Meals Under $8: (Most of) Kitchenette SF's Daily Specials
By Tamara Palmer in Cheap Eats
Wednesday, Mar. 25 2009 @ 11:40PM
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Weekdays from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., you can now stop by what's essentially the loading dock for LRE Catering to pick up lunch, with a different menu every day reflecting the best local, organic take on street food that they can whip up from scratch. Chefs Douglas Monsalud and Brian Leitner have a collective resume that includes stints at Chez Panisse, Fog City Diner, Betelnut, and Gordon's House of Fine Eats, and work with chefs who have cooked for Foreign Cinema, Eccolo, and Incanto, among others. But the Kitchenette SF project places a focus on more affordable food, with most items priced under $8.
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Kitchenette is cash only, and the advisement to arrive earlier rather than later was wise today; I showed up at 11:45 and snapped up the last of the vegetarian sandwiches, a toasty and buttery baguette topped with fava greens, Bellwether Farm ricotta cheese, bell peppers fried in olive oil, spring garlic, and a proper zing of chile flakes, with a side of macaroni salad ($7).
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Today's offerings also included an addictive carnivorous sammy of Berkshire pork roasted in beer and tangerine juice and paired with Short Night Farm cabbage, cilantro, and a hint of jalapeno, also with macaroni salad ($8); a refreshing salad of gem lettuces, almonds, apples, and gorgonzola picante with cider vinaigrette ($6); incredible "citrus-ade" made with pixie tangerines, Meyer lemons and blood oranges ($2); and peanut butter-oatmeal-butterscotch cookies which I foolishly did not order (50 cents). The cookies are about to get more adventurous; one flavor on the way is the maple bacon snickerdoodle.
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Menus are announced daily via the Kitchenette Web site and its Twitter account, the latter of which just teased that they'll soon be offering lunch delivery as well. In the meantime, get there early!
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