SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco Thai Joint Calls For Yelp Boycott In Hayes Valley, a local San Francisco restaurant Bai Thong Thai is calling on neighbors and diners to "Stop the Bully" by boycotting Yelp, alleging the user reviews site is engaged in some
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Douglas Keane Of Cyrus Fame To Guest Chef At Jardinière Mark your calendars: James Beard Award winner, Top Chef Master's finalist and chef/owner of French fine-dining city staple, Jardinière, Traci Des Jardins is stepping down -- for only three days. On April
Arts & Entertainment Proposed Gant Store Has Hayes Valleyans Decrying 'Corporate America' Armed with many scare quotes, some merchants and neighbors in Hayes are none too pleased about the possibility of East Coast-based shirtmaker Gant taking over the former Into Video space at 552 Hayes
SF News SFPD Seeking Suspects In Random Killing Of Whole Foods Employee Near Alamo Square Around 2 a.m. on the morning on February 10th, Ernesto "Xe" Gonzalez Acosta was shot at the intersection of Hayes and Webster Streets while walking to a friend's house near Alamo Square.
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: A Hayes Valley Mardis Gras San Francisco may have failed to bring the party to New Orleans last week, but at least one neighborhood is going all out for tonight's Fat Tuesday celebrations. Well, "all out" in San
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.
