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Let’s yam

January 27, 2011 5 Comments

The yam sandwich / in my top 5 fave local sandwiches of the last decade.

This is from last nite (Wed.) Atlas Cafe – 20th and Alabama

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With love from San Pancho: merry xmas, happy holidays +happy new year 2011!

December 21, 2010 23 Comments

With love from San Pancho: Happy Holidays

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With love from San Francisco, wishing you all happy holidays and a peaceful, relaxing,

and big wild party to celebrate the end of year and receive a brand new sunrise in 2011.
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Frenchie, and you are there. — BART

Hot ginger dose — Outdoor sitting at Outerlands

BART parking — Passing by parked bikes at the 24th and Mission BART station.

Jump — Crunchie sidewalk, somewhere in North Beach

Blinkies — Butterlap pit stop in the Presidio

Sweet ride. — Chatting with a fellow randonneur, outside Trouble Coffee in Outer sunset.

Red bow white ride — Outside Orphan Andy’s in the Castro

Greetings from foglandia, from a quiet Golden Gate Bridge sunset fog view

Chillaxing +drinking lots of coffee and, maybe will give it a try at skating that ice rink at Union Square or Embarcadero (!!)

I’ll be back to the blogesphere after the Holidays, in January. Thanx for reading, as always. Mucho love.

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’til next year!

♥xo.meli

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The other night I had a bite at Pika Pika. There is one rack right across it, but in the evening, after four barrel closes, you can find some open racks on that stretch. Or across the street at little star. They close at 10PM, so just in time to get a late maiz+frijoles snack and a beer.

Window view.

I had the black-bean arepa. Bike-fuel approved.

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Weekend report.

August 2, 2010 7 Comments

Looks pretty closed to me. Frenchie on Polk st.

The weather this weekend was gloomy and sunny at the same time. Depends on the neighborhood, you got a full exposure of the science of these multiple microclimate thing we got going on here, to the max. Got to kick it with young parents that my friends are (Ade + James), more bike rides and all the girl crew on Saturday. So, pretty chill weekend in the foggiest city of the bikeyniverse 😀

TGIF and the F stood for frenchie, food +fogggielicious.

Fine post-dinner late Friday evening at the orbit room with Ade and James.
Whiskey, live jazz music and a projected B/W film. Good times.

On Saturday I went to 3rd annual ♥Renegade Fair on Saturday for the 3rd time!!!
**awesome** hung out with the girls, met a ton of people – full on roundup coming this week!

Saturday evening dinner with friends.
This bike rack we all love, at π pizza on Valencia near 26th fits here 5 bikes, and had room for more.

After the pizza, stopped at Amnesia for some post-pizza spirits.
Live music is always a pleasant surprise, it wasso much fun.
This band rocked, I wrote their name somewhere. Her voice is badass.
*UPDATE*: Band name is definitely Con Brio [thanks ChasingTheMoon]

Then on Sunday, the annual craving for peach ginger cornmeal pancakes meliradar went off.
So ratta + i took care of that at Kate’s Kitchen in the Lower Haight.
I got to flirt with the waitress +we got a big heart on the check. awesome.

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+that is how the weekend went down
♥!!! xxo/meli

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The Marina you don’t know.

July 10, 2010 11 Comments

If you roam the city in the early mornings and anytime for no reason at all as much as I do, you will get to see the people that really live in the neighborhoods that you perhaps don’t visit much. As an extremely curious being, here are some shots from the Northside of the city: the Marina.

Handy man.

calitexican waits for me with the bicis.

window waiting wednesday

Delarosa (one of Beretta’s set of sister reastaurants) parking for pasing-by bikeys. hope they get bike racks soon.
speaking of which, the pizza in dela rosa, is pretty damn good.

Coffee and olives before pizza

This below, is the view from inside the Plant Cafe Organic on Steiner street, formerly known as Lettüs.

Want the best veggie burger in town?, says I, go here. Worth the trip.

What would you like today?

I have seen beautiful granpas dressed to the nines. Going to a corner liquor shop and spending hours there.
Black/white photo on Greenwhich street, by Julie Michelle /tangobaby

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Racked.

June 30, 2010 No Comments

My good friend Stephen gave me a lift a couple of weeks ago. We were both about 50 miles away from the City, and it was a treat to chat with a friend, have our bikes in the back, and not leave work 1.5+hrs before to catch CalTrain or a time-restricted Bus or BART. I’m fine with that once in a blue moon.
I wanted to show off the fact this is built-by-Stephen. He made the rack himself. I know nothing about cars/sport racks, but if you can make something yourself and it involves bikes or food (better yet, both), I am all for it.
Here are some shots of his super fancy road bike, a pimped out Litespeed with Dura Ace included, and my retrolicious smurfette.