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!
misc SFist Out and About They were finishing up the installation of the new sculpture at Patricia's Green in Hayes Valley yesterday. Anyone know who the artist is? Update: The sculpture is called Ecstasy, and the artists are
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Monday Night Prix Fixe at Jardinière for $45 While Saigon Sandwich has the unmitigated gall to increase the price of its Banh mi a whole quarter -- the nerve! -- some places keep the prices real. Very real. Take for example,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Urban Farmers Invade Hayes Valley Have you ever noticed that chunk of ivy covered, ruined Central Freeway at the corner of Fell and Laguna? Well it's about to become something a whole lot more interesting than just a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hayes Valley Ramen Truck Debuts This Weekend On Saturday and Sunday be sure to grab a bowl of ramen while window shopping in Hayes Valley. Shirohige Ramen-Ya, a ramen truck, will be at the corner of Laguna and Hayes (across
SF News Have You Seen These (Adorable) Pickpockets? Over at CAV on Friday night -- right next to Cafe Zuni -- Justin of JustInSoma and his girlfriend, Stephanie, were looking for a little wine, food, and relaxation. They got two out
SF News Loma Prieta, 20 Years Later As many in the local news/blog firmament will be repeating this week, Saturday marks the 20th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake, which was not such a doozy of a quake in
SF News Update: FBI Raids Hayes Valley Den of Iniquity After this morning's FBI raids in San Francisco and Oakland, a total of five people were arrested. For what, you ask? Well, not human trafficking. Not treason. Not even hardcore gang activity. The
Arts & Entertainment Behold the Hayes Valley Exploding-Head, Rusty Public Art Sculpture Worthy of your love or a tetanus shot?
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Lucas (1986), Say Anything (1989), My Bloody Valentine (1981): The first film has socially-retarded Corey Haim falling head over heels in love with a sensitive football player, Charlie Sheen, or something like that;
misc Hayes Valley, Maybe? So what can we look forward to at 55 Laguna? Plans for the property include a community center, retail space (specifically non-chain retail, as noted by CurbedSF), 428 units of affordable housing --
misc SFist Blotter (Tuesday Edition) You get a very special blotter today. Alas. Carrying on San Francisco's lightning-hot crime wave, a drive-by shooting occurred on the Hayes Valley/Lower Haight nexus last night. At around 6:40 p.
misc Hayes Valley Wins Neighborhood of the Year And the Curbed Cup award goes to: Hayes Valley. San Francisco's top hood took the crown with 262 votes (52.8%) over second-place Mission's 234 votes (47.2%). Total burn, Valencia Street! And
SF News From 100 To 97 Well, the bad news is still that we've hit a 12 year high for homicides in the City and County of San Francisco, with two weeks left to go in the year. On
misc Blocker: 400 Ivy Exploring San Francisco through the lens of city blocks, Blocker is a weekly series by Charles Hodgkins. Look for it on SFist each Wednesday, around the lunching hour. View the map of all
SF News A Room of One's Own...In Which to Shoot Up As mentioned in today's Chronicle, the idea of a safe-space in which intravenous drug users can shoot up -- without fear of arrests, beatings, rapes, or whatever happens in those movies after heroin's
