A former dishwasher is restoring one of SF’s great barbecue joints

Photography by Jason Henry

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The brisket is fatty. The cornbread is buttery. The squirt bottles are filled with barbecue sauce. In other words: Memphis Minnie’s (opens in new tab) is back. Perhaps most important, so is “the original cook” — as advertised by a sign taped to the window. The chef in question is Angel Pech, who reopened the Lower Haight institution in December…

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