipping sauce with two taquitos of duck confit
and Benton's bacon -or- vegetarian taquitos with banana and smoky lychee - $5
Inverted Nacho: roasted corn, avocado, jalapeño crema, parmesan frico - $7
Hot Pocket: Portuguese-style chicken curry with onion, potato, and coconut
milk in a fried pastry pocket - $6.5
Dinner for Two for One: a three-meat and ricotta meatball sandwich with
tomato sauce and gruyere fonduta on homemade focaccia -and- a homemade biscuit loaded with sausage gravy - $12
Pineapple Express: grilled pineapple with sweet garlic rice and crispy
pancetta (veg option available) - $7
Lung Shan's Vegan Delight: shitake and oyster mushrom dumplings in miso soup - $5.5
Milky Snwixerteers Kat - terrine of candy bars with vanilla ice cream - $6
Munchie Special - scoop of Humphry Slocombe's peanut butter ice cream laced with chocolate-covered pretzels - $3.50
ADDITIONS
your brain on drugs (ie, a fried egg) - $1
crumbled Famous Amos Cookies on any dish- $.75
ranch sauce anywhere - $.75
7.7.09
Thursday July 9: The Sunbeam Foundation and SF Food Bank
This Thursday we are pleased to host Ian Marks who worked at The Liberty Cafe and The Fatted Calf before moving to the Hog Island Oyster Co. where he is now the executive chef. In addition to oysters straight from the source, his menu will spotlight a variety of seafood preparations.
Ian will be donating to the Sunbeam Foundation which was established in 2005 with the aim of spreading hope and finding a cure for rare and underfunded forms of pediatric bone cancer. MSF profits will once again go to the SF Food Bank which provides food to over 133,000 people every year through 600+ community food programs.
MENU:
Chicharrones: Pork Cracklins’ with sweet chili dipping sauce - $3
Shooter: Soju Bloody Mary shooters with Hog Island Sweetwater’s - $3 each
Chilled Fox Island Mussels with curried fennel, chili and lime relish - $6
Fried Sardine with basil creme fraiche, watermelon, apricot, tomatillo - $7
Baby Octopus Crostini: Braised octopus in a garlicky tomato broth on fried toast - $8
Butta Fish: Pan-seared Walu on farro salad with cucumber raita - $9 (veg option available)
Pork Belly and Scallop with white bean, bacon, candied pinenut - $12
King Trumpet: mushroom with triple fried potato, garlic confit and charred scallion sour cream on a homemade flatbread - $6
Lung Shan's Vegan Delight: shitake and oyster mushroom dumplings in miso soup - 5.5
Creamsicle with candied orange peel - $4
Cherry Pie with Brillat Savarin French Triple Creme - $6
Ian will be donating to the Sunbeam Foundation which was established in 2005 with the aim of spreading hope and finding a cure for rare and underfunded forms of pediatric bone cancer. MSF profits will once again go to the SF Food Bank which provides food to over 133,000 people every year through 600+ community food programs.
MENU:
Chicharrones: Pork Cracklins’ with sweet chili dipping sauce - $3
Shooter: Soju Bloody Mary shooters with Hog Island Sweetwater’s - $3 each
Chilled Fox Island Mussels with curried fennel, chili and lime relish - $6
Fried Sardine with basil creme fraiche, watermelon, apricot, tomatillo - $7
Baby Octopus Crostini: Braised octopus in a garlicky tomato broth on fried toast - $8
Butta Fish: Pan-seared Walu on farro salad with cucumber raita - $9 (veg option available)
Pork Belly and Scallop with white bean, bacon, candied pinenut - $12
King Trumpet: mushroom with triple fried potato, garlic confit and charred scallion sour cream on a homemade flatbread - $6
Lung Shan's Vegan Delight: shitake and oyster mushroom dumplings in miso soup - 5.5
Creamsicle with candied orange peel - $4
Cherry Pie with Brillat Savarin French Triple Creme - $6
3.7.09
Closed for Fourth of July
Just a quick reminder that we'll be closed this Saturday for the holiday weekend. Have fun at your barbecues and picnics, and we'll see you next week with our regular Thursday + Saturday schedule.
29.6.09
Thursday July 2nd: Breakfast for Dinner - International Edition
This Thursday we are opening for breakfast...breakfast for dinner. Carlo Espinas of Camino and formerly chef of Piccino will collaborate with us to present a menu of breakfast foods from around the world.
Profits will go to the Delancey Street Restaurant, part of the country's largest self-help organization for former substance abusers, ex-convicts, homeless and others who have hit bottom. Started in 1971 with 4 people in a San Francisco apartment, Delancey Street has served many thousands of residents, who stay for a minimum of 2 years and receive a high school equivalency degree (GED), as well as training in 3 different marketable skills. Beyond academic and vocational training, residents learn important values, and the social and interpersonal skills that allow them to live successfully in mainstream society.
