Corporate Insider: Your SFoodie Lunch Planner

J. Birdsall

Better than a turkey sandwich. Always.

Do not go to Whole Foods to buy pozole. But say it's lunchtime, and you find yourself in the SOMA store, facing the deli wall of murky soups in their plastic containers. In that case, the chicken pozole is a find: toothy hominy corns, hunks of dark meat that don't suck, and an orangey-red broth with the warm-tobacco taste of ancho chile. Of course, setting aside microwave button-pressing, the whole interactive element of pozole will be lacking ― no customizing at table with toasted oregano, shredded cabbage, onion, lime ― something, arguably, that's pozole's greatest pleasure. But consider it axiomatic: tasty, less-than-perfect pozole > deli case baguette sandwich. Every time.

Whole Foods SOMA 399 Fourth St. (at Harrison), 618-0066