SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thieves Tavern and Blind Cat Shutter in the Mission, Bringing an End to a Dive Bar Mini-Empire Today in bar casualties from the pandemic we have Thieves Tavern and Blind Cat, the last two dive-y spots in what was once a four-bar empire owned and operated by Paul Bavaro.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Update: Valencia Street Bar Amnesia Definitely Closing... Thanks for the Memories Amnesia’s owners have confirmed the 20-year-old bar’s closure, effective February 29, 2020.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF’s Oldest Black-Owned Bar Sam Jordan’s To Close After 60-Year Run in Bayview The Bayview bar and restaurant has legacy status and spawned a street name for the 1940s-era prizefighter, but his kids are hanging up the gloves.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Whoa! El Rio Almost Closed This Summer, but Was Saved by a Housing Nonprofit The nightlife scene dodged a bullet as El Rio was at serious risk of shutting down in recent months, but thanks to a city program, Carmen Miranda’s huge head is not going anywhere.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved West Portal Dive Portals Tavern is Closing After 82 Years Another cherished relic of Old San Francisco is biting the dust as news arrives that Portals Tavern in West Portal is closing its doors at the end of August.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] SF's Oldest Gay Bar The Gangway Is Once Again Set To Close, May Become 'Kung Fu' Laundromat (Or A Straight Bar) We knew as of January 2016 that the owner of The Gangway, the oldest continually operating gay bar in the city, at 841 Larkin Street in the 'Loin, was looking to sell the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] Lefty O'Doul's Battle Continues As Proprietor And Landlord Hold Dueling Press Conferences The tug of war over Lefty O'Doul's in Union Square continued Monday with dueling press conferences held by landlord Jon Handlery and the Handlery family via their public relations man Sam Singer and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Iconic 48-Year-Old Pac Heights Bar, The Lion Pub, Is Now Closed [Be warned a couple of images below are NSFW] An iconic fern bar on Divisadero, which for about 30 years was a neighborhood gay bar before becoming more of a straight-people hang in
SF News Facing Loss Of Lease, Doc's Clock To Move Down The Street When news broke earlier this year that Doc's Clock would be forced to close following a decision by the new building owner not to renew the bar's lease in 2017, devotees of the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SoMa's Gay-Owned Beatbox Nightclub To Close In July, After Pride Sad news for gay club-goers today as the five-year-old nightclub Beatbox (314 11th Street) has announced it will shut down for good as of July 3, the weekend following Gay Pride. The announcement
SF News Doc's Clock To Close Next Year The dive-bar dominoes continue to fall, as we learn today that the much loved Doc's Clock is not long for this world. The watering hole, on Mission Street between 21st and 22nd, will
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sigh: Dave's Replacement Bar, The Lark, Opens On Third The lark is open for business! Come have a beer with us to celebrate 👍🍻 A photo posted by Doug Dalton (@dougdalton) on Jan 17, 2016 at 3:50pm PST We've done enough lamenting
SF News Bummer Alert: SoMa Dive Zeke's To Close Saturday Bad news out of SoMa this morning, so first: Are you sitting down? Preferably at a bar? Preferably at one Zeke's Diamond Bar — which just opened for the day? You see where this
SF News Dave's, Beloved Downtown Dive, Loses Lease After 26 Years "It seems impossible that you can find a real, 'normal' bar filled with regulars just steps from Market Street and/or the St. Regis," my esteemed SFist colleague Eve Batey wrote of Dave's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] Hayes Valley's Place Pigalle To Close Next Month, Plans To Relocate After a feud with the building's landlord, the owners of Place Pigalle are closing their bar on May 10th. The establishment has seen dramatic changes in its surroundings since it opened back around
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Playland On Polk Suspended For Sale Of Cocaine, Marijuana According to the website for Playland, the Polk Street bar will be closed for a "remodel" until March 3rd. But the Chronicle is implying that's some coded language, and maybe not the first
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gestalt On 16th Shut Down For Selling Weed Mission beer and bicyclist bar Gestalt Haus has had their liquor license suspended for 30 days after a doorman was caught selling marijuana. California Alcoholic Beverage Control spokesman John Carr issued a statement
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oh No! The Lexington Club To Close After 18 Years [Updated] Bad news for the LGBT community: The city's only, long-standing, dedicated bar for gay women*, The Lexington Club (3464 19th Street), is getting sold and sounds likely to close very soon. In a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Death: The Attic Closes Forever on 24th Street Fans of dingy, timeworn, kind of smelly but easily loveable 24th dive The Attic will be depressed to learn that it closed as of Sunday night. The closure was expected, and was originally
