SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Rooftop Bar Everdene Opens Tonight At Virgin's New SoMa Hotel The new Virgin Hotels San Francisco opened in February, and tonight, April 3, is the debut of its swanky new rooftop bar — chilly weather be damned.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Virgin Hotels SF and Commons Club Restaurant Debut In SoMa The long-awaited Virgin Hotels San Francisco has just opened its doors at 250 Fourth Street, and in a couple of weeks it will have a rooftop bar.Tuesday marked the official opening of
SF News Skinny 25-Story 'Micro Guestroom' Hotel Planned For SoMa Site San Diego-based J Street Hospitality is looking to build a 185-room, 25-story hotel on a small parcel at 36 Tehama Street.
SF News Boutique Hotel With Roof Deck Planned For 18th Street In The Castro Plans for a modern new hotel in the heart of #TheCastro #CastroSF #RealestateSF https://t.co/at2tGEMvMC pic.twitter.com/qyHedYLn64— SocketSite (@SocketSite) July 24, 2017 A four-story, 12-room boutique hotel is in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Mid-Market Hotel Lands James Beard-Nominated Chef Jason Franey The Proper Hotel, which will be making its debut at Seventh and Market this August, has just announced the hiring of chef Jason Franey to oversee the four restaurants at the property including
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SoMa Hotel Under Construction ID'd As Virgin Hotel, With Rooftop Bar Confirmed Back in January, I alerted you to the hotel construction boom that's bringing SF four new hotels this year, three of which appeared to be arriving with rooftop bars an exciting bit of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Four New Hotels Are Opening In SF This Year, Three With Rooftop Bars It's been a while since there has been a boom in San Francisco hotels, and with the exception of the Viceroy makeovers of the Hotel Zetta (formerly the Hotel Milano) four years ago
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