SF News Eagle Tavern Update: Landlord Files Eviction Lawsuit Bay Area Reporter has some sad news: Eagle Tavern owner John Gardiner received an unlawful detainer lawsuit from property owner John Nikitopoulos today, 4/20. What does this mean for the troubled SoMa
Arts & Entertainment P-Kok Closes; Kok Opens Funky, fresh Lower Haight boutique P-Kok will close shop at the end of May. Haighteration has the scoop: "Owner Pat Pkok tells Haighteration that she has decided to consolidate the store with the
Arts & Entertainment New Eagle Tavern Closing Date: End Of May, Possibly Later This Year At what we thought would be the Eagle Taven's final beer bust yesterday, we were surprised to hear that, instead of 4/29, the SoMa leather bar's new tentative closing date would be
SF News What Went Down At Last Night's Eagle Tavern Rally So here's the deal: During last night's emergency meeting at The Eagle Tavern and estimated 250-300 people convened to mourn/fight the bar's impending closure. Former Supervisor Bevan Dufty, along with a gaggle
SF News Supe. Kim: Eagle Closure "Really Unfortunate," But S.F. Helpless To Stop It After it was announced Sunday that the Eagle, historic SoMa gay leather bar, would shut operations down on Friday, 4/29, some locals jumped into action. The Eagle will hold a community meeting
SF News The Eagle, Famous Gay SoMa Bar, Set To Close, 4/29 The Eagle -- 30-year-old SoMa gay bar noted worldwide for its Thursday Night Live concerts and spirited Beer Bust Sundays -- will shut operations down on Friday, 4/29. Although, according to a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Hard Boiled at Wilson & Wilson Have you heard about Wilson & Wilson? It's the new reservation-only, bar-within-a-bar at Bourbon & Branch where you can have an even more exclusive, more haute cocktail experience than is even available at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Brief List of Bars With Both Televisions and Outdoor Seating It's hot out. You're leaving work. First pitch is coming up. You're panicky because everyone's asking where you're watching the game. We won't keep you, so here's a brief list of bars ideal
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tonight's Cheap Booze: Tequila, Tecate, and Terror at Bender's Bender's, the Mission's favorite glamour trap, offers patrons $6 for a Tecate and a shot of tequila tonight from 10pm - 2 am. What's more, free horror films will play on the wall.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: White Diamonds at Rye Returning to San Francisco after a 14 year absence, Rye's Rhachel Shaw spent time in Los Angeles working at Barkeeper in Silverlake, Malo Cantina on Sunset Boulevard, and Caña Rum in Downtown L.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sick Women and Children Plot to Kill KoKo Cocktails, One of San Francisco's Best Bars (UPDATED) Nooooo. The California Pacific Medical Center's dastardly plan to build a new "$1.7 billion, 555-bed acute and women and children's care hospital" at the corner of Van Ness and Geary will result
SF News Armistead Maupin Denied Restroom in Australia for Not Being a "Real" Man San Francisco-based writer Armistead Maupin, creator of the iconic Tales of the City series, was in Australia last week for a book tour when he visited Alice Springs with his husband Chris Turner.
misc What's Going on Here, Mr. Lew's Win-Win Bar & Grand Sazerac Emporium? Our friends on the Tenderloin Beat sent in this photo of what appears to be a new cocktail store in the same quaint style as say - Bourbon & Branch or one of
misc Deal of the Day: $2 Beer, Any Beer, Mondays at Lone Star Last Monday, we tried to get inside SoMa's Bloodhouse bar, which proved a fruitless endeavor. Alas, the popular Folsom watering hole was far too packed. Defeated, we instead headed down to Lone Star
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Please Stop Being a Bar Snob The recent trend in high-end cocktails (in vulgar parlors: mixology) has made us long for the halcyon days of kegstands and saki bombs. For many, like San Francisco bartenders, it's gone too far.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tablehopper Launches Sister Site: Deep Dishing Tablehopper founder and writer, Marcia Gagliardi, who singlehandedly changed the way people write about food in the Bay Area, announced today a new venture about Bay Area grub joints, watering holes, and more.
misc Saturday: Inner Richmond Pub Crawl On Saturday night, Feb. 19, Pubcrawl-SF will host a pub crawl covering 10 bars in the Inner Richmond. Saturday night's roster includes: - Happy Lounge - 2nd Ave & Geary (8 p.m.
SF News Union Leader's Call For Boycott Of Former S.F. Supervisor's Bar Larry Mazzola Sr., leader of plumbers' union UA Local 38, has called for a boycott of former San Francisco politician Chris Daly's new bar, Buck Tavern. Why? Who knows. Some pointless shit that
SF News Estimated 180 People Brawl In Emeryville Bar Fight A massive brawl involving 180 people broke out last night at Kitty’s in Emeryville that sprawled out into the streets. Supposedly Kitty’s is known as a place where fights break out—
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Zeitgeist Closed! Tragedy! The temperature in Houston today is 25°. With wind chill, the temperature in Denver tonight will plunge to -11°. Once again, Connecticut is being hit with a massive and depressing ice storm. But
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Quince Martini When the weather warms (like it was doing before today), we tend to gravitate back toward the clear liquors. And since we've never been fans of plain and simple martinis (and don't even
SF News What's Up, Medjool? SFist's very own Andrew Dalton clears up some rumors about Medjool (a notorious rooftop Mission bar that privileged white twentysomethings loathe because another faction of privileged white twentysomethings enjoy it) over at Curbed.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink More Hapa SF at Bar Basic Tonight Chef William Pilz and his Hapa SF truck will park outside Bar Basic in SOMA tonight. And, yes, we know, this is a regular weekly thing. Tonight, however, he will cook for patrons
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Bourbon Raspberry Splash at The Brixton Just last Friday, over in the Cow Hollow/Marina environs, a new rock-and-roll themed lounge opened called The Brixton (2140 Union Street). They've got vintage concert photos from the long gone Winterland Ballroom
