Local Mission Market Opens With All-Local Meat, Cheese, Bread and Dry Goods

Local Mission Market opened November 5th with all-local meat, fish, cheese, bread, and dry goods. Located on Harrison Street at 23rd Street in the Inner Mission, the new “locavore” market stocks only products from a 90-mile radius of San Francisco (with exceptions for coffee, tea, chocolate and spices). If it’s not in season, it’s not in the store—no tropical fruits, no imported ethnic foods, just local food. Prepared foods sold by the market are done in-house, as well as the butchery, baking, pasta-making, and more.
The other thing that makes the Local Mission Market stand out is the high level of tech involved with buying food. Scales run by iPads print labels, roving checkers with iPads help keep lines down, and two levels of online membership (with a monthly fee) allow for advance shopping–just come pick it up–or free delivery by bicycle cart.

The Local Mission Market is targeting tech-savvy shoppers with high standards for organic and local food, making the Mission District a perfect choice of location.





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Pacific Union’s Best San Francisco Outdoor Activities

Though September marks the beginning of autumn for residents in many parts of the U.S., here in San Francisco, the month unofficially ushers in Indian summer, when the fog lifts and temperatures hit their yearly average highs. Residents know this as the best season to host out-of-town guests expecting more traditional California weather, as well as an ideal time to get outside and enjoy what the city has to offer.

Pacific Union’s San Francisco-based real estate professionals know the City by the Bay like the backs of their hands and can offer insider tips on the top places to savor the amazing September weather. And in case the weather doesn’t cooperate on some days, we’ve also sprinkled in some indoor attractions that are favorites with the locals.

The Embarcadero

Start at the Ferry Building farmers’ market, grab a burger at Gott’s Roadside, and eat by the water. Then stop by the Exploratorium’s new location for some wow and wonder.
Address: 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco, 94111

Golden Gate Park

Take the kids for a bike ride (or go roller-skating) on a Sunday, when portions of the park are closed to cars. Or visit a world-class museum or the famed Botanical Garden.
Address: 501 Stanyan St., San Francisco, 94117

Ice Cream and Cable Car Outing

Savor a sundae at Swensen’s Grill & Ice Cream in Russian Hill (try the Hot Fudge Bonanza), then take a cable car down to Ghirardelli Square for a stroll by the water.
Address: 1999 Hyde St., San Francisco, 94109

Lafayette Park

This recently remodeled park offers killer views, tennis courts, picnic tables, and a new children’s play structure and water feature. Fido will love the off-leash area, too.
Address: Gough Street and Washington Street, San Francisco, 94109

Land’s End Hike

Park at 29th Avenue and El Camino Del Mar and enjoy this breathtaking trail hike to the Cliff House, with views of the Golden Gate Bridge and Ocean Beach.
Address: 680 Point Lobos Ave., San Francisco, 94121

Picnic at the Presidio

Enjoy a Sunday picnic at Off the Grid’s Presidio summer events. Finish the day at the Presidio Bowling Centeror the charming Walt Disney Family Museum.
Address: Main Parade Ground Lawn, The Presidio, San Francisco, 94129.

Randall Museum & Tank Hill

Check out the mini petting zoo and model train exhibit at this free museum. Afterward, take a hike over to nearby Tank Hill for some breathtaking city views.
Address: 199 Museum Way, San Francisco, 94114

Stern Grove Festival

This free, outdoor music festival is a great place for a Sunday summer picnic. Bonus: There are free art projects and programs for kids too.
Address: 19th Avenue and Sloat Boulevard, San Francisco, 94132

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An explosion of upscale Mexican spots to try

This fall, three San Francisco restaurants will add to the surge in high-profile Mexican places, capping a year that has already seen the debuts of Padrecito, Nido, Garaje and two more Tacolicious outposts. And that's not even mentioning the recently opened Rancho Gordo in the Ferry Building, which is pretty much owner Steve Sando's homage to Mexican and New World products.

Chefs Jose Ramos, (glasses) and Gonzalo Guzman of Nopalito in San Francisco Jose Ramos

The formidable La Urbana (661 Divisadero St.) is nearing completion at Divisadero and Grove. With a sleek black facade and three spaces scattered over 3,600 square feet, La Urbana partners Eduardo Rallo and Juan Garduño are betting big.

When the restaurant and mezcal bar open in the first week of September, the menu of shareable plates from chefs Julio Aguilera and Ben Klein will have a distinctly modern slant.

