Arts & Entertainment A Joyful Noise: SFJAZZ Center Opens To Raves Though often viewed as a dead form of music, jazz had a breath of fresh life pumped into it when the wildly anticipated SFJAZZ Center opened on Wednesday in Hayes Valley. The $64
Arts & Entertainment Check Out This Cool Hayes Valley Store Made From Shipping Containers Billed as the first-ever stand alone retail store in Hayes Valley, AETHERsf is a concept store constructed from three black 8' x 9.6' x 40' shipping containers. They're stacked together and feature
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bread Pudding Shop Opens In Hayes Valley Holy heck, you guys. A shop devoted to the art of bread pudding is opening up in Hayes Valley. And it opens tomorrow. This should be important to you for bead pudding was
SF News Grove Street Shooting Marks San Francisco's 61st Homicide A man identified this morning as 24-year-old Byron Beasley was shot and killed last night near the intersection of Grove and Buchanan streets in Hayes Valley. The shooting was reported just before 8
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Jardinière's Hot Chocolate No. 5 As the holidays arrive so do sweet chocolate treats to help you chase away the existential Christmas blues. Jardinière, for example, now serves hot chocolate for the holidays, and they're calling it Hot
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chris Daly's Buck Tavern Closing On Oct. 31 Well, this is some cold-prickly news. Buck Tavern, a noted Hayes Valley bar founded by former San Francisco Supervisor Chris Daly, has lost its lease and will shutter on Halloween. Say what? Yeah.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lists: Smuggler's Cove Still Tops, Says Drinks International List Last year, Smuggler's Cove, Tommy's Mexican Restaurant, and Bar Agricole made Drinks International's coveted (coveted?) World's 50 Best Bars list. This year, sadly, only Smuggler's Cove in Hayes Valley remains on the list,
SF News Shooting Near Friendship Court; 14-Year-Old Wounded In Drive-by A not-so friendly incident happened near the intersection of Friendship Court and Fulton last night. A man was shot in the leg during a bout of gunfire. SF Appeal reports, "Police said they
SF News Feet Shot In Hayes Valley; Two Shot In Oakland A man managed to get shot in both feet on Sunday night in Hayes Valley. The incident occurred near the intersection of Buchanan and Hayes streets a little before 9 p.m. SF
Arts & Entertainment Have You Seen This Missing Gutter Punk? If you have, please send him home. According to the flyer, his parents love him and his trust fund is waiting. Spotted in Hayes Valley by Courtney. And we're digging it. Very Wendy
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Jardinière Changes Menu, Prices; Is Bauer to Blame? As Jardinière comes up on its 15th anniversary next week, the swanky Hayes Valley spot has announced some big changes: namely, a wholesale revision of its food menu, complete with drastically reduced prices.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Play Hooky With Boxing Room's $1 Oysters [Update] [UPDATE: Dollar oyster special not effect just now. See below.] Whilst lollygagging in Hayes Valley during a warm-ish afternoon in August, grab some oysters on the cheap. See, Boxing Room's Chef Justin Simoneaux
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink GQ Food Critic Leaves Smitten Off "10 Ice Cream Shops You Need To Visit" List GQ's prickly food critic Alan Richman cuddles up to San Francisco and our sweet treats by putting three of our ice cream shops on his national list of must-visits. He's got Mitchell's Ice
SF News Truck Driver Hits Cyclist At Oak & Franklin In Hayes Valley A cyclist rests at SF General Hospital today with life-threatening injuries after being struck by a truck on Tuesday afternoon. According to Streetsblog, the driver ran a red light. SFGate, however, reports that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Camper English To Guest Star At Jardinière This Wednesday Continuing its tradition of local food scene guest bartenders (e.g., Leah Garchik & Paolo Lucchesi, Jay Barmann, Marcia Gagliardi, this fool), local booze aficionado Camper English of Alcademics will man the bar
Arts & Entertainment Tonight Addendum: Berlin-Style Ping Pong Party At Rickshaw Stop By now many of you know about Allan Hough's now famous Berlin-style ping pong party called American Tripps. It is, in a word, spectacular. Loads of festive folks walk around a ping pong
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Hayes Valley Night Lights "Hayes Valley Night Lights" by Ariel Dovas.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tonight Addendum: Dueling Manhattans At Jardinière Jardinière, Hayes Valley's white-hot spot for perfect food and all-around exquisiteness, is having another one of their local guest bartender series. Tonight they will feature Frommer’s Travel Guides editors. David Lytle (whose
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Foraging 2.0: Grafting Fruit-Bearing Branches To Neutered City Trees A new group of "renegade arborists" is twig-bent on bringing fruit to the streets of San Francisco, the Ex reports today. Calling themselves the Guerrilla Grafters, the group co-founded by pear progenitor Tara
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink NYE 2012 Dining Pick: Nojo Hayes Valley's chicken-on-a-stick-themed Nojo (pronounced "No, Joe!") stands as one of the best restaurants of 2011. Although tucked inside an aesthetically-blah apartment complex, chef Greg Dunmore's fare is anything but. The delicate Japanese
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bacon Bacon Truck Finds a Home Move over food trucks, now there's something keener... like brick-and-mortar establishments that don't require food served to you from the back of a Honda. Take, for example, noted food truck Bacon Bacon, seller
Arts & Entertainment Jay Barmann Guest Bartends at Jardiniere on Tuesday Critically acclaimed bon vivant Jay Barmann will be mixing drinks behind the bar at Jardiniere tomorrow, November 1 from 6-8pm. Join him, won't you? The Grub Street editor (and fellow SFister!) is just
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Ringmaster: Straw's Death-Defying Donut-Bacon-Fried Egg Hamburger The resplendent Tamara Palmer at The Feast recently stopped by Straw in Hayes Valley. Noted for their spin on carnival food favorites, they recently allowed her to film them making The Ringmaster, a
