SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 10 Best Hot Toddies In San Francisco Rains are back, the world has gone to hell in an orange handbasket, and life has considerably less luster and promise than it did a few short months ago. So if you're a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lefty O'Doul's To Have Closing Party Wednesday Amid Legal Battles Over Name And Memorabilia The legal battle over who owns Lefty O'Doul's basically the business and its brand, as opposed to the premises in which it has resided for nearly 60 years at 333 Geary, which is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cafe du Nord And Elixir Were Both Speakeasies, And More Fun Facts From Prohibition-Era San Francisco History nerds and party people alike dream about being able to time-travel to the 1920s, when a national crackdown on booze became a boon for nightlife people always have a lot more fun
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lefty O'Doul's Landlord Claims Proof That They Own All The Bar's Memorabilia The latest in the Lefty O'Doul's saga, following a lawsuit filed Tuesday in San Francisco Superior Court, is that landlord Jon Handlery has now produced a letter from 2001 that his reps say
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lefty O'Doul's Actually Not Moving As Landlord Claims Ownership Of All Interior Contents I figured there was something of a tug-of-war going on when the story dropped yesterday that Lefty O'Doul's might have to close and relocate after serving up stiff drinks and steam-table corned beef
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lefty O'Doul's May Be Closing And Relocating In Union Square After 59 Years Union Square dive bar and hofbrau Lefty O'Doul's beloved by many service industry workers, cops, Tenderloin denizens, and San Francisco Chronicle reporters, not to mention a steady stream of tourists seeking a bargain
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now Open: New Tenderloin Cocktail Spot Rum & Sugar For your wintertime drinking pleasure, a brand new cocktail bar has just debuted in the former Castle Club (823 Geary Street) space in the heart of the Tenderloin, and it's called Rum &
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trick Dog's New Menu Is Out, And It's All About Murals It's time again for Trick Dog, one of SF's premiere cocktail temples, to do one of their semi-annual menu changes, and this time around they're doing something charitable with it, and helping to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mr. Bing's Destroyed Into Clean, Normal Bar Mr. Bing's, a destination for cheap boozers who like games of liar's dice, general squalor, and cheap alcohol, is gone as we knew it. It's been gutted and replaced with a normal, decent-smelling,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink As Nearby Valencia Development Looms, Zeitgeist Files Review To Protect Beer Garden From Shadow Zeitgeist, among San Francisco's best known bars and choice few beer gardens, celebrates its 40th anniversary next month, having recently attained Legacy Business status in its wizened, grizzly old age. But just as
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Divas Still On The Market In The Tenderloin, Starts Outreach For Trans Homeless In The 'Hood Luckily for the trans employees and performers at Tenderloin nightclub Divas (1081 Post Street), nearly two years after going on the market owner Steve Berkey has maintained his pledge not to sell to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink RIP Smoking On El Rio Patio: Landlord Enforcing Ban, Says Bar San Francisco smokers may be an overall minority, but more often than not they're a well represented group on the back patio of El Rio. That space, a grotto behind the queer-leaning bar
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bars To Avoid Like The Plague During Santacon On Saturday Because It's The Actual Plague Isn't it about time that San Francisco passed common sense Santacon laws? I'm talking, of course, about a complete ban. If you're blissfully unaware of the annual scourge, allow me to ruin your
Arts & Entertainment The Stud Announces New Two-Year Lease, And Plans To Move To New Location After That SoMa’s longest-surviving gay bar The Stud looked cooked this summer, when a 150% rent increase threatened the continued existence of the 50-year-old San Francisco institution. But a newly-formed Stud collective founded late
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dominique Crenn Expands With Bar Crenn In Cow Hollow “I love beautiful, loungey wine bars,” Dominique Crenn tells the Chronicle, “I don't think there are many in San Francisco.” As some of the city's wine shops, many with their own bars, are
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Agricole / Trou Nourmand Team Plans 24th Street Rum Bar 'Obispo' Thad Vogler, a spirits devotee whose love of craft distilleries and regional variation is on full display at his Bar Agricole and Trou Normand, is preparing a new shrine to rum on 24th
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Anthony Bourdain: SF Beer Nerds Are Like 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers' Anthony Bourdain, a fan of San Francisco's "two-fisted" drinking culture — "Anyone who doesn't have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me" as he once said — has found one
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tiny New Mission Bar Is Tucked Inside A Liquor Store Even fans of the Royal Cuckoo Organ Lounge, an at once divey and swanky spot known for great music, may not realize there's a second Royal Cuckoo: The bar expanded from its Bernal
Arts & Entertainment The 16 Most Amazing Jukeboxes In San Francisco Because internet jukeboxes are seriously the worst, it's important to keep track of and celebrate all those local dives and restaurants that have kept up the good fight and held onto the old
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SoMa Bar Owner Declares SF A Happy Hour Town, Late-Night Drinking Dead Maybe because San Francisco hardly kicked its drinking habit during Prohibition — the 18th Amendment was rather loosely observed by local law enforcement here — or perhaps because Anthony Bourdain once called San Francisco a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission Bar Dear Mom To Change Name, Get Pool Tables After four years in business and some flagging sales that owner Paul Bavaro attributes partly to homeless encampments in the vicinity, Dear Mom (2700 16th Street at Harrison) will be undergoing some changes
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Iconic 48-Year-Old Pac Heights Bar, The Lion Pub, Is Now Closed [Be warned a couple of images below are NSFW] An iconic fern bar on Divisadero, which for about 30 years was a neighborhood gay bar before becoming more of a straight-people hang in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nob Hill Fly Bar Closing Sunday Fly Bar on Sutter Street had it all: Food, drinks, a bar, more drinks, and even food. As of Sunday, all that will be gone. Yes, Tablehopper reported in August that the establishment
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mr. Bing's Is Saved! I have some excellent news. Back in July we heard the ominous news that beloved sh*thole dive bar Mr. Bing's had been sold to new owners, the owners of Ireland's 32 in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lazy Bear Team To Open Cocktail-Centric Spot In Former Tradesman Space Highly successful, high-end communal dining spot Lazy Bear, now two and a half years into its mostly sold-out run in the Mission, is expanding with a new, casual cocktail-focused spot a few blocks
