SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chinatown's Z&Y Restaurant Is Latest to Be Dinged for Wage Theft Z&Y Restaurant, one of the better known and acclaimed Chinese restaurants in San Francisco, is the latest local restaurant to have to settle a wage-theft case brought by immigrant employees — this time to the tune of $1.6 million.
Arts & Entertainment SF Chinatown Has a Long and Lawless History In the Illegal Fireworks Trade We are deep in fireworks season right now all over the Bay Area, as every owner of a skittish dog is well aware. But did you know that for decades, people flocked to SF's Chinatown to buy caches of illegal fireworks and law enforcement mostly turned a blind eye?
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Empress by Boon to Debut Next Week In the Storied Empress of China Space In SF's Chinatown The long-awaited new arrival in the Empress of China space in San Francisco's Chinatown is finally opening, just in time for mask rules and capacity restrictions to be lifted statewide.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Nightclub Called Lion's Den Opens Friday in Chinatown I bet you didn't think you'd be reading this news this week: A new nightclub is having its soft opening (in the midst of the pandemic) on Friday in Chinatown, and it's attempting to harken back to the glitz of 1950s-era nightlife in the neighborhood.
SF News Arrest Made In Assaults on Elderly Victims In Oakland's Chinatown A week after three Asian American seniors were brutally attacked on the streets of Oakland's Chinatown, police say they have arrested a person of interest whom they identified last week.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 100-Year-Old Chinatown Spot With Curtained Booths, Far East Cafe, In Danger of Closing We're sad to learn that one of the longest-lived and largest banquet restaurants in the neighborhood, Far East Cafe, is giving up the ghost after 100 years in business.
SF News Third Suspect Arrested In Chinatown Strong-Arm Robbery Last Summer A third suspect has been arrested in a violent street assault and robbery that happened last July, which sent two men from Chinatown to the hospital.
SF News Facebook Announces Funding for Ad Outreach to Help SF's Struggling Chinatown Businesses According to some anecdotal reports, foot traffic in SF's Chinatown is down over 50 percent because of concerns over the coronavirus. But the Eye of Sauron-like social media giant hopes to turn that around by helping those affected businesses create and run ads to buffer dwindling sales.
Arts & Entertainment Scenes From San Francisco's 162nd Chinese New Year Parade Thousands convened at Market and 2nd Streets Saturday where the SF festivities began to celebrate the Year of the Rat — hissing firecrackers, lanky dragons, chromatic fashions, and all — in the largest Lunar New Year parade outside of Asia.
SF News Elderly Chinatown Residents Targeted For Red Envelopes During Lunar New Year During Lunar New Year celebrations this week, law enforcement is going on high alert in both San Francisco's and Oakland's Chinatown to deter thieves from targeting a longstanding gift tradition.
SF News Suspects Sought In Violent Weekend Robberies In Chinatown A pair of violent incidents in Chinatown are being investigated as potentially linked after four suspects in a dark-colored SUV assaulted three elderly men in Chinatown's Portsmouth Square on Saturday, following a violent robbery involving a similar vehicle the night before.
SF News Arrest Made In July Assault On Two Elderly People In Chinatown One of three suspects believed responsible for an assault and robbery that left two elderly members of the Chinatown community injured has been arrested, according to the SFPD.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved Empress of China Space in Chinatown To Be Revived As Empress By Boon A former chef at upscale Chinese spot Hakkasan is slated to open a new upscale venture in the iconic Empress of China space on the sixth floor of 838 Grant Avenue, which has sat empty for five years.
SF Politics SFMTA Votes To Name Chinatown Station For Rose Pak, Despite Protests After loud objections and six hours of public comment, Chinatown's station on the new Central Subway line will be called Rose Pak-Chinatown Station, following a 4-3 vote by the SFMTA board on Tuesday.
SF News Supervisors Make Second Push To Name Central Subway Station After Rose Pak Beloved/feared Chinatown power broker Rose Pak, who passed away in 2016 at the age of 68, was one of the singular, unstoppable forces in getting the Central Subway project built. And the Board of Supervisors believes her name needs to be attached to some piece of it.
SF News Hilariously Bad Chinese Translation On City Survey Calls Tenderloin 'A Beef Filet' Thanks to some unskilled translators, a recent outreach effort by the city in Chinatown did not go over smoothly.
SF News S.F.’s Last Handmade Fortune Cookie Company Faces Possible Closure Chinatown’s 57-year-old Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory is believed to be the last remaining handmade fortune cookie manufacturer in the U.S.
SF News New 'Zig Zagging' Tower Proposed For Oakland Chinatown Would Be City's Tallest Tower Oakland's skyline could soon be changing as developers have filed a proposal for a unique new building that would tower over businesses and residences in Oakland's Chinatown. According to a report from the
Arts & Entertainment Amazon Greenlights SF-Based Series 'Tong Wars', Wong Kar-Wai To Direct San Francisco is getting some of its big-budget TV location cred back after the disappointing cancellation of Netflix's local darling series Sense 8. Amazon is stepping into the void, according to Variety, ordering
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink There's A $52 Scotch Cocktail In Chinatown Now Down at China Live, in a cloistered spot upstairs from the six-month-old Market Restaurant, there now sits a fancy, semi-hidden cocktail bar with a menu centered on scotch a spirit beloved by some
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mister Jiu's Named One Of The Best Restaurants In The Country By Bon Appetit It's official: The SF entry on Bon Appetit's Hot Ten this year is Mister Jiu's, despite the place being nearly a year and a half old that's just how things go in the
Arts & Entertainment Dioramas and Miniatures Become Vessels For Memory In 'Forever, Chinatown' by Jessica Lachenal While many people turn to cellphone photos, videos, or even journaling to remember the things that are important to them, artist Frank Wong turned to an art form once thought
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mister Jiu's Phase Two, In Historic Upstairs Banquet Hall Space, To Open By Year-End If you haven't been to Mister Jiu's yet, you're missing out on one of the best new restaurants to hit SF in the last two years. (Read some more about it here.) Chef
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink China Live Gets A Hidden Cocktail Bar The new trend of speakeasy concepts is increasingly common among San Francisco cocktail bars, most of them employing a Prohibition-era 1920s theme. But the newest entry in the reimagined speakeasy arena is taking
SF News Nine-Member Gang Robs Man In Chinatown Bar An extremely late night at a Chinatown bar turned into a bit of a bummer Sunday morning, when a patron was first robbed then shoved out of the establishment. The San Francisco Police
