SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Mina Appears to Be Plotting a New Fine Dining Restaurant Where His Old One Used to Be In the Westin St. Francis There are few details and zero confirmations so far from the hotel or the MINA Group, but all signs point to an impending return of celebrity chef Michael Mina to the grand space off the lobby at the Westin St. Francis, after an ongoing renovation is complete.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Brucato, a New Restaurant and Distillery Tasting Room, Opening Next Month In the Mission A trendy new local maker of excellent amari — Italian-style, herbal digestif and aperitif liqueurs — Brucato Amaro, has set an opening date for their first tasting room, which is doubling as a full-service restaurant and cocktail bar.
SF News San Francisco Federal Buildings Spared, For Now, as GSA Pares Down Its List of Real Estate to Sell Two federally owned office buildings in San Francisco, one dating to the 1930s and the other a contemporary architectural landmark built less than 20 years ago, are not on the drastically pared-down list of "assets for disposition" now on the General Services Administration website.
SF News Oakland and Half Moon Bay Both Broke High-Temp Records Monday This mini-heatwave we're having, a welcome introduction to the official spring season — even though the Bay may still be in for some wintry turns before all is said and done — included some record-setting high temperatures on Monday.
Arts & Entertainment Doja Cat, Hozier, and Tyler, the Creator to Headline Outside Lands 2025 The lineup is out, as expected, this morning, and it includes several of the guessed-at acts that were teased in videos by the promoters over the weekend.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Santa Clara County Raises Trans Flag The trans flag has been raised in front of Santa Clara County's Government Center, where it will remain indefinitely; the innocent passenger killed in a high-speed-chase crash in Pittsburg has been identified; and a Trump-appointed judge on the Ninth Circuit made a questionable gun video.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF City Hall Bad at Rooting Out Conflicts of Interest A new report confirms what everyone knows about SF City Hall and conflicts of interest; Willie Brown is auctioning off some of his wardrobe; and the Trump administration has made its first of likely many jaw-dropping military intelligence flubs.
SF Politics Another Federal Judge Pushes Back on Trump Immigration Action, Suggests It's Racist Another federal judge in San Francisco is voicing concern about the legality of an action being taken by the Trump administration, and suggesting that deporting hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Venezuelan migrants with legal status may just be racist.
SF News Bail Set for $1.5M for Napa Mother Arrested In DUI That Left Two Kids Dead A mother who was arrested and charged with DUI and vehicular manslaughter last week made her first court appearance Monday after being released from the hospital in Napa County.
Arts & Entertainment Charli XCX, Doechii, and Olivia Rodrigo Among the Possibly Teased Headliners of Outside Lands 2025 The organizers of Outside Lands have once again used a set of visual clues to tease the lineup of this year's festival, with some of the clues a bit more obvious than others.
SF News Wife of Slain Cal Fire Captain Rebecca Marodi Located and Arrested In Mexico The wife and sole suspect in the murder of a Cal Fire captain in Southern California last month has been taken into custody and will face a murder charge in San Diego County.
SF News Innocent Passenger Killed as a Result of High-Speed Police Chase In East Bay Another death in the Bay Area can be chalked up to a high-speed chase involving law enforcement, this time in Pittsburg.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Annual Tulip Day Draws Thousands to Union Square Striking VTA workers are voting on a new wage offer; Rep. Ro Khanna took his town hall show on the road to red districts Sunday; and thousands showed up to pick out free tulips in Union Square on Saturday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Arrivederci, Ragazza Draymond Green's new Civic Center Ethiopian-Dominican restaurant is getting close, Vietnamese spot Ben Tre is opening in San Francisco, and 15-year-old Ragazza is closing on Divis, all in This Week in Food.
SF News Golden Gate Bridge Officials Sound Testy In Response to NTSB Report About Ship Collision Risks The Golden Gate Bridge ended up being a line item in a report that came out this week as part of the National Transportation Safety Board's investigation into last year's collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, and the local media has been freaking out.
SF News 'California Forever' Billionaire Group Now Talking About Creating Shipbuilding Yard in the Delta Ever since shelving their plans to create a new city out of whole cloth in eastern Solano County because the political winds against it were too strong, the group still known as California Forever is apparently looking into turning some waterfront property on the Delta into a shipbuilding facility.
SF News 16-Year-Old Arrested for Fatal Shooting of Oakland 15-Year-Old on Way to Soccer Practice An arrest has been made in the shooting of an Oakland teenager Monday that has sent the local community reeling, in which a 15-year-old boy was killed while walking with friends to soccer practice.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Abducted Oakland Woman Comes Forward A woman seen on video being abducted in Oakland two weeks ago has come forward; a Bay Area man could face 100 years in prison for a Monterey crime spree; and Sherri Papini is back in court fighting over custody of her kids.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Venerable Polk Street Vietnamese Spot Crustacean to Open In New Downtown Location Shortly It's happening probably within a few weeks: 34-year-old Vietnamese institution Crustacean is opening in the Financial District and getting a bit fancier — with the original Polk Street spot slated to close later this year.
SF News Emeryville Man Arrested for Attempted Murder Following Mountain View Stabbing Mountain View police arrested a suspect Sunday in a stabbing that was reported by the suspect's sister.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ali Wong Brought Boyfriend Bill Hader to New Turtle Tower for Pho SF-born comedian Ali Wong has long been a fan of the famed chicken pho at Turtle Tower, and so it's only fitting that when she was back in town this week, she brought boyfriend Bill Hader to the new incarnation of the restaurant downtown.
SF News SFPD and Sheriff's Deputies Do Another Drug Sweep, This Time at Van Ness and Market The Whac-a-Mole games continued Wednesday night with another law enforcement sweep and mass arrest on San Francisco's Mid-Market Street, resulting in 40 more drug users and/or dealers arrested.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: SF Postal Workers Protest Possible Privatization Postal workers protest the Trump administration's talk of privatizing the US Postal Service; there was a vigil Wednesday for the slain 15-year-old in East Oakland; and DOGE seems to be getting pushback on its canceling of federal office leases.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Interim Oakland Mayor Challenges Lurie to 3-Pointer Contest The UC system is instituting a hiring freeze as it faces Trump cuts; the Defense Department erased and then restored a page about Jackie Robinson; and federal judges are raising alarms about online threats against them.
SF News Woman Who Died During Conjugal Visit to Sacramento Area Prison Likely Strangled By Inmate Husband A coroner has ruled that a woman died by strangulation during an overnight visit to Mule Creek State Prison in November, and she was alone with her convicted murderer husband at the time.
