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Rebel SF chef Dennis Leary revolutionizes lunchtime takeout, taking on the classics with
top-notch seasonal ingredients. Tuna salad gets radical with chipotle mayo and crisp sum-
mer vegetables, and corned beef crosses borders with Swiss cheese and housemade Russi-
an dressing. Menus change daily; expect a 10-minute wait, since every sandwich is made
to order.
(
415-284-9960;
www.thesentinelsf.com
; 37 New Montgomery St; sandwiches $9;
7:30am-2:30pm
Mon-Fri;
Montgomery,
Montgomery)
Understand
South Park Schemes
'Dot-com' entered the global vernacular during the mid-'90s, when venture capitalists and techies first plotted
website launches in cafes ringing South Park (enclosed by 2nd, 3rd, Bryant & Brannan Sts). But when online
ice-cream delivery services failed to deliver profits, South Park became a dot-com ghost town, adding another
bust to its checkered history.
Speculation is nothing new to South Park, originally planned by an 1850s real-estate developer as a gated
community. A party celebrating a Crimean War victory was thrown here in 1855 to attract gold-rush millionaires
- but it degenerated into a cake-throwing food fight, and the development flopped. Yet the neighborhood re-
mained fertile ground for wild ideas: 601 3rd St was the birthplace of Jack London, best-selling author of
The
Call of the Wild
,
White Fang
and other adventure stories.
After WWII, Filipino American war veterans formed a quiet community in South Park - at least until dot-com
HQs moved in and abruptly out of the neighborhood. South Park offices weren't vacant for long before social-
media speculators moved in, including a scrappy start-up with the outlandish notion of communicating in online
haiku. Twitter has since moved its headquarters and 550 million users downtown.
