Last week’s roundup covered quite a few places in the Mission: Pizzeria Delfina, the resurrected Window, the Thai-French fusion at Baku, dim-sum at Big Lantern, and Crazy Sushi. We thought it was a lot, but we were very far from being exhaustive: we snubbed -- for now -- the new Provence, on Guerrero, or the Annex, a budget French restaurant on Valencia. We ignored the new menu and new ownership at the Last Supper......

Restaurants are popping up in the Mission like zits on the face of a teenager. And it is our duty, as self-proclaimed food dermatologist, to go and examine them. Today is the overall check-up, where we take a wide look at the scene, the PCP visit if you will, before we return in subsequent posts with the magnifying glass of the specialist on two new and hip Mission spots which are buzzed about a-plenty.......