SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Cooke Shoppe Team Allegedly Has History Of Quickly Shut Businesses In Los Angeles You may have thought that the story that came out of the closure of Cook Shoppe — in the former Chow space on Church Street in the Castro — was already nutty, but there's more!
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Finn Town To Close In the Castro This Weekend, Transition To Event Space A little over a week after telling the Bay Area Reporter that the end might be close if customers didn't come in full force, the owner of Finn Town in the Castro, Rick Hamer, has announced plans to close at the end of this weekend.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eureka Restaurant Closes In the Castro After 12 Years Longtime Castro comfort-food staple Eureka Restaurant & Lounge has just announced that it's closed, marking the fourth significant restaurant closure in the neighborhood in as many months.
Arts & Entertainment Adam Lambert Spotted In San Francisco Before Sunday Queen Show In San Jose Adam Lambert is currently on tour again with Queen, standing in for deceased frontman Freddie Mercury, and while passing through the Bay Area on Saturday and Sunday he posted a photo of himself in front of a Castro home where his mother lived in the 1970s.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cook Shoppe and Blind Butcher Both Quietly Open In the Castro The new replacement restaurant in the former Chow space, called Cook Shoppe, and the new steakhouse in the former Beso space, Blind Butcher, are both open as of this past weekend.
Arts & Entertainment The Castro Theatre Readies To Install Largest Pipe-Digital Hybrid Organ On Earth A huge new organ is on its way to the Castro to replace the theater's long-gone "Mighty Wurlitzer."
SF News Lawyer For Australian Kidnapping Suspect Says He Was Having A Mental 'Break' 34-year-old Australian DJ Roscoe Holyoake appeared for an arraignment in a San Francisco court on Thursday, and he entered a plea of not guilty to charges of kidnapping and child endangerment.
SF News Thwarted Castro Kidnapping Suspect Was Questioned Two Months Ago In Strange Incident Involving A Child The Australian DJ arrested last Friday in the bizarre attempted kidnapping of a two-year-old child was reportedly questioned by police in Sydney in late February following another weird incident that also involved a small child.
SF News Castro Attempted Kidnapping Suspect Was Visiting Australian DJ, 'Smiled' After Releasing Kid The story of Friday's thwarted, broad-daylight kidnapping in the Castro neighborhood continues to be way strange, and now we have a suspect with some public social media accounts.
SF News Attempted Kidnapping Of Toddler Thwarted In Castro Several bystanders helped a mother to fend off a would-be kidnapper Friday afternoon in a bizarre Castro neighborhood incident that did not, as some might immediately suspect, involve one of the neighborhood's homeless people.
SF News Another Week, Another Castro Retail Closure: IXIA 'Tis the season, I guess, for retail turnover in the Castro, and now Hoodline brings word that the next to go is beloved, stick-obsessed floral designer IXIA.
SF News Five Reasons Why The Castro And North Beach Have So Many Vacant Storefronts San Francisco's retail vacancy problem has become a source of persistent blight in the neighborhoods of North Beach and Castro over the last five years, despite a booming local economy. What gives?
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Cafe In The Castro Closing For Lengthy Remodel The Cafe is closing this Sunday for a remodel that will last until June, or longer, and the owners may be looking to connect the former Bisou space downstairs back to the bar as it once was.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Another Castro Neighborhood Stalwart, Firewood, Is Closing After Two Decades Rack up yet another closure of a longtime neighborhood haunt for the Castro: Firewood Cafe is shutting its doors on 18th Street at the end of this week.
Arts & Entertainment Sloped Amphitheater, Designed For Rallies, Selected For Harvey Milk Plaza Redo The conclusion of a design competition to revamp Harvey Milk Plaza in the Castro has arrived, and a design by local firm Perkins Eastman has emerged the winner. The concept centers around a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sorry, Castro, Hamburger Mary's Is Probably Never Opening In the long LOOOOONG saga of the former Patio Cafe property at 531 Castro, another year is winding down, more vague promises have been lobbed by landlord Les Natali, and the place remains
Arts & Entertainment Check Out The Rainbow Light Installation Coming To Harvey Milk Plaza Next Month As the 40th anniversary of Harvey Milk's election to the Board of Supervisors approaches next month, local nonprofit Illuminate the folks behind the Bay Lights on the Bay Bridge and the Summer of
Arts & Entertainment Sad: Another Bookstore Nears Death As Aardvark Books' Building Goes Up For Sale Well loved Church Street new and used bookstore, Aardvark Books, will be calling it quits after 39 years at some point in the near future as the landlord is selling the building for
SF News Check Out The Harvey Milk Plaza Redesign Competition Finalists Earlier this year, it was announced that Harvey Milk Plaza would be undergoing renovations, with plans to field a design submitted by architects and artists. The process began in earnest earlier this year,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Safeway, Five Others, Back To Being Open 24 Hours After an apparent outcry from customers in the neighborhood and perhaps continuing their quest to compete with the newer Whole Foods across the street the Church and Market Safeway has returned to being
SF News Elderly Man Sought In Castro Hit-And-Run Police say they're looking for a hit-and-run driver Friday, following what they say was an intentional collision in the Castro. According to the San Francisco Police Department, the 45-year-old male victim was standing
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Loses Two Restaurants In One Week; Blueprint Tap Room Shutters In SoMa It seems that a midsummer wave of closures is upon us in the food scene, beginning with a pair of small Asian spots in the Castro one of which had sat quietly on
SF News Dolores Park Neighbors Say Footbridge Has Become Magnet For Hard Drug Sales Neighbors of Dolores Park, from the adjacent Castro and Dolores Heights environs, gathered Monday evening for a contentious community meeting with the SFPD and D8 Supervisor Jeff Sheehy to discuss what they see
SF News Counter Protests Planned At City Hall And In Castro This Weekend Whether Alt-Right Rally Goes On Or Not This Friday, city leaders will rally concerned citizens and host an afternoon event on the steps of City Hall to condemn hate and the presumed racist overtones of a planned rally in Crissy
SF News Noted 'Castro Drug Den' Sold To New Owner Prospective San Francisco home buyers are generally more attracted to phrases like “Wonderful Victorian home in amazing Dolores Heights location” than, say “Notorious Castro Drug Den” or “persistent neighborhood nuisance.” But both turns
