SF News Waymo Self-Driving Vehicle Vandalized, Set on Fire in San Francisco Chinatown Saturday Night A group of vandals surrounded and tagged an empty autonomous vehicle in Chinatown, then set of a firework inside the car that set the entire car ablaze.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Chinatown Gets New Set of ‘Avant Garde’ Lanterns in Time for Lunar New Year The bar coming into the Castro’s former Harvey’s will now be called Pink Swallow; two more SF supervisors got Garry Tan-inspired death threat mailers; and some newly designed lanterns have been placed up in Chinatown.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Giant Dragon Statues Ring In the ‘Year of the Dragon’ In SF Meet all the dragon statues just installed around San Francisco to celebrate the Lunar New Year’s Year of the Dragon, as these intricately designed, wooden dragon monuments now adorn SF parks, markets, and public spaces.
Arts & Entertainment SF Lunar New Year Parade Nabs Awkwafina as This Year’s Grand Marshal The 2024 Chinese New Year Parade just announced the very good get of Awkwafina as the parade’s Grand Marshal for its Year of the Dragon parade coming up Saturday, February 24, 2024.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Z&Y Restaurant Opens Offshoot Focused on Peking Duck, Called Z&Y Peking Duck Chinatown’s Z&Y Restaurant has held a Michelin bib gourmand recognition for more than ten years running, and now they’re getting down with a duck-focused spinoff, Z&Y Peking Duck.
SF News SF City Attorney Sues Three Chinatown SRO Owners, Alleging ‘Inhumane’ Conditions City Attorney David Chiu has three Chinatown SRO landlords at the center of his latest lawsuit, saying their properties are “a public nuisance,” and that “dozens of health and safety violations linger” at these buildings.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mister Jiu's Alums to Open New 'Izakaya-Like' Chinese Restaurant, Four Kings A space at the edge of both Chinatown and the Financial District is going to become a permanent home for Four Kings, the nostalgic Cantonese and Hong Kongese pop-up from former Mister Jiu's chefs Franky Ho and Mike Long.
SF News Chinatown Pet Store Selling for '$0' Finds a Taker, and It's a Longtime Customer A story that went viral last month about a San Francisco pet store owner looking to sell his business to the right buyer for "$0" — actually for $120,000 worth of inventory — has a happy ending.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink OG Celebrity Chef Martin Yan to Revive M.Y. China in Chinatown One of the Bay Area's original food celebrities, chef Martin Yan of Yan Can Cook fame, says he is on the hunt for a new space in Chinatown where he plans to revive his dormant M.Y. China restaurant concept.
SF News Red Lanterns Return to SF Chinatown After Being Destroyed In Winter Storms The iconic red lanterns that dangle over Grant Avenue in San Francisco's Chinatown needed replacing after getting battered and tattered in this past winter's severe storms. And now, after a fundraising campaign, they are back.
SF News SFMTA Lowers the Speed Limit to 20 MPH on Nearly Two Dozen SF Streets Several streets in Chinatown, Fisherman’s Wharf, North Beach, and Union Square just got their speed limits lowered from 25 to 20 mph, despite arguments that drivers ignore city speed limits and police don’t enforce them anyway.
SF News Suspect In Chinatown Stabbing Allegedly Attacked Bakery Owner's Father, Was Known to Have Severe Mental Illness So, there is an apparent connection between the stabbing that happened at AA Bakery & Cafe in Chinatown on Monday and the stabbing that sent suspect Fook Poy Lai to prison for the last seven years — the bakery owner's father was the man stabbed by Lai in 2016.
SF News Chinatown Stabbing Suspect Was On Parole for 2016 Chinatown Stabbing It's time for another round of "why was this person out of jail?" following a very violent incident in San Francisco's Chinatown — and in this case it allegedly took the suspect less than two weeks to re-offend after getting paroled.
SF News Monday Morning Stabbing Leaves Chinatown Bakery Employee With Life-Threatening Injuries A seemingly unprovoked stabbing at Chinatown's AA Bakery Monday morning left one employee with stab wounds in her neck, though she is now in stable condition — and a suspect was immediately taken into custody.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Chinatown Hot Pot Spot Offers a 'Ferris Wheel' of Meat A newly open restaurant in San Francisco's Chinatown, Hotpot Champ, is offering a bunch of Instagram- and TikTok-worthy presentations, including a spinning mini-Ferris wheel of raw meat.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink City View Dim Sum Has Reopened at New Chinatown Location After a landlord dispute cost them their longtime home on Commercial Street, Chinatown dim sum favorite City View restaurant has reopened at a new location just a few blocks away.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chinatown Food Hall China Live Hit With Eviction Lawsuit, Allegedly Owes $4.2 Million In Back Rent Some stunning local food industry gossip is now spilling publicly into the headlines, as the sprawling upscale food court China Live is allegedly $4.2 million in arrears on unpaid rent, but it seems there’s a whole lot more backstory to this nasty landlord-tenant feud.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mister Jiu's Reopens After Renovation With New Tasting Menu Format Acclaimed Chinatown restaurant Mister Jiu's, which closed temporarily in January for a remodel, has reopened and chef Brandon Jew is going a new direction with the menu.
SF News Three Arrests Made Chinatown Attack of 70-Year-Old Woman, One Suspect Is Only 11 Years Old Four suspects have been identified and three were arrested in last month’s group attack on a 70-year-old woman in Chinatown, but it certainly complicates their prosecution that the suspects are ages 18, 14, 13, and... 11.
SF News Rec and Parks Gets Ripped Off for $4.5 Million In Cost Overruns on Portsmouth Square Parking Garage An alphabet soup of transit authorities and nonprofit organizations was responsible for a Chinatown parking garage renovation that was completed four years late and went $4.5 million over budget, but a city auditor blames lax Rec and Parks Department oversight.
SF News Boudin and Gascón Take Legal Action Against Serial ADA Lawsuit-Filing Firm Going after alleged “Serial Filers” of ADA lawsuits, one of whom has filed 1,700 lawsuits himself, the SF and LA district attorneys have filed a state suit against the law firm churning out lawsuits against Chinese-owned businesses.
SF News Report: Central Subway Opening Likely to be Delayed Yet Again, Might Not Happen This Year Stop us if you’ve heard this before! SFMTA says the Central Subway to Chinatown is on track to open September 9, but a federal monitor, and everyone not on the SFMTA payroll, says we’re looking at December or well into next year.
SF Politics Chesa Boudin Booed Rather Roundly, Followed By Handful of Hecklers at Lunar New Year Parade Combine a controversial district attorney with a parade being held in a neighborhood where he is not terribly popular, and you get Chesa Boudin getting booed along Saturday's Lunar New Year Parade route.
Arts & Entertainment Meet the Tiger Floats of the 2022 SF Lunar New Year Festival and Parade There are 14 floats ready to pounce for Saturday’s 2022 SF Chinese New Year Festival and Parade. Here’s a sneak preview of this year’s finest Year of the Tiger floats, and ‘They're Grrrreat!’
SF News Hunter Pence Joins Volunteer Group Cleaning Up Trash in North Beach and Chinatown Four-time all-star and two-time world champ Hunter Pence came out of right field to help with a community trash pick, for a group that does this three or four times a week.