They're ditching chips and salsa in favor of chicharron de arroz, rice crackers with chipotle salt and guacamole. Oysters will come topped with cucumber serrano froth, and huevos con chorizo will feature lime crema and nasturtium leaf. Quesadillas will be made with smoked goat cheddar, while sides of rice will be seasoned with saffron, peas and radish flowers.

Ben de Vries is selling his Luella restaurant. One regular burst into tears upon hearing the news. 

The third part of the space, which will open later in the year and is dubbed Mercado Urbano, will serve Mexican street food by day and morph into a cocktail bar with small bites at night.

On the other side of Pacific Heights, another group is formulating its own take on a 21st century Mexican cantina.

The former City Tavern (3200 Fillmore St.) has been gutted and is being rebuilt from the ground up by local impresarios Andy Wasserman, Hugo Gamboa and Adam Snyder. They've brought aboard Jose Ramos as their executive chef, and will reopen the prized corner space as a Mexican restaurant and bar named Sabrosa.

Co-Owner Adriano Paganini at Pesce's new location on Market Street in San Francisco, Calif. on August 15, 2013

The talented Ramos, who was a founding chef at Nopalito, is working on a menu that will explore several regional Mexican cuisines. Sabrosa will be a restaurant first, but given the Cow Hollow location, a lively bar scene will be integral part of the equation.

But while La Urbana and Sabrosa hope to explore new realms of Mexican cuisine, be it modern or regional, Adriano Paganini - the entrepreneurial hit-maker behind Super Duper, Beretta, et al. - is taking another route: reinterpreting the ubiquitous San Francisco taqueria, with better ingredients.

He plans to open his take on a taqueria - named Uno Dos Tacos - in the Financial District's former Sellers Market (595 Market St.), also in the fall.

High on a hill: Last week, Luella chef-owner Ben de Vries told a regular customer that he was selling his Russian Hill restaurant (1896 Hyde St.). The diner, who had been coming every other week for years, broke down in tears.

That's the kind of neighborhood love that Luella has fostered in its nine years of business. But citing a desire to lead a more balanced and family-centric life, de Vries will close it Aug. 31.

The new regime says it will strive to create a similar, quintessential neighborhood spot.

Jason Kirmse and Cyrick Hia, who own the popular Fat Angel (1740 O'Farrell St.) in the Fillmore, and former Michael Mina general manager Ryan Cole are taking over and plan to open a new restaurant in the Luella spot, named Stones Throw.

"We want it to be really, really approachable," says Cole. With restaurants like Nopa and Frances as inspirations, Cole says the partners will aim for "a balance of comfort and familiarity when it comes to the food, but still having some surprises."

The core of the staff will be made up of well-seasoned Michael Mina vets, including 30-year-old executive chef Jason Halverson, who has cooked at both locations of Michael Mina's eponymous San Francisco flagship. Tai Ricci, who worked alongside Cole in Michael Mina's dining room and more recently at SPQR, is also aboard on the service side.

Ciao, Napa: Executive chef Scott Warner is leaving his post at Bistro Don Giovanni after more than a decade at the Napa Valley restaurant (4100 Howard Lane). He's off to open his own restaurant - most likely in somewhere in Marin, he says.

Meanwhile, Bistro Don Giovanni will continue to hum along as it celebrates its 20th anniversary this year.

Chef-owner Donna Scala has given Warner her blessing.

She also quips that she knew that Warner's time was winding down when he wore a kilt to work one day, because, as she jokes, "There's only room for one skirt in this kitchen."

Hop-ocalypse Now: It's no secret that the Bay Area is in the midst of a craft brewery boom. In San Francisco alone, there are under-construction breweries by Triple Voodoo and Magnolia in Dogpatch, Cellarmaker in SoMa, and Barrel Head Brewhouse in NoPa, among others.

But it's probably safe to say that none of those entrepreneurial endeavors will be quite like Warfighter Brewing Co., an upcoming microbrewery and tasting room in San Carlos (360 Industrial Road). Its mission is to create jobs for veterans with and without disabilities. Owner Jon Barton, himself a combat veteran, comes from the film industry, and has decorated the tasting room with old recruitment posters, vintage propaganda and similar war memorabilia.

The grand opening is set for Sept. 11.



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Blue Barn Gourmet opens on Polk Street

Pesce went dark this week, but Polk Street got a restaurant newcomer right next door with yesterday’s arrival of Blue Barn Gourmet in the former Yabbie’s space.

