SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cocktails On Tap Decrease Wait Time, Increase Intoxication San Francisco, you drinker's paradise, you. We've stumbled our way right through the pre-mixed bottled cocktail trend. And then by last summer, Perlini siphons and CO2 cylinders behind the bars at Harry Denton’
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Top 5 Things To Do Tonight For Repeal Day On this day in 1933, the Eighteenth Amendment (AKA prohibition) was repealed under the President Franklin Roosevelt, and thus thousands of drunk chicks in public were born many years later. You can celebrate
SF News California Drivers Are All On Drugs, Basically So says a new study from the California Office of Traffic Safety. According to the study, which is reportedly the first of its kind, a surprisingly high number of drivers in the Golden
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Infographic: Gays Drink, Dine Out More Than Straights Target 10 (via SF Weekly) turns your attention to this helpful infographic that, once and for all, gives proof that queer folks drink more and dine out more often than their heterosexual brethren.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gird Your Liver: SF Cocktail Week Approaches Skip the Smirnoff Fluffed Marshmallow vodka, trash, for SF Cocktail Week cometh. Sure, in this mixology aesthetic area of cocktailing rampant in the Bay Area, the scene can seem a bit full of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Winning Chalices (And More) From Jasper's Annual 'Pimp-Cup Challenge' After this weekend's SF Chefs festivities finished on Sunday, a bevy of service industry folks, salt-of-the-earth bartenders, and PR ilk headed to Jasper's Corner Tap & Kitchen for the second annual "pimp cup"
SF News Sexually Deprived Males Drink More, Says Science A new study from UCSF shows that males whose sexual advances are rejected by the fairer sex were "driven to excessive alcohol consumption, drinking far more than comparable, sexually satisfied" males. Of course,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tonight Addendum: Dueling Manhattans At Jardinière Jardinière, Hayes Valley's white-hot spot for perfect food and all-around exquisiteness, is having another one of their local guest bartender series. Tonight they will feature Frommer’s Travel Guides editors. David Lytle (whose
SF News Sold: Building Housing Castro Sober Space Staying sober in the Castro is like trying to stay sober in the Castro. It's quite trying, what with all of the bars and dealers within hinged-wrist's length. Enter the Castro Country Club,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink S.F. Featured In Food & Wine's 50 Best Bars In America Just as the navy blue blanket of holiday ennui prepares to envelope your carcass—remember: if you still single for the holidays, you're an abomination—Food & Wine releases its 50 Best Bars
SF News Last-Call Booze Run At Excelsior Safeway Turns Into Chaotic Hit-Run Injuring Cop We know it's probably been a boozy few days for some of you, but this story kind of takes it: A couple of dudes attempting to shoplift two bottles of vodka after the
Arts & Entertainment Jay Barmann Guest Bartends at Jardiniere on Tuesday Critically acclaimed bon vivant Jay Barmann will be mixing drinks behind the bar at Jardiniere tomorrow, November 1 from 6-8pm. Join him, won't you? The Grub Street editor (and fellow SFister!) is just
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hollister Teens Sneaking Booze Into School Via Gummy Bears Parents beware! Your teens have found a devilish new way of smuggling vodka on their person so that they can get drunk in math class! Leave it to the local news of the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink California Bartenders Now Free to Infuse Their Booze Thanks to a bill written by State Senator Mark Leno and christened with a big, loopy signature from Jerry Brown yesterday, local bartenders, mixologists and artisan liquor fans will no longer have to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Poll: Pick San Francisco's Best Bar(s) In honor of San Francisco Cocktail Week, which cracks open today and keeps pouring until the 25th, SFist asked its readers (that's you!) to nominate their all-time favorite San Francisco bar. We asked
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/24: Pete Escovedo, SF Cocktail Week Preview Party, Drink Good Do Good Carnival MUSIC/ART:The Mission Cultural Center for the Arts presents Talking Art and Music with Pete Escovedo, in which Escovedo will talk about his esteemed musical career and his lifelong interest in the
SF News Carlos Bar Closes Due to Sexless Cocktail Waitressing Scandal Carlos Bar, one of the few watering holes in the Mission geared towards Latinos, closed its doors on June 30. Its alcohol license was suspended by the Department of Alcohol Beverage Control. Why?
SF News Pink Saturday Bans Booze In an effort to curb violence at the Pink Saturday festival in the Castro, the city has banned booze at the annual precursor to the Pride Parade. Last year, if you recall, a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Absolut Creates San Francisco Vodka Just in time for San Francisco Gay Pride, Absolut Vodka has introduced a "limited" SF edition. Following on the heels of New Orleans, Loas Angeles, Boston, and (oddly enough) Brooklyn flavors, San Francisco
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Drunk Voicemails Set to Animation My Friend Evan: Episode 2: The Fire. from Steve Rold on Vimeo. Why can't our drunk voicemails sound this fun? Our alcohol-infused voicemails are filled with vitriol, regret, and the occasional Sondheim lyric.
Arts & Entertainment Should You Hide Alcohol on Your Body at Bay to Breakers? Of course, says Joe Kukura of Exercising While Intoxicated, one should conceal sweet nectar while running this month's Bay to Breaker's race. Even though getting lit could land you in pretend jail (or,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink City Attorney Dennis Herrera Seeks To Ban Kiddie Drink 'Blast by Colt 45' After turning his nose up at trend-piece drink Four Lokko, City Attorney (and mayoral candidate) Dennis Herrera now sets his anti-fruit-flavored-alcohol-seeking laser beams at Pabst Brewing Company’s Blast by Colt 45, a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tonight Addendum: Liam Mayclem Bartending at Jardinière Speaking of Traci Des Jardins, she will be hosting Eye On The Bay's Liam Mayclem tonight for their monthly guest-bartender series. The Brit turned San Franciscan will be making cocktails from 7:30
SF News DUI Checkpoint Alert: Saturday Night at Geary and 9th Avenue SFPD has alerted the media that they'll be setting up a DUI checkpoint out in this Richmond this Saturday night at Geary Blvd and 9th Ave. There's always a tiny moral quandary whenever
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Please Stop Being a Bar Snob The recent trend in high-end cocktails (in vulgar parlors: mixology) has made us long for the halcyon days of kegstands and saki bombs. For many, like San Francisco bartenders, it's gone too far.
