SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dogpatch Is Getting A Big New Bagel Bakery And Creamery Called Daily Driver Set to open on June 15, Daily Driver brings together a cheesemaker, bagel baker, coffee roaster, industrial designer, and a Marin-based dairy farm and creamery, and they'll be introducing wood-oven-baked bagels to a bagel-starved populace.
SF News Richmond Mayor, City Council In Ongoing War Over Police Commission Appointments The background to this story is deeply local, tedious, and somewhat drawn out, but suffice it to say Mayor Tom Butt has been wielding his appointment power without compromise, and the Council isn't having it.
SF News Video: Ultra-Rare Sighting Of Baird's Beaked Whale Pod Off Monterey Coast Whale watchers and marine biologists got an especially rare treat last week when a pod of two dozen Baird's beaked whales surfaced near a whale-watching boat off the coast of Monterey, and stayed long enough to be captured on drone video.
SF News Young Democrats Attacked In Alleged Homophobic Hate Crime Incident In SoMa Two young men who were part of a delegation of Contra Costa Young Democrats attending this past weekend's state party convention at the Moscone Center were assaulted outside a SoMa bar early Sunday and called homophobic slurs.
SF News Tuesday Morning Updates: Rampaging Driver Pleads Not Guilty 25-year-old vehicular injury suspect's lawyer says she's bipolar and was off her meds, SFO's greenhouse emissions are up, and SFPD still has many mandated reforms to complete.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin's CA Guide Is Out: Saison Loses A Star, LA Still Has No Three-Star Restaurants, and More LA can still be bitter at Michelin, and the big Bay Area headline is that Saison has dropped from three stars to two, largely because of the departure of executive chef and co-owner Joshua Skenes.
SF News Day Around The Bay: SFPD Unveils Rainbow-Covered 'Pride Patrol' Vehicles 600 animal-rights protesters showed up at a Petaluma duck farm today, FAANG stocks got battered on news of antitrust probes, and a Bay Area tech entrepreneur just paid $4.5 million to have lunch with Warren Buffett.
SF News Three Men Charged In Succulent Poaching Ring Worth $600,000 Three men, all South Korean nationals, have been charged by federal authorities in California after poaching $600,000 worth of prized succulents from the Northern California coast.
SF News People Have Been Bitching About San Francisco Losing Its Soul Since Literally Forever Following on my own two rejoinders to the recent pieces in the New Yorker and Washington Post about San Francisco irreversibly going to shit, the Chronicle's Peter Hartlaub and Mission Local's Joe Eskanazi have each penned their own responses.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Elizabeth Warren Dined at Woman-Run Union Square Restaurant Ayala While bouncing between events, a rally in Oakland, and the state Democratic party convention in SF over the weekend, Senator Elizabeth Warren stopped in for a Saturday dinner at Ayala, the seafood-focused restaurant in the Hotel G on Geary Street, run by Top Chef alum Melissa Perfit.
Business & Tech Apple Kills Off iTunes, Adds iOS 13 Dark Mode Apple kicks off its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Jose today, and the big announcements have begun rolling in — even though no major product announcements are expected at this one, except maybe a new Mac Pro.
Business & Tech Google Cloud Outage Shuts Down Everything From Smart Locks To Snapchat A significant outage with Google Cloud Services Sunday had widespread impacts that included right here on SFist — there were some scary moments there — but the most noticeable impacts for users were probably on Snapchat, YouTube, and Nest.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Here's the Menu For Flour + Water Pizzeria, Which Opens Today Just about ten years to the month that Flour + Water debuted in the Mission, the restaurant is opening a pizzeria spinoff at the busy corner of 18th and Valencia. And the official opening day is today.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Warriors Sell Game 4 Tickets For $50K Apiece A 35-year-old Bay Area mother of three died at a Lake Tahoe waterfall, Skip has pulled its scooters off the street, and there was a fire next to the Dumbarton Bridge on Sunday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thomas Keller Sued By Ex-Employee Who Says She Lost French Laundry Job Because She Was Pregnant A former employee of Thomas Keller's restaurant group is taking Keller and other company employees to court this week after she lost her job three years ago shortly after they found out she was pregnant.
SF News Sunday Links: Animal Rights Protester Storms Stage at Democrat Convention The campaign logistics problem of California, Newsom hosts fundraiser for Kamala Harris at Getty mansion, and Bernie Sanders rallies supporters in San Jose.
SF News Ridiculous Swedish Startup Wants To Rent Us Pogo Sticks Now It is in fact June 1st, not April 1st, and this is allegedly a real story: A Swedish mobility company wants to bring pogo-stick rentals to San Francisco. I guess because e-scooters are neither ridiculous nor dangerous enough as it is?
SF News Saturday Links: Elizabeth Warren Rallies Voters In Oakland One of the eight kids who won the National Spelling Bee is from San Jose, Jane Kim is working for Bernie Sanders now, and Elizbeth Warren drew a crowd of 6,500 in Kamala Harris' hometown.
SF News Day Around The Bay: SF's Budget Soars To $12.3 Billion That Potrero Hill shack listed for $2.5 million is a flip, a Kawhi Leonard billboard just went up in Oakland, and the SFPD actually obtained their warrant for a journalist's phone records months before raiding his home.
Arts & Entertainment VH1 and Levi's Host First 'Rupaul's Drag Race' Finale Crowning In SF Thursday night, a select few fans of Rupaul's Drag Race who also happened to be employees of Levi's got to attend a very special viewing party of the Season 11 finale where all four finalists were in attendance along with several other contestants.
Business & Tech Salesforce Steps Into Gun Debate, Drops Customers Who Sell Automatic Weapons Salesforce made a change to the acceptable-use policy for its e-commerce software this week, adding a range of firearms and accessories to the list of products it forbids customers from selling.
SF News Power Outage Hits SoMa, China Basin A power outage affecting about 4,000 PG&E customers as well as area traffic signals hit part of SoMa near South Park Friday afternoon.
SF News Muni Orders More Door Inspections After New Stuck-Hand Incident, And Door That Opened While A Train Was In Motion Following the now infamous April 12 incident in which an elderly woman was dragged after a new train door clamped on her hand and wouldn't let go, a fresh incident occurred with a woman getting her hand stuck in an older train car's door, but from the inside.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rat Bar, Featuring Real Live Rats, To Pop Up At Fisherman's Wharf In June If you're one of those people that needs a next-level gimmick to get you to buy a drink, have I got a bar gimmick for you! Inspired by all those cat cafes, a local outfit will be bringing us a rat-filled version, with booze.
SF News Elizabeth Warren Campaign Puts Up 'Break Up Big Tech' Billboard In SoMa Just as she and her Democrat cohort are descending on San Francisco for the state party convention this weekend, Senator Elizabeth Warren's campaign decided to throw up an anti-tech billboard at Fourth and Townsend.