As reported last week, the Russian Hill outpost is the third branch of the popular quick service sandwich-and-salad spot from Sam Josi, Stryker Scales and Nate Valentine. On opening day, right on time, a line of eager neighborhood folks snaked toward the door.

The new location is much bigger than the Chestnut Street location, complete with high-top tables, two-tops and a 8-seat wine bar area. The menu is a virtual facsimile of the Marina outpost, with sandwiches like the Rooster (chili-lime grilled chicken, bacon, white cheddar, avocado, chipotle aioli on a ciabatta roll, $10.75) and the Smoked (smoked wild king salmon, goat cheese, cucumber, red onion, watercress and horseradish aioli on sliced country levain, $9.50). There is also an entire menu section dedicated to gussied-up grilled cheese sandwiches ($9.25-$10); beer and wine is also available.

Click here to view the full menu.
Open Tuesday-Saturday from 11 a.m. – 8:30 p.m.






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Hakkasan Hits SF's Financial District

Sophisticated Cantonese cuisine is the focus of San Francisco's Hakkasan, which opened last week on the edge of the Financial District. It's the tenth restaurant in the global chain that includes locations in New York, London and Dubai.

Guests are greeted by the wafting aroma of incense on their way to the dining room and a dramatic 25-seat V-shaped bar awash with cerulean blue light. 

The rest of the elegant 10,000-square-foot restaurant is comparatively understated, with dark woods, carved room dividers and embroidered banquettes. 

The large menu includes a la carte and fixed-price options ($68-$138 at dinner).
One way to start is with an umeboshi plum sour or a selection from the eclectic wine and sake list. Move on to crisp duck rolls; Assam seafood clay pot; and a delicately flavored stir-fry of lotus root, asparagus and lily bud. 

Desserts include a coconut tapioca pearl pudding garnished with caramelized spiced pineapple.



Hakkasan San Francisco from Hakkasan on Vimeo.

Here is a sample of their A La Carte menu

Hakkasan San Francisco from Hakkasan on Vimeo.
Hakkasan, 1 Kearny St. (at Market and Geary streets), San Francisco; 
(415) 829-8148
www.hakkasan.com
Lunch and dinner daily
Full bar
Reservations and credit cards accepted
Valet parking
Starters and small plates, $8-$21
main courses, $18-$58
desserts, $8-$18

Article by:  Lynne Char Bennett
Sfgate.com

get in with the COMPANY

Not just what you keep telling yourself you don't need at night so long as you have a body pillow andGlee reruns, Company is also a new Cal-Ital (rhyme!!) restaurant that looks like the type of place you'd eat crispy confit chicken wings with red jalapeno & mint (so... industrial steel accents, rust colored-walls, red-chairs, and hanging orb light fixtures?).

After you've had a plate of their Kennebec fries (w/ smoked paprika salt, lemon aioli, Parmigiano Reggiano), you'll have a second (dude, they're so good), then a third (seriously, the guys in the kitchen are two former Four Seasons chefs), then finally try other stuff like garlic & chive tagliatelle with Manila clams and the Bread & Butter Burger (house-ground beef w/ Madeira-glazed velvet Pioppini mushrooms & white cheddar).

And because your Obama home brew is still fermenting, drink one of their four drafts (Liberty Ale, Drake's 1500 Pale Ale, Boont Amber Ale, Big Daddy IPA), or cocktails like the Gin Refresher with house-infused hooch and lemon tonic that's noticeably bitter... which's totally not how you feel alone on Saturday nights.

Lunch Menu:

Vegetable Minnestrone Soup – 8
Fresh Shelling Beans, Herb Pistou

Shaved Fall Vegetable Salad – 11
Toasted Farro, Crisp Pears, Cider Vinaigrette

Kennebec Fries – 5.00
Smoked Paprika Salt, Lemon Aioli, Parmigiano-Reggiano

Poached Wild Salmon – 16.00
Little Gem Lettuce, Salted Cucumbers, Baby Beets, Yogurt-Dill Dressing

Grilled Eggplant & Aged Goat Cheese Pressed Sandwich – 10.00
Arugula, Romesco Sauce

"Bread & Butter" Burger – 16.00
House Ground Chuck & Oxtail, Madeira Glazed Velvet Pioppini Mushrooms, White Cheddar, Kennebec Fries

