SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar San Pancho, Tacolicious' Sports Bar Spin-Off, Opens Tonight In Former Chino Space After November saw the shutter for Chino, a foray into dumplings and noodles from the Tacolicious team, owner Joe Hargrave re-imagined his prime space at 16th Street and Guerrero as a sports bar
SF News Napa Agriculture Heroes Discover, Destroy Wine Grape Pest The eggs of a dreaded wine grape pest with the power to spread a destructive vine disease have been discovered and destroyed by vigilant inspectors, Bay City News reported via KRON 4. Eggs
Arts & Entertainment Eff-Ing In SF, Vol. 6: Completely Forget About Your Girlfriend With Automated Gift Delivery "Roses are red, violets are blue, and we'll send them both to your girlfriend for you." Okay, while not in those exact words, that's the basic pitch behind a suite of services such
SF News A BART Director Has A Concealed Gun Permit Because He Fears Activists Since 2010, John McPartland, a member of BART's board of directors, has held a concealed handgun permit from the Alameda County Sheriff's office according to public records obtained by the Chronicle. McPartland appears
SF News Day Around The Bay: Sanders Catching Up To Clinton In CA Follow SFist on Twitter and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. SpaceX sticks another landing, this time guiding a rocket down onto
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Bar At Lusty Lady Looms, Il Cane Rosso Leaves, And More This week SFist alerted you to the opening of the Lodge, so peek at their burger-forward menu, if you'd like. There was also news that Ravi Kapur of Liholiho Yacht Club and David
SF News As Uber Settles With SF & LA For $25 Million, Lyft's Class Action Settlement Is Denied On-point SF ad vandalism (what was Lyft thinking?) pic.twitter.com/SabcKYmTwf— Chad Woodford (@cjam) March 31, 2016 In terms approved by the Superior Court of California, within 60 days, Uber Technologies will
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Season Of The Kitsch: Tacky And Tiki Are Back, Again In 2009, San Francisco's foremost Tiki bar looked about ready for a condo conversion. That was then, and this is now: Currently, the Tonga Room & Hurricane bar at the Fairmont Hotel expects
SF News John Avalos Seeks To Further Protect Sanctuary City Ordinance After his car was stolen, El Salvadoran national Pedro Figueroa-Zarceno went to the San Francisco Police Department to file a report. But when officers learned of a warrant for his arrest — it remains
SF News R2D2 Robot Things Want To Deliver You Stuff While human delivery people may someday face competition from flying Amazon and Google drones, those drones themselves may have a worthy competitor in robots, the likes of which the Chronicle now profiles. “It
SF News Report Reveals How Quickly SF Is Gaining (And Losing) Affordable Housing For the last decade — more specifically, January 2006 through December 2015— take the number of affordable homes in San Francisco: Those that already existed, those that were rehabbed or acquired, and those that
SF News Cool So, This Downtown Santa Rosa Earthquake Fault Is Larger Than We Thought A new US Geological Survey report from Menlo Park scientists led by Suzanne Hecker breaks new ground on mapping a formerly undocumented fault in the heart of Santa Rosa. The Chronicle reports that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 15 Best Beers From Local Bay Area Breweries There seems to be no bubble when it comes to the Bay Area Beer Boom, a movement that's put us in the elite class of a select few American metro areas with vibrant
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Heap This Nacho Festival Atop Your Weekend Plans In 2013, SFist posed an existential question: "Why Aren't Nachos A Thing?" That inquiry seems more and more prescient as NBC Bay Area draws our attention to a nacho celebration happening here this
Arts & Entertainment Behold: 100 Female, Queer, And Non-White 'Techies' In Portraits And Interviews "Techie" has become a narrow, and quite often, a narrow-minded term. That's why Helena Price, a startup worker turned photographer, put out the call for stories from "underrepresented" techies — a group she identified
SF News Plans Submitted For 25 Units On Duboce Triangle Parking Lot Behind the former Church Street Blockbuster, which the elderly will recall was a chain of stores that were like physical Netflix spaces, lies an empty parking lot at 55 Belcher. Now there are
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Kava Lounge Sets Grand Opening For Booze-Free Relaxation On Divis Tired of your current drug/booze regimen? It might be time to turn to kava, and now there's a home for it in San Francisco at Kava Lounge, San Francisco's only location at
SF News Are Tech Workers Starting To Flee SF For Jobs In Cheaper Towns? The Bay Area costing what it does, and technology being a slightly more transplantable line of work than, say, farming or mining, a variety of pundits are once again wondering whether the Bay
SF News Outer Sunset Box-Dweller Would Like To Sell His Human Dog Crates The economical young gentleman who relegated himself to a wooden "pod" in an Outer Sunset living room, making national headlines for, like, symbolizing the San Francisco housing market, would now like to capitalize
SF News An Activist In Cairo, An Exile In San Francisco Ahmed Salah, a former Egyptian democracy activist and the author of You Are Under Arrest for Masterminding the Egyptian Revolution: A Memoir, seems to like San Francisco okay. In an excerpt posted to
Arts & Entertainment It's A Bird! It's A Plane! It's Tony Hawk On A SoMa Half-Pipe! A photo posted by Tony Hawk (@tonyhawk) on Apr 4, 2016 at 10:15am PDT Soaring into Birdman of Alcatraz territory yesterday was pro-skater Tony "The Birdman" Hawk, whom Hoodline spotted cruising a
SF News The Other Homeless Count: How Many Have Died? On December 31, 2014, longtime homeless Castro figure "Anastasia" was found dead on Market Street. A rare event it was not, but people knew Anastasia — the scarves, the coffee cups — so perhaps it
SF News Day Around The Bay: Study Finds SF Landlords See Low Returns Follow SFist on Twitter and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Hume Cloister, or as it is often known, Hume Castle, is
SF News Whoopi Goldberg Launches Marijuana Menstrual Pain Relief Products Cannabis entrepreneurship, an industry by and large dominated by white men as BuzzFeed discussed last month, got a huge boost from Whoopi Goldberg this week. The comedian and co-host of The View who
SF News California Historical Society Selected To Restore Old Mint As New Cultural Center San Francisco has selected the California Historical Society to restore the Old Mint, which dates to 1854 and was rebuilt in a classical revival style in 1874 at the intersection of Fifth and
