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Formula One Why the Lusty Lady and the Grove Should Worry Small Businesses More Than Changes to the Chain Ordinance 16 News 26 At Home 24 Calendar Back Story: Beyl’s Fitness First: September Events: From paper memories 6 Functional fitness 26 America’s Cup excitement to events for your dog, from Beat Food & Wine Pets photography to a German film Hungry Palate: Jasmine Blue: fest, September is filled with things Buster’s cheese A charitable way to to do with the family or while the steak joint 16 remember Jazzy 38 kids are off to school. 24 WWW.MARINATIMES.COM CELEBRATING OUR 27TH YEAR VOLUME 29 ISSUE 9 SEPTEMBER 2013 Reynolds Rap Formula one Why the Lusty Lady and the Grove should worry small businesses more than changes to the chain ordinance by susan dyer reynolds hen I voted in favor of San Francisco’s formula retail ordinance in 2006, I thought it was to keep huge nation- al retailers like Walmart from opening on Wwhat I call “strollable streets” — those charming neighbor- hood thoroughfares with a mix of restaurants and retail that attract a bevy of foot traffic. Since then, the ordinance has proven to be shambolic and full of loopholes, and the Planning Commission, tasked with deciding which PHOTO COURTESY MARINA COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION chains get conditional use permits and which chains don’t, has added another layer of perplexity by making absurd, often contradictory decisions like denying a Starbucks on Market Street, and then five days later approving a CVS 3rd annual Marina Family Fest two minutes away. The Planning Department often treats these hearings like high school cheerleader tryouts, eas- by lynette majer The festival will feature all the For Everyone), whose mis- ily swayed by letter-writing campaigns, small community things kids go crazy for: bounce sion is to provide safer neigh- groups, and organized opposition from merchants who f you’re looking for a houses, a petting zoo, a rock borhoods through education, don’t want competition. The problem is, of course, that family-friendly event in the climbing wall, and more, with crime prevention, and public 99 percent of regular citizens never attend these hearings, neighborhood, look no fur- local gourmet food trucks, and safety messages. and so what the commission sees is rarely representative ther than the third annu- a beer and wine garden offer- Find the Marina Family Fest of the majority of the neighborhood. Ial Marina Family Fest, sched- ing a refuge for mom and on the Marina Green at Marina It is precisely this combination of self-interested poli- uled for Sunday, Sept. 29. Once dad. A variety of entertain- Boulevard and Scott Street from tics and nonsensical regulations that led me, this past again collaborating with District ment is also planned, as are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $25, March, to send a series of questions regarding San 2 Supervisor Mark Farrell, this booths from all your favorite which includes unlimited access Francisco’s formula retail ordinance to Scott Sanchez, the year’s event hopes to be even larg- local merchants. to all the planned activities. Visit zoning administrator for the Planning Department. On er, surpassing last year’s successful This year’s event benefits www.sfmca.org for tickets and July 25, those inquiries and a number of others appeared number of 6,000 attendees. S.F. SAFE (Safety Awareness additional information. FORMULA ONE, continued on 3 How to be an S.F. hipster by sandy fertman ryan that they took an interest in me, but just as quickly, I realized it wasn’t a compliment. ou know you aren’t hip It was my jacket. Ugh. But other than when you stand out like a sore that one humiliating New York moment, thumb in the Mission. Recently, I think I have been fairly capable, post- Ymy husband and I were there, and we were Aptos Junior High, of holding my own in awestruck by the utter hipness that has fashionable circles — though never to the overtaken Valencia Street. Were we asleep extent of a hipster. the last five years? It was date night, so Being a San Francisco hipster requires we couldn’t have possibly looked less cool much more effort than simply being cool. or more out of place. Let’s just say that if You must be intelligent (just look at them!) someone were playing Where’s Waldo? and and sadly, that’s not something you can we were Waldo, the game wouldn’t have go out and purchase like an accessory, or lasted a minute. say, a pastel jacket. Google Glass may be of I have never considered myself a hip- some help in the near future, but as of this ster. There were times when I considered moment, you have to be intelligent on your myself cool, but cool did not require doing own. Hipster friends have explained to me Chef Michael Rotondo’s uni risotto at Parallel 37 PHOTO: SUSAN DYER REYNOLDS