I continued my tour of Peeples vegan pastry choices by going all in on the biggest thing I saw--this sweet potato bun/roll thing ($3.25). It was quite heavy. When I got it home I sliced it open (see below) and you can almost tell how dense it is. On my first bite I tried to get half bun half iced topping to get the full on effect. My initial reaction, it was a little dry. Beyond that it was sweet, the texture was okay and not "different" like last weeks donut. I took another bite, yep, still a little dry, though I can just taste the sweet potato. I do think that flavor needed to be kicked up some. The icing on top was also supposed to be sweet potato but really just tasted like plain powdered sugar icing. Eh, I didn't hate but did feel like something was missing. That's when I had the brilliant idea to heat it up just a touch in the microwave. A little 30 second blip and voila- it did taste a little better warm, still dry and still feeling like it was missing something. Of course me next reaction just pointed up the total Southern in as, yes, I reached for the butter. You are right, suddenly that little smear makes it no longer vegan, but it also brought an extra flavor and life to the bun that it was sorely missing. Without it, the bun is okay and cooking a little less could help the dryness, but really even just the smallest bit of butter took this to another level. Enough so that I would actually get it again, heat it up, spread on the butter love and enjoy away. Vegan diss? No, more my personal taste profile than to being totally opposed to anything vegan. I did try the vegan thing for a full year in college (isn't that when we all try new things?) but ultimately I did miss, not meat, but butter and cheese. Final thought--sweet potato bun/roll thing is worth a try to see what you think--butter not included.
- So long Supperclub. Another institution bites the dust.
- Smitten Ice Cream gets in the beer ice cream game and swears it'll make you drunk.
- Time to eat healthy for the New Year! That'll last about a week.
- It's Tikka Masala & Pizza! Can't be any worse than Chinese Food & Donuts.
- Neighbor Bakehouse opens storefront in Dogpatch. Calories be damned!
- It's VeganBurg--and it's coming to San Francisco.
- Pop-up beer garden and (really?!) 4505 Meats (ugh..why) coming to AT&T parking lot. They've already removed all the handicapped parking signs to make way for it.
- The Manufactory will be the name of Tartine's new Potrero Hill place. Hmmm....
- Chef at that new "upscale Mexican" place in the Mission tells us why, why, why!
- Some new place called Charin has the most pompous, overblown restaurant description I seen in some time. No wonder people hate foodies like this. Can't someone just say "we're gonna make good food" and let it go.
- The holidays are over and these things opened during that time, in case you missed it.
