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Mission Mission has come across a jarring display of pure, unadulterated hate. The Mission's favorite place to eat tapas and swig sangria, Cha Cha Cha, is a mariachi-free zone. No! We love the colorful mariachi bands that come into taquerias to disturb us while we're eating our flautas. Why can't the same thing happen while we're eating our cajun shrimp and warm spinach salad?
Pft.
Obviously, the smooth stylings of San Francisco's mariachi bands aren't for everyone. Then again, we cannot imagine them trying to make their way into Foreign Cinema, just as we can't see them throwing down their choice beats inside McDonalds. Alas, the mariachi band isn't for every establishment.
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ya guys we don't need to see everything twice.
not everyone reads Mission Mission. Some of live in other other neighborhoods neighborhoods.
^ some of us.
did you know that you can read mission mission even if you don't live there!
invite me and Darwin Bell and it becomes a group thing.
I for one applaud them. Its so annoying to be enjoying a meal and in comes an invasion of Mariachi begging for tips.
Exactly. I've got nothing against Mariachi and I often enjoy the music, but it should stay out on the street. You don't come into a restaurant and try to get people to tip you for interrupting their meals.
singers can add some atmosphere to a dead restaurant but Cha Cha Cha isn't really lacking in atmosphere.
I'm not a fan of earsplitting Mariachi music. I prefer it at lower volumes while eating.
At least if you sit next to the juke box at Cancun, you should be well aware of the risk of tuba induced deafness. Mariachi can strike anywhere.
Except, apparently, at Cha Cha Cha.
I am guessing that most mariachis can't read this sign. Just guessing...
When the mariachi bands walk in I call it "mariachi extortion".
NOBODY expects the Mariachi Inquisition! Their chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Their two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless horn playing.... Their *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless horn playing...and an almost fanatical devotion to asking for tips.... Their *four*...no... *Amongst* their weapons.... Amongst theirr weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again
I thought it was charming for my first 5 minutes in SF and have hated the mariachi extortion ever since.
Maybe this is just because I'm bougie, but the way to love the mariachis is to give them 5 dollars and request songs. Revel in the discomfort of other patrons.
It also helps if you've been to Mexico and like its culture, in any form.
And if the restaurant in question has an invasion of shrieking drunk marina denizens? All the better.
"And if the restaurant in question has an invasion of shrieking drunk marina denizens?"
Mariachis don't stand a chance against the West Fresno (Marina) trulls. They single-handedly ruined Cha Cha Cha on Haight Street.
i had no idea mariachi bands were running rampant on the streets of san francisco.
i must be going to all the wrong places.
Yeah, you're pretty clueless. If they were rampaging on the STREETS then the restaurants wouldn't be trying to keep them out.