$4 toast is the last straw - motivates group to protest affordability issues in SF

[displacedtexan]

8. My favorite yelp review

The boyfriend and I came in for some afternoon coffee, after stuffing our faces at Green Chile Kitchen. Upon ordering, my boyfriend's eyes immediately shift to the cookies in the pastry case under the glass counter. He orders a chocolate-chocolate chip cookie, being the choco-holic he is.

When the girl behind the counter lifts up one cookie to place in a bag, all of a sudden the cookies are moving. As I take a closer look, they're FLIES. About 20 of them, swarming around the cookies, looking for place to land and settle again after being rousted from their gooey resting spots.

I pointed out to both the girl behind the counter AND my boyfriend that the cookies were covered in flies. By this time, the cookie was already in its bag and in my boyfriend's hands.

Girl behind counter: "Do you still want it?"

Seriously?! She didn't remove the uncovered plate of infested cookies from the pastry case, leaving the flies to their own devices, should they decide to move to the also-uncovered regular chocolate chip cookies next door. Nor did she say anything to her manager.

After reading that review, I won't be trying their toast! The Mill is hardly alone in its pretentious, overpriced crap for sale here in SF. There's a German Beer Garden type deal in the hayes valley neighborhood that's actually a couple of shipping containers on a vacant parking lot surrounded by a chainlink fence, with some picnic tables and benches. The beer is good, but $70 on two 1 liter beers, one cider and one order of sausage and potatoes and tip?

I don't think so.