Arts & Entertainment Field Notes: Horror on Stage, 10-Cent Beers in the 510, and a Globe-Trotting Galapagos Albatross Farmers market colors; Club Waziema’s food menu; 10-cent half-pints; up-and-coming musicians; drag and horror; men loving men; Michael Jang and the Giants; honoring Filipino heritage; remembering Salesforce Tower’s architect; and a rare albatross sighting.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF's Laughing Monk Brewing Expands With New Nopa Location Laughing Monk Brewing, which has had a taproom in the Bayview for nine years, is taking over a large space that's been vacant since last summer on Fulton Street in NoPa.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fort Point Beer Co. Merging With Santa Rosa’s HenHouse, Moving Operations Up North SF’s famed microbrewery Fort Point Beer Company won’t be an SF microbrewery anymore, as it’s merging with Santa Rosa’s HenHouse Brewing Co. and moving all its operations up to Sonoma County.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Where to Find Some of the Much Sought-After Triple IPA Pliny the Younger This Weekend Russian River Brewing's perennial cult favorite beer Pliny the Younger — the rabid, continued popularity and cult status of which is baffling to some but completely justified to others — is more plentiful than it used to be.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Many In the Beer Community Are Big Mad That People Are Bringing Their Kids to Taprooms There's tempest in a pint glass brewing over pint-sized patrons being brought to breweries and taprooms, as a social media flare-up reignites the debate over parents who bring their kids into drinking establishments where minors are legally allowed.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Beer Week Kicks Off Friday, Opening Gala Returns to Pier 35 It's that time of year again, when brewers from around the city, the Bay, and across Northern California come together to celebrate and sip all manner of hazy IPAs, sour beers, pastry stouts and everything in between.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Belgium Brewery In Mission Bay Announces Abrupt Closure After Short 3-Year Tenure New Belgium Brewing Company, the maker of Fat Tire, announced Thursday that it was ceasing operations at the SF Mission Bay location and shutting down effective immediately.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Woods Beer & Wine Co. Opening New Brewpub — With Burgers! — In Cole Valley Woods Beer & Wine Co. is expanding yet again, and the brewery is readying a seventh location in the middle of SF, in Cole Valley, at the site of the former Reverie Cafe (848 Cole Street).
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cellarmaker Brewing Opens Its New Taproom and Pizza Restaurant In Oakland Growing craft brewery Cellarmaker, which began life in a small space in SoMa a decade ago and has since expanded with a Berkeley-based brewing operation and some highly acclaimed Detroit-style pizzas in the Mission, has just debuted its much-anticipated Jack London Square brewpub.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dogpatch's Harmonic Brewing to Shut Down This Fall, Stop Brewing Beer The craft beer shakeout continues as eight-year-old Dogpatch brewery Harmonic Brewing is closing its doors this fall due to a lease issue.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cellarmaker Brewing Co. Opens New Berkeley Beer Garden, Oakland Taproom Coming Next Month The Detroit-style pizza and craft beer of Cellarmaker is making its way to the East Bay, as the brewer recently opened its Berkeley beer garden, and its anticipated Oakland brewery and taproom is coming next month.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink No More Anchor Steam Beer: 127-Year-Old Brewery Shutters In San Francisco In very sad news for San Francisco at large, as well as the craft beer community, landmark Potrero Hill brewery Anchor Brewing Co. is shutting down brewing operations and declaring bankruptcy.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Certain Mission Brewpub Is Now Serving Up Rice-a-Roni Arancini, Cioppino, and $2 Oysters In the last nine months, Fort Point Beer Co.'s Valencia Street brewpub — which opened pre-pandemic, then closed for most of it — has ramped up its food offerings and become more of a full-fledged restaurant.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF-Born Brewery and Distillery Seven Stills Is Shutting Down Its Flagship Facility In Mission Bay In another clear case of a local business that went into expansion mode at just the wrong time before the pandemic, Seven Stills Brewery and Distillery in Mission Bay has announced it will close after Halloween weekend.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mikkeller Bar Closes For Good (Again) After Nine Years In the Tenderloin Popular SF brewpub Mikkeller Bar, one of two U.S. outposts of cult-famous Danish brewery Mikkeller, is shutting its doors at 34 Mason Street in the next week after nine years at the edge of the Tenderloin — two years after it appeared to close the first time.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 13 Best Breweries In San Francisco and the East Bay Craft beer has been booming in the Bay Area for over a decade, and many breweries are turning out excellent, incredibly interesting beer. SFist brings you the best of what we think SF, Oakland, and Berkeley have to offer, beer-wise.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Diego-Based Modern Times Brewery Closes Oakland Taproom After Two Years Citing the pandemic and "global declines in the craft beer industry," popular San Diego-based beer brand Modern Times announced Tuesday that it's shuttering four of its West Coast taprooms, including one that it opened in Oakland in December 2019.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Magnolia Brewing Closing Its Eight-Year-Old Dogpatch Brewpub San Francisco-born craft beer operation Magnolia Brewing Co. — which for several years has been partly owned by the cofounder of New Belgium Brewing Kim Jordan — is downsizing and returning back, after eight years, to just having its Upper Haight flagship location.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Beer Week Comes Barrelling Back, Kicks Off Friday With Series of Smaller Events Beer Week is back, but COVID precautions will structure it differently, and Friday’s San Francisco Kick Off event is at a Chase Center taproom you may not have heard of before.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Woods Beer & Wine Co. to Reopen In New Digs On Treasure Island, In Historic Naval Administration Building The popular Woods Island Club will be getting a new, slightly different incarnation this spring — and possibly as early as late February — in the iconic Administration Building on Treasure Island.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF's Cellarmaker Brewing to Take Over Former Blue Bottle Warehouse In Oakland for New Pizza and Beer Spot The San Francisco craft beer stars behind Cellarmaker Brewing Co., who three years ago surprised us with a shockingly good pizzeria to go with their always good and often hoppy beers, are now expanding to Oakland.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Marin Brewing Company Closing at the End of the Month, After a Nearly 33-Year Run One of the early trailblazers of the microbrewery craze is shuttering on January 31, as Larkspur’s Marin Brewing Company is the latest restaurant and brewery to go bottoms up during the pandemic.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Line 51 Brewery And Tasting Room Opens In Oakland, Complete With Charming Transit Bus Tap Mass transit fans and beer aficionados alike, rejoice. Oakland's newest watering hole combines the best of both those worlds, pouring a selection of on-tap IPAs and ales from the side of a retired and restored AC Transit bus from 1972.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Seven Stills Shuts Down Mission Taproom, Has Brewery License Suspended For Tied-House Violations Seven Stills Brewery and Distillery is closing two of its facilities in the face of a 90-day suspension of their brewery and distillery license by the California Bureau of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) over some 60 documented violations of tied-house laws.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sonoma County Brewery Releases PG&E-Themed 'Mandatory Blackout' Porter Sonoma County craft brewers have been reacting to this fire season's pre-emptive power shutoffs with themed beers. The latest example is Barrel Brothers Brewing's Mandatory Blackout imperial porter.