MENU:
Fruit Salad: figs, nectarine and pluot with yogurt dressing, balsamic, toasted almond granola and fresh herbs - $6
Lox Napoleon: with rye crostini, creme fraiche, cucumber, dill and fried capers - $7.5
Egyptian Ful: Fava puree on homemade pita crisp with fresh herbs - $5
Mohinga: Burmese fish stew with poached black cod, vermicelli, chickpea fritter, egg and cilantro - $9
A Boracay Breakfast: Filipino-style crispy pork sisig served with garlic rice, sour mango and a tempura egg - $8.5 (vegetarian option available)
Braised Pork Migas: Braised pork shoulder with pimenton, pasilla peppers, charred spring onions and a fried Soul Food farm egg - $9
Breakfast flatbread: with Benton's Bacon, scrambled egg, avocado, queso fresco, salsa verde - $6
Lung Shan's Vegan Delight: shitake and oyster mushroom dumplings in miso soup - $5.5
"Cinammon Toast Crunch": Firebrand pan de mie, bruleed with cinammon butter and condensed milk - $5
Humphry Slocombe Secret breakfast Ice Cream - $3.25 per scoop
Notes:
-We will be closed on Saturday July 4th and will re-open on Thursday July 9th.
-$340 to Food Runners, $260 to CDC Food Pantry, $510 to St. Mary's Center, $240 to Welcome Ministry
Profits will go to the Delancey Street Restaurant, part of the country's largest self-help organization for former substance abusers, ex-convicts, homeless and others who have hit bottom. Started in 1971 with 4 people in a San Francisco apartment, Delancey Street has served many thousands of residents, who stay for a minimum of 2 years and receive a high school equivalency degree (GED), as well as training in 3 different marketable skills. Beyond academic and vocational training, residents learn important values, and the social and interpersonal skills that allow them to live successfully in mainstream society.
MENU:
Fruit Salad: figs, nectarine and pluot with yogurt dressing, balsamic, toasted almond granola and fresh herbs - $6
Lox Napoleon: with rye crostini, creme fraiche, cucumber, dill and fried capers - $7.5
Egyptian Ful: Fava puree on homemade pita crisp with fresh herbs - $5
Mohinga: Burmese fish stew with poached black cod, vermicelli, chickpea fritter, egg and cilantro - $9
A Boracay Breakfast: Filipino-style crispy pork sisig served with garlic rice, sour mango and a tempura egg - $8.5 (vegetarian option available)
Braised Pork Migas: Braised pork shoulder with pimenton, pasilla peppers, charred spring onions and a fried Soul Food farm egg - $9
Breakfast flatbread: with Benton's Bacon, scrambled egg, avocado, queso fresco, salsa verde - $6
Lung Shan's Vegan Delight: shitake and oyster mushroom dumplings in miso soup - $5.5
"Cinammon Toast Crunch": Firebrand pan de mie, bruleed with cinammon butter and condensed milk - $5
Humphry Slocombe Secret breakfast Ice Cream - $3.25 per scoop
Notes:
-We will be closed on Saturday July 4th and will re-open on Thursday July 9th.
-$340 to Food Runners, $260 to CDC Food Pantry, $510 to St. Mary's Center, $240 to Welcome Ministry
25.6.09
Saturday June 27: Pride Night for Youth Meal at the LGBT Center
This Saturday we'll celebrate Pride 2009 with a veritable sausagefest and a few bearded oysters. In addition to tasteless jokes we'll also have some tasty MSF classics and a dollar off drinks if you were are going to be in the parade.
MSF profts will go to the LGBT Center's Youth Meal program which provides a "nourishing meal and a welcome environment" for LGBT youths.
MENU:
Bearded Oysters: Hama Hama oysters with lemon-cucumber granita - $6.5
Sausage Fest: braised sausage "corndog" with onion marmalade and caper aioli - $5.5
Eggplant Tempura with shitake, pickled ginger, edamame puree, truffle vinaigrette - $6
Rare Ahi with foie gras, avocado, fried nori, sesame crackers - $14
Benton's Bacon, apricot and watercress on griddled sourdough with goat cheese creme fraiche - $6.5
Duck Taco Dorado: Duck Confit cucumber, tomatillo, hoisin salsa, cilantro, queso fresco, crispy tortilla - $6
PB & J: Berkshire Kurobuta Pork Belly with marinated jicama, pickled jalapeno and cilantro aioli - $6.5
Lung Shan's Vegan Delight: Shitake and Oyster mushroom dumplings in miso soup - $5.5
Apricot-Cherry Trifle, with whipped Mascarpone - $5
Scoop of Humphry Slocombe Secret Breakfast ice cream - $3.25
MSF profts will go to the LGBT Center's Youth Meal program which provides a "nourishing meal and a welcome environment" for LGBT youths.
MENU:
Bearded Oysters: Hama Hama oysters with lemon-cucumber granita - $6.5
Sausage Fest: braised sausage "corndog" with onion marmalade and caper aioli - $5.5
Eggplant Tempura with shitake, pickled ginger, edamame puree, truffle vinaigrette - $6
Rare Ahi with foie gras, avocado, fried nori, sesame crackers - $14
Benton's Bacon, apricot and watercress on griddled sourdough with goat cheese creme fraiche - $6.5
Duck Taco Dorado: Duck Confit cucumber, tomatillo, hoisin salsa, cilantro, queso fresco, crispy tortilla - $6
PB & J: Berkshire Kurobuta Pork Belly with marinated jicama, pickled jalapeno and cilantro aioli - $6.5
Lung Shan's Vegan Delight: Shitake and Oyster mushroom dumplings in miso soup - $5.5
Apricot-Cherry Trifle, with whipped Mascarpone - $5
Scoop of Humphry Slocombe Secret Breakfast ice cream - $3.25
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