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I am so with you on this... (Reply to this comment)
by Mr.Eyore
and was planning on writing in this category myself. I just can't believe what an early town this is, given its claims to cosmopolitan world-class-ness. It's crazy making.
I agree with you about the donut shop greasy spoons. When I want some late night food (until 4:00 a.m.) I go to Grubstake, which is on Pine or Bush or something, between Van Ness and Polk. They have a huge menu and pertty decent food. But it gets packed around 2:00.
Up the street on Polk is Steve the Greek, which serves pizza and mediocre middle eastern food (and um, booze, shhhhh) 24/7.
Other than that, its delivery from North Beach Pizza or Mozzerella di Bufalo until 4:00.
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Feb 05 '01
1:36 pm PST
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Twenty-four hour restaurants (Reply to this comment)
by glomarrone
I love San Francisco. I'm not a night owl so I never ran into this restaurant problem there. In NY where I live we have lots of good restaurants opened late. Who knows maybe the idea will spread to San Francisco.
Thanks for reading and rating my epinion on Carmine's Restaurant. I appreciate it!
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Feb 06 '01
5:45 am PST
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Some other options (Reply to this comment)
by peterme
El Farolito, on Mission near 24th, stays open until 3. And serves the best al pastor in town.
IHOP and Mel's on Lombard are good diner options, and, I think, open 24 hours on the weekends.
Bagdad Cafe on Market and 16th stays open late with a good selection of standard fare. Breakfast anytime!
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Feb 06 '01
10:20 am PST
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Re: I am so with you on this... (Reply to this comment)
by megugrrrl
My first choice is the Grubstake - there's something about those porkchops - yummers, and hey, while we're indulding I try and get a shake to boot. The only reason I didn't mention them was the 24 hour thing.
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Feb 08 '01
7:30 am PST
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Thai Food till 3am. (Reply to this comment)
by kyleyoshida
This is a problem that I, too, have been struggling with.
Until 3am (well - 2am for now, until they get their permits straight with the SFPD) there is always pretty tasty Thai food on Geary Boulevard at Leavenworth: OSHA Thai Noodle Cafe. Don't let the name food you! There is more than just noodle-based fare there! The quality is good, the portions are healthy, and the people there are very nice. Another plus (if you haven't been there in a while) is that they have recently remodeled. They now occupy two store-front spaces, and so there are no longer the lines-that-stretch-out-the-door-onto-the-sidewalk (*whew*).
Oh - I don't work there either. I am just a fan, living down the street (they also do really quick take-out)!
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Feb 19 '01
12:54 am PST
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I concur... (Reply to this comment)
by emptywishes
Mel's Diner makes for some pretty good late-night eating... I would often stop by there after shows.
The Jack-in-the-Box drive-thru in Berkeley isn't open 24 hours though, unless it's changed within the last three months. It closes (closed?) at 2am.
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Feb 26 '01
2:40 am PST
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What timing! (Reply to this comment)
by smiles33
My fiance, Brace33, and I just went to Mel's last week when we had a late-night craving for food. We thought it was our only non-fast food choice! I've never heard of Grubstake before and can't wait to try it next time we want a midnight snack!
Great review!
Sincerely,
Anna
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Mar 04 '01
10:34 pm PST
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Re: Some other options (Reply to this comment)
by aerosolteen
Yes! It's all about El Farolito. Only decent place for a musician to get food after packing up all the gear after a show! Without them I would starve.
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Mar 20 '01
10:26 pm PST
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If this is true... (Reply to this comment)
by crucify
"...there’s a little saying that goes: if all the people in San Francisco simultaneously decided to eat out at a restaurant, there are so many restaurants that there would still be seats left..."
then why do I always have to wait for a seat when I go to visit my grandma? LoL. Sorry, couldn't resist. Maybe I shouldn't go to really good sushi resturants in the middle of Japanese communities. Hmm. I feel your pain, I don't think that I could live without my friendly 24-hour neighborhood Carrows. Mmmmmmmmmm breakfast any time of day...yum.
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Apr 06 '01
7:52 am PDT
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i agree (Reply to this comment)
by benho
I never understood this either. Boston is like this as well, even though it's a college town, and 1/5 of the population are students. About the only places outside NY-the city that never sleeps, with good all night fare, is DC.
As I will be moving to the Bay area in the fall, I am catching up on your restaurant reviews. I will dearly miss NY's great food, but hopefully SF won't disappoint.
