E to Zed

In which SFist eats our way around the Bay Area in alphabetical order.

Emmy's Spaghetti Shack, in Bernal Heights is somewhere we've wanted to try for a while. So when the time came to review a restaurant beginning with E, it seemed like the perfect excuse to head over towards the nether end of Mission Street. A work colleague who takes a kindly interest in our obsession with food wrinkled up his nose, when he heard the plan. He warned "people confuse crowdedness with goodness." He is right, of course, it is a mistake that is commonly made, but we needed to go and find out for ourselves whether Emmy's rumoured popularity is deserved or not.

We took a Bernal Heights resident with us, so she could assess the dining experience from a local perspective. We wanted to know if Emmy's would make her feel all warm, fuzzy, loved and comfortable inside, just like every good neigbourhood joint should.