by Alyson Schug on Okay, I love me some tacos. L-O-V-E Tacos! I have been on the search for the best mexican food in SF. Or at least the best tacos. Gordos comes close, but its their burritos I love so much. I digress. Nick's tacos while delicious are extremely overpriced. And to have them "Nick's way" is even more of a rip off. Their fish tacos are a crunchy sauce-slathered delicious mess, tho. For two people, the bill almost always comes out to $35 to $40. Really?!?! For tacos?!?!?! Sigh. Must resist the draining the wallet for such deliousity!!! P.S. Their taco salad is reasonable priced and is loaded with veggies!!!
by Shal J. on This definitely was not what I was expecting... It is a total scene. You should know that in case you are expecting a non-kids museum night to be chill. We bought our tickets online the day before (great, but took almost 24 hours to receive the tickets in email - save your confirmation #!). Arrive to a long line to get in - yes, everyone in the line had tickets! Sheesh. Get inside at about 7pm. The planetarium passes have all been issued. Friends speculate people got in line before the event opened to secure the passes. Perhaps. We sulked over to the extremely long line for the rainforest and got to see that (it moves quickly). We had also heard the the rainforest isn't open all night, though I noticed there wasn't any clear signage at the museum that publicized that fact so that you could plan your visit. Maybe I missed it. Is it a good thing that a museum is SO POPULAR? Of course! Does that make it painful for people to get in and enjoy it? Heck yes. So I'm just a little frustrated by CAS. I also have to include my diatribe about the musuem's hypocritical antics concerning bottled water: 1. they sell it for $1 at the bar. I thought we were all on board with the bottled water is bad, drink tap thing? 2. Cruising the museum, I see a poster above a water fountain talking about the waste generated by bottled water and how SF has amazingly clean tap water. [see bar menu] 3. After buying a little snack (mezza plate, fairly good. plastic box it came in, not so good), I asked for a cup of water - thinking that my pro-tap water stance would result in a beverage (bc I saw cups and a water dispenser behind the counter). A cup costs $1 and there is a cap on the # of refills they give you. WOW. Awesome. I got a beer and assumed the bottle it came from was promptly recycled.
by Krysta Ocallaghan on My first visit to this place will be my last, a friend of my boyfriend and myself had a promotion for 5 beers and a pizza so we decided to try the Greatest Bar for a change. The service was eh, okay I wouldn't say fantastic. The place was dead on a Wednesday night and I now no why. After giving our waitress the promo who acted confused like she had never seen a piece of paper before with writing on it walked around to every person behind the bar like a chicken with her head cut off to find out what this so called promotion was. She came back and had the nerve to ask us how we would be paying the rest of our bill, before we even ordered anything else. We replied with cash since we planned on splitting the bill. Our waitress then required us to present her with a credit card for her to hold.. Why? Well we are not sure, since we were not running a tab at the bar all of us were dumbfounded at this situation. We finished eating our okay food and asked for the bill. We put our cash in the book and asked our waitress for the credit card back, she replied "not until your bill is paid". I guess being the only people in this place we looked like we were going to dine and ditch. We will not be returning to the greatest bar and if we do it will be without credit cards to see the look on the waitresses face.
