SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 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.
SF News 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.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 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.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 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.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 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.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 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.
SF News 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.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 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.
SF News 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.
SF News 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.
SF News 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.
SF News 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.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 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.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 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.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 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.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 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.
SF News Construction Is Actually Happening Inside the Forever-Delayed Trader Joe's In Hayes Valley It's been a while since we had any update on the long-awaited, approved but still not open Trader Joe's at Fulton and Laguna streets. But there is movement happening inside the store space!
SF News Long-Vacant, Frequently Tagged Mid-Market Condo May Finally Become Occupied as Apartments It is a very San Francisco problem to have a 12-story, 109-unit residential building just completely vacant for nearly three years because its owner got popped in the Mohammed Nuru scandal. But there may be new life for the empty building known as The Oak.
SF News That One Block of Hayes Street Will Remain Car-Free for Another Year, But With Scaled-Back Hours A very small car-free street plan just got smaller, as the SFMTA voted this week to keep one block of Hayes Street car-free on the weekends, but with much more limited car-free hours.
SF News Developer Says That Long-Stalled Hayes Valley Trader Joe’s Will Open By Next Spring While Trader Joe’s has not officially confirmed this, the developer who recently bought the property slated to become the Hayes Valley Trader Joe’s is claiming the new grocery store at 555 Fulton will be open by June 2024.
SF News Just In Time For Spooky Season, Live Rabid Bat Found In Hayes Valley A live and rabies-positive bat was found and captured in Hayes Valley several weeks ago, and the health department wants anyone who may have had any contact with the animal to give them a call.
SF News Another Tent Fire In Hayes Valley Has Neighbors Angry A tent fire that broke out Saturday afternoon at an encampment in Hayes Valley has angered neighbors who have given multiple warnings to the city, especially when it was very near an August 1 fire that burned down a building under construction.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Permanent Car-Free Hayes Street Effort Picking Up Steam California schools superintendent Tony Thurmond declared he’s running for governor, two men committed an Oakland carjacking in a just-carjacked car, and there’s an effort afoot to make a block of Hayes Street permanently car-free.
SF News Hayes Valley Residents Pushing Back Against Affordable Housing Development at Site of PROXY Proxy fight indeed, as between 50-75 units of affordable housing are slated to be built at Hayes Valley’s outdoor event and retail space PROXY, but now neighbors are fighting to retain the parcel as open space.
SF News Hayes Valley Neighbors Raised Alarms About Encampment Fires Months Prior to Construction Site Blaze The cause of Tuesday morning's four-alarm fire on Octavia Boulevard remains under investigation. But a neighborhood group is suggesting the city did not heed their warnings from two months ago about fires at homeless encampments in this very area.
