SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro's QBar Reopening Next Week After Five-Year Closure Over in San Francisco's Castro District, a storefront that has sat dark and boarded over for five years, which was once one of the buzzy nightlife magnets of the neighborhood, is making a comeback after a very lengthy remodel.
Arts & Entertainment SF Approves Reborn Version of The Stud's Liquor License for Its New SoMa Location The Stud stepped forward toward getting a liquor license at their new Folsom near Seventh Street location Tuesday, as the SF Board of Supervisors endorsed granting a liquor license to the reborn incarnation of The Stud.
Arts & Entertainment The Stud, When It Reopens, Plans to Host SF's First School of Drag The Stud Collective wants to teach the children well who are coming up in SF's drag scene, and they just announced that when the bar reopens in new digs this winter (or spring?), it will be hosting The Stud School of Drag.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Badlands Manager Claims the 49-Year-Old Castro Nightclub Will Reopen By Halloween We must, given the players involved, take this with a massive grain of salt. But the latest word from the man who is ostensibly going to be the new manager of Badlands in the Castro is that it will remain Badlands, and it's reopening in two months.
Arts & Entertainment The Not-So-Secret Winner of Outside Lands 2023 Was the Dolores' Stage Whether you were just passing by and did a little bobbing to Robyn on your way to get a beer, or you were a jaded LGTBQ festival-goer delighted to find a little drag in the middle of the day, the new Dolores' stage at Outside Lands was a hit and an unbridled success.
Arts & Entertainment SoMa Leather & LGBTQ Cultural District Bars Get Their Zoning Restraints Loosened Leather bars on Folsom and 11th streets have been tied up by zoning rules that deny their entertainment permits because of an old “200-foot buffer” rule, but the SF Board of Supervisors removed those handcuffs Tuesday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Bar Managers Get Active-Shooter Workshop Ahead of New Year's Eve Sadly, San Francisco's gayborhood is preparing for the worst this New Year's Eve following a deadly mass-shooting in Colorado Springs — the second mass shooting in the U.S. in six years to target the LGBTQ community specifically.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands' Cocktail Magic Features LGBTQ-Themed Bar Concession Is it weird or kind of nice that a music festival themes one of its cocktail concessions after LGBTQ civil rights and queer-bar nostalgia?
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Infamous, Beloved Queer Dive Truck Makes Triumphant Return In the Castro We've lost some LGBTQ spaces in recent years in SF, but now one bar that closed a full seven years ago is making a comeback — at least temporarily.
SF News The Stud’s Former Home Got Thoroughly Tagged On Pride Weekend, and Then Countertagged On Top of That In what may became an annual Pride Weekend tradition, the SoMa building that formerly housed The Stud got slathered in graffiti over the weekend, but then took more graffiti from someone apparently not pleased with the “queer revolt” messaging.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Eagle Bar Likely Headed for Landmark Status After Committee Recommendation San Francisco's Eagle bar, one of the last remaining leather bars in the newly christened Leather and LGBTQ Cultural District in SoMa, is likely to become the third queer bar site in the city to be granted city landmark status.
Arts & Entertainment SoMa LGBTQ Mainstays Oasis and The Eagle Reopen For Pride; Oasis Unveils New Party Slate Both Oasis and the Eagle Tavern are reopening indoors and out this weekend for the first time since the pandemic began, bringing LGBTQ nightlife back to SoMa in time for Pride.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Long-Lived Mission Bar El Rio Has Reopened for Food and To-Go Cocktails It’s only Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays right now, but you can now ‘dive’ back in to the special magic of an El Rio cocktail paired with their new food menu.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Eagle Bar Passes First Hurdle Toward Landmark Status The SF Eagle is hoping to secure status as the third LGBTQ bar location to receive a landmark designation by the San Francisco Historic Preservation Commission. And earlier this week, a Board of Supervisors committee approved a first step toward getting there.
Arts & Entertainment SOMArts To Host Online Panel Discussing Virtual Frontiers for Performance Art Faced with the mounting uncertainty of what’s still to become of nightlife, the offbeat drag group Toxic Waste Face will host an online symposium in partnership with SOMArts to address queer artistry amid COVID-19 — and help envision a pathway forward.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Whoa! El Rio Almost Closed This Summer, but Was Saved by a Housing Nonprofit The nightlife scene dodged a bullet as El Rio was at serious risk of shutting down in recent months, but thanks to a city program, Carmen Miranda’s huge head is not going anywhere.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] SF's Oldest Gay Bar The Gangway Is Once Again Set To Close, May Become 'Kung Fu' Laundromat (Or A Straight Bar) We knew as of January 2016 that the owner of The Gangway, the oldest continually operating gay bar in the city, at 841 Larkin Street in the 'Loin, was looking to sell the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rickhouse Brings Back Ginger's Trois, The FiDi Gay Bar That Closed When It Opened The Future Bars group, a team of cocktail bar trendsetters with ventures like Tradition, Bourbon and Branch, and Local Addition, are resurrecting the gay dive bar of yesteryear Ginger's Trois, which once stood
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Endangered SoMa Bar The Stud Gets Legacy Business Status At a hearing at City Hall Monday, The Stud was approved by the Small Business Commission for Legacy Business status, hopefully boosting its chances of survival following a rent hike and the property
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SoMa's Lone Star Saloon Being Sold To Two Of Its Longtime Bartenders It appears that the once endangered Lone Star Saloon on Harrison Street is in the process of changing hands just months after the 27-year-old gay bar was granted Legacy Business status by the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Iconic 48-Year-Old Pac Heights Bar, The Lion Pub, Is Now Closed [Be warned a couple of images below are NSFW] An iconic fern bar on Divisadero, which for about 30 years was a neighborhood gay bar before becoming more of a straight-people hang in
SF News Site Of Long-Gone Gay Bars Could Stymie Mid-Market Development As Compton's Cafeteria Revival Proposed In New Building As we reported back in April, a couple of people are attempting to block a large mixed-use development on Market Street between Fifth and Sixth by saying that the long-ago sites of a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Updated] Lone Star Saloon Clears Legacy Business Hurdle, Potentially Thwarting Building Sale We learned a year ago that SoMa's Lone Star Saloon (1354 Harrison Street), a popular gay bear refuge since it opened back in 1989, was potentially in danger of being displaced as owner
Arts & Entertainment Community Bands Together To Save Iconic SoMa Gay Bar The Stud After New Owners Hike Rent 150% Our beloved clubhouse. The iconic STUD SF. Day of reckoning. A photo posted by Steve Fabus (@stevefabus) on Jul 3, 2016 at 12:31pm PDT Of all the iconic, legendary San Francisco institutions
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Best Gay Bars In San Francisco For Every Occasion In honor of Pride Week, SFist brings you this comprehensive guide to San Francisco's gay bar scene, tailored to each of your potential needs on any given night of the week. Sometimes you
