SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 14 Best Jukeboxes In San Francisco Sadly, we live in an age when lazy/frugal bar owners junk their beloved vintage jukeboxes because they break too often and cause too much of a headache, in favor of the scourge
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 14 Best Bars Wherein To Watch The Warriors In The Finals Ugh. Trying to watch NBA Finals/World Series/NFL Playoff games at bars can be a hassle. You have to pick a bar that you know won't be so crowded that you can't
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Metreon Is (Hopefully) Getting Booze Photo by Demetrios Lyras Excellent news on the boozy movie theater front: Along with the Sundance Kabuki, the AMC Bay Street (Emeryville), and the upcoming Alamo Drafthouse Cinema at the New Mission, the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF's 13 Best Bars To Find Someone To Hook Up With/Make Out With With wedding season kicking into full gear and June Gloom arriving early, it’s the perfect time for a singleton in San Francisco to get a bad case of loneliness. If watching another
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Forgery Debuts In SoMa, The Empire Room Opens in Civic Center, and More This week's big opening was Belga in the Marina, and there was the smaller, quieter opening of Acquolina over in North Beach as well. Other than that, the big headline this week was
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Learning To Drink Vol. 17: Count Negroni Good drinks tell a story, and this is the story of those drinks. Here, we'll be serving up a remedial cocktail lesson for bartending beginners to help you get the most out of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 11 Best Old Man Bars In SF A neighborhood really isn't complete without an old man bar. Sadly, in places all over town like the Mission and Hayes Valley, you'd be hard pressed to find anywhere that a wizened older
Arts & Entertainment Nightclubs And Music Venues Can't Be Sued Over Noise Complaints, Say Supervisors In a victory for SF nightlife, that proposal we talked about back in March to legislate protections for music venues and nightclubs against complaints by new neighbors and condo owners passed at yesterday's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Five Not-Terrible Things To Do On Cinco De Mayo Yep, it's Cinco de Drinko again, a.k.a. St. Patrick's Day for margaritas, a.k.a. another excuse to get drunk after/during work. Assuming you're a professional imbiber and you wouldn't
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 13 Best Outdoor And Patio Bars In San Francisco Hey everybody! It's hot out! We're getting some of our special San Francisco summertime, typically scheduled for May, early this year, and today and tomorrow I'm guess you are going to want to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Updated] Liverpool Lil's Damaged By Morning Fire Popular Marina pub Liverpool Lil's (2942 Lyon at Lombard) was hit with a two-alarm fire this morning which as far as we know is still ongoing. A tipster sent in the above and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Forgery, A New Craft Cocktail Spot, Coming To Former Sloane In SoMa Back in December we heard that the PlumpJack Group had moved in on the former Sloane nightclub space in SoMa (1525 Mission Street near 11th) with plans for a lounge of some kind,
Arts & Entertainment The Nine Easiest, Fun Nights Out In SF, By Neighborhood Sometimes you just want to go out, be it on a weekend or a school night, and you don't want to trek all over town or spend a huge wad of cash or
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Orbit Room Has Closed There will be no last trips to The Orbit Room. Hoodline reports that the bar at 1900 Market Street quietly closed yesterday. Owner Jay Johnson passed away on March 21st, and the bar
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Updated] North Beach's Beloved Capp's Corner To Close Resident Chronicle old-timer Carl Nolte reported over the weekend on a threat to longtime North Beach spot Capp's Corner, originally named for former owner Joe Caporale. The place isn't quite as old as
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now Blondie's Bar In The Mission Is Endangered Too Bars in the city where you can still drink on the cheap are slowly getting picked off, one by one, and the latest that appears to be in the sights of potential developers
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink BDK Restaurant & Bar Opens Today Near Union Square Inside the thoroughly revamped former Grand Cafe space at the Monaco Hotel, BDK Restaurant & Bar is a grand gesture to the form of the bar/restaurant itself. During his lifetime, Bill Kimpton
SF News Local News Station Rats Out Fun Looking Oakland Neighborhood Speakeasy, Cops Bust It Some clever entrepreneurs working a bit outside the law have taken to launching their own social-media-promoted, black-market bars out of their houses and garages. But you'd best be careful if you try this
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Experience Some Serious Cocktail Geekery At Benjamin Cooper, A New Bar From Two Former Big Barmen Among local drinkers, the short-lived, ultra-tiny, always delicious Tenderloin bar Big remains a minorly mythic thing in our memories ephemeral as a pop-up, gushed over, and gone before its time. Well, it's seen
SF News Taxi Cab And Uber Car Collide Before Cab Crashes Bar In a decidedly literal collision, the Chronicle has word that an Uber car and a taxi cab have crashed into one another today. The incident took place at 9:24 a.m on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Learning To Drink Vol. 9: Mezcal Y Tequila Good drinks tell a story... and this is the story of those drinks. Each week, we'll be serving up a remedial cocktail lesson for bartending beginners to help you get the most out
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Learning To Drink Vol. 8: The Martin(i/ez) E.B. White dubbed it "the elixir of quietude." H.L Mencken called it "the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet." Yes, the Martini has gone by many names and been
Arts & Entertainment SoMa To Get Leather-Themed Public Park? Apparently a plan has been taking shape for several months to install a parklet/plaza on the block of 12th Street outside the Eagle Tavern in SoMa that would recognize the neighborhood's history
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nooo! Longtime Polk Gulch Trans Club Divas In Danger Of Closing The long, slow death of the LGBT elements of Polk Street has been discussed and mourned frequently for the last two decades. But now an iconic business that has survived all the change
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Bar Guys From Tonic & Bullitt To Reopen Spats In Berkeley This Spring Two bar owners who just can't seem to get their fill of opening new bars, Ben Bleiman and Duncan Ley, are adding to their ever-growing portfolio once again, taking over the lease at
