Here's Hoping New Owner Doesn't Screw Up Tommy's Joynt The Pride And Joy Of 415 Media

  Many of you that come here know my appreciation and fondness for Tommy's Joynt --a virtual culinary institution on Van Ness in San Francisco.


Tommy's was sold recently. The new owner insists he has no intention of changing the beauty and atmosphere of the place.


I'm willing to give the guy the benefit of the doubt but I'm cynical. When I heard "craft cocktails" I worried even further. Please, no invasion of the food spectacle, please lord.


For those of you that have ever ventured into Tommy's Joynt, you know and can register my passion. It's old-school personified. It's literally meat and potatoes heaven. Tommy's is more than merely great, old-school food, it is forever San Francisco and a throwback to where you get decent food without having to get a loan from the bank.


Tommy's Joynt is a hofbrau-style smorgasbord with heavenly comfort food like roasted turkey, hot carved pastrami, corned-beef to die for. I'm not an ox-tail guy but they got that too. And beef burgundy and something that made me give up a Giants game recently, the lamb shanks on Thursday. Oh my God, the lamb shanks!


Tommy's is dark, a little dank but always clean. Whenever I used to hang out at the old KRON, I would find myself visiting Tommy's Joynt right across the street. It was always open, open pretty much every single day, the restaurant an hour later than the bar at 10: 45 AM until the wee hours of the morning. And the food is spectacular --not everybody's cup of tea but nirvana for the thousands of others who know what inexpensive, good and reliable food stands for. No, Tommy's Joynt is not the recipe for healthy food (slightly) but when you're looking for something hardy and yes, comfortable with a touch of San Francisco, then you go to the Joynt. Herb Caen's Van Ness stakeout. A local treasure.


That's why I'm hoping the old place isn't turned into some crappy, yupified edifice like what happened to venerable Brennan's in Berkeley, another great Irish hofbrau that lost its identity when new owners took over and messed it up. My opinion.


When I've interviewed various media members in town, if we're close by, I always pick Tommy's Joynt. It's a classic. One of these days I'm going to the Joynt and have a big party and invite some of 'yous to understand how cool it is and why I love it.

Please, new owner, don't screw it up.


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On a Friday PM Bender Ender When You've Been Working Hard and are Hungrier Than Shit Don't Underestimate the Power of Tommy's Joynt

It can be addictive.


It also has the best Hoffbrau food in the Bay Area and its multiple beers on tap is second to none.


Tommy's Joynt.


If you have 10 bucks in your pocket you can eat good there.


The hot turkey sandwich and corned-beef is the best.


And they're open every day and serve late. And no, I don't get free meals.


It's Friday and I'm hungry. Take care.


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Uh, Guess What KGO's Ama Daetz and KPIX5's Juliette Goodrich Are Having for Dinner?

 I just asked KGO-TV anchor Ama Daetz what she's having for dinner? I'm a snacker and I'm in the field so I packed carrots and hummus, protein bar, raw almonds, peanut-butter and jelly on sandwich thin and some wheat thins.

 Juliette Goodrich: A Cesar salad with homemade croutons and my favorite champagne, Vieuve.

Lieberman assessment and embellishment: While acknowledging the health elements of both of the featured SF TV News performers, I myself will be munching on a hot turkey sandwich and Pilsner at Tommys Joynt.

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SF Weekly Has Strong Pizza Fetish

  I enjoy SF Weekly. It has quirky stories that resonate well within the SF city limits and mostly churns out decent content. Sometimes even better than decent.

Then again, like most of your freaky alternative weekly news sites, they can become overly cute and resort to a lot of redundant material. I mean, a lot.

Take pizza for example.

Like today.

Or here, recently. And here too.

I think I get the idea that pizza images look good on computers and that pizza makes people compelled to eat a lot of pizza like me inclined to want to read on, it's a given --even for me who should know.

Then again, in the case of SF Weekly, it's gone way over the line. A medium with eight slices and pepperoni, black olives, and mushrooms would have sufficed.

SF Weekly ordered the Kitchen Sink.

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