Between the Bread

It's hard to go wrong with sausage cooked on the grill. Spicy Italian with peppers and onions on a mediocre wheat roll, but it hardly mattered. Summer Sunday perfection.

UPDATE: Rosamunde on Mission's opening date has been delayed until next Monday, Jan. 18.

If there is a better sausage shop in San Francisco than Rosamunde Sausage Grill, I have yet to find it. Thus, it's no surprise that the delicious dog provider is opening a second location on Mission and 24th, and soon! This Monday, Jan. 11, to be exact. Unlike the Haight Street location that I frequent — where you get your sausages to go and "to go" often means the Toronado beer bar next door — the Mission Street Rosamunde will have 20 beers on tap and an expanded menu. Perhaps they'll resurrect the seafood sausage I once spied on an old menu and have always been curious to try.

One thing I miss about living in the Lower Haight is Rosamunde Sausage Grill (and Estela's sandwich shop, and Metro cheesesteaks . . . can you tell where my priorities are?). So I was delighted to cohost a barbecue on Saturday at which the featured grilling meats were sausages from Rosamunde.

The tiny little sausage stand carries all sorts of transcendently good sausages, including old standbys like bratwurst and beer sausage and unusual recipes like chicken cherry and habanero lime chicken (my faves). You can get hot sausages in buns to go and take them to a nearby bar, or you can buy raw ones and cook 'em yourself. The only problem with cooking the sausages yourself is that Rosamunde has extraordinary buns that they refuse to sell (understandably) so all other buns pale in comparison. But this weekend, my friend Adam had a brilliant idea: buy a bunch of naan from the Indian restaurant on the same block and wrap the wieners in that. The flavor combination was delicious, and the naan made an easy and efficient vehicle for the sausage.