{"id":470961,"date":"2026-09-21T16:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T16:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/470961\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T16:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T16:29:11","slug":"la-palma-mexicatessen-is-my-first-stop-whenever-im-in-the-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/470961\/","title":{"rendered":"La Palma Mexicatessen Is My First Stop Whenever I\u2019m in the Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph u67w0ti va4xi81 va4xi80 e8cira1\">In case you didn\u2019t already know, <a href=\"https:\/\/sf.eater.com\/venue\/52004\/la-palma-mexicatessen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">La Palma Mexicatessen,<\/a> the crown jewel of 24th Street with its unmistakable multi-colored midcentury logo, is San Francisco\u2019s only remaining large-scale masa molino \u2014 and you can taste it in every huarache, sope, and tamale the place churns out. There\u2019s something about a restaurant that sells its salsa, ceviches, and fresh masa by the pound in addition to what\u2019s prepared to order. To me, that says \u201cI know how good this stuff is, and how much care went into making it. I want you to take some home, too.\u201d Time and time again, visit after visit, I can\u2019t seem to resist doing exactly that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph u67w0ti va4xi81 va4xi80 e8cira1\">Pick up a pound of La Palma\u2019s fresh masa to take home, available fina (smooth-ground) or quebrada (coarser, best for preparations like gorditas and memelas). You can grab either style prepared plain with lard, or alternatively, with vegetable oil. And they even offer varieties mixed with chipotle chile or with nopal, for a green-tinted dough and grassier flavor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In case you didn\u2019t already know, La Palma Mexicatessen, the crown jewel of 24th Street with its unmistakable&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[28829,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-470961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-dining-reports","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}