SF News 330 Ritch Closed Permanently After Saturday Shooting SoMa nightclub 330 Ritch, which has played host to a wide array of musical acts and dance parties over the last decade and change, is shutting its doors following the very serious shooting
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Last Chance To Use Midnight Sun's Ice Trough, Fellas! Attention all trough queens: Midnight Sun is getting a much-needed facelift. The gay video bar will get windows and a lounge area in the front -- did you know it's one of the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Louie's To Get Major Food Overhaul Is nothing sacred? Louie's, the perfect little bar on Stevenson that serves perfect nachos with chemical-laced, drizzly orange cheese, is getting a major food overhaul. The guys behind the Tempest, who are scoring
SF News Boring Mayor Expresses Reservations Over Late Night Drinking Regarding State Senator Mark Leno's new bill that could move last call to 4 a.m., Mayor Lee has said the city will "have to think very carefully about that." Bor-ing. Lee went
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New CA Bill Would Let Bars Serve Alcohol Until 4 AM State senator Mark Leno has proposed new legislation in a move that could delight S.F. drinkers and aggravate responsible types across the city and state. The measure would allow cities and counties
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Eagle Tavern Returning For Beer Busts, Drag Shows And Live Music This Sunday [Updated] After nearly two years in the dark, San Francisco's Eagle Tavern appears to be set to re-open in time for springtime beer busts, drag shows and live music. When an alternate deal threatened
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sports Bar On Geary To Get Fancy-ish Makeover Most of you know RJ's Sports Bar as that yellow-sinage watering hole you see while smoking on the patio at Rye. "What is that place," you ask yourself between drags. "It scares me
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink PHOTOS: Speakeasy's New Tap Room Opens Tomorrow Prohibition was repealed in 1933, but Speakeasy Ales & Lagers is bringing back the old-timey flair of undercover drinking in their Bayview space. Just in time for Beer Week, they're unveiling the Tap
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Top 5 Date Bars In San Francisco Before we tell you, San Francisco, what the best date bars are, let us tell you what a date is! It's not dragging a woman to hang out with your friends at Bender's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Reminder: Gold Dust Lounge Opens Tonight! Gold Dust Lounge, once located in Union Square for an impressive 80 years, will finally reopen today in its new neighborhood. And, of course, it will be quite the affair. It all starts
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bars, Booze, Bowl: Super Sunday Parties For The Big Game Low- to middle-income folks, perhaps such as yourself, have been priced out of football games. (Chronicle columnist C.W. Nevius credits the high price point for the lack of Super Bowl "sizzle" in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cocktails On Tap Decrease Wait Time, Increase Intoxication San Francisco, you drinker's paradise, you. We've stumbled our way right through the pre-mixed bottled cocktail trend. And then by last summer, Perlini siphons and CO2 cylinders behind the bars at Harry Denton’
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Where To Watch Football In The Bay Area, According To Zagat Where to watch Sunday's game, you ask? Well, according to Zagat there are ten grand places in which to watch the NFC game in the Bay Area. (SFist's own Daisy Barringer recommends Blackthorn
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two Rad S.F. Bars Deemed Historic Speaking of bars, two local bars noted for catering to two (dwindling?) minority groups were declared a historic landmarks by the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday. Sam Jordan's in Bayview and Twin Peaks
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Best Dive Bars In San Francisco The city is rife with bars. Lots of bars. Many of them inaccurately deemed "dive bars" because they feature patrons wearing jeans or simply because of their close proximity to the Mission District.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Do This Thing Tonight: Thrillist Boys At Blackbird Thirllist gets gay tonight for a good cause when editors Grant Marek and Joe Starkey guest mix at Blackbird for healthy prostates. And to get you drunk, naturally. But mainly for prostates. Your
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Where To Watch Saturday's 49ers-Packers Playoff Tomorrow's 49ers-Packers playoff game — the pre-game to Sunday's Golden Globes Awards — will be a biggie. And you'll want to watch the game in the comfort of fellow sane and demure football fans. Here
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Drink Up: National Hot Toddy Day Is Friday! Friday, January 11, is National Hot Toddy Day. What with glacial temperatures blanketing the Bay Area, tomorrow will be the perfect evening in which to enjoy warm boozy beverages. A hot toddy is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Why, God, Why: Marlena's Closing [Updated] Please don't call in a 5150, concerned readers, but we don't want to live in a world with no Marlena's, Hayes Valley's single greatest bar, gay or otherwise. Why, just last Friday your
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sean Penn Saves Tosca (Sort Of) Big, wonderful news in the bar world today, folks. Business Times reports today that iconic North Beach bar Tosca (242 Columbus) will receive new owners. Furthermore, a Michelin-starred chef will be in charge.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Do This Thing Tonight: Just Go To A Bar The rain should clear up by 9pm. So, if you're still in the city this evening (challah!), head over to a bar. Any bar. And drink in Christmas Eve. Because, you see, the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink End Of The World Cocktail Offerings by Summer Sewell By virtue of you reading this, the Mayans were wrong. They predicted, way back before they could check their logic against the Internet, that the whole world would succumb to
Arts & Entertainment Gallery: SantaCon Invades Union Square, Peace Of Mind Thank the Lord above that your fragile SFist editor was stuck in OC last week and not here in SF. Why? SantaCon, that's why. Like a holiday-themed Bay to Breakers going from village
Arts & Entertainment Hi/Lo: Herb Caen Martini Competition vs. Cruising Gays Top bartenders from Bottle Cap, Txoko, 15 Romolo, and Campanula will compete to make an original, Herb Caen-inspired martini made with 3 Olives Vodka. Guests will get to sample all of the competing
