SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF's b. Patisserie Confirmed to Be Taking Over Cafe Space In Union Square Park Following the departure of Tyler Florence's Miller & Lux Provisions last month, pastry chef Belinda Leong's acclaimed b. patisserie briefly popped up in one of the two cafe spaces in Union Square Park, and now it is becoming an official tenant.
SF News BREAKING: Puppy Cafe Proposed For San Francisco A rare ray of sunshine breaks through the election haze today with the news that San Francisco could soon have its very own puppy cafe. Yes, you read that correctly: A puppy cafe.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 13 Best Cafés That Are Also Basically Co-Working Spaces Sometimes I go to a coffeeshop in this city and I ask myself, "Does everyone work from home now?" Also, "Is everyone a graphic designer now?" I myself get too distracted to work
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Best Coffee Shops In San Francisco The best coffee shop in San Francisco, if we're being realistic, is the one closest to your house. But for those times when you need to enjoy your coffee in a carefully curated
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Crestfallen Cafe Responds To SFist's Criticism See, now that's funny. Almost. Two-year-old Mid-Market cafe and eatery Machine — who, last week, poked fun at area addicts and homeless, among other characters in the changing neighborhood — responded to SFist's criticism via
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mid-Market Cafe Pokes Fun At Area Drug Addicts, Homeless [Updated] Call it click bait. Say that SFist is trying to rile you up. But this cafe/deli's sign, smack on Market and Sixth, is in poor taste. Crazy? No, not really. But tone
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Reveille Coffee To Tempt Castro's Gay Clientele Reveille Coffee opened its second cafe on Monday, smack dab in the heart of gay mecca. Following in the footsteps of Tommy and Chris Newbury's North Beach location, the brothers opened the place
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink KitTea's Co-Founder Talks Health Code, Hayes Valley, Cats, And ALF Ever since SFist and Laughing Squid published word that KitTea, a cat cafe, will be coming to San Francisco, the story has since hit the national scene. Why, it even made a cameo
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink BREAKING: Cat Cafe Coming To San Francisco [UPDATE: SFist interviews KitTea co-founder Courtney Hatt.] This isn't a joke. You're not dreaming. It's real, and it's mew-tacular. A tea cafe featuring a bevy of therapeutic, adorable cats is set to open
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink What Ever Happened To The Coffee Refill? Back in the day, they had something called a "coffee refill". See, your coffee cup was replenished for free or a lesser fee. Flo used to do it. Alice too. But in these
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photo Du Jour: Lower Haight International Cafe, shot by Demetrios Lyras.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Four Barrel Celebrates Five Years With Free Coffee, Animals To Pet [Updated With Baby Alpaca Pic] Today Four Barrel Coffee turns five. Aw. And with that, the noted coffee purveyors will offer its fans (because we now live in a city where coffee roasters have fans, making Four Barrel
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Brainwash's New Colors "Brainwash's New Colors" by Demetrios Lyras.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Summit, Noted Artisan Valencia Street Cafe, Will Close Its Doors This Month Posh tech cafe The Summit will close its doors on January 28. Decried by some as a "masturbatory business fantasy," the creatively-minded Valencia Street space served coffee and pastries to "free thinkers, craftsmen,
Arts & Entertainment Attention Thespians: TV Pilot About Local Clairvoyant Cafe Owner Wants Your Pretty Face Spotted in the the Talent Gigs section of Craigslist: a call for actors to star and support in "a TV Pilot about a clairvoyant female cafe owner that helps singles find true love.
Arts & Entertainment Angry Artist Besmirches Cafe Royale Via Cartoon Flyers [Updated] There must be something in the air between artists and cafes these days. SFist spotted this flyer the other day, which was plastered on every block in the Tenderloin/Tendernob area. Apparently, a
SF News NIMBY Update: Nevius Propogates Happy Results in Tenderloin Cafe's Outdoor Seating Dispute (Fingers Crossed) SFist talked about C.W. Nevius' article a couple of weeks ago regarding Little Bird Coffeehouse's "Kafkaesque journey" to obtain a permit for outdoor seating on the sidewalk, which named Lower Nob Hill
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink NIMBY Watch: One Guy Keeps Tenderloin Cafe From Having Outside Seating, Nevius Steps In [Updated] Update (3/21/11): The conflict has been resolved! Everyone's favorite columnist, Andy Rooney C.W. Nevius, came out with an article this morning about Little Bird Coffeehouse's ongoing fight to obtain a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Bar Bambino Cafe at New ODC Space Gets New Name Bar Bambino, the little 16th Street Italian joint that could, is opening a second location. And, according to Inside Scoop, that new location, smack-dab in the under-construction ODC Theater at 17th and Shotell,
misc The Wrath of John Barleycorn Supporters Carries On Contraband Coffee, which was set to open in Nob HIll at Larkin and California in the former John Barleycorn space in July, has experienced some speed bumps with regard to their permitting. John
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Happy Hour Spotlight: Cup A Joe Coffeehouse, Sign the Petition We've been avoiding posting about the sweet happy hour deal at Cup A Joe Coffeehouse for fear of it getting too popular, but we need your help to keep the deal going (read