Haighteration, in conjunction with a newfangled app, will host a happy hour next Wednesday, 9/14, at Mad Dog In the Fog. If you've got their special app or have a Lower Haight home address, you get free beer. If you have neither? You suffer. You suffer deeply. [Haighteration]

Because some of the most terrible and gruesomely affected people in San Francisco linger around Bi-Rite and Defina, the former put out a velvet rope, if you will, and hired a bouncer for Labor Day Weekend. Sadly, these implements had nothing to do with arresting the horrible human beings who make it impossible for awesome people to walk down 18th Street. Nope. According to Uptown Almanac, it had something to do with fire marshal enforcing capacity limits. Oh well. [Uptown Almanac]

A Texas chef introduced the world to fried bubblegum, according to Grub Street. The chef takes a marshmallow, mixes it with "gum extract," and fries it up. And then you eat it and die. Or something like that. Sounds good. Not Hubba Bubba good, but warm-Dentyne-at-the-bottom-of-mom's-purse good. You know, just sorta good. [Grub]

Yet another "casual, comfortable" in the city's expensive yet murder-happy Mission District scores a noteworthy review. This time it goes to Locavore. (Michael Bauer, however, notes that their burger doesn't even come close to Marlowe's. Which is a given.) [Chronicle]

Hidden cafe at Mission Market becomes front-and-center bar and grill? [Mission Mission]

SFist's favorite architect Stanley Saitowitz did the decor of Trace, now open inside the W Hotel. As Eater notes, "It's all inspired by one line in one of the late Ambrose Bierce's poems 'This city is a point upon a map of fog.' " Swoon. [Eater]