SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Huge New Sports Bar, Splash, Opens Friday Next to Chase Center One week ahead of the big All Star Game, the massive new sports bar Splash at Thrive City has opened, with 30,000 square feet of space for eating, drinking, game watching, and game playing.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Legendary Lower Haight Beer Mecca Toronado Is Up For Sale, Blowout Celebration Planned Next Month After 38 years of slinging "extreme" beers for a crowd of beer geeks and average beer lovers alike, the Lower Haight's Toronado is facing the end of an era and an uncertain future.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Six Best New Bars In San Francisco, 2024 San Francisco always has been a drinking town, and 2024 brought a collection of cool new watering holes in which to wet one's whistle — and one where you can also get your dance on.
SF News SF Supervisors Streamline Permit Rules to Create More Boozy ‘Entertainment Zone’ Parties The recent tick-up of more alcohol-permitted “entertainment zone” parties may turn into a flood of more such parties, as the SF supervisors just approved legislation to create a whole lot more of these parties downtown, and in SoMa and Union Square.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 16th Street Queer Bar Mother Makes Bon Appetit’s ‘Best New Bars in the US’ List The Mission District bar Mother, in the former home of Esta Noche, has put itself on the map by making Bon Appetit’s “11 Best New Bars in the US” roundup.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lower Haight Bar The Page Gets Their Live Music Permit, Despite Neighbors’ Noise Objections The happy hour live shows at The Page will continue, as the SF Entertainment Commission granted the bar a Limited Live Performance permit on Tuesday — though a few neighbors showed up to complain that the music is too damned loud.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SoMa Bar Plans Super Bowl Party Where Niners Faithful Won't Be Allowed — Only Chiefs Fans A SoMa sports bar is planning a Super Bowl party that won't be like any other in town, at least any other occurring in a public place or sports bar. The entire event, the owners say, is "reserved exclusively for Chiefs fans only."
SF News New Law Will Require California Bars to Provide ‘Roofie Testing Kits' Later This Year Starting July 1, California drinking establishments will be required to stock testing kits that tell if your drink has been spiked with common date rape drugs like ketamine or GHB, though bars won’t have to provide the testing strips for free.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eight Delicious Hot Toddies and Winter Drinks to Seek Out This Season at San Francisco Bars It's officially hot cocktail and mulled wine season, and we have a quick guide to eight of the best examples that SF bars and restaurants have to offer.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 11 Best Spots For Frozen Cocktails In San Francisco With some summer weather finally hitting San Francisco, nearly a full month into official summertime, you may have a hankering for a frozen adult beverage to beat the (modest) heat.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trick Dog Rings In 10 Years With a 'Museum' of Its Menu Artistry, and a Drive to Keep On Innovating Even in a national landscape littered with creative cocktail bars, with a new-school cocktail culture that is now two decades old and spawning still newer schools, San Francisco's Trick Dog remains a singular thing, and place.
Arts & Entertainment Kilowatt Has Reopened, Redesigned and Under New Ownership Longtime Mission District punk-rock-sports-biker-dive bar Kilowatt has reopened under its new ownership team of ex-Bottom of the Hill and Thee Parkside bartenders, and here are some first-look pics at the new Kilowatt that will soon be a live music venue again.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Struggling SF Bar Owners Say People Aren't Drinking Like They Did Pre-COVID Is it true that people are going out to bars less often now than they did three years ago? That may not be true in many parts of the country, or even in parts of San Francisco, but for some neighborhood and after-work bars, things still haven't gotten back to normal.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Celebrated Bar Star at Bar Iris In Russian Hill Falls From Roof To His Death A promising career ended tragically Friday when 33-year-old bar manager Ilya Romanov fell from the rooftop garden of the Russian Hill establishments Nisei and Bar Iris, and was pronounced dead at the scene.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission District’s Bond Bar (the Former Esta Noche) May Become New Lesbian-Centric Queer Bar The ownership behind Thee Parkside may have a new “womxn and femme-centered queer bar” on tap in January, apparently in the 16th Street spot currently occupied by Bond Bar, which is the former Esta Noche.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Infamous, Beloved Queer Dive Truck Makes Triumphant Return In the Castro We've lost some LGBTQ spaces in recent years in SF, but now one bar that closed a full seven years ago is making a comeback — at least temporarily.
Arts & Entertainment Op-Ed: Why You Should Be Giving Your Money To Local Bars and Theater and Not These Fly-By-Night Theme Bar 'Experiences' The carnival's come to town, only it's doing so practically every other month with a new "immersive" themed "experience" that involves a couple of weak, overpriced drinks, selfie traps, and some performers trying to make a buck in something that's not exactly theater.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Umpteenth Bill to Extend Last Call to 4AM at Bars In Some CA Cities Introduced By Wiener In Legislature It seems like San Francisco politicians have tried and failed a hundred times to get California to drop its antiquated, marm-ish notion that bars should close at 2 a.m. And state Senator Scott Wiener is trying once again, now that the pandemic is maybe almost endemic.
SF News Friday Happy Hours Are Now Weak Sauce, and That May Be the New Normal for Downtown SF Bars Friday Happy Hours remain on the rocks, but Thursdays are suddenly hopping, as hybrid work produces mixed results for SF bars’ economic recovery.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Former Blind Cat Bar on 24th Street Gets New Life as Ruth's at Treat Street Two years into the pandemic, there are signs that SF's always thriving bar scene is bouncing back to life, even in some of the dustier corners where things went quiet in Spring 2020.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Can Get New Bars for First Time in 34 Years, After Board Passes New Zoning Law There has not been a new alcohol license granted to a Castro bar since 1987, but there probably will be soon, as the SF Board of Supervisors has approved an updated zoning ordinance.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beer Shortage Hits SF Bars Amidst Supply Chain Hiccups Trouble is brewing in the local beer delivery sector, as bars are forced to slash their beer menus because deliveries have slowed to a trickle.
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 News San Francisco Bars to Reopen Indoors May 7, But Patrons Must Be Seated San Francisco is expected to enter the "Yellow" tier next week for the first time since October, and the city is planning to lift more public health restrictions on businesses — most notably on bars.
Arts & Entertainment New Nonprofit Vows To Pay Off Nightclubs‘ Unpaid Bills The Independent Venue Preservation Initiative says it will pay venues’ unpaid bills going back to last February, but will depend on “community-driven micro-donations” to do so.
