SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Academy Bar & Kitchen Debuts On Fillmore In the former Pizza Inferno space at the edge of Japantown, already open, is Academy Bar & Kitchen (1800 Fillmore Street at Sutter), which SFist first learned about back in February. The restaurant
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 14 Best Coffee Shops In San Francisco (A Definitive List) Beans can be over-roasted. Your pour-over could arrive lukewarm. And lack of functioning, speedy wi-fi can kind of ruin your day. But across town there are a smattering of welcoming, amazing little coffee
SF News [Update] Four People Stabbed At UC Merced, Suspect Shot And Killed In a bizarre incident of college campus violence this morning, five students were apparently stabbed by a single suspect at UC Merced. The university tweeted about the incident, as shown below, announcing that
SF News Is Mayor Peskin Next? Even though he won last night, lots of people are saying that Ed Lee symbolically lost. And it's certainly the case that despite low voter turnout, Tuesday's election showed that a large swath
SF News 2015 Election Wrap-up: Peskin In, Mirkarimi Out, Props F And I Go Down Congratulations to my new colleague @AaronPeskin! https://t.co/vihBWT3lNF— Jane Kim (@SupeJaneKim) November 4, 2015 Last night was a rollercoaster for political wonks and hardcore progressives in San Francisco, and for everyone
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Once Upon A Time, The Nopa Space Almost Became A Blockbuster Video It's kind of amazing the way neighborhoods morph and change over time, some for better and some for worse, sometimes incrementally and sometimes pretty quickly. The last five years, for instance, has seen
Arts & Entertainment Video: Stanley Roberts Returns To Work After Stroke! Remember back in August when beloved local finger-wagger Stanley Roberts suffered a series of small strokes and went abruptly off the air at KRON 4? Well, happily, he received treatment in time, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Deranged Maniacs With Green Thumbs Actively Adding Random Fruit Tree Branches To Trees Near You Just kidding. This is fun! A group called Guerrilla Grafters are doing something that's illegal but nonetheless kind of rad: They're going around town and grafting baby fruit-tree branches onto existing street trees,
SF News The Ballad Of Terence Faulkner, Local Republican Gadfly And Professional Ballot Measure Opponent Another election day has arrived, and for those who actually read their voter guides carefully, I commend you for your patience and your civic due diligence. I would joke that there are only
SF News Robin Williams' Widow Gives Interview, Says She Forgives Him It's been over a year since Robin Williams took his own life in the Tiburon home they shared, and now his wife of three years, Susan Williams (née Schneider), has spoken out to
SF News Day Around The Bay: Illicit Sunnyside Parking Space Dude Prevails You know that guy who decided that getting a permit was going to take too long so he just started excavating a small hillside on his property in Sunnyside to create an off-street
SF News Big Empty Parking Lot At Balboa Park Station To Become Affordable Housing In a move that should never have taken this long, a sizable, city-owned parking lot next to the Balboa Park BART station in the Excelsior is moving forward to be developed as 80
SF News <i>Times</i> Weighs In On SF's Crazy Local Election; Yes On F People Vow To Bring Measure Back In 2016 As SFist has been trying to tell anyone who'll listen, despite the fact that we aren't even reelecting Nancy Pelosi in this one and the mayor pretty much has it in the bag,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dungeness Crab Season Possibly Delayed By Toxic Algae Bloom It's a Bay Area tradition to find Dungeness crab starting to appear on local menus this month, and on Thanksgiving tables in a few weeks, but the crabbing season may not start on
Arts & Entertainment Daisy Does The Niners: SF Looks Horrendous In 27-6 Loss To St. Louis It’s pretty clear the 49ers have some major issues to address. by Daisy Barringer While you were all out hiking and brunching and having morning sex or whatever it is normal, happy
SF News Willie Brown Just Invited The Whole Town To An Open Bar Tomorrow If you happened to miss the politically tinged, folksy charm of Willie Brown's Willie's World column in the Chronicle on Sunday, you may have missed an important invitation. Brown casually notes, as if
SF News Ferry Building Missed Daylight Saving Memo, Clock Stays Wrong #DaylightSavingTime has ended but San Francisco’s Ferry Building didn’t get the memo: https://t.co/o89QUonOcf pic.twitter.com/LFEhBNnjfD— ABC7 News (@abc7newsBayArea) November 1, 2015 The clock tower at the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: A Taker For The Bay Wolf Space, Barcha Debuts In SoMa, And More This week saw the opening of Iza Ramen in the Lower Haight, and brought news of former Poleng Lounge guy Tim Luym doing the food for a new bar in the Polk, Ho's
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: A Room With No Walls, $1300/Mo I'm back! Did you miss me and this sad, sad column last week while I was on vacation, far away from the sadness? Well, buck up, because there are a lot more rental
SF News Mission House Selling For Eight Times What It Sold For Three Years Ago Today in house sadness, a formerly dilapidated three-story house on Treat Avenue in the Mission was fully fixed up by some new owners in the last couple years, and it's now selling for
Arts & Entertainment Lyft Is Delivering Free Zombies Today For a little Halloween promotional fun, Lyft is delivering zombies to your door today, for free. "Liven up a dead party! Activate a sluggish meeting!" says the promo. Yes, you can have a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink High-End Sausalito Spot Sushi Ran Expands To The Castro Well, we now have word of who's taking the vacant Pesce space. As Inside Scoop reports, it's Sushi Ran, the acclaimed Sausalito Japanese spot, which will now be giving Castro neighborhood sushi places
SF News Alamo And Danville Deserve All The Drought-Shaming Because of public information requests from the media, the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) continues to publish lists of their biggest water wasters since they began penalizing customers for overuse in July.
SF News Here's Why You Need To Vote In Tuesday's Election (And Why Many Of You Won't) A lot of you are probably sick of reading stories about affordable housing, moratoriums on building, Airbnb, and a bizarrely contentious fight over something called District 3, wherever that might be. For those
SF News First Snow Fell In Tahoe Yesterday The first snows of what could be a very snowy El Niño winter fell at high altitudes in Lake Tahoe on Wednesday afternoon, and skiers and ski resorts are getting very excited. As
