Drawing for Food: San Francisco

San Francisco/ Mission 2/ Dynamo Donuts

Oh Dynamo Donuts, your 3 dolla holla donuts, with bacon topping and well designed everything and your super serious donut bakers.

Yes Donuts, along with hot dogs and damned cupcakes, taken to a higher level. I love donuts. Drawing for Food is based on a love of drawing butts and hot dogs and finding the perfect donut. Here for 3 bucks you can get a Apple Maple glazed donut topped with fresh crunchy bacon. Or a banana dulce de leche donut ( sold out ), or a fresh hot cross bun donut, with cardamon and vanilla pastry cream.

Yes the maple apple bacon donut, lived up to expectation. Thanks for messing with my donut fantasies Dynamo Donuts. It's like getting the hot bartender's number, but he lives in San Francisco.

Dynamo Donuts
2760 24th St
(between Hampshire St & York St)
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 920-1978

San Francisco/ Mission 1/ Philz Coffee/

It's kinda wierd to blog about coffee, it makes me feel super nerdy. In a world of coffee culture that is the West Coast, I was very very happy to have been taken to Philz Coffee in the Mission. Where I actually need to read about all the coffee to order my cup, which is made by the cup. And served to you Dunkin' Donuts style where they ask you how you like your cream and sugar, because they are the professionals they know how this should taste. The milk or cream can be heated up for you and your tea is served to you without the bag and perfectly brewed.

Jane and I got the Tesoro, chocolate in the coffee grounds, brewed, so not super chocolatey or sweet. Served with steamed cream and a slapped mint leaf.

My cousin had the off-the-menu Red Sea blend, served black of course.

Philz Coffee
3101 24th St
(at Folsom St)
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 875-9370

East Oakland/ Fruitvale/ 4 Caminos

We went to visit my old printmaking professor and good friend Jack Ford. We kind of surprised Jack before he had lunch, so we tagged along for his lunch routine. Which is a quick drive to East Oakland, to 4 Caminos, where he get's the "Jack Special". Or as the waitresses who know him well, call him, "Hack" or "Hackie!". The Jack Special turns out to be what he get's for lunch quite often, just one shrimp taco and one carnitas taco. The tortillas are fresh handmade corn tortillas which were fluffy and the shrimp was only dressed in limes onions and cilantro. It was amazing. The carnitas were salty and had a few crunchy bits thrown in with the soft parts. They came with a side of fresh spicy pickled vegetables.

Super Awesome, just like Jack.