SF News Notorious Formerly $1.7 Million Noe Valley Public Toilet Opens With ‘Potty Party,’ Scatological Costumes A stream of yellow and brown balloons and toilet-humor costumes came out for Sunday’s official opening of the Noe Valley public bathroom that was once supposed to cost $1.7 million, though its cost plopped down to just a couple hundred thousand dollars.
SF News Formerly $1.7 Million Toilet Has Arrived In Noe Valley (But Won’t Function For Another Three Weeks) The head that made headlines for nearly a year and a half over its initial $1.7 million price tag has finally squatted down in Noe Valley, but it won’t be up and flushing until the end of the month.
SF News Noe Valley’s Controversial ‘$1.7 Million Toilet’ Back In the News, Mostly Because It’s Still Not Built Hey, remember that “$1.7 million toilet” that had the local media flush with outrage back in 2022? The cost got squeezed down, but still no toilet, and it won’t be plopped down 'til April at the earliest.
SF News SF’s New 'Futuristic’ Public Toilet Breaks Down On Just Third Day On the Job A highly hyped new SF bathroom hailed as “the future of public toilets” lasted only three days into said future, as the high-tech bathroom kiosk quickly had to be relieved of its duty and found itself closed for repairs.
SF News BART Makes a Big To-Doo Over Finally Reopening the Bathrooms at Powell Street Station BART made a big stink over its new all-gender, shiny new bathrooms at Powell Street stations, in a grand opening celebration complete with a toilet paper-cutting ceremony.
SF News Bill To Make All SF Single-Occupancy Restrooms All-Gender Moves Forward San Francisco is poised to take a step toward common sense, as legislation introduced by Supervisor David Campos to make all single-occupancy restrooms within the city all-gender was approved in committee yesterday. So
SF News Viracocha Named Finalist For America's Best Restroom In the annual contest thrown by the bathroom aficionados at Cintas, the facilities at Valencia Street's own noted typewriter repair shop/vintage home decor emporium/basement poetry slam space Viracocha have been nominated
SF News We're Doomed, S.F. Main Library Bathroom Edition Anyone who's ever tried visiting the restroom at the San Francisco Main Library knows that it's basically one of the biggest mistakes of your life. The intensity of the urine stench defies science,
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Bathroom Wall Rampant disregard for clean lines and open, airy spaces shot by Erik Wilson.
SF News Pee-Holding Muni Drivers Demand More Bathrooms The San Francisco Municipal Transport Agency is currently at work on a project that will install 36 bathrooms on the sidewalk along bus routes so Muni operators can have a spot to go
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Last Chance To Use Midnight Sun's Ice Trough, Fellas! Attention all trough queens: Midnight Sun is getting a much-needed facelift. The gay video bar will get windows and a lounge area in the front -- did you know it's one of the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sweet Relief: The Bathroom At Saison It is said, by some, that a chef can be judged by their roast chicken. The same could be said of a restaurant and its bathroom; the place where we find relief in
SF News Ruffian Arrested For AT&T Park Bathroom Assault A 26-year-old man from Grass Valley, California was arrested Sunday evening after assaulting a 21-year-old victim in a bathroom at AT&T Park during the always tense Giants-Dodgers series this weekend. According
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gitane Named A Finalist For Nation's Best Restroom Lots of restaurants offer dinner and drinks, but as we've learned today, few are willing to provide Gitane's level of service as they make their eventual exit. The Chronicle three-star spot on Claude
SF News Sheer Volume Of Excrement In Machinery Breaking BART Escalators What in the?! Who is defecating with such frequency on our BART station escalators that, after it oozes down and gums up the machinery, it is causing them to break? Well, according to
SF News Your Muni Driver Probably Has To Pee Real Bad Finally offering some explanation for what Muni operators are doing when they hop off the bus and run inside the Burger King at Market and Eighth, the Examiner takes a look at Muni's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Etiquette Week: How To Dine Out Without Being A Jerk Yesterday we taught you how to walk on city sidewalks, and on Monday we explained the unwritten rules of riding public transportation. Today, as part of SFist's ode to National Etiquette Week, we
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco's Best Restaurant Bathroom Named Sure, mid-November seems a tiny bit early to be releasing the year's "Best of" lists, but EaterSF's Best of 2011 Awards are notable for at least one category you won't find in any
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Zeitgeist Finally Removes Vile Backyard Porta-potties Adapting to the new Valencia Street, budding gastro pup Zeitgeist finally yanked their backyard porta-potties in exchange for comfier thrones recently. The new "wood, concrete, and sheet metal bathrooms" will now play host
SF News Threatening Sticker Diverts SFO Flight to Germany A United Airlines flight from SFO to Frankfurt, Germany needed to make an emergency stop in Chicago on Sunday. It seems that a crew member discovered a "sticker with a threatening message in
SF News Temporary Transbay Terminal to House Most Closely-Guarded Public Restroom in Town If you've recently found yourself questioning your continence while waiting for a bus back to the East Bay, then you probably found yourself out of luck with regards to the on-hand facilities at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Goes to the Bathroom There are two ways to best judge a restaurant's quality: the soup and the bathroom. Both signify a venue's subtle, yet overall, attention detail. Visiting a new restaurant's bathroom is one of the
SF News The Restroom Taskforce Needs Your Help San Francisco really does have a task force for everything. Even for public crappers. Behold. The Restroom Taskforce is looking for your input on possible locations for new restrooms in our neighborhood parks.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Finds: Philosophical Bathroom Debate This deep philosophical exchange on a bathroom stall door at Crissy Field appears to be between three or four different people. It was captured by SFist reader Cassie, who was nice enough to
