SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 13 Best Local Food Chains In The Bay Area San Francisco is well known for its fantastic restaurants, but also for its relative hostility to chains. Nonetheless, a number of homegrown chain restaurants and mini-empires have proliferated here, especially in the last
Arts & Entertainment The Best Gay And Lesbian Clubs And Parties In SF It's been a minute since SFist has run down the coolest lesbigay clubs and parties around town, and a few things have closed and ended and some others have popped up since we
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 15 Best Chinese Restaurants In SF Food people in the know are going to tell you that if you want the best Chinese food in the Bay Area, these days you have to leave the city. This may be
Arts & Entertainment The 10 Coolest, Least Touristy Landmarks In San Francisco Tourists new to wandering San Francisco, and new residents who need places to wander, should know that there is more to this fine city than Coit Tower, the Golden Gate Bridge, and Fisherman's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 23 Best Cocktail Bars In SF In the last decade or so, San Francisco has become one of the best if not hands down the best, depending on who you ask cocktail towns in the country. Sure, New York
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Best, Not-Wildly-Expensive Wine Country Restaurants Wine Country, particularly the Napa Valley, is the lap of luxury of the Bay Area, and an adult playground for the wealthy from all over the US. If you've spent some time wine
Arts & Entertainment The 9 Best Urban Hikes In SF This weekend is supposed to be sunny and balmy here in the city, so what better time than to find at least one thing to do besides day-drink or finish your costume for
Arts & Entertainment The 15 Best Movie Theaters In The Bay Area More and more it seems going to the movies has become a special-occasion thing for a lot of people, and Hollywood obviously struggles every year to come up with reasons to get us
Arts & Entertainment The 13 Best Places To People Watch In SF What should you do on a pleasant weekend afternoon in San Francisco when you have an hour or two to kill? You could do the basics like an urban hike or a park-sit
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 8 Best New Stoner Foods In San Francisco It's (almost) 4/20, man. So, if you still require such an excuse to indulge in marijuana amongst friends and strangers, you'll be doing so on Hippie Hill on Thursday the first time
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 18 Best Bakeries In San Francisco Even for as food-obsessed a city as San Francisco is, we have a surprisingly excellent variety of bakeries and patisseries some like Craftsman & Wolves creating modern, idiosyncratic treats and riffs on classics,
Arts & Entertainment The Nine Best Women's Clothing Boutiques In SF In the past SFist has highlighted cool local fashion labels, vintage stores, and the best places to buy a men's suit. But despite SF being a mecca for style-conscious, discerning female shoppers who
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Eight Best Fried Chicken Sandwiches In SF Chef Alison Barakat did not think of herself as a trendsetter when, in 2005, she began serving a fried chicken sandwich at her new Temescal neighborhood bakery in Oakland, Bakesale Betty. Barakat had
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 17 Best Wine Bars In San Francisco The best wine bars are the ones where either you get to taste things you might not otherwise find anywhere, curated for you by a professional with good taste, or where the atmosphere,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 12 Best Irish Bars In San Francisco Not all Irish bars are created equal, despite how similar many may seem. San Francisco, having had a long history of Irish immigration and a continuing strong relationship with the country including annual
Arts & Entertainment The 10 Best Shoe Stores In SF In the past SFist has tried to steer you to the city's finest independent booksellers, record shops, and even local fashion labels. Today we bring you a curated list of places to indulge
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 18 Best Roast Chickens In San Francisco Julia Child once said "The real test of a good chef is a perfectly roasted chicken," and I have subscribed to that dictum over the years in eating around San Francisco and elsewhere,
Arts & Entertainment The 10 Best Adult Toy Stores In San Francisco Spending this Valentine's Day happily single? Maybe you should treat yourself to a self-love aid at one of our city's finest adult toy emporia. Or perhaps you are happily coupled but you're getting
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 10 Best Hot Toddies In San Francisco Rains are back, the world has gone to hell in an orange handbasket, and life has considerably less luster and promise than it did a few short months ago. So if you're a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 10 Best Unsung Bistros In San Francisco In an age of destination dining, pricey prix fixes, and fusion cuisines that we don't call fusion anymore, it can be refreshing to return to a favorite local haunt. Whether it's the kind
Arts & Entertainment Eight SF Antidotes To The Inauguration (Besides Drinking Actual Poison) Tomorrow is going to be hard. Simply knowing that a certain person with a comically smug demeanor and rodent-like pinholes for eyes is going to be on television and smartphone screens and dominating
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 12 Best Mac & Cheese Dishes In SF and Oakland Cold weather calls for warm comforts, including but not limited to ramen, tater tots, and cioppino. The most classic and satisfying of American comfort foods, though, is obviously macaroni and cheese a dish
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nine Ways To Kick Off A Cleanse, Juice And Otherwise It's that time of year. You feel disgusting. Hopefully your New Year's weekend hangover has worn off by now hopefully!! and it's time to take stock, regroup, contemplate the direction your life has
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 15 Best New SF Restaurants Of 2016 The last couple of years have been heady ones for San Francisco's dining scene, with 2010 kicking off a wave of new ingenuity, talent, and luxury that had yet to crash through the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 13 Best New SF Bars Of 2016 That time has come when every website on the World Wide Web makes their end-of-year listicles, and for us these are limited to San Francisco and the Bay Area, and the things that