SF News State Regulators Ban Stanford-Affiliated East Bay Hospital from Treating Certain Illnesses in Children After Violations The pediatric unit will reportedly not be allowed to admit patients through California's Childrens' Services, a public health program, and risks a permanent ban.
SF News SFDPH's Updated Safe Sex Guidelines During the Pandemic Sure Are Something The San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) would like to remind you that "breathing, panting, shouts, and groans" all offer pathways for coronavirus to enter the body. And that spit play probably isn't a good idea, right now.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Here's Why Restaurants Change Their Names After Health Department Shutdowns Castro residents should be plenty familiar with this tale by now: A restaurant gets temporarily shut down by inspectors with the city's health department, maybe more than once, due to vermin infestations and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Redd In Yountville Settles Wrongful Death Suit Over Scallop Last month we learned of a wrongful death lawsuit against the Napa Valley restaurant Redd, in Yountville, stemming from the August 2014 death of 61-year-old man a death which his family said came
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Owner Of Sparky's Diner Late On Rent, May Have Abandoned Property While a few possible reasons for the closure of Sparky's 24-hour diner were posited — among them, a Health Department shut down which seemed perfectly logical given the food they served — it seems according
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sparky's Diner On Church Closed, Apparently After Health Inspection One of the city's only 24-hour diners, Sparky's on Church Street, was suddenly closed last week and remains closed as of this morning. BrokeAss Stuart got the news via a tipster, and SFist
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Napa Restaurant Redd Sued Over Wrongful Death By Scallop Some unfortunate news out of Yountville: 10-year-old fine-dining establishment Redd, owned by chef Richard Reddington, is facing a lawsuit in the 2014 death of 61-year-old Larry Sacknoff. The former television sportscaster from San
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yelp Now Explicitly Warning You Off Restaurants With Poor Health Scores The restaurant review site Yelp unveiled a new feature this October — one that is sure to win friends among consumers and make (even more) enemies among restaurant owners. The new feature updates a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Third Castro Restaurant On Same Market Street Block Gets Shuttered By Health Department Following on 2015 Health Department closings/cleanups at Sliderbar (now rebranded as Ovok) and Barracuda (which rebranded as Mandu and then Janchi before closing for good last month), another restaurant that shares that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Castro Is Teeming With Vermin It may just be the fourth Castro restaurant to be shut down by the health department in recent months, but Slider's Diner (449 Castro, not to be confused with Slider Bar) has been
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SliderBar In Castro Closed By Health Department For Second Time In Eight Months You know how we've been talking about the Castro's vermin problem? Well, SliderBar, which was previously shut down by city health inspectors last October for a persistent vermin problem that they failed to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Another Castro Restaurant Shut Down By Health Department: Posh Bagel Yikes. The vermin/cockroach problem may be more rampant in the Castro than previously understood as we learn of yet another health-department shutdown in the neighborhood, the second in just three weeks. Yesterday
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Restaurant Shut Down By Health Department Rebrands For Second Time In Three Months The Castro is getting another new restaurant, sort of, called Janchi, which is being billed as a "Korean gastropub." It's going into the space at 2251 Market Street and as Hoodline notes, this
SF News SF Health Department Goes After Vaping With New Campaign Good, bad, or ugly, vaping is happening and San Francisco's Health Department is positioned to be the first to try to curb it, ABC 7 reports. That's it, that's the campaign name. But
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sliderbar In The Castro Shut Down By Health Department [Updated] Another restaurant fails to heed the warnings of the Health Department, and suffers their wrath: Sliderbar, the just-ok, two-year-old slider restaurant in the old Bagdad Cafe space at Market and 16th, suddenly finds
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mel's Drive-In Near Metreon Reopens After Cockroach Situation Today in health-department closures you might want to take note of: The downtown location of Mel's Drive-In (801 Mission, in the 5th and Mission garage building, near the Metreon and Bloomingdale's) reopened Wednesday
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission Chinese Food Chef Danny Bowien Suing NYC Landlord Over Mouse Problem That Closed The Restaurant Hometown hero (at least in the food world) Danny Bowien and his partners in the New York City location of Mission Chinese Food are suing their landlord for creating and failing to rectify
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Amber Dhara Briefly Shut Down For Rat Problem Perpetually empty Indian restaurant Amber Dhara (680 Valencia Street) is facing further problems after it's come to light that they were shut down by the Health Department last week for a rodent infestation.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Safeway Is Possibly Unsafe KRON4 News, San Francisco's #1 source of grocery store health code violations and people behaving badly is back at it today, turning their attention from the meat case at Whole Foods to the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Noe Valley Whole Foods Afflicted With Maggot Infestation Whole Foods clerk and maggot whistleblower Marc Melancon tells a horrifying tale of something squirmy he found in the Noe Valley store's meat case. According to Melancon, he found "more than 40" disgusting
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Pie Cart Shuts Down; Local Newspaper Laments Let me tell you the story of Pie Fridays. It was one of those ever so precious San Francisco food phenomena that sprung up near the corner of 19th and Linda Streets in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Assemblyman Who Introduced Glove-Wearing Bill For Bartenders Now Proposing Emergency Repeal Dr. Richard Pan, the pediatrician and Democratic Assemblyman who introduced and passed a law last year in the California Assembly that will force all chefs, sushi chefs, and bartenders to wear rubber gloves
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lers Ros Closed By Health Department For Cockroaches [Update] Bad news for fans of Lers Ros's one-year-old Hayes Valley branch: It's been closed down by order of the health department because of a major roach infestation. A friend of SFist alerted us
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Delicious Bacon Aroma Forces 'Bacon Bacon' Closure The bacon backlash has begun. Popular food truck turned cafe, Bacon Bacon, purveyor of "the Bacon Bouquet" and "Chocolate-covered Bacon," must to temporarily close its doors Friday in the Upper Haight. Why? Well,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Marnee Thai Shut Down for Abysmal Health Score Of 58 Marnee Thai in the Inner Sunset is generally accepted as one of the city's favorite spots to score above-par pad thai, with over 1,000 Yelp reviews and a 4-star average (not easy