SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Best Gay & Lesbian Bars In San Francisco Speaking of San Francisco Pride and newfound marriage legality, the city (in)famous for being gay rights ground zero also has some of the greatest LGBT bars in the world. Yes, the world.
SF News San Francisco Orders First Parklet Removal Sure, people were using the parklet outside Martin Macks gastropub on Haight Street. But not the right kind of people, darling. The Department of Public Works issued the order last week for one
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Virgil's Sea Room Opens in La Lengua, Complete With Frank Chu-Inspired Cocktail That new bar we talked about a few weeks ago, Virgil's Sea Room (3152 Mission Street), just debuted this week in the former Nap's III space next door to El Rio. The best
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Artist Recreating Bawdy Ceiling Mural at New Gold Dust Lounge Local artist Layla Skramstad is recreating a half-century-old mural for the ceiling of the recently relocated Gold Dust Lounge, and it's full of naked ladies. The bar had to give up its well
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Big Closing Today With All-Day Party Golly. Big, unofficially the City's best little bar, will close tonight. And they will celebrate their going-out party with a day- and night-long bash. But fear not, folks, as this won't be the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tamale Lady Feels City Support, Vows to Hang On On Wednesday we reported that beloved S.F. fixture The Tamale Lady was no longer welcome to sell her tamales at Zeitgeist, sparking a furor among her fans and supporters. Two days later,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Biergarten, Ritual, Entire Proxy Project Gets 8-Year Extension As you may know, the popular Proxy project on Octavia Street in Hayes Valley was built as a temporary placeholder on vacant lots owned by the city. Well, Supervisor London Breed just announced
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Regarding The Third Rail, The New Bar From The Range Team Coming To Dogpatch We first heard about The Third Rail (628 20th Street), the new bar from the team behind popular Mission restaurant Range, back in November. Now the Chron brings word that construction is just
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Step Inside Novela, The Newest Cocktail Bar in SOMA, Opening Friday At long last, the tacky and depressing idiot-magnet known as Fluid Ultra Lounge (662 Mission Street) closed last year, proving that occasionally the free market does its job and there may indeed be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A New Bar With Hard French Roots, Virgil's Sea Room, Coming To the Mission Breaking news today on the Mission booze scene: Hard French DJ and Harvey Milk Club prez Tom Temprano announces that he's opening a new bar next door to El Rio called Virgil's Sea
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Best Bloody Marys In San Francisco Here to make your brunch better, our favorite picks in San Francisco for a spicy, tall, tomato-y one. 500 Club: Ashly Russell beams about the veggie/meat additions and "perfect alcohol to juice
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go To Big Before It Ends Big, one of our favorite bars in the city, will soon call it quits — June 15th, to be exact. You have almost exactly one month to check out the smallest little bar of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Best S.F. Bars With An Outdoor Oasis As summer approaches, it's time to don those shorts and skirts and head out for some daytime drinking under the (occasional) sun. We already told you about the best waterfront bars in the
SF News Confirmed: Kelly Wearstler Designing Mid-Market Hotel With Rooftop Bar The Renoir Hotel at 7th and Market which over the last year was home to A Temporary Offering, which included the cool but temporary Rio Grande bar from the Trick Dog team that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Is Rickhouse The Best Whiskey Joint In The U.S.? GQ Thinks So. "Not all that long ago, appreciating whiskey meant boring your friends with peat profiles or sucking up to your father-in-law on the golf course," reads the introduction to 10 Best Whiskey Bars In
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Monday: SFist Editor Brock Keeling Guest Bartending At Gitane In semi-self-serving news, your SFist editor (that's me!) will kick off a new guest-bartending series at Gitane on Monday, May 6th. It goes to benefit La Cocina. Monday night’s specialty libation, christened
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink There Will Be Tacos: This Weekend's Best Cinco de Mayo Events It's finally here: the weekend. After a long week of warm weather that's been exruciating for those stuck indoors, this weekend is sure to be a doozy, and it's packed to the gills
SF News BUZZKILL: Senate Bill To Extend Last Call To 4 AM Gets Put To Bed State Senator Mark Leno's proposal to allow cities and counties in California to extend drinking hours until 4 a.m. was effectively cut off by a bunch of buzzkills in a state Senate
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Best Bars Along The S.F. Waterfront As (comparatively) warm weather approaches and the Giants head into a long summer stretch, isn't it time you checked out one of the many fine watering holes along the waterfront? We're not talking
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Infamous Medjool Rooftop Deck Reopening In May Remember the Medjool rooftop deck? The one you loved to hate? The one you hated to love? Well, it's reopening. But not as Medjool, of course. Lolinda will reopen the open-air bar/restaurant
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thank God: Polk Street Bar Ban Approved On lower Polk Street the neighbors have finally won a campaign to halt any new drinking establishments from crowding up their corridor. Yesterday, the Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to ban new bars
SF News Sign A Petition In Support Of The 4 AM Last Call Mayor Ed Lee may end up being a stick in the mud about it, but a bill to institute an optional 4 a.m. last call in cities across California moves along, and
Arts & Entertainment Jazz Hands: Sutton Foster To Inaugurate Michael Feinstein's New S.F. Cabaret Out of the ashes of the Rrazz Room rises a new cabaret, one that will whet the appetites of show queens throughout the land. Helmed by Michael Feinstein (who, by the way, was
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Zeitgeist, Noted Mission Bar, Accused Of Homophobia Toward Patrons Too drunk or too gay? You decide. On Monday, March 25, two women were kicked out of Zeitgeist, the Mission's biergarten of choice, for allegedly responding to anti-gay remarks. According to one of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco's Best Happy Hours Despite the city's recent trend towards artisanal cocktails and high-end food, San Francisco is still a town that will always know a good place to get a drink on the cheap. Throw in
