SF Restaurants, Food & Drink O'Greenbergs, Billed As The 'Only Bar On Dolores,' Sold After a staggering 40 years in the business of getting locals properly lit, Noe Valley's O'Greenbergs has been sold. Owner Richard Greenberg has decided that, at the age of 80, it's high time
Arts & Entertainment Other Out-Of-The-Way Pride Events Happening On Sunday Still not sure what to do on Pride Sunday, other than stay at home with your cat, a bottle of fume blanc, and Donna Sachet on TV? Then check out one of these
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hi Tops, San Francisco's Very First Gay Sports Bar, Opening This Fall Out of the appletini-infused rubble of Lime shall sprout the life of a glorious new bar in the Castro. A gay sports bar, at that. It shall be christened Hi Tops. And it
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink It's Official: Hi Lo Club (Formerly KoKo's) Now Open On Polk After nearly a year of nail-biting anticipation for Hi Lo Club, formerly known as KoKo Cocktails, to reopen at Polk and Pine (1423 Polk Street), the bar officially — and very quietly — opened its
Arts & Entertainment Party Down: San Francisco Nightlife Award Winners Announced! While the "Best Dealer" category was egregiously and painfully overlooked this year — Levamisole pushers need love too! — the 2012 Nightlife Awards were handed out Thursday night at Mezzanine. And what a party it
Arts & Entertainment Should Castro Bars Ban Bachelorette Parties Too? Take note, gay bars, The Abbey in West Hollywood has taken a stand against the scourge of bachelorette parties, as reported over at LAist. The bar has decided enough is enough, and despite
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gold Dust Lounge Moving To Fisherman's Wharf! In a somewhat shocking twist, noted Union Square bar Gold Dust Lounge set for closure earlier this year, will move to Fisherman's Wharf. Yes, Fisherman's Wharf. So the next time you find yourself
Arts & Entertainment Etiquette Week: How to Conduct Yourself Like a Human in a Bar or Club As you've hopefully caught on, it's National Etiquette Week here at SFist, and so far it's prompted lively discussions about children in restaurants, backpacks on BART, and where and how jaywalking might be
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Former Leather Bar The Eagle Sanitized, Ready For Leasing At $15K The SoMa gay bar formerly known as The Eagle has been stripped of its dark lighting, license plates on the wall, and all of its history. It's also ready for leasing. "The bygone
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Polk Street Bar Forgets To Have Dinner, Blacks Out One of Polk Street's many popular drinking establishments will be dark during this weekend's nightlife rush thanks to an unfortunate liquor license permit violation. Blur at Polk and Hemlock apparently forgot the ABC
Arts & Entertainment Some Advice For Straight People In Gay Bars This being San Francisco, we have a lot of gay bars and clubs where go-go boys dance in tiny underwear, and drag shows that straight women like to go to, etc. Increasingly, gay
Arts & Entertainment Tonight Addendum: Berlin-Style Ping Pong Party At Rickshaw Stop By now many of you know about Allan Hough's now famous Berlin-style ping pong party called American Tripps. It is, in a word, spectacular. Loads of festive folks walk around a ping pong
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gold Dust Lounge Not Historic Enough, Says Committee Uh oh. The San Francisco's Historic Preservation Commission voted against giving Gold Dust Lounge landmark status on Wednesday. The bar, of you recall, was handed an eviction notice in December, sparking protests, cries
SF News PBR, Tecate Blamed For Mission Dive-Bar Tagging Owners of divey Mission bars where people like to tag bathroom (and exterior) walls are increasingly sad about this culture of tagging that they seem to be a part of. As Uptown Almanac
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lawrence Ferlinghetti Writes Poem About Saving Gold Dust Lounge The battle to save the Gold Dust Lounge still trudges on. Should it close down? Sure, say some. Should it stay open? Sure, if it further irks tender-bottomed lawyer Sam Singer. (We kid,
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: The Creators Project The Creators Project: The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Squarepusher, and HEALTH are part of a big line-up of bands rocking Fort Mason this weekend as part of a colossal two-day art and technology festival
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Breaking: No Last Call For The Gold Dust Lounge! Although Sam Singer and Jon Handlery has promised to padlock the place on Saturday, the Gold Dust Lounge will be open this weekend... and possibly beyond. Which: WOO HOO! Gold Dust Lounge breaks
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission Bars Are Super Crowded; Fire Department Doesn't Mind Have you been out in the Mission lately? Did the bars seem crowded to you? They did to Mission Local, who discovered that Blondie's on Valencia — always a popular place to get an
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink $1 Vodkas At Gold Dust Lounge On Friday Also, former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown will be in attendance. Far more importantly, however, is the face that Gold Dust Lounge, now beeping on life support, will offer patrons $1 vodka drinks
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Medjool To Become Rooftop-Only Establishment Fresh off of yesterday's announcement that plans are finally in the works to fix up the New Mission Theater, Mission Street tycoon Gus Murad's other holding over at Medjool announced they will be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink "Tawdry" Bar Needs To Go, Say Gold Dust Lounge Landlords While the owners and fans of the Gold Dust Lounge don t-shirts and argue in favor of the bar's historic status before the Historic Preservation Committee today, a PR group for the Handlery
Arts & Entertainment Tomorrow: Historic Preservation Commission Considers Gold Dust Lounge's Historic Status [Updated] In their latest attempt to keep the beloved watering hole open, the folks behind Save the Gold Dust Lounge, aka "The Little Engine That Could," will be speaking at the Historic Preservation Committee
Arts & Entertainment Saturday: Gold Dust Rush Pub Crawl Despite the recent declaration by Sam Singer, spokesman for Jon Handlery, that the The Gold Dust Lounge is definitely closing on March 6th, the folks behind Save the Gold Dust Lounge haven't given
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tonight Addendum: Dueling Manhattans At Jardinière Jardinière, Hayes Valley's white-hot spot for perfect food and all-around exquisiteness, is having another one of their local guest bartender series. Tonight they will feature Frommer’s Travel Guides editors. David Lytle (whose
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Save the Gold Dust Lounge' Press Conference/Daytime Drinking Event Planned For Thursday The campaign to save the Gold Dust Lounge will hold their first "official" event this Thursday (that's tomorrow!) at 4 p.m. The event, which the group posted on Facebook this afternoon, will
