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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Smuggler's Cove Ranked 'Best SF Bar' By SFist Readers Hayes Valley's tiki-tinged hidden gem—though not for long—Smuggler's Cove barely beat wildly popular transplant-cum-cyclist "dive" Zeitgeist as San Francisco's Best Bar. Smuggler's Cove nabbed 53.13% of the vote with Zeitgeist
misc Lady Knocked Unconscious During Hayes Valley Mugging A 55-year-old woman was knocked unconscious on a little before 8 p.m. on Tuesday night during a mugging. Near Market and Laguna, the suspect approached the victim and knocked her to the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Breaking Beer Garden News: Suppenküche's Biergarten Descends on Hayes Valley in August If the now porta-potty free Zeitgeist still doesn't suit your needs in germanic al fresco drinking and dining, popular kraut joint Suppenküche will be bringing their completely outdoor operation Biergarten to the Proxy
SF News Octavia Reopens After Fatal Accident All streets in the vicinity of Octavia and Oak have reopened after this morning's fatal multi-vehicle accident. At least one person was killed in the accident, which involved a big-rig vehicle transport carrying
SF News Hayes Valley Murder Victim Identified The Chronicle reports that the 20-year-old man shot and killed in Hayes Valley on Monday has been identified as Sean Wilson. Officers responded to a shooting at Webster and Hayes in San Francisco
SF News Last Night's Hayes Valley Murder: S.F. Homicide #30 A little before 11:30 p.m. Monday night, police officers responded to a shooting at Webster and Hayes in San Francisco. Once the fuzz arrived, "they found a man in his 20s
SF News Hayes Valley Drive-By Injures Two Late yesterday evening around 9 p.m, one or more suspects in a gold-colored sedan opened fire on a group of boys standing by a bus stop near the Hayes Valley playground at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Leah Garchik & Paolo Lucchesi Guest Bartending at Jardinière Oh boy, oh boy: Leah Garchik and Paolo Lucchesi will make cameo appearances Wednesday night behind the bar at Traci Des Jardins' Jardinière. It's all part of the restaurant's monthly guest-bartending series. See,
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, at 7x7 Magazine: Premonitions of San Francisco's Future What with the city's attention so clearly fixated on Ingleside and Silver Terrace, 7x7 Magazine wants you to be aware of these little-known San Francisco neighborhoods: the Mission, Hayes Valley, and Dogpatch. It
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Forthcoming Hayes Valley Ice-Creamery Sounds Like a Foodie Event Horizon This afternoon, EaterSF takes a look at the construction of Smitten, which could very well be the most densely buzzword-packed restaurant to date. Once you start reading the description, it becomes impossible to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tonight Addendum: Liam Mayclem Bartending at Jardinière Speaking of Traci Des Jardins, she will be hosting Eye On The Bay's Liam Mayclem tonight for their monthly guest-bartender series. The Brit turned San Franciscan will be making cocktails from 7:30
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Celebrate National Rum Day Tonight at Smuggler's Cove Did you know that today is National Rum Day? That is to say, August 16th is the day that honors the bottle of booze always left untouched at house parties. But fear not
SF News SFPD Needs Your Help Solving Murder of Philip Dimartino Police are asking the public for help solving the brutal murder of Philip Dimartino. On August 2, 2010 at 1pm, Mr. Philip Dimartino was found stabbed to death in his apartment on Hermann
SF News Man Found Stabbed to Death Inside Haight Residence Haighteration has word that a 35-year-old man was found dead inside his apartment on the 100 block of Hermann Street, between Buchanan and Webster. The victim, whose name hasn't been released, was found
SF News High-Tech Parking Meters Make S.F. Debut Today Today, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency rolled out new parking meters, high-tech ones that will replace old meters with new "coin and card" ones in Hayes Valley. Part of a pilot program
Arts & Entertainment Automatic Teller Machine Turned Into Art While we're not the most ardent fans of graffiti, we're huge fanboys of ATMs (they give us money!), and here we have one in Hayes Valley, which has been turned into a piece
SF News SFist Blotter: Stabbing, Robbery with Knife Hayes Valley/Stabbing: Near the the intersection of Fell and Laguna this morning, a 28-year-old man stabbed an 18-year-old man with a knife in front of several bystanders. After a nearby security guard
SF News Man Killed In Possible Hayes Valley Hit & Run An early morning accident (?) rattled Hayes Valley after a hit and run killed "an African American man of 40 years of age" on Octavia between Market and Haight. AP (via CBS 5) notes:
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Absinthe's Jamie Lauren Heading to LA Paolo Lucchesi informs us that the city will soon lose one of its celebrity gastronomes, former Top Chef contestant Jamie Lauren. According to her Twitter page (via Eater) she says, "Yes! It's true!
