SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Stud Reopening Will Revisit All Seven Decades of the Club's Existence, Hour By Hour San Francisco's oldest and arguably most beloved LGBTQ party space, The Stud, is set to make a grand reentrance on Saturday, with a new outfit and in new digs, celebrating every era that the place has lived through.
Arts & Entertainment The Stud Announces Its Grand Opening at Its New SoMa Location Will Be April 20 SF’s oldest LGBTQ bar is dragging itself back onto the scene, as they’ve announced a grand reopening date of Saturday, April 20 at their new Folsom and Seventh street location, with liquor licenses and entertainment permits secured.
Arts & Entertainment The Stud, When It Reopens, Plans to Host SF's First School of Drag The Stud Collective wants to teach the children well who are coming up in SF's drag scene, and they just announced that when the bar reopens in new digs this winter (or spring?), it will be hosting The Stud School of Drag.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Badlands Manager Claims the 49-Year-Old Castro Nightclub Will Reopen By Halloween We must, given the players involved, take this with a massive grain of salt. But the latest word from the man who is ostensibly going to be the new manager of Badlands in the Castro is that it will remain Badlands, and it's reopening in two months.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Stud May Find New Life a Few Blocks Away From Its Former Home In SoMa It looks as though the Stud Collective has landed on a potential new space for the legendary bar and nightclub that tragically closed at the start of the pandemic. And it's just a few blocks away, on Folsom Street.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland's Elbo Room Was Slated to Close Permanently, But Has Found New Buyers at the Last Minute Just seven days before it was set to host its final show, the Elbo Room Jack London has announced new buyers. The club will still have its final show Friday night, but is scheduled to reopen under the new owners in June.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Shuttered FiDi Bar Harrington’s Trying to Make A Comeback, Via Crowdfunding There will be some sort of St. Patrick’s Day party again at downtown Irish pub Harrington’s, and the Financial District bar that’s been closed for two-and-a-half years is mounting a crowdfunded comeback bid.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dalva's Bar-Within-a-Bar, The Hideout, Swings Back Open For the First Time In 2.5 Years Fans of good cocktails in cozy spaces can rejoice, at long last, over the reopening of Dalva's Hideout, the separate, semi-secret bar back behind Dalva on 16th Street that hasn't welcomed guests since early 2020.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trick Dog Reopens With Post-Plague Rebirth-Themed Menu At last, Trick Dog is back open, serving up its excellent cocktails in the Mission District, after a long, 20-month closure. And the menu is appropriately about pandemics, the Fates, and "the string of time."
SF News Number of Bay Area Restaurants and Bars Temporarily Close Over Staff Testing Positive for COVID-19 Citing recent breakthrough infections among staff, a growing list of Bay Area restaurants and bars have now closed (for a bit) out of caution — though many of them plan on reopening soon.
SF News [Update] SF Bar Coalition Announces Proof of Vaccination Will Be Required to Come Indoors Starting Thursday As COVID-19 cases trend upward — with SF recently recording its highest number of new infections in one day since mid-January — the San Francisco Bar Owner Alliance's president announced at least 85% of local bar owners support requiring proof of vaccination for people drinking indoors.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photos: With Capacity Limits Lifted, the Castro Comes Alive Again With fifteen months of COVID-19 restrictions behind us, the Castro’s bars and restaurants were bumping Tuesday night with San Franciscans celebrating the end of social-distancing rules.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mayor Breed Announces Pause On Opening Outdoor Bars, Salons After COVID Case Uptick Things have changed in four days, and after announcing Monday that outdoor bars, nail salons, barbershops, and hair salons were all going to get to reopen ahead of schedule thanks to stable COVID data in San Francisco, the Mayor's Office is pulling back once again.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco Will Open Outdoor Bars, Hair Salons, Tattoo Parlors on June 29 As presaged by that Board of Supervisors vote last week, and thanks to relatively low and stable COVID case growth and hospitalization rates, SF is moving ahead with some earlier-than-previously-announced opening dates for businesses.
SF News California's Surge in COVID-19 Cases Linked to Increased Testing, CHHS Secretary Says As we slowly transition back to a point of pre-coronavirus normalcy, counties across the state are seeing swells in COVID-19 cases. However, a California Health and Human Services (CHHS) official claims these spikes are because of increased testing — and not due to businesses reopening.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Foreign Cinema's Next-Door Bar Laszlo Reopens May 12 With New DJ Booth "So much has changed in San Francisco since we first opened the bar in 2000," says chef-owner Gayle Pirie of Laszlo, the interconnected sibling bar that faces the street next to the entrance
