Arts & Entertainment Here Are Some Ideas For Where To Watch The Super Bowl If you're planning to venture off the couch and into the fray at a bar for the Super Bowl, and you still care about this game despite the fact that Seahawks are involved
Arts & Entertainment The 13 Coolest Dance Parties In The Bay Area Some people may bemoan the fact that nightlife in SF isn't what it used to be. Others will probably tell you that there's never been any decent nightlife in this town unless you
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Learning To Drink Vol. 6: French Brandies Good drinks tell a story, and this is the story of those drinks. Each week, we serve up a remedial cocktail lesson for bartending beginners to help you get the most out of
Arts & Entertainment What I've Learned From Sober January (So Far) Sober January / Dry January (as they call it in England) has been catching on in various U.S. cities in recent years as one way to balance out the decadent, functionally alcoholic lives
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Divisadero Time-Lapse Artist Sadie Mellerio has installed this site-specific video installation for the window of hip kid magnet Madrone Art Bar which shows a time-lapse of the view outside Madrone Art Bar, at Divisadero and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trick Dog Celebrates Two Years, Launches Menu #5 With Chinese Restaurant Theme As they have every six months since opening, Trick Dog has just overhauled the whole menu along another clever theme, and this time it's Chinese Restaurant. As Alcademics reports, each cocktail's got a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 11 Best Spots For Classic Tiki Drinks In The Bay Area The American Tiki bar wasn't exactly born in the Bay Area, but it almost was the iconic Trader Vic's opened in Oakland in 1936, just three short years after the first Tiki bar,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Learning To Drink Vol. 4: Bitters 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 The 12 Best New Bars Of 2014 San Francisco remains a stellar drinking town. And after helping lead the charge in the last decade alongside our brethren in New York in the cocktail renaissance, our bar scene is settling into
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Opening Today: Brewcade, The Castro's New Arcade/Beer Bar You may need to sit down for this: The long-awaited vintage video arcade bar of your dreams opens in the Castro tonight, ushering in a new era in which you will have to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now Open: Bond, In The Former Esta Noche Space While we were distracted by Thanksgiving, the team from Wish Bar and Lounge unlocked the doors to the restored 3079 16th Street space, formerly Esta Noche, which they're calling Bond. Bizarrely, despite being
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Your Fancy Cocktail Ice Is Killing The Planet All those baseball-sized and Rubik's Cube-sized ice cubes that you enjoy in your Old Fashioneds at [insert name of favorite local craft cocktail bar] may in fact be contributing to the death of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Elbo Room to Become Retirement Room? The Elbo Room is entering what could be its twilight year(s) with current owner Matt Shapiro's lease expiring in November 2015. Now, 647 Valencia Street property owners (and Elbo Room founders) Dennis
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 12 Best Bars With Fireplaces or Fire Pits In S.F. (And One In Berkeley) Despite gorgeous weather today, winter is approaching and it could end up being a rainy one. So, we here at SFist would like to advise you as to where you can find yourself
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oh No! The Lexington Club To Close After 18 Years [Updated] Bad news for the LGBT community: The city's only, long-standing, dedicated bar for gay women*, The Lexington Club (3464 19th Street), is getting sold and sounds likely to close very soon. In a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Empress of China Is Closing Very sad news: Dusty old sixth-story date spot Empress of China is closing at the end of the year. The Chinatown view bar with its fishtanks, Naugahyde-upholstered stools, and mediocre drinks is being
Arts & Entertainment Did Guerrilla Queer Bar Get Co-Opted By A For-Profit Startup? We got an email just this week from Brian McConnell, one of the founders of the infamous Guerrilla Queer Bar which many remember fondly from the dot-com days. Now someone's copying the idea,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 13+ Best BYOF Bars In San Francisco And The East Bay Last week, we shared our picks for top BYOBs in San Francisco. And while we're pleased with the options that are available, we're aware that as a city, we are BYOB-limited. Enter the
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Death of S.F. Dive Bars Foretold Chuck Nevius is sounding downright gloomy about the state of San Francisco dive bars. But don't worry, a number of them are likely to still be there when you are an old alcoholic.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Guerneville Restaurateur Crista Luedtke Opening New Cocktail Bar El Barrio Frequent weekenders to Guerneville will tell you that the only game in town, until very recently, when it comes to a delicious dinner worthy of S.F. palates is Boon Eat + Drink. Chef-owner
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Longtime Berkeley Bar Spats, Shuttered For Five Years, May Reopen This Fall UC Berkeley alums and longtime Berkeley residents know the legend of Spats, the dusty but homey Shattuck Avenue bar (known as Oleg's back in the 70s), which has always been a bizarre, sprawling
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission Hill Saloon Staff and Patrons Were Robbed On Saturday The little bar at the intersection of the Mission and Potrero Hill, Mission Hill Saloon, was robbed at gunpoint late Friday night, early Saturday, right as they were doing last call. As Mission
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Well Loved Bartender Erik Dean Killed In Motorcyle Accident A beloved bartender, recently employed at Absinthe, but with a long history in the S.F. bar and restaurant scene, died last week in a motorcycle accident. His life will be celebrated at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now Open In the Mission: ABV, A Cocktail Bar From Beretta and Bourbon & Branch Alums Open as of yesterday on 16th Street, in the space formerly occupied by Tokyo Go Go, is new cocktail and bar-bite spot, ABV (3174 16th Street). We told you about the project almost
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 10 Best Margaritas In The Bay Area Who doesn't love a margarita, right? No, for real, unless you have a severe citrus sensitivity or you don't drink booze at all, the margarita is just one of those universally loved classic
