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Car Destroys Parklet Outside Anina and Brass Tacks In Hayes Valley

A Honda crashed Tuesday night into the parklet that sits outside the bars Anina and Brass Tacks on Hayes Street in Hayes Valley, destroying it, but thankfully no one was sitting in it at the time.

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Saturday Links: San Francisco Tech Company Launches $8,000 Laundry-Folding Robot

Asian American communities are celebrating the Lunar New Year across the Bay Area; an SUV driver wearing a boot cast crashed into a Santa Rosa store; and a new $8,000 laundry-folding robot will fold most clothing and small linens.

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Drunk, Belligerent Lady From Hazie’s Viral Video Won’t Face Charges Over Incident

The last dust has apparently settled on the infamous ‘drunk lady at Hazie’s’ confrontation/bar-fight the night of SantaCon, and the pugnaciously wasted woman who provoked it all will not face public intoxication charges.

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Hayes Valley Bartender Fired After Viral Incident Involving Drunk and Belligerent Customers

The Hazie's bartender who had his hair pulled by a very intoxicated customer who was irate about being cut off on SantaCon Saturday, in a video that went internationally viral, says he's now been fired.

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Family of Toddler Killed by Car In Hayes Valley Honors His Legacy With ‘Good Deeds’ Fundraiser

Following Islamic tradition, the family of Muhammad Alghazali, the one-and-a-half-year-old boy who was struck and killed by a driver in SF’s Hayes Valley on the morning of December 14, is raising funds for a variety of charities in his name.

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Day Around the Bay: City Hall Aglow With Animated ‘Winter Lights’ Show Through January 2

Sutter Health is continuing to provide gender-affirming care to minors despite federal pressure; last weekend’s viral incident has gained Hazie’s in Hayes Valley a lot of new customers; and City Hall honors its history and celebrates the holidays with a new animated light show.

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Woman In Viral Hayes Valley Bar Fight Video Was Arrested For Public Intoxication, Has Now Lost Job

The very public shaming that has followed a Santacon weekend video of an extremely drunk and belligerant patron, and her date, engaging staff and fellow patrons in physical fights at Hazie's in Hayes Valley, has culminated for now in the woman being fired from her job.

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Video of Drunken Tirade and Physical Assaults at Hayes Valley Bar on Santacon Day Goes Internationally Viral

A drunken tirade and ensuing scuffle involving a San Francisco woman and her boyfriend and what appears to be the entire staff of Hayes Valley restaurant-bar Hazie's has now made it to TMZ.

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[Update] One-Year-Old Boy Struck and Killed By Vehicle Near Hayes Valley

A child was reportedly run over by a vehicle on the street Sunday morning in the area between Hayes Valley and Alamo Square, and did not survive his injuries.

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New British Gastropub, Dingles Public House, Opens Next Week In Hayes Valley

At least a couple more new restaurants are expected to sneak open before the year is out, and one of those will be Dingles Public House, in the Civic Center-adjacent space in the ground floor of the Inn at the Opera.

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Ugh — Realtors Now Trying to Make 'Lower Hayes' Happen

It's apparently come time for San Francisco's Mid-Market to be rebranded, 15 years after the neighborhood was primed for a big tech comeback that never really came, and a year after its defining tenant, Twitter, flew the coop.

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19-Year-Old Hayes Valley Sweets Shop Miette Is Moving to Pacific Heights, With Owner Citing Crime as a Factor

Beloved Hayes Valley patisserie and candy shop Miette, which would seem to have an ideal location in one of San Francisco's most thriving shopping hubs, is leaving the neighborhood for the tonier climes of Pacific Heights.

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Hayes Valley Restaurant and Wine Bar, Shuttered Amid Influencer Dustup, Reopens as Bosque

As was promised, the former KIS Cafe in Hayes Valley has been reborn a couple weeks on, with a fresh off-white paintjob out front, as Bosque.

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Chef at Hayes Valley Restaurants Targeted by Social Media Mob Says Influencer Warned of 'Consequences'

Luke Sung, a longtime chef and restaurateur in San Francisco, became the target of an angry mob on TikTok who led a review-bombing of one of his new ventures in Hayes Valley after he insulted one micro-influencer. He's now speaking out.

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Amid Fallout Over Influencer Insult, Changes Afoot (and Possible Closure) at Beloved Hayes Valley Sushi Spot

After a dustup with a microinfluencer a couple weeks ago over his new restaurant, chef and restaurateur Luke Sung may also be stepping away from or closing his popular, 17-year-old sushi restaurant Domo.

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Recently Opened Hayes Valley Restaurant Announces Closure, Departure of Chef After Dustup With TikTok Influencer

For the second time this year, a social media spat between a chef and an influencer has blown up into a wider controversy, and this time is prompting the restaurant to close its doors.

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Hotly Anticipated Modern Cantonese Restaurant Happy Crane Sets Opening Date In Hayes Valley

The much anticipated new replacement restaurant in the former Monsieur Benjamin space on Gough Street is getting set to open in two weeks.

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Pedestrian Struck and Injured In SF's Nob Hill; Two Cars Collide In Hayes Valley

There were a pair of car crashes within minutes of each other Monday morning in San Francisco, one in Nob Hill and one in Hayes Valley.

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Hayes Valley's PROXY Likely to Stick Around for Years as Affordable Housing Development Remains Stalled

What was intended to be a temporary community benefit on a site slated for affordable housing development within a few years, Hayes Valley's PROXY, shows no signs of going away anytime soon, despite some activists pushing for the housing to be built.

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Hayes Valley Building Destroyed By Fire Full of Squatters, Stoking Fears It Could Be Destroyed By Fire Again

It was last August when an under-construction Hayes Valley building caught fire, with many speculating that people camped just outside the site caused the fire. Construction has gone nowhere since, and neighbors are alarmed that squatters appear to have moved in, and it could just burn again.

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Former Go-Go Dancer and Adult Film Performer Sentenced In 2017 Killing of Boyfriend In Hayes Valley

A man who was accused of murdering his boyfriend inside the apartment they shared in Hayes Valley in late 2017 has taken a plea deal, and he's been sentenced to 15 years to life in prison.

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NightJar, a Sister Pop-Up to Nightbird In Hayes Valley, Opens With Homage to House of Prime Rib

NightJar, a new pop-up venue opening next door to Nightbird in Hayes Valley from chef Kim Alter and partner/GM Ron Boyd, is debuting this week and will spend its first three months serving a menu inspired by House of Prime Rib.

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Hayes Valley's Monsieur Benjamin Is Saying Adieu After 10 Years

The French brasserie from Benu chef Corey Lee that opened a decade ago in Hayes Valley, Monsieur Benjamin, is set to close at the end of June, for undisclosed reasons.

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Hayes Valley Trader Joe's Will Open At Long Last On Friday

Neighbors in the vicinity of the new, very much anticipated, long-delayed Trader Joe's at Fulton and Laguna streets in Hayes Valley have been noticing some very well-stocked shelves and refrigerator cases in recent days. And now we have the official word on the opening.

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High-End Vegan Spot Baia, Which Took Over the Storied Former Jardiniere Space, Is Closing After Three and a Half Years

A major piece of San Francisco restaurant real estate will be back in play again this year, as upscale vegan Italian spot Baia is closing its doors at the end of the month.