The Urban Legend

Recipes Chef David is thankful for

Simon Hereford, Features editor • November 18, 2021

Urban’s own Chef David shares his Thanksgiving favorites and reflects on what the holiday means to him. “Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday because families [and] friends can get together and be...

Get to know Chef David

Tulin Chang-Maltepe, Managing Editor • October 7, 2021

As Urban kicked off its 2021 fall term, students rushed to the Oak Street Campus awaiting servings of Flik food in a line that winded all the way through the Salkind Center Gym. Chef David Laboa and the...

Here’s the tea on Yerba Mates at Urban

Clementine Daniel, Managing Editor • November 29, 2019

A Yerba Mate craze has spread across Urban following Flik’s decision to sell them this fall. The bottled or canned refreshing drink is made from the naturally caffeinated leaves of a species...

Flik combines financial security with sustainable, small batch cooking

Lily Daniel and Tikloh Bruno-Basaing • February 3, 2019

In the past four years, the Urban community has been served by three different food providers: Urban’s own cafeteria service, an outsourced company called Fare Resources and currently, Flik Independent...

Urban leads SF high schools with Meatless Mondays

Ellie Lerner, Staff Writer • December 19, 2018

This December, Urban may become the first school in San Francisco to implement Meatless Mondays if the trial for the new menu is proven successful. Out of concern for the dire state of the environment,...

Editorial: let’s do more than thank our crossing guards

Eli Gordon, Managing Editor • October 30, 2018

After ASM during the first week of school, students poured out of the Salkind Center gym and down the passageway along St. Agnes. Although the crowds crossing Page Street chattered boisterously, many of...