I’ve never really been that into mexican food (it sucks on the east coast), but Nils had the great idea to get a bunch of people together for a taco crawl.  Head to the Mission in San Francisco, head to various taquerias, and drink various beers.  Sounds good to me.

As I can count the number of times I’ve been to SF on one hand, I was somewhat out of my element.  The Mission was described to me as being similar to Williamsburg, Brooklyn (where I used to live), which is somewhat accurate if you’re talking about the shady part of Williamsburg that nobody wants to go to.  It seemed like a less bustling Spanish Harlem to me, but whatever.

I don’t know why it’s called the Mission, but we were on a mission to eat lots of mexican food, and we succeeded.  You can poke through my yelp reviews (http://beer.yelp.com) for the places that we went, but I must say I’m now a fan of west coast mexican food.

While SF is quite a ways away from Saratoga, the ease of getting in and out of the city is something that you don’t normally find.  In the DCs and New Yorks of the world, it’s a disaster getting in and out.  In SF, the 101 is really well integrated into the city, and the suburbs are such that you’re not having to blast you way through a mess to get where you’re going. (I assume this is different during weekday commutes, though)

The food was great everywhere we went and actually tasted somewhat healthy (maybe I’m kidding myself..), but the highlight as finding real glass bottle coke imported from mexico — made with sugar and not high fructose corn syrup.

Enjoy the pictures:

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