"Leave your Wednesdays open—from now on, that's when you should be eating the baked pork chops with tomato sauce at Cafe Bakery. The Wednesday-only special at this Sunset spot comes with two weighty breaded cutlets fresh from the oven, resting on a heap of vegetable fried rice and doused in a slightly tangy tomato sauce. As if that wasn’t enough, the dish is bookended by a bowl of macaroni and ham soup and a saucer of green Jell-O for dessert. But Cafe Bakery doesn’t just have oven-cooked pork. Any of their daily specials, like the curry beef brisket and baked seafood, are worth stopping in for—if not just for a sub-$20 meal that could last you a couple of days." - patrick wong, julia chen 1