SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tsk/Tsk, A Temporary, 'Low-Brow' Watering Hole, Opens Friday On Divis Earlier we mentioned that former Bourbon & Branch guys Justin Lew and Ian Scalzo were going to be doing something they've done in the past take over a bar, and while taking some
SF News Ed Lee Has A Mayoral Opponent: Amy Farah Weiss, The YIMBY We haven’t had a notable non-establishment candidate for mayor in this town since 2007 when Chicken John and Josh Wolf both cracked 1%. But those guys didn’t have the fortune to
SF News Photos: Huge Tree Falls At Divisadero And Page A tree decided to end things once and for all as it fell at Divisadero and Page Streets, taking out a few Munilines with it. Obviously traffic was closed in both directions in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cue the Toast Jokes: The Mill Had A Small Fire On Friday Twitterers and blogs like Uptown Almanac took approximately five seconds to roll out some toast jokes after Divisadero coffeeshop/pricey toast purveyor The Mill experienced a small fire Friday evening. They were in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Popeye's On Divisadero Is Saved It turns out Popeye's on Divis wasn't under threat at all, despite the mysterious remodel the space was undergoing last week. The fried chicken emporium reopened Tuesday with a spiffy new look, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink What's Happening To Popeye's On Divis? [Updated] This just in: Popeye's on Divisadero is either in danger of closing, already closed, or getting a weird facelift, as Hoodline reports. One thing is for certain: That corner property on New Valencia
SF News New NoPa Condos and Retail Coming Next Door To The Independent The corner of Divisadero and Grove, the longtime home to Alouis Auto Radiator at 650 Divisadero Street, will soon be turned into condos and retail spaces. Many NoPa residents are concerned, in particular
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Divisadero Watch: Popeye's Chicken Threatened By Tides Of Change, Curious Landlord On the up-and-made-it stretch of Divisadero (or "the New Valencia" if you must, but you shouldn't), a noted fried chicken joint could be the next restaurant to get a complete overhaul. According to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink While You Wait: Nopalito photo credit: Premshree Pillai via photopin cc People in San Francisco like waiting in line for food (a lot). Sometimes, that wait is worth it. While You Wait, SFist's guide for how to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: 'Arroz con Pollo' at La Urbana Eight-month-old modern Mexican restaurant La Urbana has won over a diverse clientele on the Divisadero corridor, both for its casual but lively atmosphere and its inventive spins on Mexican flavors. The food is,
SF News BREAKING: Gas Leak On Pine & Divis Prompts Evacuation [Update] A gas leak has forced evacuations and street closures near Divisadero and Pine in San Francisco. Please stay out of the area until further notice. This could, though we're not sure at this
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Mill Launches A Weekly Pizza Night After a brief test run last year, noted toast emporium The Mill on Divisadero has announced they'll be expanding their lineup of doughy items when they roll out a weekly pizza night every
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photo: The Mill Gets A Parklet Parklet construction is underway outside The Mill on Divisadero, so that it may join sister coffeehouse Four Barrel in providing fixie parking and adequate outdoor navel-gazing space. Haighteration earlier revealed the design for
SF News Oh Hey, Some Dude's Exposing His Penis To Passersby At Oak And Divis Yikes. Here we go: Haighteration has word that someone living at Oak and Divisadero — three blocks from Ida B Wells High School and five blocks away from John Muir Elementary — has taken to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink What Does Your Toast Say About You As A San Franciscan? Recently in San Francisco, a debate popped up surrounding the cost of toast, which is just slightly burnt bread smeared with a paste made from nuts or fruit or milk. Specifically, people are
Arts & Entertainment SFist Traffic Report: Stuck Truck On Divis Feeling trapped at work on this sunny day? Can't wait to get out of town for your Labor Day weekend? At least you're not this guy, who managed to get his big-rig royally
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 4505 Meats Bringing Burgers And Barbecue To Divisadero [Update] The Valencia-fication of Divisadero continues with today's news that local celebrity butcher (and one of our favorites) Ryan Farr and 4505 Meats will be moving into the former home of Da Pitt BBQ
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bland Vodka Brand Transforms Divisadero Into Massive Art Project/Billboard Visitors to the stretch of Divisadero between Grove and Hayes Streets over the past weekend were greeted with some changes: workers armed with paint rollers, cherry-pickers and stencil lettering spent the past few
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Patio Report: Four New Outdoor Drinking Spaces Across Town From time to time, we here at SFist like to step outside and have a drink in the sun before it evaporates into fog and forces us to retreat indoors. Luckily for us
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This Thing Tonight: Burger Night At Mojo Bicycle Café Starting tonight, and continuing every Wednesday night for the foreseeable future, noted hamburger chef Wes Rowe brings his celebrated patties to Mojo Bicycle Café on Divisadero for a weekly hamburger pop-up. You might
SF News Woman Shot Near McAllister & Divisadero, Street Riddled With Bullet Holes [Updates] Last night around 10:15 p.m. a 26-year-old woman was shot on McAllister Street near the intersection with Divisadero. Haighteration reports neighbors in the area heard five or six "large caliber" shots
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photos: How Bi-Rite Divisadero Won Bay To Breakers During yesterday's Bay to Breakers festivities, the friendly neighborhood grocers at Bi-Rite took advantage of their prime location at Divisadero and Hayes by pivoting their business model for the day. In order to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Divisadero Watch: La Urbana Mezcaleria Coming Mid-July Although it initially looked a ways off, the 3,600 square-foot, 125-seat La Urbana could start pouring mezcal on Divisadero starting this July. As Inside Scoop reports, the massive complex inside the former
SF News Shuttle-freude: Genentech Bus Accident Closes Four Lanes Of Divisadero [PHOTO] Around 7:20 a.m. Friday morning, a corporate shuttle for Genentech managed to not only make its own riders late for work, but probably a few other innocent commuters as well. Local