SF Restaurants, Food & Drink City's Top Bartenders (And SFist Editor!) To Help NYC Bars Devastated By Hurricane Sandy By now you are all aware of Hurricane Sandy's tacky devastation. New York City and New Jersey were pummeled black and blue. But did you know that bars in the Tri-State area were
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Another Gay Bar Bites the Dust: Goodbye Deco Lounge Sad news today that the rumored impending closure of Deco Lounge, on Larkin in the Tenderloin, has come to pass. Mission Mission reports that some new owners are taking over, and they're the
SF News 25-Year-Old Jumped By Several Men, Gravely Injured Outside Richmond District Bar A 25-year-old male was left with life-threatening head injuries late Saturday/early Sunday when he was jumped by a group of several males and kicked repeatedly in the head. This happened around 1
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Drink This: The Scutaro Swizzle In what will hopefully be our final World Series-related post (at least for today), we present to you the Scutaro Swizzle. "Is it good," you ask? Good. No, it's not good. It's probably
Arts & Entertainment Chilling But Rad Last-Minute List Of SF Halloween Parties! What with the Giants, suspicious suitcases, Taco Bell "food," and controversial t-shirts, we almost forgot about Halloween! Almost. And with that, here are a few noteworthy Halloween events happening tonight that, if you
Arts & Entertainment Daisy Does the Niners: Alex Smith Leads SF to a 24-3 Victory Over Arizona (By Daisy Barringer) Is anyone else completely and totally confused by the San Francisco 49ers? One week the coaching staff is obsessed with trickery and Alex Smith is throwing interceptions, and the next
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gold Dust Lounge Reveals New Location Will Look Like A Bar This afternoon, the historic (maybe) Gold Dust Lounge shared an early look at how they imagine their forthcoming Fisherman's Wharf location will turn out. And the new place looks... Well, it looks pretty
Arts & Entertainment The Best Place To Watch Game NLCS 7 Tonight? You Tell Us. Your tireless editor fell under controversy with our allegedly lackluster recommendations for watching the NLCS games. (We pretty much stumble into whatever bar is near SFist headquarters in SOMA, get tipsy, and then
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chris Daly's Buck Tavern Closing On Oct. 31 Well, this is some cold-prickly news. Buck Tavern, a noted Hayes Valley bar founded by former San Francisco Supervisor Chris Daly, has lost its lease and will shutter on Halloween. Say what? Yeah.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Best Place To Watch NLCS Game 5? Lucky Strike or Kells In spite of a bad PR campaign when it first opened, SFist finally decided to try to Lucky Strike last night. The place isn't that bad, surprisingly, especially considering it's not the most
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink How To Survive San Francisco Sober In this two-fisted drinking town, it often seems impossible to leave one's apartment without inevitably ending up with a hangover the next day. Local author, comedian and poet Bucky Sinister, however, has been
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Where To Get Lit During Tonight's VP Debate Joe Biden and Paul Ryan will call upon their inner Hunter Pence tonight to summon some sort of motivation for the Vice Presidential debate. The tête-à-tête begins at 6 p.m. (PST). You
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Infographic: Gays Drink, Dine Out More Than Straights Target 10 (via SF Weekly) turns your attention to this helpful infographic that, once and for all, gives proof that queer folks drink more and dine out more often than their heterosexual brethren.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Top 7 Hot Spots For A Warm Day In The Bay Area Yes, it's warm outside. Yes, you should have planned on taking the day off. No, you cannot use our pool. But where, then, to go on this uncharacteristically warm day, you ask? Well,
Arts & Entertainment Marina Bar Hosts 90s Night 'Every F***ing Thursday' We don't generally help promote your average bar nights, however we thought this flyer/tagline was a little better than average. The HiFi Lounge in the Marina (2125 Lombard Street) is doing a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Guy Has Awesome Bar in His Basement, Has Yet To Invite Us Over Bob Short is a serious contender for the title of Top SF Mancave, having spent the past 30 years building a bar in his basement. Short, who's a retired union carpenter, decided to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink More On Eagle Tavern's Glittery Gay Lease Signing First plucked from Facebook and then reported by SFist, the Eagle Tavern's lease will remain in the custody of the gays. The sparkly, festive queer community will retain their noted queer leather and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Just In: The Gays Get To Keep Eagle Tavern This just in: The San Francisco queer community gets to keep the Eagle. Via a very, very excited update on the Save the Eagle Facebook page, "Gays sign Eagle Lease!!!! Party at Lone
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Top 10 S.F. Spots for Drinkers with Kids No need to bring your kid into Bender's or Tradition to prove you and your kid are cool. Neither of you are—especially you. You have a child. You cannot be cool. You
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Winning Chalices (And More) From Jasper's Annual 'Pimp-Cup Challenge' After this weekend's SF Chefs festivities finished on Sunday, a bevy of service industry folks, salt-of-the-earth bartenders, and PR ilk headed to Jasper's Corner Tap & Kitchen for the second annual "pimp cup"
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Dance At 1964 Remember those groovy tunes from the mid-'60s? No? Well, neither do we. We weren't born then. However, what with the resurgence of all things non-hippie '60s (due in large part to Mad Men)
Arts & Entertainment Top 5 Remaining Gay Spaces In SoMa Over the weekend, a smattering of gays held a protest in front of Foreign Cinema to rally against the loss of LGBT spaces (read: bars, clubs) in San Francisco — specifically in South of
SF News Is the War on Fun Winding Down? The unoffical War on Fun, in which the city and the SFPD excessively try to crack down on street-fair drinking and curtail all nightlife, might be finally waning. Or at least that's what
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hungry During the Witching Hour? Tablehopper Launches Handy Late-Night Dining App One glaring issue with San Francisco is that our sidewalks tend to roll up at 10 pm. More to the point, our city's lack of a late-night dining scene bugs. Sure, there's Sparky's