 Dinner Menu:

STARTERS

Grilled Monterey Squid - 12.00
Crushed Butterball Potatoes, Brussels Sprouts, Pancetta, Salsa Verde

Vegetable Minnestrone Soup – 8
Fresh Shelling Beans, Herb Pistou

Shaved Autumn Vegetable Salad – 11
Toasted Barley, Sunchokes, Fennel, Lemon-Mint Dressing

House-Smoked Wild Salmon Salad – 9
Little Gem Lettuce, Cucumber, Baby Beets, Yogurt-Dill Dressing


MAINS

Line-Caught, Local Wild Salmon – 22.00
Crushed Chickpeas, Braised Kale, Charmoula

Roasted Organic Chicken – 19.00
Integrale Polenta, Grilled Chickories, Sherry Reduction

Garlic Chive Tagliatelle with Manila Clams – 18.00
Rugrosa Squash, Rapini, Tomato Conserva

"Bread & Butter" Burger – 16.00
House Ground Chuck & Oxtail, Madeira Glazed Velvet Pioppini Mushrooms, White Cheddar, Kennebec Fries

Drink Menu

COCKTAILS

Gin Refresher – 6.00
House Infused Gin, Bitter Lemon Tonic

Blackberry & Thyme – 8.00
Sparkling Wine, Blackberry Puree, Fresh Thyme

"Baronial" – 10.00
House Infused Gin Soju, Lillet Blanc, Angostura Bitters

Basil Lemon Drop – 10.00
Premium Soju Vodka, House-made Limoncello, Lemon Juice, Fresh Basil

Agave Margarita – 8.00
Agave Margarita, Fresh Lemon & Lime Juices

Almond-Cherry Soda – 6.00
House-made Amaretto, Lemon Juice, Cherry Bitters, Brandied Cherries


BREWS

On Tap – 6.00
Liberty Ale (San Francisco, CA)
Drakes 1500 Pale Ale (San Leandro, CA)
Big Daddy IPA (San Francisco, CA)
Boont Amber Ale (Boontville, CA)

Bottle – 4.00
Anchor Steam Anchor Ale (San Francisco, CA)
Speak Easy Prohbition Ale (San Francisco, CA)
Drake's Hefewesien (San Leandro, CA)
Omission Lager (Portland, OR)
Omission Pale Ale (Portland, OR)
Mendocino Brewing Co. Bock Seasonal (Mendocino, CA)


COFFEE & TEA

Drip Coffee – 4.00
Single Shot Espresso – 4.00
Cappucino, Latte – 5.00

Five Mountains Tea – 5.00
Spring Jade Green, Heirloom White Peony, Grand Crimson, Bergamot Black
Pacific Peppermint, Nile Valley Chamomile

411 Valencia: New Condominiums in the Mission District

The San Francisco real estate market is not slowing down. 

New developments are popping up all over the city. Sixteen new condominiums will shortly come on the market at the busy Valencia and 15th corridor. 299 Valencia, a 36-unit building, came on the market last Spring 2012, and sold out very quickly.

 The housing demand in the Mission is so high that sales expectations for 411 Valencia will be similar to that of 299 Valencia.

411 Valencia will be a five-story elevator building consisting of 16 one bedroom and two bedroom residences. 

Each residence will have floor to ceiling windows with high efficiency window systems, gas burning fireplaces, Caesar Stone counter tops, Liebherr refrigerators, Bertazzoni gas ranges, Bosch dishwasher, Hans Grohe faucets, and custom designed kitchen and bathroom cabinets.
Amenities include roof terrace with panoramic views, bike storage, and parking garage. 

 The development is close to the tech bus shuttles, 16th and Mission Bart/Muni station, Highway 101, and public transportation along Market St. 
An eclectic mix of cafes, restaurants, and bike shops run along Valencia. Grab a coffee at Carlin’s Café, buy groceries at T&M Market, and dine at Pauline’s Pizza Pie and Coda. 

 To learn more about this exciting new development in the Mission District or other condominium projects in San Francisco, contact Joske Thompson. 


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Tired of fitting rooms? Futuristic shopping comes to SF

Uniqlo, the Japanese retailer of affordable casual clothing, covets the No. 1 place in the apparel world. That quest propels its first West Coast outpost, an eye-poppingly trendy store near the Powell Street cable car turnaround in San Francisco, which opens Friday and will employ 500 people.