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Jun 06 '01
7:43 am PDT
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Amen. (Reply to this comment)
by amycamus
I nearly starved to death my first year here - well, I mean, very late at night when nothing was open. Believe or not, there are far more options now than a few years ago. At least now there are a handful of decent places that serve food until midnight or one. If I wasn't so tired from being up 'til 5, I could remember a few for you. Thanks for tackling this; I'd love to see you or me or someone return to this with a complete list some day.
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Jul 21 '01
8:04 pm PDT
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Re: Amen. (Reply to this comment)
by megugrrrl
"I'd love to see you or me or someone return to this with a complete list some day"
Ahem.
We could do it together! Come up with the list and split the list in half. I'm serious. We can delete this one and post a more comprehensive one. Let me know if you're down..
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Jul 23 '01
6:59 am PDT
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late nite picks (Reply to this comment)
by ender43
grubsteak (polk/pine?) - open late late
tommy's joint (geary/van ness) - open til 3am i think
burger king (van ness/eddy?) - open til 2am on w/e
lucky penny (geary/masonic?) - 24 hours
sun hong kong (broadway/?) - late late
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Aug 01 '04
7:40 pm PDT
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East Bay roundup, august 2004 (Reply to this comment)
by dave94703
About the only thing I really miss about LA, where I grew up (okay, I also miss Pinks hot dogs), is the wonderful Ships chain, with a toaster at every table and their fabulous deepdish pies; but they're all gone anyway, victims of being situated on too-valuable real estate.
The scene is indeed grim in the East Bay. I remember fondly back to Biff's (for a while JJ's) at 27th and Broadway, with their odd steak soup and delicious stuffed potato surprise (it had some weirder name, like Potato Experience), and not all that far back to Dave's, much further north on Broadway. (They made it onto the Letterman show about eight years ago, because of their name, but it didn't save them. If you call them now out of the yellow pages you get referred to a defunct pager number.)
The Carrows in Richmond and the one on Hegenberger are not 24-hour. The A1 Nutrition Cafe on Center Street in Berkeley, a hole-in-the-wall that used to be round the clock, is rarely open at all. The Emeryville Lyons, an above-decent cookie cutter chain, is no longer all-nite, nor is the last IHop standing, on San Pablo. The (Lake) Merritt Bakery, fabulous we-never-close bakery and diner, got sold and horribly transformed about six years ago; the original owners opened a teensy namesake operation on Telegraph, but it was just a regular bakery. The Jack London Inn stopped going round-the-clock years ago, though they're still open til 4 Fridays and Saturdays. The once-always-reliable, if a bit too chewy, Oaks Card Club Hofbrau on San Pablo now closes at midnight. I can confirm that the near-Oakland Berkeley Jack-in-the-Box on Telegraph isn't 24-hour; I'm on the zoning board, and we don't allow any restaurants open after midnight outside of the downtown (don't blame me, I'm always in the minority), and our downtown closes just after downtown SF does (except for the pricey but well-appointed Downtown Restaurant across from the Berkeley Rep, full menu till 11). Our Copper Penny turned into the UC Cafe decades ago, and despite its name is too far from the student scene to bother staying open late. The closest we have is Au Coquelet at Milvia and University, with their copyrighted Always Second-Day Or Older pastries; they have a neon sign that says "Open All Nite", and when I came by one night at 2 am the waitress locking the door explained to me: "Right! We're open all night, til 2 am."
What's left? Besides the horrible Denny's (and it's not just that I'd rather starve, but that I've eaten there and starved anyway; it's not clear that the menu consists of actual food products), there's really nothing.
Nothing, that is, except for Casino San Pablo (in San Pablo AND on San Pablo), which is quite a bit more than nothing. They keep a cook on all nite to supply any hungry players. Since the clientele is almost exclusively Asian, so is the round-the-clock menu. There's a couple of tucked-away tables where they'll actually wait on you if you assault a hostess, there's a not-too-shallow menu, and the food is well above the Chinese average, and served with a helpful warming cover, just in case you're deep in a hand. Try the red pepper steak, it's excellent. Resist any urge to play at the tables, though; Some of the weirder Chinese blackjack rules seem only to be handed down familially.
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Aug 05 '04
6:22 am PDT
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Lucky Chances Casino! Duh! (Reply to this comment)
by gotemcoach
They have every type of food you can think of...and it's good. The most popular is the Filipino food but they have Chinese, American, Pho (Viet), Pastas (Italian). And you can get in a game of Black Jack or poker while you're there.
It's near Serramonte Mall near the cemetery. Look it up.
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Dec 07 '09
2:52 am PST
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