SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Daughter's Seven-Second TikTok Video Boosts Business For Parents' Struggling Santa Rosa Restaurant A young woman's brief plea to TikTok about her parents' empty Vietnamese restaurant in Santa Rosa was apparently immediately successful, and business is back up.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Downtown Four Seasons (the Former Loews Regency/Mandarin Oriental) to Open New Italian Restaurant, Orafo A new hotel restaurant is coming soon to the ground-floor space at the Four Seasons Embarcadero — the hotel formerly known as the Loews Regency which is not actually on the Embarcadero, but at 222 Sansome.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Valencia Street Irish Pub The Phoenix to Close Next Week, and a Six-Story Apartment Building Will Rise In Its Place The swan song of the 22-year-old Irish bar, The Phoenix, arrives on Super Bowl Sunday, and the owner has permits to demolish the single-story building and construct an 18-unit apartment building in its place.
SF News Body Recovered at Site of House Explosion and Fire In the Sunset; Six Homes and Five Cars Damaged In Blast There is still no explanation for a dramatic explosion that occurred at a single-family home on 22nd Avenue in the Sunset District Thursday morning, but rumors of a fatality were confirmed when a body was recovered Thursday night.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Oakland Baker Dies From Injuries After Robbery Oakland baker and activist Jen Angel has died from injuries sustained while trying to chase down thieves; UCSF is seeking help identifying a patient; and a Calistoga man is suing the Napa hotel whose water was found to have high levels of the bacteria that causes Legionnaires' disease last summer.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Beer Week Begins Friday With Kickoff Tasting Events In North Bay and East Bay; SF Kickoff on Saturday San Francisco Beer Week has very much become Northern California Beer Week over the years, with breweries from as far north as Mendocino and the Sierra joining in, and as far south as Carmel. And this year they're dividing up the kickoff events by subregion.
Business & Tech Mayor London Breed Announces Tax Breaks, Other Incentives Aimed at Reviving SF's Downtown In her State of the City address Thursday, SF Mayor London Breed announced a multipart plan aimed at revitalizing the city's beleaguered, seemingly half-empty downtown, and it involves some Twitter tax-break-style tax breaks.
SF News Organized Retail Theft Ring That Targeted California Apple Stores Busted, Eight Arrested An organized retail theft ring that netted around $1 million in stolen Apple products over the last six months has been busted following an investigation by the CHP's retail theft unit.
SF News [Update] Oakland Bakery Owner Dies After Attempted Robbery Gone Wrong Popular Oakland baker Jennifer Angel, the 48-year-old owner of Angel Cakes in the historic Gingerbread House, is in critical condition after a Monday incident in which she apparently tried to chase down thieves who stole something from her.
SF News 'Possible Gas Explosion' and Fire Destroys Sunset Home, Damages Others A fire quickly consumed and destroyed a home in San Francisco's Sunset District, and the fire reportedly began with or included an explosion that shattered windows in neighboring homes.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Conviction In Carmel Cold-Case Murder From 1981 The SoCal doctor accused of trying to kill his wife and kids by driving over a Pacifica cliff is due in court, a 67-year-old Seaside man has been convicted in a 1981 murder in Carmel, and the 2019 Texas Walmart shooter has pleaded guilty.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Report Calls Oakland Police Chief 'Not Credible' A new report from investigators into the latest Oakland police scandal calls Chief LeRonne Armstrong "not credible" in statements he made; the SFPD announced a $50K reward in a Sept. 2022 Fillmore shooting case; and UC Berkeley has "unnamed" another building that was named for a white supremacist.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Quince Team Opening New Espresso and Gelato Café In North Beach Fast on the heels of the news that Michelin three-starred Quince is undergoing a six-month renovation, we learn that owners Lindsay and Michael Tusk are planning a new casual off-shoot.
SF News Bed Bath & Beyond Is Closing Its SoMa Store You knew it was coming, with all the bankruptcy rumblings in the news, but yes, Bed Bath and What's More is closing its only San Francisco store.
SF News Deplorable Teens Rob UC Berkeley Student Via Tinder App Hookup A group of deplorable teens allegedly conducted a home-invasion robbery on Monday at the home of a UC Berkeley student using Tinder, and the ruse of a hookup with a 19-year-old girl.
Arts & Entertainment Mayor of SoCal Town Near Wildflower Superbloom Says 'Nothing to See Here This Year,' Closes Roads Instagram has created many monsters. But this winter there's a California town that is broadcasting an emphatic 'Go away!' to all selfie-taking tourists who want to make pilgrimages there all for the 'gram.
SF News San Francisco DA Files Hate-Crime Charges Against Man Who Allegedly Shot Blanks Inside Synagogue The man who shot off blank rounds inside a San Francisco synagogue last week has now been charged with hate crimes, in addition to other charges.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Former Twitter Execs Hauled Before Congress A House committee is grilling three former Twitter execs over the Hunter Biden laptop business, the SFMTA says Muni's "financial cliff" is coming in 2025, and Pelosi attacker David DePape is appearing in federal court today.
SF News SF Mayor London Breed Begins Laying Out Plan to Build 82,000 New Homes, and the City's West Side Better Brace Itself "With our Housing Element approved by the state, we have the plan," Mayor London Breed said on Tuesday. "Now we need to put it into action."
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chezchez, Valencia Street's Aperitivo Spot, Is Closed After 16 Months What had been a pretty popular pandemic-era spot for Negronis, spritzes, and tinned fish, Chezchez, is now closed, and it remains to be seen if the Bon Vivants/Trick Dog team will be having another go with another concept in the space.
Business & Tech Google, Facebook, and Twitter to Be In the Crosshairs In Biden's State of the Union Address In his likely-to-be fruitless quest to boost bipartisanship in Congress, President Joe Biden is expected to launch some rhetoric in the direction of Big Tech during this evening's State of the Union address.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Paul Pelosi to Be Guest at State of the Union SF's Roosevelt Middle School is addressing a threat made on Facebook, five teens were arrested for a string of armed robberies in Castro Valley, and Paul Pelosi has been invited as a guest of Jill Biden to the State of the Union this evening.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Newsom Announces $50K Rewards In Four Cold Cases Gov. Gavin Newsom announced four $50K rewards for four cold cases murders including one in San Pablo in 2020; a DoorDash driver in San Jose says he was attacked by a machete in a road rage incident; and a man has been charged with murder in Oakland's first homicide case of the near year.
SF Politics Retired Bay Area Congresswoman Jackie Speier Joins Local TV Station KGO As Political Analyst Longtime Bay Area House Rep. Jackie Speier, who just ended a 15-year stint in Congress, has revealed her next chapter, and it is going to keep her on local TV screens talking politics for the foreseeable future.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hi Felicia Spinoff Wine Bar, Called Sluts, Opens In SoMa The promised wine bar offshoot of Oakland's "vulgar fine-dining" outfit Hi Felicia has just opened in the former Terroir wine shop/bar space on Folsom Street — and they're serving Lean Cuisines and Chips Ahoy to accompany your natural wine.
