Issue #2: Adventures in Substack Land
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Hey everyone and welcome to Chocolate Cherry Cookie #2.
I really appreciated your feedback (not sarcastic!) on Issue #1. Questions like “what is this?” will be answered with time. I’ve addressed thoughts like “you should include photos” today.
Gabi L. encouraged me to move to Substack because, despite my desire to be “different,” this is easier. It’s true. I’ve subscribed all of you wonderful readers. Lucky for you, there’s now an unsubscribe feature and I’ve turned off notifications if you choose to do so. I already unsubscribed someone for whom my content just wasn’t going to resonate.
Thanks for your continued feedback. If you don’t live in San Francisco, or if we don’t share similar interests, then this newsletter probably isn’t for you and I especially appreciate your friendship.
Grab Bag:
All SF Today:
Big news for those in the know. In March, Palace Market and West Marin Ferments changed their soft serve formulation from buffalo milk to Jersey milk. Turns out buffalo milk purveyors are rare, and “Mr. Renati [new owner of buffalo herd] has prioritized a contract supplying the milk to a mozzarella producer in the Central Valley, leaving little available for gelato.” If you taste a difference, you have elite taste buds. I love this reporting.
Wrecking Ball Coffee Roasters (home of very cute pineapple wallpaper) has a new owner. They’re opening two new cafes this fall. Pineapples everywhere.
Old news, but the Lower Haight has got it going on.
I’ve heard great things about Lower Haight Line Dancing. Sunday nights!
Lower Haight Local recently came across my desk. Print only, focused on the neighborhood.
Pac Heights is trying to catch up. Pim Techamuanvivit, owner of Kin Khao and Nari, is opening a Thai noodle shop across from Salt & Straw on Fillmore. Electric.
Apparently every Waymo at OSL had a “human safety driver.” Smart - can someone confirm and/or share their experience?
We’ll end with zoning. A January 2026 zoning law to allow new multifamily builds has resulted in “seven proposed projects that would add fewer than 40 housing units to the city’s pipeline.” Zoning reforms probably (definitely) should result in more than one new proposal/month.
Parting Words: “This Summer’s Hottest Arm Candy Is a Private Equity Boyfriend”
