SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cole Valley's Ice Cream Bar Getting A Spinoff In The Castro Excellent news for Castro residents with sweet tooths: The Ice Cream Bar, the old-timey soda fountain and ice cream parlor in Cole Valley, is moving in on the former L'Occitane
Arts & Entertainment Don't Call It Pink Saturday (This Year) As hinted at earlier, the traditional organizers/gatekeepers of Pink Saturday on Pride Weekend in the Castro, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, are holding onto their rights to the name "Pink Saturday,
SF News Multi-Year Battle Over Castro & Market Gas Station Site To Be Settled Soon Plans for a 24-unit building at the prime corner of Castro and Market Streets currently occupied by an ARCO gas station have been stymied for the past decade by various factors, not
SF News SoulCycle Gets Pride Float, Will Open By Early Summer In The Castro As promised, following their conditional use approval, SoulCycle is all set to move in to the former Diesel Store/Bank of America at the prominent corner of Castro and Market Streets. As Hoodline
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Here's The Menu For Lark, Opening Monday In The Castro Last month we caught the news that Lark was headed for the former Brandy Ho's space at 4068 18th Street. Now, after a brief remodel, Lark will open with its "
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved Duboce Triangle Coffeeshop Shutters This Weekend Jumpin Java (139 Noe Street), one of the favorite cafe work spots of the Duboce Triangle neighborhood, known for its lax policy about letting you sit all day and its plentiful power outlets
Arts & Entertainment Pink Saturday Will End At 8 PM, Will Have More Music And Stuff In the ongoing negotiations over how to move forward with Pink Saturday the traditional Saturday night sh*tshow in the Castro post-Dyke March, pre-Pride parade day the LGBT Center has stepped
Arts & Entertainment Condo Building Replacing Lucky 13 Just As Ugly As Expected If you were expecting great beauty and architectural innovation to replace beloved dive bar Lucky 13 near Church and Market, you obviously haven't been up on the dominant trend in Upper
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New American Restaurant Lark Coming To 18th Street In The Castro We finally have news on what's moving into the former Brandy Ho's space on 18th Street in the Castro, which has been empty since Halloween. It's called
SF News Person Of Interest Identified In Feather Lynn Homicide Even though the medical examiner has, remarkably, still not decided if the August death of Bryan "Feather Lynn" Higgins was a homicide, police and the Bay Area Reporter have identified a
Arts & Entertainment Here's What The New Development May Look Like On The Sullivan's Funeral Home Site In The Castro Right after the new year we learned of some development plans for one of the last remaining, "underdeveloped" parking lot sites in the Castro neighborhood, and that the one surrounding the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Driver And Customer Respond Regarding Curry Boyzz Delivery Incident The tale of the alleged homophobic attack on Sunday from a Curry Boyzz delivery guy in the Castro may, naturally, have more sides to it. SFist has reached out to the owners of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Resident Greeted With Vicious Homophobia From Curry Boyzz Delivery Driver Many residents in the Castro were amused when a nondescript restaurant on 18th Street transformed five years ago into an Indian/Pakistani restaurant called Curry Boyzz perhaps in an attempt to pander to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Something (Hamburger Mary's, Probably) Opening In The Patio Cafe Space In April The owner of the 13-years vacant Patio Cafe space, Les Natali, took out an ad in this week’s Bay Area Reporter seeking chefs and a kitchen manager for a restaurant at
SF News New (Improved?) Renderings For 7-Story Condo At Church And Market The four-years-vacant former Home restaurant property at 2100 Market — a notable eye-sore that at least didn't become a Chipotle, as was possible — has issued an update to last
SF News Castro Braces For Big Pink Saturday/Pride Weekend As Sisters Bow Out As Organizers This year's Pride Weekend in June is set to be one of the biggest ever as the Supreme Court is more than likely going to decide in favor of federal gay
SF News Market And Duboce Site Gets A Condo Plan The last three years have drastically transformed the area of Market Street between Castro and Church as previously undeveloped lots have seen new luxury rentals and condos rise swiftly out of the ground.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hasn't The Castro Reached Peak Coffee? We've already talked about how Valencia Street may or may not have reached peak restaurant density. Now it's time to once again address the fact that you now can&
SF News Once Home To Nudists, Castro Plaza Now Just A Magnet For Unruly Homeless Youths Jane Warner Plaza, the small plaza that began as a temporary parklet in 2009 after the city closed off the intersection where 17th Street meets Market and Castro, is drawing negative attention from
SF News Castro Arson Suspect Is Same Man Who Burned Body Of Dead Sexual Partner A man who was convicted of strangling his sexual partner then attempting to burn his body in 2014 has been arrested again, this time a suspect in at least one of the many
SF News Holiday Weekend Fires: Bike Shop Burns, Dog Rescued, Another String Of Castro Arsons It's been a busy long holiday weekend for the San Francisco Fire Department, with multiple fires popping up Saturday, Sunday, and this morning. During the conflagrations, a bike shop was destroyed,
SF News Castro Funeral Home That Became A Touchstone In The AIDS Crisis To Get Converted To Condos, Retail Sullivan's Funeral Home in the Castro (2254 Market Street), one of the last vestiges of the neighborhood's pre-1960s Irish heritage and a tragic, central landmark during the AIDS
SF News [Update] Police Unsure How Long People Were Stepping Over Dead Homeless Person In Front Of Market Street Coffee Shop Unfortunately one of the n'hoods homeless just passed away in front of Peet's coffee just now. Saw him every day on Mkt. St. @Castro_Biscuit — Dennis Richards (@PlnCom_Richards)
Arts & Entertainment GLBT History Museum Seeks End-Of-Year Donations To Help Relocate Their Archive The Castro-based GLBT History Museum is reaching out for end-of-the-year, tax-deductible donations because one of the big projects they've got to undertake in the new year
SF News [UPDATES] LGBT Protesters Block Octavia And Market Freeway Entrance In Solidarity With Black Lives Matter A planned march to show LGBT solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement on Christmas Eve morning is expected to attempt to block the Octavia and Market on/off-ramp during rush hour.
