Pop-up Report: Sneaky's BBQ at Vinyl Coffee & Wine Bar

Categories: Pop-Up, Sandwiches

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Jen Hunter
San Francisco is crawling with pop-ups, and there are more than a few just on the short stretch of Divisadero between Haight and Golden Gate. Today we return to that fertile ground to bring you this, the second installment in our occasional series of pop-up reports:

Sneaky's BBQ at Vinyl Coffee & Wine Bar
The Pop-up: Sneaky's BBQ
The Host: Vinyl Coffee & Wine Bar every Wednesday 6-9:30 p.m.
The Cuisine: BBQ, with emphasis on Carolina-style sauces
The Experience: One of the great joys of a pop-up is the incongruity it produces -- the odd coupling of, say, must-try burger with bumpin' club, or Vietnamese street food with bicycle repair -- and Sneaky's at Vinyl pushes that button with style.

A coffee shop by day and wine bar at night, Vinyl feels like a very grown-up place, especially compared to the dozens of other cafes within the few blocks of the Divisadero corridor. Its dark walls are adorned with thoughtfully selected art, the clientele skews older (so, like, 35) and better dressed, and the playlist is more jazz than Jay Reatard.

See Also: Pop-up Report: Rice Paper Scissors at Mojo Bicycle Cafe
Sneaky's BBQ is Now Popping Up at Vinyl on Wednesdays
Hi-Lo BBQ: San Francisco Gets Its Own Barbecue

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Pal's Takeaway's Fourth Anniversary Party, Expansion Plans

Categories: Events, Sandwiches

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It's a little-disputed fact that some of the city's best sandwiches come from Pal's Takeaway, the tiny counter ensconced in Tony's Market at 24th and Hampshire (though you may remember a few months ago when they were raising Kickstarter funds for a move/expansion; more on that in a moment). Anyway, the beloved sandwich shop is celebrating its fourth anniversary this Friday with a bevvy of super-special sandwich-making guest stars.

See also: Pal's Takeaway Looking to Move, Raising Funds on Kickstarter
Best Sandwiches - Pal's Takeaway, inside Tony's Market


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Where To Get Your Free Grilled Cheese Sandwich Today

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Flickr/chefdruck
You know you want one.
It's National Grilled Cheese Day! And while it's true that we usually avoid mention of such theme days because, well, there are so many and they usually skew toward the random (today is also National Licorice Day, tomorrow is National Peach Cobbler Day, Monday is National Glazed Spiral Ham Day, and so on), free grilled cheese is a giveaway we can get behind.

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Best Sandwiches in the Movies: Don't Forget The Tiny Bread in Spinal Tap

Categories: Sandwiches, Video

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We very much enjoyed Bon Appetit's all-sandwich-all-the-time coverage last week for Sandwich Week, but had a few quibbles with their list of the 13 best sandwiches on film. Mainly because they missed one of our all-time sandwich scenes: The tiny bread (and regular sized lunch meat) that causes such a problem for Christopher Guest in This Is Spinal Tap.

See also: San Francisco's 10 Best Sandwiches
What 2,000 Calories Look Like in Foods You Eat Every Day
Our Three Favorite Mixology Parodies

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Chicken Soup's Good For the Soul at Shorty Goldstein's

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Anna Roth
The chalkboard menu and house-made pickles at Shorty Goldstein's.
A new deli in the Financial District is offering classic comfort food like pastrami sandwiches and chicken soup updated with local, seasonal ingredients, as per usual in S.F. The tagline at Shorty Goldstein's is "cure, brine, smoke, pickle," which refers to all the things that Michael Siegel and his team do in-house.

Breakfast brings cheese blintzes, matzah brei, challah French toast, a gravlax plate, and a pastrami or corned beef Benedict, which sounds like an amazing hangover cure. For lunch, there are meaty corned beef, pastrami, and turkey sandwiches, along with a beef tongue version of Thursdays, matzo ball soup, chopped liver, latkes, kniches, brisket, and half roasted Mary's chicken.

See also: Don't Fear Deli Board's Breakfast Sandwich
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Really, Really Good Sandwiches in the Richmond

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Bay Ewald
Angelina's Café, nestled on California and 22nd Avenue, is one of the Richmond District's hidden gems. Bustling with a lively and spirited neighborhood vibe, Angelina's is the perfect place to venture when you have a hankering for a mouthwatering sandwich, side dish, and soda pop.

See also:
- Porchetta Sandwich: Carmel Pizza Co. Wins Lunch
- Bar Tartine Sandwich Shop: Worth Some Time in Line

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Jamber's PB&Jam Ain't the Lunchbox Kind

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Molly Gore
Jamber is all about keeping the fuss of food low. The intention is American comfort food, and the menu is a revamped selection of family recipes from the upbringing of the brother-sister duo who started the joint, Matt and Jess Voss. The PB&Jam is what you'd expect from a place that only serves wine from a tap in Mason jars: it's playful, accessible, and relies on your amusement in finding something presented in a way you're not quite used to.

See also:
- San Francisco's 10 Best Sandwiches


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"No, You're Boring": 1058 Hoagie Lashes Out Against This Week's Review

Categories: 'Eat', Sandwiches

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Instagram/Tablehopper
My own personal daily special board at 1058 Hoagie.
When you write criticism for a living, it's your job to dish out the bad along with the good. I had high hopes for 1058 Hoagie, the new sandwich shop from Adam Mesnick, the owner of the excellent Deli Board, but when I reviewed it this week in the paper I found some of the new hoagies to be lacking the creativity of his original hot sandwiches.

The review and its punny headline, "Deli Bored," caused me to became the subject of schoolyard name-calling on the sandwich shop's daily special board -- as Marcia Gagliardi at Tablehopper discovered and posted on Instagram with the caption, "This is what happens @1058hoagie when they don't like your review's headline: you become a special. Snark=snark."

See also:
- 1058 Hoagie: Still Building a Sandwich on Par with Deli Board


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East and West Coast Chefs Descend on the Mission for Edible Selby-Inspired Sandwiches

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Alexander George
Photographer Todd Selby continues to conquer the San Francisco food world with his new book Edible Selby, an ode to his favorite chefs and their domains. Yesterday he stopped by Bar Tartine, where five chef friends and subjects each created a signature sandwiches for a one-day lunch menu. Here's what they came up with:

See also:
- Party with Local Chefs and Photographer Todd Selby, Author of the Eclectic Edible Selby


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In Which Our Italian Sub Craving Takes Us to Molinari's

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Anna Roth
If you're a food person, restaurants are right up there with friends as the hardest things to leave behind when you move. I've been in San Francisco for a few months now, just enough time to develop a serious craving for the glorious Godmother sandwich from Bay Cities Deli in Santa Monica. It's an Italian sub at its finest, and in search of a satisfying NorCal substitute I headed to Molinari Delicatessen in North Beach, which has been owned and operated by the Molinari family for more than 100 years.

See also:
- First Bite at Mau: Two Inventive Takes on the Bahn Mi
- Happy Hour: Cheap Beer and a Moroccan Lamb Sandwich at L'Acajou
- The Corner Store's Fried Green Tomato Sandwich Makes a Cal-Southern Spectacle


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