Author: cappstreetcrap
‘Hacker Lairs’ visits tech hostel 20Mission
October 15, 2015
20Mission runs a retail space that accepts Bitcoin that I wrote about in August. But what’s up with its SRO-turned-hacker-hostel above it? The second installment of a video series called “Hacker Lairs” now offers a three-minute look inside. Posted to YouTube on Oct. 3, the video begins with a woman rather enthusiastically making a purchase in […]
Caffeine low: Tiny Warrior Coffee has lost its lease (updated)
October 14, 2015
UPDATED (2:15 p.m.): An Alite representative told me by email this afternoon that Tiny Warrior’s tenure in their store on 18th near Capp Street was never intended to be long term. Amanda Durbin, customer relations coordinator for Alite Designs Inc., said the spot the coffee shop now occupies is the store’s “incubation space for people to […]
Capp Street Pooh is magic
October 13, 2015
He came and sat for a spell.
Sushi win! Minako lives on at Duc Loi Supermarket
October 12, 2015
As if you needed another reason to love Duc Loi Supermarket. Last week, the store started carrying bento and sushi from the mother-and-daughter team behind the shuttered Minako Organic Japanese Restaurant. Duc Loi owner Amanda Ngo said that each morning for the past four or five days Yoko Kondo, with help from daughter Minako “Judy” […]
Balompié owner building new housing, restaurant at Capp and 17th
October 9, 2015
The owner of pupusa staple Balompié Cafe has begun a construction project on 17th Street that will include housing and a ground-level restaurant. Work began earlier this week on 3249 17th St., a squat, formerly residential building that also extends along Capp. According to city planning and building department records, the plan is to add […]
CAPPage!
October 8, 2015
Heads are gonna roll.
“Rosarito Soups” poised to open in the old Minako space
October 6, 2015
Looks like a business called “Rosarito Soups” and tied to a North Beach restaurateur will take over the shoebox-sized space near Mission and 17th streets that used to be home to Minako Organic Japanese Restaurant. According to a notice posted in the 2154 Mission Street’s front window, Rosarito Soups has an application, still pending, to […]
Pants rant
October 6, 2015
This weekend, a friend alerted me to this example of Dockers hate speech pantsism scrawled on a bus stop on Folsom near 20th Street. Looks like Fred agrees and wants to take it a step further. Also ditch the bizdev blue shirt. pic.twitter.com/e85pSfGu56 — Fred (@fredsharples) October 6, 2015
Anti-pee paint coming to Capp Street, other Mission location
October 5, 2015
Back in July, Capp Street Crap wrote about so-called “pee walls” at the southwestern 16th BART station plaza and a handful of other Mission locations treated with a special paint that makes urine splash back. In August, the anti-pee paint was added to walls around the other BART plaza across the street. Now, The Associated […]
Meet your creepy new neighbors
October 5, 2015
And they say it’s impossible to find a place to live in the Mission with a pet. (Spotted at Shotwell and 18th streets. Best with sound!)