The weekend finds your lack of faith disturbing.
Your Perks: 1) Leather bags made of Moroccan goatskin leather. A very specific, very attractive kind of leather. 2) Ways to make espresso at home or in your car, depending on how badly you need your fix. 3) Tom Ford sunglasses. This Ford guy has a future.
Here’s a place called Little Gem that opens tomorrow in Hayes Valley. There’s a person in the kitchen who spent some time in one of Thomas Keller’s kitchens. You’ll eat flat iron steaks and Tuscan pork shoulder there. Everything’s healthy. You may continue having a Wednesday now.
Detroit: Home of Shinola, purveyors of anything from bikes to leather goods to Muhammad
Ali–inspired watches.
Palo Alto: Home of the first NorCal location of Shinola, stocked with anything from bikes
to leather goods to Muhammad Ali–inspired watches.
In case you were wondering what Detroit and Palo Alto had in common.
You remember Potbox. You know, that pot-of-the-month club for medical marijuana card holders, complete with tasting notes. Well, they’ve got gift cards now. And that’s probably enough words about that.
Ninebark, that kind-of-a-big-deal place in downtown Napa with that chef from Atera and all of those things you like to eat, is now serving brunch. They’ve got tartines topped with smoked avocado and eggs, fried-oyster po’boys, brunch cocktails and... there you went.
SoMa StrEat Food Park most days: That place with the food trucks where you can hang out,
drink beer and eat stuff. SoMa StrEat Food Park this Sunday: All of that, but with
bottomless Dungeness crab, garlic noodles, beer and sangria.
We’re going to call this a positive development.