very much. Being laid back was cool. Not that hipsters only look smart — for exam- caring too much was cool. For example, ple, attending all of those pop-up store and I didn’t care at all when, many years ago, art gallery openings and of-the-moment Dishing with Chef Michael Rotondo I wore a pink pastel jacket in New York lectures, like “27 Ways to Cook Sustainable after Labor Day. Wait: That turned out to Placenta,” all the while lugging tattered by susan dyer reynolds get letters from magazine (then called be uncool. I walked into a designer’s cloth- notebooks in their arms with who-knows- readers now and “10 Questions with Chef ing store on Madison Avenue and after what-brilliance written inside. Restaurant: Parallel 37 (in the again lamenting my …”). The column features surveying all of the über-chic clothing, one Serious glasses — those big faux tor- Ritz-Carlton, San Francisco), Imonthly “Dishing with interviews with chefs in of the employees turned to me and said, toise-shell frames that only very famous 600 Stockton Street (at Chef …” column, which I their prime like Thomas “Are you from L.A.?” Two salespeople tit- directors or Elvis Costello can pull off — California), 415-296-7465, started over a decade ago Keller and Gary Danko, tered softly. For a moment, I was thrilled HIPSTER, continued on 11 www.parallel37sf.com in Northside San Francisco DISHING, continued on 17 WWW.MARINATIMES.COM THE MARINA TIMES SEPTEMBER 2013 1 Contents AMERICA’S TOP STEAKHOUSES Osso Steakhouse — 1177 California Street, San Francisco, CA In This Issue Bobo’s — 1450 Lombard, San Francisco, CA 14 18 Peter Luger Steakhouse — 178 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY Bern’s Steakhouse — 1208 South Howard Avenue, Tampa, FL CUT — 9500 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, CA Emeril’s Delmonico — 3355 South Las Vegas Boulevard, Las Vegas, NV Mario Batali’s Carnevino — 3325 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas, NV 38 Chicago Cut — 300 North LaSalle, Chicago, IL The Precinct — 311 Delta Avenue, Cincinnati, OH Elway’s Cherry Creek — 2500 East First Avenue, Denver, CO News Calendar Around the Northside September events John Zipperer reports on the end of Pet Food It was great having the children home Express’ hopes on Lombard Street, and Ernest all summer, but now that they’re off to Beyl digs into the City’s newspaper bin. 4 school you can focus on what you want to do this month. Concerts? Benefits? Community Alternative film festival? There are so many things to do this month, you Crime in the big city might even want to do some of it with Captain McEachern offers back-to-school your children. 24 advice; plus the Police Blotter. 8 At Home Street Beat Health and house North Beach Sketches Julie Mitchell suggests functional fitness 10 Ernest Beyl reveals his local heroes. workouts; Liz Farrell looks at the threat of food allergies; and Julia Strzesieski looks PHOTOS: MISHA BRUK Business & Finance forward to a bright spring with some 26 Getting business moving fall planting. John Zipperer says the BART strike is about you, even if you never ride it; plus a Real Estate Osso Steakhouse mid-year economic forecast. 12 Renting, buying, and selling The Mystery Housebuyer returns with sso Wolfgang Puck’s CUT. vor that is nothing Sports advice from Egypt; Carrie Goodman Steakhouse The steakhouse is short of a revelation. What’s up with the Giants? and Lisa Miller talk about buying “off market”; Stephanie Saunders Steve Hermanos looks at what went wrong is the lat- located in the landmark For the truly hardy, Ahlberg discusses applying buying with the MLB champs; and Michael Snyder power; Carole Isaacs urges NIMBYs Oest creation from the Gramercy Towers, next try the three-inch has fun watching the Giants rivalries. 14 and newbies to get along; and John people who brought door to the Masonic thick Bone-in New Zipperer says homeownership’s not you The Stinking Auditorium on pres- York New York Empire Food & Wine for everyone. 29 Rose, Calzone’s and tigious Nob Hill, Steak Building Cut. It’s Dining and dishing Ernest Beyl gets his cheesesteak fix at Buster’s; Travel Bobo’s, which was near the Fairmont, the juiciest, most per- Susan Dyer Reynolds chats with chefs Ryan Going modern listed as one of the Mark Hopkins and fectly marbled beef that Scott and Russell Jackson; the Tablehopper Garrick Ramirez heads to St. Helena for says Polk Street is hopping; Jeannine Sano top ten steakhouses Huntington Hotel. has ever been set before some R&R. 36 offers advice on ordering wine; Julie Mitchell in America by USA The stylish Art- you. “It’s osso good!!” takes in Glaze; Secret Asian Man shares some Today in 2012, along- Deco-inspired design not-to-miss dishes; and an update on the new Pets side such notable res- provides an elegant Valet Parking Tosca Café.
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