SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Momofuku Chef David Chang's Food Delivery Service 'Ando' Scores $7 Million From Silicon Valley David Chang's ambitions can seem insatiable. He has — by the New York Times' accounting — more than a dozen restaurants, nine dessert bars, two cocktail bars, a prepared food business, and a food magazine
SF News Stanford Sexual Assault Survivor Pens Essay In Glamour, Named A 'Woman Of The Year' The survivor of a high profile case of sexual assault at Stanford University committed by former freshman Brock Turner has exercised her right to anonymity, but she's been far from silent. “Even if
SF News Interactive Map: Syringes And Poop Have Spiked On SF Streets, Says Annual City Report It's that time of year again! 2003's Prop C mandated that the beautiful City of San Francisco issue an annual report on the state of our dear sweet streets and sidewalks, and here
SF News Lake Merritt Condo Fire 'Suspicious' Says Attorney With Ongoing Litigation Against Building Owner A partially completed 41-unit Lake Merritt condo complex where a four-alarm fire was reported in the early morning hours yesterday is still smoldering today, and burning questions remain. Per NBC Bay Area, Department
SF News St. John Coltrane Church Finds Temporary Home In the Western Addition When the specter of eviction began to loom over the 1971-founded St. John Coltrane Church this past February, Archbishop Franzo King told SFist that his congregation was concerned but far from defeated. "This
SF News Suspects Arrested In Fatal Beating Of 67-Year-Old Disabled Homeless Man The senseless, pitiless killing of 67-year-old Tai Lam, a homeless man who suffered from Polio and used crutches to move about, is difficult to contemplate. Lam was beaten to death by a group
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nopa Cuts Back Late-Night Dining Hours Say it ain't so, Nopa! The acclaimed Divisadero restaurant whose late night service, heretofore until 1 a.m., has been a staple among industry insiders and bourgeoisie burger lovers, is changing it up,
Arts & Entertainment About 'Moonlight' Director Barry Jenkins's Debut Film, The SF-Set 'Medicine For Melancholy' "It seems like this city just pisses you off," Joanne (Tracey Heggins) tells Micah (Wyatt Cenac), speaking of San Francisco in the 2008 romance Medicine for Melancholy. "I love this city," Micah replies.
SF News Why Your Facebook Friends Are Checking In At Standing Rock, North Dakota As part of a viral Facebook status update, some Facebook users are showing their support for protesters of the Dakota Access pipeline by using the site's "check in" tool to "confuse" authorities who
SF News Millennium Tower Developer Made Unpermitted Repairs To Garage Leaks, Steep Ramps Caused By Uneven Sinking More drama regarding the 58-story Millennium Tower's unexpectedly severe, uneven lean: The Department of Building Inspection filed two notices of violation for the building, citing unpermitted repairs to a garage and ground-floor ramps
SF News Watch Peter Thiel Justify His Support For Donald Trump Billionaire businessman and tech pioneer Peter Thiel's outré political support of GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump and secret third-party funding of a lawsuit to bankrupt Gawker Media might lead one to believe him
SF News Day Around The Bay: The Streetcar Graveyard Of Yore Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. The founder of Netscape/Mozilla, who is now the
SF News SF Man Who Won Lottery Twice Should Probably Give Somebody Else A Chance Frank Derfield, 53, has hit the jackpot... and before that, he'd hit a pot that wasn't quite the jackpot but wasn't too bad either. Crediting "stupid luck" in speaking to CBS 5, the
SF News Study Shows Strains Of HIV In US Predated 'Patient Zero', Debunking Folklore Theory The New York Post once described Gaétan Dugas, a French Canadian flight attendant, under the incendiary headline "The Man Who Gave Us AIDS." Known colloquially as "Patient Zero," Dugas figured prominently in Chronicle
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink FiveThirtyEight Burrito Bracket Judge Claims El Castillito Should Have Won (But He Messed It Up) The year was 2014, and FiveThirtyEight's Burrito Bracket had elevated data journalism to new heights. Just kidding, that was a waste of time and money, as the winner, La Taqueria, was a pretty
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lawsuit Naming The French Laundry And Thomas Keller Alleges Discrimination Against Pregnant Employee In a lawsuit filed in Napa County on September 26 against The French Laundry, the Thomas Keller Restaurant Group, Thomas Keller, and his New York Restaurant Per Se, a woman named Vanessa Scott-Allen
SF News Soylent Powder Sales Halted After More Reports Of Sickened Consumers In early October, Soylent consumers who also use Reddit — overlapping interests that should surprise no one — reported symptoms like vomiting and diarrhea after eating the brand's newly introduced food bars, and Soylent soon
SF News Ammon Bundy And Followers Acquitted In Armed Takeover Of Oregon's Malheur National Wildlife Refuge Ammon Bundy and six of his followers have been acquitted of conspiracy charges by a federal court jury. Reuters reports that Bundy and the others, who are all members of a group that
SF News Man Shot By Law Enforcement In Ocean View Identified, Moved From Critical To Serious Condition, Had No Gun On Tuesday afternoon law enforcement officers shot a man they had pursued from San Mateo to the Ocean View neighborhood of San Francisco. That man has been identified by police as Ansar el
SF News 60% Of 'Soft Story' Buildings Are Not Earthquake Preparedness Compliant: See If Yours Is On This Map Interviewed by KPIX 5 after his department posted a second round of warnings on dozens of buildings about town, Director of the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection Tom Hui reveals that just
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 25 Best Burgers In SF And Oakland The origins of the burger are mysterious: Was it Fletcher Davis in Athens, TX who first served ground beef on a bun? Louis' Lunch in New Haven, CT? One of the many other
SF News Apple Introduces New MacBook Pro Line With 3 Big Changes, Kills MacBook Air The MacBook Pro now comes in 3 variants. They can be ordered from today. #AppleEvent pic.twitter.com/ibShKgGs5o— Apple Event (@AppIeEvent) October 27, 2016 Apple, the Cupertino, California company fetishized the world
SF News Twitter Is Cutting Vine, Which Will Be Discontinued Vine, the 6-second looping video format introduced by Twitter more than three years ago as its rough video equivalent of a 140-character tweet, will soon be no longer. The company posted to Medium,
SF News Day Around The Bay: Sex Workers Protest Backpage CEO Arrest Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Some fist-shaking types say that cyclists should pay their
SF News To Defeat Tax, Soda Industry Spends $19.3 Million, Most Ever For SF Ballot Measure Mayors @LibbySchaaf @mayoredlee announce Oakland and SF #sodatax campaigns #measurehh #propv pic.twitter.com/in8Oy3yCg7— Daniel Montes (@dc_montes) September 2, 2016 To keep soda cheap for you, the little guy, big soda
