I like to think I get around town to check out the new restaurants, but truth is I’ve been a bit spoiled lately with all the tasty new places opening up within very convenient stumbling distance from my Civic Center condo. All the easy trips to SoMa (Citizen’s Band, 25 Lusk, Bar Agricole), downtown (Wayfare, Sons & Daughters) and the Mission (Commonwealth, Hog and Rocks, The Summit) have succeeded in shrinking my regular stomping grounds, and turns out I’ve been missing something.

This past weekend some old friends were in town and they suggested we meet for brunch at Plow in Potrero Hill. I’ll admit that it wasn’t without grumbling that I donned my rain jacket and switched into my lowest gear to climb the hill up to the corner of 18th and Texas, but what I found was well worth it. Read more...