Arts & Entertainment 101 (Fiberglass) Cows Are Coming To The Madonna Inn The already peculiar Madonna Inn is about to get a whole lot more so. The famed San Luis Obispo spot known for its 110-uniquely themed rooms will soon be welcoming to its grounds
SF News New Waldorf Astoria Hotel In SoMa Promises To *Finally* Give SF A Taste Of Luxury San Francisco — something of a backwater, wouldn't you say? — will at last cater to the American aristocracy forced to do business with its nouveau riche. "San Francisco needed a proper luxury hotel," John
SF News Hearst Office Building At Third And Market Could Become Hearst Hotel As tourism booms in San Francisco with a record 25 million visitors in 2015, the historic Hearst building at Third and Market Streets may seek to capitalize on the trend with a conversion
SF News Days Numbered For Hayes Valley Days Inn? Hayes Valley's Days Inn and adjacent burger joint Double Decker on Grove Street could make way for a way bigger hotel building. The Business Times reports that the existing 47-room hotel at 465
Arts & Entertainment Teatro ZinZanni Finally, Maybe Headed Back To S.F. Waterfront... In A Few Years Three years have already passed since the zany, circus-meets-cabaret-dinner-theater Teatro ZinZanni had to pack up its tent on Piers 27-29 to make way for the America's Cup and now the permanent cruise ship
SF News Racism Suit Filed Against Market Street Travelodge by Eric Wuestewald Prominent New Orleans funk guitarist Leo Nocentelli has filed a racial discrimination suit against the Market Street Travelodge hotel following a particularly nasty disagreement over credit cards and incidentals that
SF News Futuristic, Tiny-Room Capsule Hotel Coming To Mid-Market As Mid-Market continues marching towards a cleaner, less stabby future, the next big addition to join the soon-to-be renovated Renoir Hotel will be a Tokyo-style capsule hotel with 200 rooms averaging around 170
SF News New Ballot Initiative Could Stifle Airbnb In San Francisco A new ballot initiative hopes to limit Airbnb rentals to neighborhoods zoned for commercial use and provide incentives for people to rat out neighbors renting apartments in violation of the new regulations. The
Arts & Entertainment Google Glass Checks-in at Fairmont Nob Hill seems to be the place to openly wear Google Glass without fear of backlash. Take, for example, the Fairmont San Francisco. The hotel's concierge, Tom Wolfe, has been hailed as the
SF News Chiu's AirBnB Compromise Goes Before Supes Today At today's Board of Supervisors meeting, David Chiu's new proposed law will go to a vote, solidifying AirBnB as a legit business, but also keeping too much of San Francisco's precious housing stock
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: The Slow Death Of Jack Tar Photo of the Jack Tar Hotel (which was called the Cathedral Hill Hotel from 1982 until it closed in 2009) demolition by Erik Wilson.
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Downtown Autograph Hounds Autograph seekers in front of the St. Regis waiting for Warriors players (and, hopefully, for their sake, not Sean Penn). Shot by Gerard Livernois.
Arts & Entertainment The 9 Best Ways To Splurge In The Bay Area While most of us rely on budgets and think of Whole Foods as a pipe dream, there are those of you who can get what you want whenever you want with a simple
SF News San Francisco's Cheapest Hotel Is (No Surprise) Not Fit For Humans At the Europa Hotel in North Beach (310 Columbus Avenue) you can get a room for the night starting around $36, which is basically unheard of in this town. But guess what? You
SF News Mormon-Run Marriott Sponsored This Year's Folsom Street Fair A funny little news item appeared over the weekend connecting the fact the San Francisco Marriott had signed on as a sponsor of this year's Folsom Street Fair, and the company is still
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 7 Best Hotel Bars In San Francisco The best-kept secret in San Francisco is the hotel bar. It rocks. It's chic. It can lead to the perfect one-night stand. When you want a new crowd, a fresh scene, or a
Arts & Entertainment One Night Stand: The Ritz-Carlton's Magical Club Level Welcome back to One Night Stand, a regular-ish feature where far-too-fancy hotels in San Francisco arrange to put us up for the night (translation: we eat/stay for free), and then we write
Arts & Entertainment Best Ways To 'Treat Yo Self' In San Francisco No longer just for Tom Haverford and Donna Meagle, here are a few affordable (and not-so-affordable) ways in San Francisco you can treat yourself. From spas to juicing to a day in the
SF News Confirmed: Kelly Wearstler Designing Mid-Market Hotel With Rooftop Bar The Renoir Hotel at 7th and Market which over the last year was home to A Temporary Offering, which included the cool but temporary Rio Grande bar from the Trick Dog team that
SF News Downtown Hotel Boom: Two to Three New Hotels Heading to SoMa/Mid-Market The construction boom in the city won't just be bringing new condos and office towers. This week a new hotel on Fourth Street got approved by Planning, and there are at least two
Arts & Entertainment In Honor Of Her S.F. Appearance, Patti LuPone's Scathing 2006 Palace Hotel Review You feel that? It's in the air. It's LuPone. Patti LuPone is in San Francisco, folks -- specifically, at the Rrazz Room from March 17-24. And we couldn't be more exciting/scared. The
Arts & Entertainment Check Out The Massive Plinko Game At Hotel Zetta Hotel Zetta welcomed their first guests today during their soft opening. Both the lobby and second-floor mezzanine offer an interactive thrill -- specifically, a Plinko wall inspired by the greatest game on The
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Grandviews at the Grand Hyatt Closes to Make Way for New Restaurant Off Lobby All over town, hotel restaurants are turning over. Seasons at the Four Seasons closed this week and will be reborn as something else next summer. Silks at the Mandarin Oriental closed earlier this
SF News Market Street Travelodge Falls Under Racism Controversy The Travelodge on Market Street stands accused of racism against a few noted patrons, who are black, after a skirmish over credit cards and incidentals resulted in some pretty astounding behavior from the
