SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now the Fillmore Has Its Own Boozy ‘Entertainment Zone,’ Where To-Go Cocktails Are Good To Go As booze-filled “entertainment zones” where people can buy to-go cocktails spread across San Francisco, now the Fillmore has one too, or rather, it has one big entertainment zone and another small one.
SF News Tenants of Fillmore District Housing Complex Complain of Unsafe Conditions, Long-Deferred Maintenance Issues Residents at Thomas Paine Square Apartments in the Fillmore say they're dealing with substandard living conditions and a city government that hasn't helped them so far while their landlord ignores their complaints.
SF News Grocery Chain Smart & Final Reportedly Makes Bid for Shuttered Fillmore Safeway Space Smart & Final has made a pending and not-final offer to move into the vacated Fillmore Safeway grocery store, but Safeway’s not talking about whether they’ll take the deal, and there are whispers that other grocers may make their own bids too.
Arts & Entertainment Notable Humans: Thomas Bennett’s Dedication to Miyako Ice Cream and the Fillmore Community This week’s notable humans include Thomas Bennett, who made Miyako Ice Cream a Fillmore gem; Jilchristina Vest, curator of the iconic mural honoring the women of the Black Panther Party; and Denise Ebright, a dedicated teacher and coach recognized on Good Morning America.
Arts & Entertainment Fillmore Jazz Festival Canceled Due to Lack of Funds The annual Fillmore Jazz Festival, which typically livens up the stretch of Fillmore Street from Turk up to California Street over July 4th weekend, has been canceled for 2025.
SF News [Update] Dogs on the Loose Create Chaos In Fillmore District After Biting Two People An apparently vicious dog was shot by police in the Fillmore District and led to an alert from the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management Friday morning due to other dogs on the loose.
Arts & Entertainment Church of 8 Wheels Building Gets Landmark Status, Skate Parties Will Apparently Keep On Rollin’ The former church on Fillmore Street now popularly known as the Church 8 Wheels was granted landmark status by the SF Board of Supervisors Tuesday, and while the property will be redeveloped into housing, its popular skate rink will reportedly stay intact.
SF News The Former Yoshi’s in the Fillmore Could Be Reborn as a New Food Hall Sometime This Year The building that housed Yoshi’s SF and the Fillmore Heritage Center has been a vacant reminder of a boondoggle for going on five years, but someone’s finally in negotiations to take on the lease and make it some sort of food hall and event space.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fillmore Safeway Delays Closing Until 2025 Responding to outcry from the community and clearly some pressure from the city, Safeway now says it will keep its Fillmore District store open until early next year (at least).
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Acclaimed Fried Chicken Spot Minnie Bell's Is Coming to the Fillmore Minnie Bell's Soul Movement, the five-year-old soul-food stall at Emeryville's Public Market, is expanding to San Francisco, and it's a homecoming for chef-owner Fernay McPherson, who's a third-generation resident of the Fillmore District.
SF News New Jazz Club and Harlem-Based Red Rooster Restaurant Among Proposed Tenants at Beleaguered Fillmore Heritage Center It's been years of false starts and back and forth between the community and the city, but there's finally some movement at the Fillmore Heritage Center that could see it transformed into a lively destination again in the coming years.
SF News Fillmore District Drive-By Leads to Bay Bridge Police Incident, Possible Arrests Shots were reportedly fired Tuesday just after 6 p.m. on the 12oo block of Buchanan Street, near the end of the Buchanan Mall near Turk Street, in SF's Fillmore District, and this led to a police pursuit on the Bay Bridge.
SF News Rev. Amos Brown Publishes Stemwinder Op-Ed Blasting ‘Nearly Unlivable’ Conditions In the Fillmore Third Baptist Church pastor and SF NAACP president Amos Brown continues his campaign of calling attention to the state of the Fillmore District, in a new op-ed saying the neighborhood is experiencing “an explosion of homeless tent encampments, open drug use, and violence.”
SF News Two Alleged Mac Block Gang Members Get Life In Prison For 2019 Fillmore Shooting Outside Funeral Reception Two men, reportedly members of the Mac Block gang in the Fillmore District, have been sentenced in the fatal shooting of a 25-year-old East Bay man who engaged them in a shootout outside a funeral reception in March 2019.
SF News Bullet From 'Big Gun' In Sunday Night Shooting Crashes Through Home of Former Mayor's Family Well, this is crazy! The son and daughter-in-law of former SF Mayor Frank Jordan heard the sound of glass shattering in their bedroom Sunday night as they were putting their kids to bed. And it was apparently a stray bullet that had traveled a half-mile from a shooting near Jefferson Square Park.
SF News [Update] Two People Shot In San Francisco's Fillmore District A shooting Sunday night left at least two people injured on a street near Jefferson Square Park, after a barrage of gunfire was heard throughout the Fillmore neighborhood.
SF News SF's Homicide Count Rises By Two In the Span of a Few Hours Sunday Night There were two homicides in San Francisco between Sunday night and early Monday morning in two separate incidents in the Fillmore and in the Tenderloin.
SF News Two Alleged Gang Members Found Guilty of Federal Murder Charges In 2019 Fillmore Heritage Center Shooting Two men who are said to be members of San Francisco's Mac Block gang have been found guilty by a federal jury of killing one man and injuring several others in a March 2019 shooting at a memorial service on Fillmore Street.
SF News 30-Year-Old Man Killed In SF's Fillmore District There was a homicide Tuesday night in San Francisco's Fillmore District, which has not seen a homicide in three years.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Scott's Chowder House to Open New SF Location In the Fillmore A restaurant space on Fillmore Street that has seen a fair bit of turnover in the last few years is coming alive again soon as the fourth Bay Area location of Scott's Chowder House.
SF News 52-Year-Old Asian Man Robbed and Beaten Next to Fillmore Area Restaurant A 52-year-old man was pistol-whipped and robbed of his wallet, watch, and cellphone on New Year's Eve in the Fillmore District.
SF News City Plans to Buy 114-Room Fillmore District Hotel to House Formerly Homeless After a deal to purchase a tourist hotel in Japantown was met with loud pushback from the the community, the SF Board of Supervisors is now looking to buy the former Gotham Hotel, lately known as Vantaggio Suites, at 835 Turk Street.
SF News Massive New Development Announced In Fillmore District on Site of 70s-Era Affordable Project A huge, 2,515-unit residential project — one of the largest ever to be proposed or built in San Francisco — may be on its way to the Fillmore/Western Addition, and it's being driven by the same church group that built 382 units on the same site 47 years ago.
Arts & Entertainment 36th Annual Fillmore Jazz Festival Kicks Off With Free Music All Saturday Fillmore Street is bopping and grooving this weekend with the sounds of the Fillmore Jazz Festival — a two-day affair with multiple stages between Eddy and Jackson Streets.
SF News Saint John Coltrane Church Landlord Responds To Controversy Since agreeing to vacate its Fillmore District home at the end of April, the congregation of the Church of Saint John Coltrane has at once celebrated their 60-day reprieve from eviction and protested
