SF News Car Crashed Into Front of Dovre Club Wednesday Morning, But Bar Insists They Will Reopen ‘Soon' A two-car accident resulted in a car ramming into the front of the Valencia Street bar Dovre Club. But the repair job is already well underway, and staff insist the bar will reopen “soon,” possibly even this week.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 16th Street Queer Bar Mother Makes Bon Appetit’s ‘Best New Bars in the US’ List The Mission District bar Mother, in the former home of Esta Noche, has put itself on the map by making Bon Appetit’s “11 Best New Bars in the US” roundup.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland's Storied, 24-Year-Old Ruby Room to Close After New Year's Eve One of downtown Oakland's most hallowed dive bars — and, at points in the last two decades, one of the only things going on in downtown Oakland after dark — the Ruby Room is now set to close for good after the new year.
Arts & Entertainment Kilowatt Has Reopened, Redesigned and Under New Ownership Longtime Mission District punk-rock-sports-biker-dive bar Kilowatt has reopened under its new ownership team of ex-Bottom of the Hill and Thee Parkside bartenders, and here are some first-look pics at the new Kilowatt that will soon be a live music venue again.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dovre Club Fights to Survive, Starts a GoFundMe to Secure Location 54-year-old Mission District Irish bar Dovre Club is hanging on by a thread, but a GoFundMe campaign could help secure its longtime spot at Valencia and 26th Streets.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Worn-In TenderNob Dive The Summer Place Has Shuttered For Good Pandemic closures threaten to fray the entire fabric of San Francisco dive bars, which in some cases are surviving month to month on the kindness of patrons and crowdfunding efforts.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thieves Tavern and Blind Cat Shutter in the Mission, Bringing an End to a Dive Bar Mini-Empire Today in bar casualties from the pandemic we have Thieves Tavern and Blind Cat, the last two dive-y spots in what was once a four-bar empire owned and operated by Paul Bavaro.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lucky 13 Site Hits Market For $9.75M With Development Approvals It looks as though the owners of the Upper Market Street dive bar Lucky 13, which we've long known is endangered, did not intend to do any development work themselves, but now that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Try Not To Panic: The 500 Club Is For Sale Long-lived and long-loved Mission dive the 500 Club, a necessary fixture on SFist's Best Dive Bars list, is hitting the market, according to a real estate source who prefers to remain anonymous. And
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Showdown, 6th Street Dive Bar And DJ Hangout, To Shut Down Show's over at Showdown, the popular dive bar and DJ spot on 6th Street just off Market, Hoodline reports. In eight years of business, Showdown built a reputation for its steady stream of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lucky 13 Murals Mysteriously Painted Over As Bar Faces Fears Of Demolition Unlucky 13: After Demolition Permit Application Posted, Bar's Murals Vanish https://t.co/Sg9FrIeRuO by @editcatsf pic.twitter.com/wzEIiOVDMB— Hoodline (@Hoodline) May 4, 2017 A curious twist in the newly unfolding saga
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lucky 13 Won't Be Demolished For Condos Anytime Soon, But Long-Term Odds Are Bad San Franciscans who love dive bars (which is most of us!), and San Franciscans who think the city needs to build more housing ASAP, which, come on, should definitely be all of us,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Time's Up At Current Doc's Clock Location Next Month The clock is ticking for drinks at the current Doc's Clock: According to a Facebook post from the bar's ownership, it closes "around the end of May." Last year, it was originally reported
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lefty O'Doul's To Have Closing Party Wednesday Amid Legal Battles Over Name And Memorabilia The legal battle over who owns Lefty O'Doul's basically the business and its brand, as opposed to the premises in which it has resided for nearly 60 years at 333 Geary, which is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lefty O'Doul's May Be Closing And Relocating In Union Square After 59 Years Union Square dive bar and hofbrau Lefty O'Doul's beloved by many service industry workers, cops, Tenderloin denizens, and San Francisco Chronicle reporters, not to mention a steady stream of tourists seeking a bargain
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mr. Bing's Is Saved! I have some excellent news. Back in July we heard the ominous news that beloved sh*thole dive bar Mr. Bing's had been sold to new owners, the owners of Ireland's 32 in
SF News Facing Loss Of Lease, Doc's Clock To Move Down The Street When news broke earlier this year that Doc's Clock would be forced to close following a decision by the new building owner not to renew the bar's lease in 2017, devotees of the
SF News Legacy Bar Mr. Bing's Sold To New Owners, Will Close For Renovations Or Overhaul At Mr. Bing's Cocktail Lounge, which was at last inducted into San Francisco Heritage's list of “Legacy Bars & Restaurants” in 2014, cheap drinks and games of liar's dice appear to be coming
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Longtime Tenderloin Dive The Brown Jug Closed Following ABC Sting An undercover agent from the California Department of Alcohol Beverage Control was able to sell alcohol described as stolen to staff members at the Brown Jug and also to purchase illegal drugs from
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Gangway, SF's Oldest Gay Bar, *Might* Be Saved After All We at SFist and many others seriously lamented the potential imminent loss of The Gangway back in January, when a liquor license application showed that the place was in the process of being
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 25 Best Dive Bars In San Francisco Whether drowning sorrows on your lonesome or slumming it with friends, dive bars are good for a lot of occasions. Firstly, they're often cheaper than their mixology-obsessed counterparts in tonier parts of town.
SF News Doc's Clock To Close Next Year The dive-bar dominoes continue to fall, as we learn today that the much loved Doc's Clock is not long for this world. The watering hole, on Mission Street between 21st and 22nd, will
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pop's Bar Resolves To Open At 6 AM Every Day In New Year Joining the likes of the semi-notorious Clooney's Pub, Pop's Bar on 24th Street in the Mission will now open at 6 a.m. daily. The announcement, which comes just in time to allow
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved Dive, Mission Bar, Actually Gets New Lease It's a sad state of affairs when it's newsworthy that a divey, no-frills bar in the Mission with no special history but plenty of loyal fans is actually not closing. But that is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dry Your Eyes: Elbo Room Renews Lease Through 2018 Reports of the death of the Elbo Room were greatly exaggerated! We ourselves spoke too soon — we just didn't want to drag it out, to get hurt more. But there's very good news
