SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin-Starred Coi, Daniel Patterson's Flagship, Shutters After 16 Years In North Beach Chef Daniel Patterson, one of the Bay Area food world's most celebrated innovators, has seen his restaurant footprint shrink considerably in recent years. And now, sadly, his longtime fine-dining flagship, Coi, has permanently closed.
SF Politics Two Pandemic Years Later, Gay Bathhouse Zoning Back on the Docket In SF Way back in February 2020, SF Supervisor Rafael Mandelman introduced legislation that would re-legalize the bathhouses that the city had banned at the start of an earlier pandemic, the AIDS pandemic. And now he's proposing creating a new zoning category for them.
Bay Area Sports Thursday Morning What's Up: Steph Curry Out 'Indefinitely' With Foot Injury A woman in Millbrae was assaulted and robbed by a man who threatened to traffic her, Richmond police are searching for a runaway teen mom, and no sooner were the Warriors 'whole' again but Curry's now out with an injury.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Charges Filed In Murder of Security Guard Kevin Nishita Three so-far unnamed suspects have been charged in Kevin Nishita's November murder, the new A's stadium has been dealt another blow, and The Sentinel is giving away free corned-beef sandwiches for St. Patrick's Day!
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Horn BBQ, Brandon Jew, House of Prime Rib All Among 2022 James Beard Award Finalists The finalists for this year's James Beard Awards — the first with a full slate of nominees and actual awards given since 2019 — are now out, and the Bay Area is well represented both in the California and national categories.
SF News Fatal Shooting In Fremont Sounds Like Yet Another Failure for Mental Health System A fatal shooting in a residential neighborhood in Fremont, which is being characterized as an act of self-defense, sounds like a tragic end to a psychotic episode that was left untreated.
SF Politics New Poll By Recall Boudin Campaign Suggests Dems In Favor; Pro-Boudin Camp Fires Back With More Police Data There were a couple more salvos in both directions this week from the campaign to recall San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin and those who support him, with each side trying to use arguably shaky numbers to bolster their cases.
SF News Humpday Headlines: No Tsunami Threat From Japan Earthquake BART service this morning between Dublin and Pleasanton was disrupted by a death on the tracks, those Uber/Lyft gas surcharges kick in, and a powerful earthquake near Fukushima in Japan is prompting tsuami warnings — but not for us.
SF News Child's Remains Found In Merced Home Confirmed as Missing Hayward Girl; Mother's Boyfriend Still at Large Merced authorities confirmed on Tuesday that the remains of a girl found at a residence in the city last week are those of eight-year-old Sophia Mason, who was reported missing by family members in the East Bay.
SF News Woman Who Swiped $4K Bottle of Cognac From San Jose Restaurant ID'd as Mother of 6, Owner Not Pressing Charges The suspect has been identified in that brazen and ill-conceived theft of an expensive bottle of Remy Martin Louis XIII Cognac from a steakhouse on Mt. Hamilton last week, and she's very, very sorry.
SF News Bay Area Slightly Decreased Water Usage During the Drought to Date, While Palm Springs' Usage Went Up 19% The majority of residents and businesses in the state of California appear to have ignored calls for voluntary reductions in water usage during the current drought emergency. The Bay Area is the only exception, but even we only decreased usage by less than 2%.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Newsom and Legislature Give UC Enrollment Reprieve The legislature passed — and Newsom signed — a quick fix to CEQA to let UC Berkeley keep its enrollment number, lawmakers are pushing to suspend California's gas tax, and the jury has been seated in the Sunny Balwani fraud trial.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Kate Steinle Shooter Pleads Guilty In Federal Gun Case Jose Ines Garcia-Zarate has pleaded guilty to federal gun charges in connection with the 2015 shooting of Kate Steinle, BART lost about 2% of its workforce last year to early retirement and the vaccine mandate, and three SF employees are suing over the city's vaccine mandate.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Classy Crew Swipes $4,000 Bottle of Cognac on the Way Out of San Jose Steakhouse, Sheriff Investigating A group of 10 people who were dining last week at at an upscale steakhouse in San Jose appears to have wanted to take a special souvenir with them — and it was a very expensive bottle of booze.
SF News San Francisco to Sponsor Event Series Later This Month to 'Celebrate' Everyone Returning to Their Downtown Offices A program of outdoor festivities at multiple locations around downtown SF is being planned for the last week of March, and city officials really hope that someone is there to attend them.
SF News Mayor London Breed and SF Travel Officials Head on European Tour to Drum Up Tourism San Francisco Mayor London Breed and officials from San Francisco International Airport and the San Francisco Travel Association are headed out on a 10-day tour of the Continent in an effort to combat negative press about SF becoming a hellhole.
SF News Authorities On the Hunt For Mother's Boyfriend As Suspect in Possible Murder 8-Year-Old Hayward Girl The remains of an eight-year-old girl who may have gone missing as long as three months ago were discovered in a Merced home Friday that belongs to the boyfriend of the girl's mother, and he has since gone on the run.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: More Rain Moves In A little more rain is on the way late tonight and into tomorrow, BART's Red Line is still down and you have transfer to get to Berkeley or Richmond, and an early morning fire displaced five in SF's Oceanview.
SF News UC Berkeley May Be Granted Legislative Workaround for Enrollment Cap Fight Legislators in Sacramento are working to craft a quick solution to the University of California's legal battle with a citizens' group in Berkeley, in order that they may be able to admit 2,000 more students this month. And it entails a small revision to CEQA.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sally Schmitt, Original Chef at The French Laundry, Has Died at Age 90 A Bay Area legend in her own right, Sally Schmitt will be remembered as a pioneer of California Cuisine, before such a thing was even being talked about. Schmitt died at her home in Philo on Saturday at the age of 90.
SF Politics Embattled Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith Announces Retirement After a year in which the county's board of supervisors mounted pressure to oust her, Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith announced Thursday that she plans to retire in January and not run for re-election.
SF Politics London Breed Announces Picks for School Board Replacements, All Three Are District Parents SF Mayor London Breed is announcing her three picks for the school board Friday, and one of them was instrumental in helping to recall the three school board members who were ousted in last month's special election.
SF News Mummified Body Found In Oakland Convention Center Wall Was Likely Three to Five Years Old, Foul Play Not Suspected The story of the mummified body discovered inside a wall at the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center in Oakland has taken a turn for the less dramatic, and perhaps more tragic.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Caltrain Running Bus Bridge Around San Bruno Following Crash There's some continued disruption on Caltrain after Thursday's crash in San Bruno, a van parked outside the Old Mint in SF caught fire Thursday afternoon, and today is the day you can stop showing proof of vaccination at bars and restaurants.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Zoo Rescues Two Teenage Tortoises From Oklahoma Roadside Attraction The Oakland Zoo has just welcomed a pair of Aldabra tortoises, both teenage males, and both confiscated from a roadside zoo in Oklahoma.
