SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Breaking: Fernet-Branca Now On Tap Made from a secret recipe of over 40 herbs and spices, San Francisco has a special place in its heart for Fernet-Branca. (Fun fact: 35 percent of Fernet-Branca in the US is consumed
Arts & Entertainment Tonight Extra: <em>Mad Men</em> Cocktails by Rachel Brodsky There are plenty of 1950s and 60s meal recipes we'd love to leave locked away in the annals of never again. You've got your massive jello molds, Chex Mix, three-bean
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 7x7 Top 10 Irish Pub Picks In honor of St. Patrick's Day (remember, fellow redheads, tomorrow we drink for free!), aptly-named Allison McCarthy at 7x7 Magazine came up with a handy list ranking the top ten San Francisco Irish
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alcoholic Beverage Control Crackdown on Infusion The Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control is trying to kill your buzz, folks. Again. The most recent example is their cracking down on bars serving infused alcohols. Demian Bulwa of the SF Chronicle
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Swagger Stagger Join Monk's Kettle's Sayre Piotrkowski, one of the city's very few cicerones (i.e., a beer sommelier) and Broke Ass-Stuart as they honor SF Beer Week by going on a walking tour of
Arts & Entertainment SF Beer Week: 2/5 - 2/14 Just in time for the (anti-abortion/anti-gay dating) Super Bowl, SF Beer Week kicks things off on Friday, ready to fill your belly with hops, brain with a buzz and liver with a
SF News Good News: Alcohol Content in California Wines on the Rise by Jerry James Stone Here in California, a "table wine" has an alcohol content below 13-percent. But those wines are becoming rare. Sorry, light-weights. One reason is that the higher-alcohol wines take less
misc Every Bar In San Francisco: 1 Drink at Every SF Watering Hole This right here is a task comparable only to hauling a powerful ring to the fires of Mordor. What are we talking about? A new site called Every Bar In San Francisco, which
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Blackberry Shrub We thought we'd keep with this shrub thing after last week's Strawberry Gin Shrub recipe, since it's new to us (and probably you) and is actually quite delicious. At this week's CUESA farmers'
Arts & Entertainment Broke-Ass Stuart's 7 Places to Get Drunk, Lose Dignity Cheap eats/drinks guru Broke-Ass Stuart's Monica the Intern has a handy list of where best to get smashed and lose your self-respect and the respect of others. The Triangle (in the Marina
misc Photo du Jour 443 While walking and/or stumbling home one night after leaving "Riders With Drinks," esteemed photographer Plug 1 of What I'm Seeing captured the above shot. ""A drunken mistake of a photograph that ended
Arts & Entertainment Zagat SF Nightlife Guide Survey Results Zagat drops their San Francisco Nightlife edition tomorrow. Survey top-spot winners include Auberge du Soleil ("overall appeal"), the St. Regis Lobby Lounge ("décor"), the Four Seasons Bar ("service," "cocktail expertise," "quiet conversation"), Absinthe
SF News Booze Tax? Supervisor John Avalos has a plan to help fund cash-strapped San Francisco. He wants to tax alcohol. According to SF Examiner, Supervisor John Avalos plans to ask our city attorney to draft legislation
Arts & Entertainment Bay to Breakers <s>Liquor Store</s> Energizing Station Locator View image Seeing as how SFist almost ruined this year's Bay to Breakers race (you're welcome!) after posting this map indicating places to buy hooch along the race route -- which resulted in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Has Good Bars The fine folks over at Eater came across the May issue of Esquire, which boasts their annual list of the Best Bars in America. San Francisco scored big, with Zeitgeist (cyclists and porta-potties!
SF News MyOpenBar.com to Shutdown SF, LA Operations This post will be the most difficult one your editor has had to write. We type these words as we head to the Golden Gate Bridge, ready to jump over the railing, prepared
SF News Ross Mirkarimi Says Yes to Nudity, Floats in Bay to Breakers San Francisco Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi spoke to Matier & Ross about the new Bay to Breakers rules, telling them that "there is no reason to go this far ... Nudity and floats are part
SF News New B2B Rules Prompt Outcries of Anguish, Anger Now that boozing, urinating, and nudity have been banned from the ING Bay to Breakers race, a run famous for boozing, urinating, and nudity -- seriously, we're sorry; this is partially our fault
SF News New Rules for Bay to Breakers 2009 will go down as the Year of the NIMBY. Take, for example, ING Bay to Breakers, which has released a new set of rules for the typically willy-nilly San Francisco marathon. New
SF News At Least 36 Arrested for New Year Revelry A paltry 30 -- 30! -- people were arrested in San Francisco for public intoxication on New Year's Eve around Broadway, Market Street and the Embarcadero. (Needless to say, we're sad to see
misc Photos: Repeal Day Parade Last Friday was the 75th anniversary of the repeal of prohibition. And if you didn't make it to last Friday's Repeal Prohibition Parade, here are a few images of the drunken merriment. Starting
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Flaming Egg nog by Tiffany Maleshefski You know what we love? When cartons of egg nog start to appear on the grocery store shelves. Yes, we said egg nog, that creamy, slightly sweet, vanilla-esque, mystery drink
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cocktail Countdown: Apple Cider Mojito by Tiffany Maleshefski If you’ve been keeping up, the folks here at SFist world headquarters know that the holidays can be more of a headache than a hoot. So, if we are
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Cocktail Countdown: the Gobbler by Tiffany Maleshefski We’re as big of fans of holiday spirit as the next person. It’s true we get giddy when we pass the lighted Christmas tree on Union Square, turn
SF News Vodka Unfairly Blamed for 101 Southbound Lane Closures You might want to call in sick to help with cleanup efforts down in Sunnyvale. See, a big rig carrying vodka -- delicious vodka! -- overturned this morning, prompting the closure of all
