SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pop's Bar Resolves To Open At 6 AM Every Day In New Year Joining the likes of the semi-notorious Clooney's Pub, Pop's Bar on 24th Street in the Mission will now open at 6 a.m. daily. The announcement, which comes just in time to allow
Arts & Entertainment Union Square Bar To Become Pop-Up Ball Pit In March It's often been said that SF is a place for perpetual Peter Pan Syndrome, what with our goofy costumed foot races and annual adult pillow fights. And though that adult Slip-N-Slide thing got
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved Dive, Mission Bar, Actually Gets New Lease It's a sad state of affairs when it's newsworthy that a divey, no-frills bar in the Mission with no special history but plenty of loyal fans is actually not closing. But that is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Popular Union Square-Adjacent Bar Cantina Sold To Press Club Owners, Will Get Revamp Big news from the local bar scene: Well known local barkeep turned booze writer Duggan McDonnell and his original partner have sold their bar Cantina (580 Sutter Street) to a new regime. As
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Drink For The Kids At These Official Golden State Warriors Watch Parties The Golden State Warriors are at a bonkers 23-0 for the season, and are hoping to make it 24-0 when they play the Boston Celtics tonight. But with tickets to home games nearly
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 11 Best New Bars Of 2015 San Francisco has had a fantastic year for new food and drink, topping even the last couple (which were nothing to scoff at, either). While 2014 brought us a dozen cool new bars
Arts & Entertainment SantaCon Disputes Death Reports, Ramps Up For December Revels Though the once-official Twitter account for San Francisco's SantaCon "celebration" has been declaring the event dead since last year, organizers say the bacchanal is good to go on December 12, even as area
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink ABV's Beloved Pimento Cheeseburger Under Threat From New Chef A vital new addition to SF's Best Burgers list this year, the delicious pimento cheeseburger at Mission bar ABV, is reportedly under threat of removal from the menu as recently promoted sous chef
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Barman And Booze Scribe Duggan McDonnell On SF's Cocktail Legacy And <i>Drinking the Devil's Acre</i> Bar owner, spirits writer, pisco brand owner, and longtime friend of SFist Duggan McDonnell has just published his first book, which is titled Drinking the Devil's Acre: A Love Letter from San Francisco
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Orbit Room Reopens Thursday Night! After the death of owner Jay Johnson, the Orbit Room abruptly closed this spring, marking the end of 20 years in business and causing a lot of sadness around the neighborhood. But just
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Poleng Lounge Chef Tim Luym Involved In New Spot In Russian Hill Fans of the long gone, pan-Asian-street-food spot Poleng Lounge perhaps some of whom have traveled down to San Mateo a few times to sample the ongoing work of chef Tim Luym at Attic
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Enter Whitechapel, A Very Steampunk Gin Bar Spin-Off From Smuggler's Cove Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Whitechapel has got to be among the best. With 350 varieties of the botanical spirit including vintage and rare selections
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Date Rape Joke On Kozy Kar's Box Wine Is Probably In Poor Taste At the already seedy, boozy, and porn-themed Kozy Kar on Polk Street, where the slippery slope to muddled consent can come any night of the week by way of a few too many
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Orbit Room Will Live Again! Fans of its craft cocktails and surprisingly excellent pizzas were devastated this past spring when The Orbit Room shut its doors abruptly after 20 years. Now we get the welcome news that some
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 18 Best Places In San Francisco To Sip A Classic Cocktail If there's one thing San Francisco can never be faulted for, it's not having enough places to drink. We may not have the most bars per capita, but we may very well have
SF News Dave's, Beloved Downtown Dive, Loses Lease After 26 Years "It seems impossible that you can find a real, 'normal' bar filled with regulars just steps from Market Street and/or the St. Regis," my esteemed SFist colleague Eve Batey wrote of Dave's
SF News The Chronicle Discovers That Coffee Costs Four Dollars In a print package that was a cover piece of the Sunday paper titled "San Francisco's Strange Detour From Paradise to Parody," the Chronicle comes way late to the game (surprise) in lamenting
Arts & Entertainment Seven Fun And Easy Weekend Staycation Ideas In SF Sometimes, there just isn't time or money for a real vacation. But you do realize that the city you live in happens to be one of the highest ranked domestic tourist destinations in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Owner Of SoMa's 30-Year-Old Lone Star Saloon Says Bar Could Be Endangered Tony Huerta, the owner of the well worn and well loved SoMa gay bar The Lone Star Saloon (1354 Harrison Street), wants to get out the vote this November for a local ballot
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Learning To Drink Vol. 22: Regarding The Shrub If you've been caught up in the pickling craze, preserving your vegetables and god knows what else, why not try preserving something to help you get yourself nicely pickled? I'm referring, of course,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tsk/Tsk, A Temporary, 'Low-Brow' Watering Hole, Opens Friday On Divis Earlier we mentioned that former Bourbon & Branch guys Justin Lew and Ian Scalzo were going to be doing something they've done in the past take over a bar, and while taking some
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Updated] Brewcade Reopens After Small Fire Caused By Next Door Hecho Castro beer-and-arcade-game spot Brewcade, now just seven and a half months old, is closed for two or three days because, according to a statement from the bar, they've got some damages to repair
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: The Hilton Reopens Its Top-Story Restaurant, Crafty Fox Debuts, and More Over the last few days we've had news of Black Bark BBQ coming to the Fillmore, more Sonic Drive-Ins on the way to the East Bay, Hapa Ramen doing a late-night pop-up, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Seven Best Frozen Cocktails In SF We almost had some summer there, right? Assuming it will be warm again in SF, someday, we bring you this concise list of some of the best in frozen cocktails, both out of
Arts & Entertainment The 17 Best Gay and Lesbian Clubs And Parties In San Francisco It's Pride Week, and with that comes a whole bevy of once-a-year parties to fill the dance cards of every LGBT party kid in town. But San Francisco is, after all, one of
