SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gov. Jerry Brown Outlaws Caffeinated Beer In the realm of mundane news that may actually affect you, Governor Jerry Brown signed SB 39 in to law yesterday, banning the production and sale of beer infused with caffeine in this
SF News The Top Party Schools of 2011 Are... Ohio University topped this year's list of America's Top Party Schools by Princeton Review. The Athens-based institution of higher learning landed on the the party school list 12 times since 1997. This is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Roxie Adds Booze to Your Theatergoing Experience While we sadly bid farewell to the beloved Red Vic tonight, we gladly welcome a new addition at one of the city's favorite independent movie houses: As the boozegazers in the Mission report
SF News Pink Saturday Bans Booze In an effort to curb violence at the Pink Saturday festival in the Castro, the city has banned booze at the annual precursor to the Pride Parade. Last year, if you recall, a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Absolut Creates San Francisco Vodka Just in time for San Francisco Gay Pride, Absolut Vodka has introduced a "limited" SF edition. Following on the heels of New Orleans, Loas Angeles, Boston, and (oddly enough) Brooklyn flavors, San Francisco
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Leah Garchik & Paolo Lucchesi Guest Bartending at Jardinière Oh boy, oh boy: Leah Garchik and Paolo Lucchesi will make cameo appearances Wednesday night behind the bar at Traci Des Jardins' Jardinière. It's all part of the restaurant's monthly guest-bartending series. See,
Arts & Entertainment Map: Bay to Breakers Liquor Store Map 2011 View 2011 Bay to Breakers Booze Map in a larger map Each year SFist makes it a tradition to post your much-loved Bay to Breakers Liquor Store Map -- by way of Joe
Arts & Entertainment Should You Hide Alcohol on Your Body at Bay to Breakers? Of course, says Joe Kukura of Exercising While Intoxicated, one should conceal sweet nectar while running this month's Bay to Breaker's race. Even though getting lit could land you in pretend jail (or,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink City Attorney Dennis Herrera Seeks To Ban Kiddie Drink 'Blast by Colt 45' After turning his nose up at trend-piece drink Four Lokko, City Attorney (and mayoral candidate) Dennis Herrera now sets his anti-fruit-flavored-alcohol-seeking laser beams at Pabst Brewing Company’s Blast by Colt 45, a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Martini-Loving Jewish Folk Rejoice: No. 209 Kosher Gin for Passover Returns Last year San Francisco's No. 209 Distillery, makers of some of the finest gin this side of the Prime Meridian if you don't mind us saying, produced a limited run of Kosher for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tonight's Cheap Booze: Tequila, Tecate, and Terror at Bender's Bender's, the Mission's favorite glamour trap, offers patrons $6 for a Tecate and a shot of tequila tonight from 10pm - 2 am. What's more, free horror films will play on the wall.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: White Diamonds at Rye Returning to San Francisco after a 14 year absence, Rye's Rhachel Shaw spent time in Los Angeles working at Barkeeper in Silverlake, Malo Cantina on Sunset Boulevard, and Caña Rum in Downtown L.
SF News DUI Checkpoint Alert: Saturday Night at Geary and 9th Avenue SFPD has alerted the media that they'll be setting up a DUI checkpoint out in this Richmond this Saturday night at Geary Blvd and 9th Ave. There's always a tiny moral quandary whenever
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Please Stop Being a Bar Snob The recent trend in high-end cocktails (in vulgar parlors: mixology) has made us long for the halcyon days of kegstands and saki bombs. For many, like San Francisco bartenders, it's gone too far.
misc Lady Porn Day and National Margarita Day Suspiciously On Same Date Today, Feb. 22, is National Margarita Day. We wish you all an evening filled with salt-rimmed pleasures! What's more, according to Good Vibrations, today is also Lady Porn Day. We wish you all
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Tickets Go On Sale Today At 10 am today, tickets for Burning Man, the popular gala in the desert, will go on sale. While ticket prices can seem, well, price - they run anywhere from $210 to $320
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink House of Shields Reopens Tonight Paolo Lucchesi reminds us that, glory be, House of Shields returns tonight. The much-admired SoMa/downtown watering hole, if you recall, closed earlier this year. Horrifying on many levels, yes. Fortunately, the century-old
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Champagne Party In The Castro This Thursday Swirl Wine Bar, which has gained a solid reputation for serving excellent varieties of grapes and spirits (and then some), will throw what promises to be an authentique champagne party on Thursday. The
SF News What's Going On Here, 2323 Market? Going in at 2323 Market, where Earthtones once called home, this looks like it's going to be the most fun jewelery store ever.
SF News Newsom Vetoes Alcohol Fee Mayor Gavin Newsom vetoed the fee on alcohol, Supervisor John Avalos' plan to charge booze wholesalers to help cover the city's costs to care for dunkards. The mayor's office sent out a press
SF News What Do You Think of the Proposed Alcohol Fee? Every second, give or take, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors think of some new tax that will ruffle the feathers of its citizenry. Here's one folks are savoring like a fat Jolly
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Celebrate National Rum Day Tonight at Smuggler's Cove Did you know that today is National Rum Day? That is to say, August 16th is the day that honors the bottle of booze always left untouched at house parties. But fear not
SF News Alcohol-Free Bay to Breakers in 2011 Next year's Bay to Breakers race might be a tepid one. Booze, floats, and unregistered runners will be banned at next year's 100th marathon. The typically zany race has lost some of its
SF News Video: Lady Destroys Liquor Aisle at Richmond Delano's The sanity-estranged who roam among us. Where would we be without them? This "crazy Russian lady" went on a rampage at a Richmond store over the weekend. ManicVulva captured the tail-end of her
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: LCD Soundsystem's "Drunk Girls" If Dakota Fanning's bone-shatteringly electric portrayal of Cherie Currie in The Runaways has taught us one thing, it's this: drunk girls are shockingly entertaining. So, it should come as little surprise that LCD
