Arts & Entertainment Golden Gate Park Ferris Wheel Moving to Fisherman's Wharf Ahead of APEC Summit The Ferris wheel that's been spinning next to Golden Gate Park's Music Concourse for three years is relocating to the more heavily touristed Fisherman's Wharf, and will reopen in two weeks.
SF News Three More Arrests Made In June's Rolling Gun Battle Down Embarcadero The SFPD announced three more arrests — two adults and one juvenile — in connection with a wild rolling gun battle in June down the Embarcadero from Fisherman's Wharf that left a young girl injured.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fisherman’s Wharf Restaurants Fishermen’s Grotto and Tarantino’s Both Face Eviction Over Unpaid Rent Two more historic Fisherman's Wharf seafood restaurants may be biting the dust, as the 88-year-old Fishermen’s Grotto No. 9 and the 77-year-old Tarantino’s have both received eviction notices for unpaid back rent.
SF Politics Supervisor Peskin Proposes Moving the Golden Gate Ferris Wheel to His District, at Fisherman’s Wharf Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who was not a fan of putting the SkyStar Observation Wheel in Golden Gate Park, is now a fan of putting it in his own district in time for November’s APEC Summit.
SF News SFMTA Lowers the Speed Limit to 20 MPH on Nearly Two Dozen SF Streets Several streets in Chinatown, Fisherman’s Wharf, North Beach, and Union Square just got their speed limits lowered from 25 to 20 mph, despite arguments that drivers ignore city speed limits and police don’t enforce them anyway.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fisherman’s Wharf Restaurants Pompei’s Grotto and Lou’s Fish Shack Both Close Permanently Both Lou’s Fish Shack and Pompei’s Grotto have been closed the whole the pandemic, and they won’t reopen, as they’re both taking exit deals to relinquish their properties to the Port of San Francisco.
SF News Fisherman’s Wharf Masked Vigilante ‘Boots’ Arrested For Allegedly Brandishing Imitation Gun Someone took the San Francisco “Batman” analogy to its full fruition, with a mask and everything in an attempt to deter car break-in culprits, but was arrested for allegedly brandishing a non-lethal firearm.
SF News Newly Surfaced Surveillance Video Shows Gunman In Wharf Area Shootout Some new video has surfaced showing one of the shooters involved in Sunday evening's rolling gun battle that began near Fisherman's Wharf and ended a mile down the Embarcadero.
SF News Two In Custody Following Pier 39 Shootout; Supervisors Say It's a 'Miracle' Bystanders Weren't Seriously Injured A white Infiniti sedan was still at large Monday morning, according to police, after it was seen exchanging gunfire with a black Chevy Blazer Sunday evening, and two individuals in the Chevy are in police custody.
SF News Six People, Including 10-Year-Old Child, Injured In Shootout Between Cars Near SF's Fisherman's Wharf Initial reports were that two people were shot, but ultimately San Francisco police found that six people were injured in the conflict including four bystanders, in a "rolling gun battle" between two vehicles Sunday night in a busy tourist section of town.
SF News Goats Gone Wild Again, Dozens Escape to Rampage Near Fisherman’s Wharf Another goat mob escaped their confines and ran wild through the streets near Francisco Park Tuesday afternoon, though they were eventually corralled using SFPD and a tasty bale of hay.
SF News Missing Woman Who Didn't Board SF Cruise Ship Found Safe, Appears To Be ‘In Good Health’ SFPD issued a missing person alert for 33-year-old Alaina Marie Adams Tuesday when she didn’t show up for a scheduled cruise ship boarding, but just issued an alert that she was found near Fisherman's Wharf and “appeared to be in good health.”
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink If You Want to Buy Fresh Dungeness Crab Straight From a Boat, You'll Need to Wake Up Early on the Weekend Now that we are finally (finally!) in Dungeness crab season, it's time to take advantage of the new policy that lets you go down to Fisherman's Wharf and buy crab directly from crab fishermen, right off the boat.
Arts & Entertainment A New Bushman Has Arrived to Terrify Unsuspecting Fisherman’s Wharf Tourists Again There’s a new Bushman in town — with a far better costume and a powerful Youtube presence — resurrecting a legendary SF street performance act that dates back more than 40 years.
SF News Another Tourist Couple Loses Pet In Smash-and-Grab Car Burglary, Says City Should Do More to Alert Tourists There is another story of a pet being stolen in the course of a smash-and-grab car burglary in San Francisco, and this time it was a beloved Chihuahua puppy stolen near Fisherman's Wharf.
SF News [Update] SF and Oakland Police Investigate Disappearance of Trans Woman Possibly Kidnapped Near Fisherman's Wharf A 20-year-old woman who had been staying at a Fisherman's Wharf hotel was abducted by a man, her friends say, and police later found her cellphone, covered in blood, near a clinic in Oakland.
Arts & Entertainment The 'San Francisco Dungeon' at Fisherman's Wharf Has Spooked Its Last Tourist It's either another pandemic casualty or just a tourist attraction that's run its course at Fisherman's Wharf. But the San Francisco Dungeon has closed its doors for good.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink You Can Buy Fresh Local Dungeness Crab Off Boats at Fisherman's Wharf Starting at 3 p.m. Wednesday marks the official — very late — start to Dungeness crab fishing season for the coastal waters off the San Francisco Peninsula, Marin County, and Sonoma County. And that mean's today you'll also get to buy crab directly from crab fishermen at Fisherman's Wharf.
SF News Pier 39 Sports Bar a Textbook Example of How Government Screwed Up COVID Relief for Restaurants The feds offered $28.6 billion in grants to struggling restaurants this summer. Then they yanked the carpet out from restaurants that had already been awarded the money, and gave it to chains like Panera instead.
SF News Video: Li’l Coyote Pup Rescued After Falling Into Bay at Fisherman’s Wharf Animal Care & Control successfully rescued a coyote pup who fell into the ice cold water of the bay, and the little nipper received medical treatment and has returned to the wild.
SF News SFPD Increases Foot Patrols In Tourist Areas, But Will They Help Make People Feel Safe? San Francisco police have begun doing more foot patrols around Union Square, Chinatown, and Fisherman's Wharf, in an effort to deter crime and make locals and tourists feel safer about the city. But is this just safety theater?
SF News As City Seeks to Crack Down on Unpermitted Vendors at Fisherman's Wharf, ABC Passes Buck to DA A boom in unpermitted, illegal food, beverage, and goods sales around Fisherman's Wharf has led to widespread complaints from business owners and others.
SF News New Boutique Hotel The Alton Readies for Opening in Old Holiday Inn at Fisherman's Wharf (With New Restaurant on the Way) Fisherman's Wharf is gaining a new boutique hotel managed by the Kimpton group, in one half of what was formerly a Holiday Inn at 495 Beach Street.
SF News Four Deplorable Teens Arrested Near Fisherman's Wharf Following 10 Car Burglaries A quartet of teenagers — two 18-year-olds and two 16-year-olds — were spotted by San Francisco police allegedly in the act of committing several auto burglaries on Sunday afternoon near Fisherman's Wharf, and they were arrested on suspicion of multiple crimes.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bush Man From Fisherman's Wharf Turns Up In Key West "World Famous Bush Man" David Johnson turns up in Key West, Santa Clara County stops taking first-dose vaccine appointments due to supply, and an Oakland neighborhood is outraged over another assault on an elderly Asian American.
