SF News Phoenix Hotel Calling It Quits After 39 Years, But Will Remain Open for the Rest of 2025 Make your poolside rave plans now for your final visits to the Tenderloin’s Phoenix Hotel, which will be permanently closing at the end of the year — but it will still have its last round of Pride parties and such for the remainder of 2025.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Haight Street’s Trax Bar Is Closing, But Will Reopen as ‘Mary’s on Haight’ A story about a longtime neighborhood queer bar closing during Pride Month isn't great. But in the case of Trax in the Haight, it will reopen soon as a "straight-friendly gay dive bar" called Mary's.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Bar in the Former Home of The Uptown Delayed in Light of Owner’s ‘Serial Evictor’ Past There’s some community outrage over how the building owner whose rent increase did in Capp Street bar The Uptown is now himself opening a bar there, in what looks like an owner move-in eviction of a nightclub.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 36-Year-Old Haight Street Bar Hobson’s Choice Is Closing Permanently Another punch in the gut to the SF bar scene, as the owner of Upper Haight rum bar Hobson’s Choice has announced the place is closing, though the establishment’s final day has not yet been determined.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Update: Mission District’s Beauty Bar Has Closed Permanently, Was Reportedly Sold They’ve polished their last nail and served their last shot at the Mission and 19th street kitsch nightclub Beauty Bar, which apparently closed and laid off all staff over the weekend following a reported sale.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Temple SF Nightclub in SoMa Announces It’s Closing Permanently Robotaxi company Cruise is trying to get its permits to operate in SF again; a Richmond man has been charged for last week’s fatal Mission Street drive-by shooting; and SoMa’s Temple SF will close for good on May 25.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Monk’s Kettle Closing Its Mission District Location, Moving to Rockridge The 16-year run of Mission brewpub Monk’s Kettle is coming to an end on 16th Street, but they’re moving to a larger spot in Oakland’s Rockridge. And they’ve got choice words for the role delivery apps played in their SF location’s demise.
Arts & Entertainment Urban Putt Closing After 10 Years, But Another Mini Golf Course Is Taking the Space The Instagrammable and booze-enhanced mini golf of Urban Putt has apparently run its course and closed permanently, though another miniature golf proprietor will tee it up at that Mission District location.
Arts & Entertainment Club Deluxe Has Indeed Closed, Will No Longer Operate at Haight and Ashbury Despite rebounding from last summer’s shock closure announcement, Haight Street jazz and swing nightclub Club Deluxe is apparently finished for good at its 1511 Haight Street location amidst an ongoing landlord dispute.
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.
Arts & Entertainment Club Deluxe Is Staying Open After All, and Will Remain at Its Same Haight Street Location A “marathon mediation at City Hall” Monday resulted in a deal where Haight Street swing music nightclub Club Deluxe will indeed stay open and in business, at the same Haight and Ashbury Street location where it’s operated for 33 years.
Arts & Entertainment Haight Street Swing Bar Club Deluxe is Apparently Closing, But Supervisor Preston Vows a Fight The 33-year-old jazz and swing venue Club Deluxe is closing, according to a statement circulating on social media attributed to its owner, but its district’s supervisor Dean Preston is exploring paths to keep the venue open at the same location.
SF News Queer Nightlife Fund Raises $300K in 2020, Still Accepting Donations To Support Workers in 2021 2020 was a collective dumpster fire of year — one trailed by the bitter ash from scorched COVID-19 hot spots. Though the Bay Area's nightlife venues continue to sit empty, the SF Queer Nightlife Fund (QNF) raised over $300K last year to help the workers who once filled those spaces.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Governor Newsom Orders All Bars and Nightclubs in CA to Close, Restaurants Can Operate at 50 Percent Capacity In an unprecedented statewide move, Governor Gavin Newsom announced in a press conference Sunday that he's ordering all bars, breweries, and wineries in the state to close, regardless of their size, in order to create "deep social distancing."
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Bars With Capacity Over 100 Ordered to Close For Seven Weeks; Restaurants Told To Limit Capacity An order went out late Friday from San Francisco Health Officer Dr. Tomas Aragon that forces the closure of bars and nightclubs with official maximum occupant loads of 100 people or more, and this led to the immediate closure of at least two Castro nightclubs.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mad Dog in the Fog Closes, Popular Quiz Night Moves to Kezar Pub Mad Dog in the Fog is closing after more than 30 years in its home at 530 Haight Street, and the owner promises that the popular sports bar will be relocating.
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 New Name For Bar Replacing Truck: The Wooden Nickel Following our report last week that Mission gay bar Truck is set to close fairly soon, a tipster sent in the public notice of the liquor license transfer which has the DBA for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission Gay Bar Truck Closing After Eight Years Sad news! Scrappy, automotive-themed, often very dirty gay bar Truck is shutting its doors later this month, as owner Paul Ringhofer-Miller confirms to SFist today. Ringhofer-Miller says that the bar has been sold
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Say Goodbye To The Elbo Room, For Real, Come November As SFist discussed well over a year ago, prompting fast denials from the bar's owners, the Elbo Room is indeed headed for closure to make way for a condo building. As Mission Local
