The Big Eat SF: 100 things to try before you die

[hhc]

I love lists, this one is good. 100 things to try before you die from 7x7 Magazine:
http://www.7x7.com/content/eat-drink/...

[sabrinasmom]

Funny that Pastores is on this list - I went again (I think this has been my fourth time) at 10:30 on a Saturday morning - closed. When is this restaurant ever open?

[Chuckles the Clone]

The Spätzle at Suppenküche??!? Either they mean the Käsespätzle
or they don't know what they're talking about.

The notion of heading to one particular this-week's-hipster-hangout to
have the the current-trendy-bottled-italian-apéritif-of-the-moment (#71,
and only slightly lesserly #s 26, 43, 58) is a bit silly.

[pumakat]

The open faced pork belly sandwich at Bar Tartine. It's served on top of homemade egg salad - AMAZING!

[Windy]

It's called keeping your advertisers happy.

[SteveG]

Well, it is a San Francisco list, R-Bar serves the most Fernet of any bar in North America, and San Francisco consumes the most Fernet per capita of anywhere, except perhaps Argentina. Make of that what you will, but I doubt it's because of sponsorship.

[SteveG]

That is a fun list, especially if you indulge your inner bombastic editor for things like tea leaf salad from Burma Superstar: "Burma Superstar, maybe if you're queasy about ethnic food, but I'd rather have the version from X," or "Bi-Rite Creamery's Salted Caramel? Nothing could ever be as good as Boulette Larder's limited run of Salty Caramel or Rum Raisin!"

[BigE1967]

I too have tried many of what it is listed. I would make a few edits/additions;

The Taylor's Ahi sandwich instead of the cheeseburger and add an order of sweet potato fries to go with it.
A meatball sandwich from Viking Giant Subs on the corner of Lombard and VanNess
A vanilla ice blended from the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf (i know its rather "mainstream" but to a generation of people that somehow think that a starbucks frappacino is any good, one sip of an ice blended from coffee bean and they will never have another frappacino)
A plate that smoked ham dish from Henry's Hunan

[larochelle]

I find the "before you die" a little contrived but its a great cheat sheet if you looking for the signature dish or what's best at these places.

I have an Annual "Let's Eat San Francisco" party where everyone brings their favorite dish from a SF restaurant or food purveryor to share. I'll definitely link to this article in the future to give people ideas!

[Carrie 218]

I have eaten more than 50% of the list, but am shocked it does not include the obvious: sourdough bread, cioppino, and (for my Top 10 list) the beef tartare at Bix.

[rworange]

There's two more days to get that licorice parfait at South as part of the DAT menu.

That caldo verde at Grubstake is fine any time of the day, IMO.

They must have put the list together before Humphry Slocombe Ice Cream opened because that secret breakfast ice cream belongs on anyone's top 100.

[Chuckles the Clone]

Over on the right side of the page there's a little headline-ette that says "olive oil ice cream comes to the Mission". Which leads to a story about the Hump.