Arts & Entertainment New Nonprofit Vows To Pay Off Nightclubs‘ Unpaid Bills The Independent Venue Preservation Initiative says it will pay venues’ unpaid bills going back to last February, but will depend on “community-driven micro-donations” to do so.
Arts & Entertainment SF Supervisor Hopes to Raise Funds From Local Billionaires to Save Nightlife Venues Supervisor Matt Haney hopes to create a nightlife fund that will attract private-sector donations so that the city doesn't lose one of its greatest cultural assets before the pandemic is through with us.
SF News SF Giving $2.5 Million in Tax Waivers to Nightlife and Entertainment Venues Some 300 San Francisco music venues, bars, and nightclubs will get their local taxes and fees waived in hopes of helping them survive the pandemic.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission LGBTQ Bar Jolene's Becomes Subject of Lawsuit, Online Claims Of Abuse A bar that seemed when it opened 18 months ago to be a prototypical San Francisco safe space for queer and transgender folks has been hit with a lawsuit pitting a former co-owner against her former business partner, as well as a social media boycott campaign that claims issues of systemic racism.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sonoma Bar Patrons Act Like Virus Is Behind Them As County Case Count Rises Sonoma County, unlike most of the Bay Area, has allowed bars to serve drinks indoors — and allowed wineries and restaurants to reopen for indoor service with some restrictions — since June 19. The effects of that reopening step may start to appear shortly.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Update: The Stud to Close Its Doors at 9th & Harrison, Hold Drag Funeral Online The Stud Collective announced late Wednesday that iconic SF gay bar The Stud — currently holding the title of the longest continually operating gay bar in town, though not in the same location — will shut its doors at its current location as of Thursday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Agricole To Close In April and Relocate; Obispo Closed for Re-Concepting Local bar impresario Thad Vogler just announced that two of his four businesses will be undergoing changes in the coming months, including his design- and bar-award-winning Bar Agricole, which opened on 11th Street in 2011.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Five Places To Seek Out Some Extra Xmas-y Holiday Cheer in San Francisco In need of some Yuletide gaiety during this dreary impeachment season? There are a few spots around the Bay that are pulling out all the stops to amp up the Christmas spirit, if you're into that sort of thing.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Bar Owner Says City Hall, Not Millennial Buying Habits, Is To Blame For Retail Vacancies "I’ve owned ten bars and restaurants in SF for more than a decade, and I need you all to hear me: We are dying," writes Ben Bleiman.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 13 Best Patio and Rooftop Bars in San Francisco For those rare days when the temperature climbs above 75 in SF and your AC-free apartment is feeling too oppressive, we have some recommendations for chilling with a frosty beverage al fresco.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alcatraz-Themed BYOB Speakeasy Opens In London Can you successfully smuggle alcohol into Alcotraz? Try for yourself https://t.co/u2WxnDYROG pic.twitter.com/ymksptoX4v— Alcotraz London (@AlcotrazLondon) August 24, 2017 Alcotraz, a speakeasy pop-up bar themed after San Francisco's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Supervisor Calls For Excelsior Bar La Oficina To Be Closed After Murder Of Patron Around 12:30 a.m. on the morning of May 28, police officers arrived at La Oficina, a bar at 4234 Mission Street in the Outer Mission/Excelsior, to find bar patron Alvaro
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink There's A $52 Scotch Cocktail In Chinatown Now Down at China Live, in a cloistered spot upstairs from the six-month-old Market Restaurant, there now sits a fancy, semi-hidden cocktail bar with a menu centered on scotch a spirit beloved by some
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink FDA: Your Moscow Mule Mug Might Be Giving You Copper Poisoning The #thirst is real! 👅 #sundayswag A post shared by Moscow Mule (@the.moscow.mule) on May 21, 2017 at 10:06am PDT It's a trend widely noted in the last half-decade at craft
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lucky 13 Site Hits Market For $9.75M With Development Approvals It looks as though the owners of the Upper Market Street dive bar Lucky 13, which we've long known is endangered, did not intend to do any development work themselves, but now that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Try Not To Panic: The 500 Club Is For Sale Long-lived and long-loved Mission dive the 500 Club, a necessary fixture on SFist's Best Dive Bars list, is hitting the market, according to a real estate source who prefers to remain anonymous. And
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Elbo Room Buys Another Year, Extends Lease Until 2019 The development boom has lowered the boom on the late, great Lexington Club, displaced the iconic Doc’s Clock, and taken the lives of many beloved longtime Valencia Corridor restaurants and bars because
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trick Dog Team Takes Over Former Wo Hing/Urchin Bistrot Space On Valencia There's some movement finally on the vacant space at 584 Valencia Street that once housed the original Slanted Door location, and in recent years was home to Wo Hing General Store and, briefly,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dear Mom Pivots, Becomes Artist-Friendly Darger Bar Dear San Francisco, The bar known as Dear Mom is no more. In its place, with a fresh coat of paint and new vibe, is Darger Bar a bar with a value-centric food
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Zeitgeist Plans To Expand Into Next-Door Space Ever-popular beer garden Zeitgeist has recently applied for a liquor license for the space next door to it, a former sheet metal shop that backs up to the beer garden's back wall. As
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cocktail-Concocting Robots Sought For Nightclub Competition It seems like these days, you can find robots anywhere: Talking to your children, pissing off Supervisor Normal Yee as they attempt to deliver your dinner, and acting as a butler at your
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco's Newest Rooftop Bar Unfortunately Requires A $1,000 Cover Charge It sounds pretty great: a swank rooftop bar overlooking SoMa and AT&T Park (walls) with a sleek design, curtained cabanas and designer cocktail menu. But there's a catch. There's always a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Codeword Closing Soon On Folsom DNA Lounge offshoot Codeword (917 Folsom Street), which debuted in SoMa in late 2015, will be shutting down at the end of July as owner Jamie Zawinski revealed in a blog post this
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Range Space To Be Revived As The Beehive, A 60s-Themed Cocktail Bar You may recall that when Range sadly called it quits on Valencia Street on New Year's Eve after 11 good years, owners Phil and Cameron West suggested they were holding onto the space
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Where To Get A Negroni (Or Negroni-Inspired Treat) This Negroni Week It's Negroni Week, everyone. And while I've been remiss in alerting you to the early-week Negroni events going on around the Bay, I was only doing it to save your livers. There's still
