Noticed there's a crispy pork tenderloin sandwich in rotation at Broken Record that is getting a lot of love on yelp recently. A yelper said it was breaded with panko. Not what I grew up with in Minnesota, but something.

Crispy Pork Tenderloin Sandwich $9
wilgenberg tomato
spicy mayo & honey mustard dressing

I trust that this was an excellent cookie but I like a cookie because it's a cookie, not a process. I'm sort of immediately put off the same way sex suddenly becomes alien when it involves too much dialogue and too many props. It looks like it's a sizable space too, not just a 4-walled kiosk. I'm curious to see how business fares.

Alright well I made it to Skampa this afternoon for a Super Beef. First meal here after the red eye from SFO. I enjoyed it fine but I could pretty much take it or leave it. I was slow on the uptake and ended up with every fixing save pickles, so the overall experience was not totally unlike eating an especially sloppy California burger + bbq - not necessarily a bad thing. It would have been nicer a bit warmer. It's what I wish an Arby's sandwich was - fast, cheap, jumbo, sloppy, satisfying but ultimately just so so food. Instead, Arby's is just awful and Skampa's seems fine for what it is. No regrets. Thanks for the rec. I saw some Brazilian restaurants in the neighborhood I'm curious about.

Tomorrow I conquer sandwich #2: the lobster roll at Neptune Oyster. I will be there tryna blend in at off hours so as not to displace the locals.

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Skampa
424 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02141

Thanks, I did see Skampa recommended but wasn't sure if it was done in a similar style (or what that traditional style is exactly) as Nick's. After reading some more it sounds like BBQ sauce is pretty standard on a roast beef sandwich.

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Skampa
424 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02141

From what I can tell Nick's is the place for a roast beef sandwich. Unfortunately I don't have the time to get up that way. I've been searching the board but I've not been able to figure out the best place to go inside Boston/Cambridge area for a facsimile to Nick's. Any ideas for a destination worthy roast beef? Futile pursuit?

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Nick's Roast Beef
139 Dodge St, Beverly, MA 01915

I've been going to the new store in the Richmond district of San Francisco.

- Dark chocolate orange-flavored cookies are delicious, though 12/box is slightly pathetic if you're an inhaler like me.

- Nut cluster baggies are a good deal, especially when they mark them down to $1 a week
before they are set to expire (whatever).

- Roasted banana gelato is great.

As a rule, the prepared foods look substantially better than they are, even at half-off. Lean Cuisine quality.

No complaints thus far that I've noticed! I do take a light-hand with the mayo and the homemade sauerkraut from the local Eastern Euro markets isn't especially strong.

Fried egg with melted muenster cheese, sauerkraut, wasabi mayo on pumpernickel. Works equally well with pastrami or smoked oysters.

Will check it out - thanks.

Thanks very much, looks promising.

My sister is studying for finals at Tufts this week and I would like to have something sweet delivered she can share with her dormies. I'm in San Francisco and thoroughly unfamiliar with options. Any recommendations for local bakeries who I could order from and would deliver to the dorms? Thanks!

There's a kung pao corned beef dish on the current menu: http://www.missionchinesefood.com/

La Traviata definitely had some booths last time I was there (which was some years ago). They show on Yelp photos.

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La Traviata
2854 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110

I've had very little eggnog exposure in this lifetime, Jack in the Box shakes being the highlight. This season I thought I was was enjoying the Berkeley Farms version over a couple of nights, until the last couple days when I just wasn't getting the same satisfaction. And that's exactly it: it's a bubble gum taste. And strangely enough, just like Hubba Bubba, I have desperate insatiable cravings to drink/chew the product out of existence the moment I taste it.

I'll be trying homemade recipes in the new year!

Not had Kara's, but I like Cako myself.

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Cako Bakery
211 O'Farrell St, San Francisco, CA 94102

If you're willing to walk a bit:

Windy's month of lunches 2008 (FiDi)
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/517750

Windy's month of lunches - SOMA edition
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/617896

Seems like it may be the way the new video player is interacting with ad blockers - I get the same effect in Firefox as Jasmine but goes away when I disable the ad blocker.

Another thread: http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/409377

This is a more casual FiDi lunch option since you say he works in SF, but I noticed at Sellers Market they've got a turkey & brie with cranberry relish and a black forest ham & fig jam, I'm sure they'd do a mash up of those two sandwiches and warm it up for him. There are SMs at 721/525/388 Market

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Sellers Market
721 Market St, San Francisco, CA

I had one of the best burgers I've ever had in the city there a few years ago. Was an awesome surprise, and always wonder if it's really as good as I remember it.

re: PPQ - The poster went to the PPQ pho house on Irving, not PPQ Dungeness on Clement with the crab & garlic noodles.