"We chose San Francisco because it's a hotbed of global technological innovation," said Yasunobu Kyogoku, Uniqlo U.S. chief operating officer.

With its illuminated rainbow staircase, glass-sheathed roof-to-basement skylight, 91 rotating mannequins and 77 LCD screens, the new store is a symphony of tech-fueled slick marketing.

Its most cutting-edge touch: The "Magic Mirror," a virtual dressing room on a 60-inch digital monitor. A customer tries on, say, the Ultra Light Down Jacket ("It weighs less than an egg," Kyogoku said) in hot pink. Select other colors on a touch screen and an instant video feed shows the customer wearing the item in purple or green or tan.

"You can share it with your friends on Facebook or Twitter," Kyogoku said.

Standing amid the stacks of brightly hued cashmere, fleece and denim, he thrust his hand into the sleeve of a black-and-white polka-dot shirt made from proprietary Heattech heat-retaining synthetic fabric.

"You begin to feel it getting warm after just a few moments," he said. "We sold 130 million Heattech pieces last year."

That kind of volume has boosted Uniqlo - a mash-up of "Unique Clothing Co." - to the No. 4 specialty clothing spot worldwide, after Zara, H&M and Gap.

This Down-Feathered Jacket is to weigh less than an egg

With 1,132 stores in 13 countries, its annual revenue is $10.6 billion.

But parent company Fast Retailing sees that as just a way station on the road to the top spot. It aspires to $50 billion in global sales by 2020, a fifth of it from North America.

CEO Tadashi Yanai, 63 - the richest man in Japan, with a net worth pegged by Forbes at $10 billion - grew the company from a sleepy clothing chain started by his father.

Dressed in a sober black suit and tie, he readily unbuttoned his dress shirt during an interview in his Four Seasons hotel room to show that he sported Uniqlo undergarments made from an engineered fabric called Silky Dry - the spring/summer version of Heattech.

"It doesn't feel like I'm wearing underwear," he said. "These pieces are very comfortable."

Personal choice

He's planting his West Coast flag in San Francisco for a personal reason, he said.

"Forty-five years ago, when I was 18, I came to San Francisco by boat and took two weeks to get here," he said. "I had a great impression. I think San Francisco is the welcoming gate for people from Asia."

Next up: Los Angeles and Seattle, he said, then Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta.

Achieving world domination in apparel would involve leapfrogging Gap, the San Francisco retailer to which Uniqlo is often compared.

It's no accident that Uniqlo's 111 Powell St. store is within shouting distance of the Gap's hometown flagship store, as well as H&M and Forever 21.

"We expect to be the largest selling store on the street," Kyogoku said. But, he added, "It's synergistic to have a critical mass of global brands here."

Yanai said he has great respect for Gap. Mickey Drexler, formerly Gap CEO and now J. Crew CEO, is among his business heroes, along with Steve Jobs, Sam Walton and Les Wexner, CEO of Limited Brands.

"We compete with other retailers for customers every day," Gap spokeswoman Edie Kissko said, noting that Gap has been in Japan for 15 years and its value brand Old Navy opened in Tokyo this summer. "No competitor is more special or more challenging than another. We welcome Uniqlo to San Francisco."

Uniqlo is already ubiquitous in Japan - where some disparage it as "unibore" - so growth must come internationally.

Uniqlo has an aggressive plan to open 200 to 300 stores worldwide every year; 20 to 30 of them in the United States. Right now, besides the Powell Street location, it has three New York City stores and just opened a mega-store in a New Jersey mall.

To Check out their fashions Jump to their website:http://www.uniqlo.com/us/

Need To Get Somewhere? Take a Water Taxi!

THERE IS A NEW, speedy way to get to San Francisco from Marin that doesn't involve cars, buses, roads,
bridges or ferry terminals: All weather water taxis are here.

Now Tideline is developing pick-up locales in the county: 39 Liberty Ship Way in Sausalito, Sam's Anchor Cafe in Tiburon and Cavallo Point near Fort Baker among them. Anyone in Tiburon and Belvedere with a dock can also request service.

The taxi — which bills itself as the fastest way to get to San Francisco from Marin — marks a new era in
transportation on the bay, one in which Tideline Marine Chief Executive Officer Taylor Lewis sees enormous
potential.

