SF Restaurants, Food & Drink S.F. Chef Melissa King To Appear On 12th Season of <i>Top Chef</i>, Premiering In October Recent Luce sous chef Melissa King, who has ten years experience in the Bay Area fine dining scene, has landed a place in the cast of Top Chef's 12th season, which premieres October
SF News Experienced Rock Climber Falls To His Death In Yosemite Free Climb After Proposing To Girlfriend A very sad story came out of Yosemite over the weekend when veteran rock climber Brad Parker of Sebastopol fell to his death while attempting to climb Matthes Crest Traverse. Most tragically, just
SF News West Oakland Market Sends Posse Of Goons To Rough Up Thief Who Stole Liquor A tipster sent in this video of a group of men, identified as owners or employees of Ideal Market at 21st and Market Streets in West Oakland, chasing down and roughing up a
SF News Day Around the Bay: Murdoch Takes Stab At Google Crazy old man Rupert Murdoch takes stab at Google privacy concerns in one of the greatest pot-kettle-black moments of recent Twitter history. [SF Business Times] Michael Bauer is already contemplating additions to next
SF News 'Orchestrated Multiple Sideshow Event' Sunday Ties Up Two Freeways In Oakland, Results In Motorcyclist Death Several rolling sideshows involving as many as 100 cars took place Sunday evening around 7:30 p.m. simultaneously on Interstates 580 and 880 in Oakland, at the Port of Oakland, the Bay
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Are Caviar, SpoonRocket, And Instacart Doomed To Go The Way Of Kozmo And Webvan? Remember when you could order two CDs for $20 delivered to your door in a half hour with a free cookie? No? Well that was part of the failed business model of Kozmo.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tosca Café Lands On Bon Appetit's Best New Restaurants List Making up for its getting cut from the James Beard shortlist earlier this year, the splashy and on-point debut of North Beach's revamped Tosca Café has made it onto critic Andrew Knowlton's annual
SF News Another Yosemite Wildfire, The Junction Fire, Grows To 1,200 Acres This fire season is proving, predictably, to be a doozy. Yet another wildfire has grown out of control in Madera County near the southern entrance to Yosemite National Park and the town of
SF News Muni, BART Broken In Various Ways This Morning [Updated] You probably already know this if you are currently a) at work and extra-grumpy after an extra-slow commute, or b) late for work because of the extra-slow commute, but Muni broke in several
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chris Cosentino's Cockscomb Is Due To Open In SoMa By Year's End There's an update today in the next chapter for local/national celebrity chef Chris Cosentino, whose flagship restaurant Incanto closed earlier this year and transitioned into something more neighborhood-y. As we'd gathered earlier,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 22-Year-Old Woodward's Garden Closing Due To Expired Lease Veteran restaurant-goers are already lamenting the end of an era with the announcement late last week that overpass-adjacent Woodward's Garden was calling it quits. As many other longtime businesses have, the 22-year-old restaurant
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Howling Dog Hates Waking Up To Alarm This dog named Oscar may have had a Monday morning like your Monday morning. I'm not sure I've ever seen a dog howl out of what seems like genuine sadness over having to
SF News Have You Hopped Into A Stranger's Car Mistaking It For An Uber? The epidemic of UberX/Lyft usage in our cities has led to the unfortunate trend of people jumping into the backseat of any idling vehicle that they think should be their ride home.
SF News Deplorable Teen Hoodlums Targeting Asian Women On Muni A series of violent robberies in Visitacion Valley may be the work of a coordinated gang of youths who are specifically targeting Asian women on Muni buses. The latest attack, on a petite
SF News The Fastest Way To Levi's Stadium Is, Probably, By Car (If You Leave Super Early) The 49ers' debut game at Levi's Stadium Sunday, an embarrassing 34-0 loss to the Broncos in 80-degree heat that even took the life of one loyal fan a man who suffered cardiac arrest
SF News Tourist Shot In Tenderloin Sunday A man visiting S.F. from Boston was walking with his wife Sunday morning near the intersection of Polk and Ellis Streets when he was shot in the leg by a stray bullet.
SF News Day Around The Bay: A Pop-Up Gay Bar On A Boat Someone may want to tell the Bold Italic that they should have stopped their Robin Williams coverage before this happened. [Bold Italic] Stanley Roberts says people are behaving badly at the Mrs. Doubtfire
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: New Details on Mister Jiu and China Live, TwoFish Baking Co. Opens, and More Probably the biggest food-news item that we haven't yet touched on this week is an update on chef Brandon Jew's long-awaited solo project in Chinatown. Formerly the opening chef at Bar Agricole, Jew
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Did A Few Angry Yelpers Get Kicked Out Of A Presidio Restaurant For Threatening To Yelp? An amused restaurant customer recently wrote in to Leah Garchik at the Chronicle to describe a scene she witnessed at an unnamed restaurant in the Presidio (it's got to be either Presidio Social
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Dragonette and Mike Mago's 'Outlines' Please enjoy this great little video for the new Dragonette/Mike Mago release "Outlines," just out today. It kind of redefines dancing by yourself. Download the single here.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Crazy New Multi-Use Venue / Workspace / Brewpub Thing Coming To Former Pearl Paint On Market Something called The Village is moving into the massive three-level space that was formerly home to Pearl Paint at 969 Market Street (between 5th and 6th). And it just sounds crazy. There's going
SF News New Condo Tower 181 Fremont Skirts Affordable Housing Requirement The pretty new glass tower going in at 181 Fremont, in the Transbay Redevelopment District, looks like it's going to get away without including any units for non-rich people as Socketsite puts it,
Arts & Entertainment Robin Williams Jokes About Tiburon, Bears In San Francisco In Un-Aired 2009 Interview CBS 5's entertainment reporter Liam Mayclem just penned a tribute of his own to the late Robin Williams, recalling his first encounter with the funny man when Williams stepped into his shot during
SF News Facebook Donated $10K To Anti-Gay Candidate In Utah The political-lobbying arm of Facebook recently made a cash donation of $10,000 to anti-gay-marriage Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes's re-election campaign, sparking some fury in the LGBT community. Reyes is currently fighting
SF News Two-Alarm Fire Burns Church On 20th Street In The Mission [Updated] There's a fire currently burning in a church on 20th Street in the Mission, near San Carlos. NBC Bay Area reports that the church is located at 3541 20th Street, and that the
