SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Brewer's Guild Releases New And Rare Beer Tap List For Beer Week Gala Beer Week returns next week, beginning Friday the 10th and lasting through the 19th, in a fairly loose, drunken interpretation of the word "week." The schedule runeth over with events, from weeklong specials
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink James Syhabout And Former Linden Street Brewer Announce Old Kan Beer & Co. In West Oakland Without much time to mourn the loss of the Oakland location of Hawker Fare, chef-restaurateur James Syhabout just announced the upcoming opening of a new brewery project with partner Adam Lamoreaux, the founder
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink PS, We Have NAFTA To Thank For Plentiful Coronas And Modelos In American Bars As the Trump Administration looks to gut, or just possibly renegotiate portions of the 23-year-old trade agreement with Mexico and Canada known as NAFTA, I point you toa 2015 piece from NPR's food
SF News Day Around The Bay: Sierra Nevada Brewery Recalls Beer In 36 States Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. announced on Sunday the voluntary
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Russian River Brewing Reveals Expansion Designs, Readies Pliny The Younger For Beer Week Last year, timing issues kept the belle of the Beer Week ball from attending the festivites: An earlier Beer Week schedule pegged to the Super Bowl meant that Pliny the Younger, the highly
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 Why Are SF Safeways Suddenly Putting Their Booze Behind Bars? [Update: This post has been updated with comment from Safeway communications and government relations.] Your booze runs may experience double toil and trouble at certain San Francisco Safeway stores this Halloween weekend, as
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Almanac Beer Co. To Open Their First Taproom On 24th Street Thoroughly San Francisco, farm-to-bottle craft brewery Almanac Beer Co., which was founded in 2010 by former beer blogger Jesse Friedman along with partner Damian Fagan, will finally be giving us their first taproom
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Do This Thing: A Mini Beer Week Brew Fest Aboard A Ship Love beer but can't wait until February for the next Beer Week tasting blowout? Well, the SF Brewer's Guild, who actually put on Beer Week, are doing their 13th Annual Brews on the
SF News Tenderloin Cell Phone Thief Uses Beer As Weapon When forced to choose between a beer and a stolen cell phone, one Tenderloin-area thief chose the latter, tossing his brew in an effort to escape with the purloined device. According to a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Drink This: Standard Deviant Brewing Extra Pale Ale New brewers on the block Standard Deviant Brewing are so fresh that when you step inside their warehouse space in a former auto-body shop on 14th Street, the first thing you'll smell isn't
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Scientists Want To Turn Concert-Goers' Urine Back Into Beer A new trend in sustainable brewing that I hadn't heard about: turning wastewater, or gray water, into beer. The Bay Area's Half Moon Bay Brewing already tried this trick last fall, in an
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Presidio Social Club Hosting Weekly Fort Point Beer Garden With Barbecue All Summer On Wedesday nights this summer, Presidio Social Club executive chef Wes Shaw becomes pit master Wes Shaw and the patio at his restaurant becomes a beer garden from Fort Point Beer Co. The
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Woods Beer Co. Opening Chill Treasure Island Beer Beach You may know Woods Beer Co. for their creative brews like Yerba Mate IPA at their Polk Street, Oakland, and Dolores Park adjacent locations (that last one being actually the first and née
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Do This Thing: Sierra Nevada Beer Festival At Pier 35 This Weekend Heads up: Sierra Nevada of Chico, CA, the nation's third largest craft brewery, is docking at Pier 35 this Saturday for an afternoon of beer and merriment. The festival, in the afternoon from
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 15 Best Beers From Local Bay Area Breweries There seems to be no bubble when it comes to the Bay Area Beer Boom, a movement that's put us in the elite class of a select few American metro areas with vibrant
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Brewers Guild Launches Free Monthly Beer Crawl Shuttle If you've been treating Uber or Lyft as your designated driver while touring breweries about town, well, most of the time you're going to have to keep doing that, but the good news
SF News SF Hill Thwarts Miller Lite Truck Too, Clearly Has It Out For Super Bowl Revelers When a Bud Light truck bottomed out on a steep hill at Jones and California yesterday afternoon, we took a small bit of admitted pleasure in laughing at the charming naivete on display.
SF News Super Bowl Parties Threatened As Bud Light Truck Bottoms Out On SF Street San Francisco does not care about Bud Light. Not even during the Super Bowl. pic.twitter.com/PYpDv5OE6t— Kurt Varner (@kurtvarner) February 3, 2016 While football may be America's pastime, reveling in trucks
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tenderloin Craft Beer Oasis Amsterdam Café To Close Due To Rent Hike Just last week we anointed few-frills beer bar Amsterdam Café — "The Oasis of the 'Loin" — one of the best beer bars in SF and Oakland. And, with 25 taps and 200 bottles it's
Arts & Entertainment Super Bowl City Opens With Fireworks, Booze, Protests, And Many Selfies Super Bowl City, the “Folsom Street Fair for heteronormative jocks” free-to-the-public street party celebrating Super Bowl 50, opened on Saturday with major fireworks, the Bay Lights relighting, a Chris Isaak show, and tens
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 14 Best Beer Bars In SF And Oakland A beer bar needs just a few things to make it great: an easy-going, come-as-you-are vibe; a solid selection of beers hopefully running the gamut from old- to new-school; and a minimum of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beer Week Sausage Fest In Marina Tonight Belga, a Marina/Cow Hollow Belgian bistro that scored a spot among our 17 best new restaurants of 2015, is laying the symbolism on thick tonight from 5 to 8 p.m. The
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rare Brews And Bearded Bros: 2016 SF Beer Week Bingo Beer Wee begins with a roar tomorrow, the 22nd, and likely ends with you whimpering next weekend on the 31st. So, what's your plan? The question is always difficult, and it's made more
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beer Week Cometh: 21 Events To Check Out Beer Week is back, perhaps before you knew it — even, maybe, before your hangover from last year had fully receded. Regardless, get ready. There is, as usual, a glut of places holding events
