SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Drunk & Sticky: Best Bits Of Anthony Bourdain's S.F. 'Layover' We've done a 180-degree turn on Mr. Anthony Bourdain after viewing last night's San Francisco The Layover on The Travel Channel. Bourdain calls Swan Oyster Depot one of his favorite places in San
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Campaign To Save Gold Dust Lounge Underway [Updated] Naturally, lots of folks are upset about the prospect of losing one of San Francisco's most historic drinking establishments, Gold Dust Lounge, since the news of its impending eviction broke last Friday. In
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gold Dust Lounge Receives Eviction Notice In a day and age when authentic downtown dive bars have fallen by the wayside, it always felt like the Gold Dust Lounge's days were numbered. Inside Scoop confirmed on Friday that the
Arts & Entertainment Hiya & Heklina At Rebel For Occupy SF Benefit Doing anything on Sunday? No? Yes? Well, even if you are, you should fix your janky calendar and instead head over to Rebel (a gay bar) and have former SF Weekly scribe Hiya
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink S.F. Featured In Food & Wine's 50 Best Bars In America Just as the navy blue blanket of holiday ennui prepares to envelope your carcass—remember: if you still single for the holidays, you're an abomination—Food & Wine releases its 50 Best Bars
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Penthouse Club To Provide SF With Steak, Naked Breasts In 2012 Penthouse, noted purveyor of labial entertainment, will bring "four-star dining" to San Francisco in early 2012 via the city's very own Penthouse Club & Steakhouse. While the exact space is not yet know,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Parallel 37, New Bar-Centric Ritz-Carlton Restaurant, Opens December 12 The Ritz-Carlton's new restaurant, Parallel 37, will open its doors before Christmas (say what you will about the tony hotel establishment, but its San Francisco locale is the place to go during festivities
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Live Basil Gimlet at Plum Over in Oakland an exciting new cocktail option is opening tonight, in time for 11/11/11: Plum Bar (2214 Broadway), from the minds of chef Daniel Patterson and bar star Scott Beattie
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Kimo's to Become Cocktail Lounge. Maybe. Not that we have any right to complain (it's been over five years since we last blacked out at this fine music venue), but Polk Street rock 'n' roll/hustler staple Kimo's (1351
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Smuggler's Cove, Tommy's, Bar Agricole Ranked Best Bars in the World The indefatigable Camper English helped conduct a revealing poll for Drinks International on the 50 best bars in the world. And San Francisco? Landed on the list (a surprising?) three times. Smuggler's Cove,
Arts & Entertainment Jay Barmann Guest Bartends at Jardiniere on Tuesday Critically acclaimed bon vivant Jay Barmann will be mixing drinks behind the bar at Jardiniere tomorrow, November 1 from 6-8pm. Join him, won't you? The Grub Street editor (and fellow SFister!) is just
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Smuggler's Cove Ranked 'Best SF Bar' By SFist Readers Hayes Valley's tiki-tinged hidden gem—though not for long—Smuggler's Cove barely beat wildly popular transplant-cum-cyclist "dive" Zeitgeist as San Francisco's Best Bar. Smuggler's Cove nabbed 53.13% of the vote with Zeitgeist
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink California Bartenders Now Free to Infuse Their Booze Thanks to a bill written by State Senator Mark Leno and christened with a big, loopy signature from Jerry Brown yesterday, local bartenders, mixologists and artisan liquor fans will no longer have to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Poll: Pick San Francisco's Best Bar(s) In honor of San Francisco Cocktail Week, which cracks open today and keeps pouring until the 25th, SFist asked its readers (that's you!) to nominate their all-time favorite San Francisco bar. We asked
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink What's San Francisco's Best Bar? What with S.F. Blackout Week S.F. Cocktail Week a few days away, we thought it fitting to ask the city's biggest booze fans (i.e., SFist readers) to reveal their favorite
Arts & Entertainment Today at 3 p.m.: The Eagle in Exile Beerbust at El Rio The weather might just be nice enough down in El Rio's lovely backyard (3158 Mission Street) just in time for the monthly Eagle in Exile Beerbust, which starts at 3 p.m. Today's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Weekend: KoKo Cocktails' Big Bon Voyage Speaking of small businesses biting the dust -- KoKo Cocktails (1060 Geary Street) announced earlier this month that July will be the bar's last month in existence. If you recall, the beloved classy
Arts & Entertainment Tonight Addendum: Benefit for Capp Street Fire Victims On May 13, if you recall, a fire displaced residents of 506 Capp Street. A fundraiser will be held at Tope in North Beach to help them reclaim their lives. Head over to
SF News Car Accident Outside DNA Lounge Injures Two Pedestrians We're hearing word that somebody drove a car into two pedestrians outside DNA Lounge after Trannyshack on Sunday night. One bystander at the scene told SFist that "[t]he driver just took off.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Starting Tomorrow: Free Lunch at Comstock With Purchase of Two Drinks Much-ballyhooed bar Comstock will celebrate their one-year anniversary by offering free lunch with the purchase of two drinks. Which is some sort of San Francisco tradition, it seems. SFoodie has the details: "Tomorrow
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Leah Garchik & Paolo Lucchesi Guest Bartending at Jardinière Oh boy, oh boy: Leah Garchik and Paolo Lucchesi will make cameo appearances Wednesday night behind the bar at Traci Des Jardins' Jardinière. It's all part of the restaurant's monthly guest-bartending series. See,
SF News Eagle Tavern Closed Although hope of saving it still clings to life -- just barely -- SoMa's Eagle Tavern closed over the weekend. "It marks the end of a month that saw a flurry of nostalgic
Arts & Entertainment Cheersies to the Royal Wedding Late Tonight at Home, or Tomorrow at a Pub There aren't many S.F. bars or pubs staying open tonight with any planned, live royal-wedding-watching parties maybe because most of said pubs are Irish? Just sayin' at least according to MSNBC. Things
