Posts by Sara Deseran

Rick Bayless Talks Mexican vs. Mexican

On SF Gate’s Inside Scoop today, the honorable Paolo Lucchesi sat down with the venerable Rick Bayless to talk shop. After he got done waxing on about his good eating in SF (none of it Mexican), he got down to business. A man with a sharp mind, Bayless always has…

A Sign of the Times: El Herradero, Saved!

There’s something telling about San Franicsco’s current restaurant world in this little story. A tale of technology and pop-ups, something old and something new.
The other day I was at work and lo and behold, what popped up on my computer but a tweet from Mission Street Food announcing that, due…

August is For the Love of 7 Leguas

Mike Barrows, our general manager, recently got back from a trip to the Tequila region of Mexico. It was there that he learned something I’ve always found to be true: Everything tastes better when you learn to love the people that make it.
Mike came to us initially as our bar…

Win Two Free Tickets To Outside Lands (and some tacos to go with it)

The person to become Tacolicious’s 1000th Facebook fan will get two tickets to Outside Lands (August 14-15) plus six tacos from our Tacolicious stand! Kings of Leon? Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros?  Tokyo Police Club? Carnitas?
This is going to be one fine day. Go to Facebook now.

Hwy 12: On the Tortilla Trail in Sonoma

My parents live in Glen Ellen. In the summer,  Sonoma is where I flee from San Francisco’s summer fog. Although this side of the wine country might be more white-bread than the city, it’s hardly lacking in Latin flavor. And Highway 12 is where to find it.
Highway 12, otherwise known…