"This was built for local people in mind to get people back and forth from San Francisco and Marin County," said Lewis, who spent two years working on the plan he presented to the Port Commission. "It allows people to be more efficient with their time. We can take people to Pier 1-1/2 in San Francisco in 14 minutes, or Fort Mason in 12 minutes."
That is a major time savings for people who otherwise would be at the mercy of traffic and public transit, he said.

"For a lot of people it comes down to a question of, 'how valuable is your time?'" Lewis said.

But time costs money.
One-way fares for the service range from $65 to $95 to go from Marin to a San Francisco
locale, with prices ranging from $35 to $50 within Marin. The fare covers two people, with an additional person in the same group charged another $10.

"It's comparable to land taxi or town car service, and the more people in a group you have the more you can split costs," he said.

Presently the service has one, 12-passenger boat. Two more boats capable of carrying up to 25 people are expected to arrive in the next couple of months. Lewis envisions as many as five boats in his fleet, with service extending as far as San Rafael.

Tiburon resident Bob Hamer has tried the service and was impressed.

"I work in the city and my preference is to take the ferry, but the ferry schedule doesn't always fit my work
schedule," said Hamer, a business and technology consultant. "I have also found with the work going on along Doyle Drive, my commute can be longer, especially on Thursday and Friday nights. This will be much quicker."

Hamer also enjoys the views the water taxi provides.



"Coming back into Marin you see Mount Tam and the Golden Gate Bridge, it's one of the most beautiful places on the globe," he said. "There are so many interesting things to see from the water. The service is a great addition to the amenities we have."

The on-demand, point-to-point service has been popular already, running from 6 a.m. to 3 a.m. on some days,
Lewis said.


Water taxis are a popular form of transportation at many of the world's major cities, and with the America's Cup on the way, AT&T Ballpark at hand and the new Exploratorium set to open in 2013 — all accessible by water —
the Port Commission believed a taxi service was ready to launch.
"Water taxis would seem to logically have a significant role to play in this anticipated growth of San Francisco's tourism and travel trade," according to a commission report.
The port commission collects 7 percent of its gross revenues from operations. A second operation, San Francisco Water Taxi, was also given permission to run, but it only takes passengers to and from docks within San Francisco.
Golden Gate Ferry, which runs boats from Sausalito and Larkspur into San Francisco for between $5 and $6 one way with a Clipper card, doesn't see the new taxi service as competition.
"They will serve a different population," said spokeswoman Mary Currie. "We are here for the public, but it's great that there is a local private taxi for those who might need it. It's another transit option."
Submitted by Mark Prado 

RATES & SCHEDULING

Click Here for their website for fares, photos, and info

Sample one-way fares for Tideline Marine Group water taxi service from Sausalito to:
• Cavallo Point: $35
• Tiburon: $45
• Hyde Street Pier (Fort Mason): $65
• Pier 1-1/2 (Ferry Building): $75
• Pier 40 (AT&T Park): $95
All fares are for parties of up to two. Parties of three or more pay an additional $10 per person.
— Source: Tideline Marine Group

Contributed from the Marin IJ

New Bakery With An Attitude Opens on Valencia

Craftsmen and Wolves 

@  746 Valencia St
(between 18th and 19th St)
San Francisco, CA 94110

415-913-7713
Official Website

Quick. Picture an auto repair shop.

You see:

–Some cars, obviously.

–A whole lot of grease.

–Freshly baked ham-and-cheese muffins.

Hey, we don’t know what kind of body shops you frequent, but ours typically have pastries.

Say hello to Craftsman and Wolves, the most awesomely named bakery probably ever, opening Saturday in a former car repair shop on Valencia.

First, let’s be clear: while this used to be a repair shop specializing in fixing up old Jags, there are zero remnants of those days. Not even, like, a leftover seat belt buckle somewhere. None.

Instead, it’s the sort of lofty, sky-lit, gentlemanly spot you might even take your dad to for breakfast (ahem, this Sunday).

 Before grabbing a seat at the vintage metal communal table up front, make your way to the 20-foot jewelry case full of croissants, éclairs, cubed cakes and other highly designed edibles. Your quarry: the already-notorious ham-and-cheese muffin with built-in soft-boiled egg known as The Rebel Within. (Enjoy responsibly.)

 On return visits, you’ll want to sample the Pain au Cochon (a prosciutto version of pain au chocolat), a pork loin/squash slaw/bacon sandwich, a picnic box that you can take to Dolores Park, or the foie gras/chocolate/toffee ganache–filled chocolate cake, The Devil Inside.