I had the vermicelli with grilled pork and egg (or maybe it was spring) rolls the other day, was just ok. Seemed to catch them in a rare lull around 1:30 because I was in and out in a flash. The prices are great - think it was $6.83 inc. tax for plenty of food. The bad: rolls were... decrepit, like they had been sitting around for years, very weird texture with little flavor. The good: the rest of it tasted really fresh, pork was tasty enough. Fish sauce had a kind of off taste. Overall: I haven't had many bun dishes to compare, but this was lackluster, felt like it was missing something, but I will definitely be back to check out the pho.

I don't see any indications online that Little Delhi at 83 Eddy St. is closed - website is up, and it's still up on GrubHub-type sites. A yelper mentions that the chef Kamal sold Little Delhi at Eddy & Jones a couple of years ago. Definitely will have to try Curry Village.

No expert but SF-wise one I've liked a lot has been delivery from Little Delhi in the Tenderloin. On a good night the chicken tastes wonderfully of the tandoor and the sauce is notably complex. Some nights, though, they go overboard with the cream and muck it all up. Also, they don't hold back much with the spicing, which is great in other dishes, but "medium" can be surprisingly spicy and disrupt the balance in tikka masala. Haven't enjoyed their other dishes as much. Decent samosas though.

I also remember having really good tikka masala at the Naan-N-Curry on Irving in the Inner Sunset, but haven't been back in awhile.

Similar topics with recs and reports, heavy on the farmer's market:
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/503670
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/546326
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/471644
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/408884
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/337939

Cheap eats thread to get you started: http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/359937

With the best of intentions, let's just get this out of the way now before someone even more unbearable has a fit: No matter how many quotation marks you put around your self-identified "local" status, half the population of this board is going to bleed from the eyes at "San Fran". Locals use "SF" "The City" "San Francisco"... no "San Fran", no "Frisco".

That's a really good idea, chowser. That would be a show I'd check out for sure.

I have never received an Indian pizza, including Zante's, that actually had all the listed ingredients on it. The lamb, shrimp, and eggplant are never there. The cauliflower makes an appearance about half the time, as does the chicken. When the chicken is actually there, it is usually minced to Walla Walla and back. So, yes, very much it is like you just get what is leftover or within arm's reach of the pizzamaker. Everytime I am the big fool for playing this stupid Indian Pizza game again. Luckily cheese-garlic-ginger-cilantro is a credible pizza by my standards.

pikawicca, what are you silently gesturing at in history, somewhere I guess in the pages of the blog itself, that reveals that it was conceived in the name of financial gain? I can't tell if you really read the thing or not from the way you're speaking.

I just have to laugh at the idea that someone in 2002 really believed that blogging her way through an old Julia Child classic was a one-way road to wealth-building. We all love Julia Child here, but that name at that time doesn't scream $$$$$, much less via the road Julie took. Which is not to say that Julia Child wasn't bankable - clearly she was, she's Julia Child, but not in a way thats just begging to be capitalized on. Who the hell in 2002, a dozen lifetimes ago in Internet years, would have the confidence in a gimmick like that? I can't even name another former nobody with a blog that has turned into a major book or film project. And I'm doubtful the money she eventually took from PayPal donations did much but subsidize her cooking costs. I'm sure there will be many blog-born media projects to come, but in 2002... well, if Julie had in mind this kind of success in the beginning color me impressed with her foresight into cultural trends. And it's not like it was an easy buck, either way.

I don't like her writing much, either, but I don't see what you see. Comments like yours just seem like lame potshots to take at someone who lucked out who we just plain don't like for personal reasons. Yeah, it's too bad that if someone had to gain from everyone's beloved Julia it couldn't have been someone of a different character, perhaps, but that Julie did gain and bitched and moaned unattractively getting there doesn't mean she originally hopped on the Julia legacy for $$$$$. I mean the lady was still living at the time, to boot - and while perhaps Julie was so shrewd to be coasting on the inevitability of Julia's passing (and the subsequent rise of of her stock commercially), she also ran the risk of having the project loudly and openly condemned by Julia herself at the time. While that kind of negative attention does wonderful things financially for many situations, I think in this one it would have fatally damned it.

Wow, job well done - and impressive. You really did it up good in your time here. Nice to hear a favorable report on the fried chicken at Town Hall, too. Thank you for reporting back!