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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'The Lark' To Replace Beloved Dive Bar Dave's When news broke earlier this month that the Hearst Corporation had refused to renew the lease for Dave's Bar, 26-year-old downtown dive, a cry of sadness went up across San Francisco. But the
SF News Bummer Alert: SoMa Dive Zeke's To Close Saturday Bad news out of SoMa this morning, so first: Are you sitting down? Preferably at a bar? Preferably at one Zeke's Diamond Bar — which just opened for the day? You see where this
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Torn Apart By Fire, The Riptide Is Fundraising To Support Employees Last week, a 2-alarm fire struck the Outer Sunset haunt the Riptide, a bar frequently highlighted by SFist for its equally warm fireplace and atmosphere. Fire damage has now been estimated at a
SF News Elbo Room Clings To Life With Month Reprieve, Open Through Year's End "Big fu**in News!" writes Elbo Room bar co-owner Matt Shapiro in a rosy Facebook post flagged by Capp Street Crapp."Elbo Room's lease is extended til the end of the year!!!! With
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Citing Licensing Issue, ABC Shuts Down Lucky 13 Patio Misfortune for Lucky 13, Hoodline reports.The 27-year-old bar on Market Street, recently described by the Chronicle as a "down-and-dirty roadhouse," has closed its popular patio. Lucky 13's bar manager Martin Kraenkel confirmed
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 14 Best Jukeboxes In San Francisco Sadly, we live in an age when lazy/frugal bar owners junk their beloved vintage jukeboxes because they break too often and cause too much of a headache, in favor of the scourge
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Updated] North Beach's Beloved Capp's Corner To Close Resident Chronicle old-timer Carl Nolte reported over the weekend on a threat to longtime North Beach spot Capp's Corner, originally named for former owner Joe Caporale. The place isn't quite as old as
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now Blondie's Bar In The Mission Is Endangered Too Bars in the city where you can still drink on the cheap are slowly getting picked off, one by one, and the latest that appears to be in the sights of potential developers
SF News Plans Submitted To Raze Lucky 13 For Condos Lucky 13 — the Upper Market dive bar both well loved and well worn — may be running out of luck according to Socketsite. The establishment at 2140 Market St (near Church), along with its
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Uptown Bar Owner Scott Ellsworth Dies In another loss for the Mission's dive bar scene, Scott Ellsworth, owner of noted grungy 17th Street bar the Uptown, has passed away. Ellsworth died unexpectedly over the weekend after suffering a heart
misc The 15 Best Dive Bars In San Francisco Although 2013 saw many charmingly dilapidated dive bars get submerged under a wave of craft cocktails (so long, Yong San), San Francisco will always support the kind of drinking establishments that smell like
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Best Dive Bars In San Francisco The city is rife with bars. Lots of bars. Many of them inaccurately deemed "dive bars" because they feature patrons wearing jeans or simply because of their close proximity to the Mission District.
SF News PBR, Tecate Blamed For Mission Dive-Bar Tagging Owners of divey Mission bars where people like to tag bathroom (and exterior) walls are increasingly sad about this culture of tagging that they seem to be a part of. As Uptown Almanac
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Historically Divey Upper Haight Bar Now Less Divey In new year revamp news, noted Haight Street dive bar Murio's Trophy Room has been transformed with a new, slightly slicker look. After closing a closing a few months back to update the
SF News The Watering Hole: Innocent Victim In Print Publising's Death March? As local, national, and worldwide print publishing continues to take a brutal, Christ-like thrashing -- take, for example, the San Jose Mercury News' recent layoffs and a 30% drop in the San Francisco
