SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now Open At Former Ino Sushi Space In Japantown: Sushi An When famously fastidious and, yes, sometimes fascistic Ino Sushi closed in the Japantown Mall after 37 years, it left a small physical void to fill and a large emotional one. Tying to fill
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved Tiny Sushi Bar, Ino Sushi, Closing Next Week After 37 Years Japantown mainstay Ino Sushi, famous in part for its fantastically fresh fish and in part for the gruff temperament of chef-owner Noboru Inoue, is closing its doors forever next week as Ino-san and
SF News Drivers Strike Off-Duty Cop, Skateboarder, Then Keep On Going In two separate collisions Friday and Saturday, drivers hit pedestrians, then kept on going. In both cases, the drivers were tracked down by the police, but so far only one of them is
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: J-Pop Photographer Bhautik Joshi took this shot, titled "traversable acumen," on Saturday at the 2014 J-Pop Summit Festival in Japantown. Photo submissions for Photo du Jour, Morning Links and Day Around the Bay are
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Japantown Bar Shut Down For Having Flirty Waitresses Solicit Drinks From Lonely Men You travel to certain Asian and Latin American countries and it's kind of standard procedure to find waitresses in bars who solicit drinks from male tourists in exchange for both kickbacks from the
SF News Man Shot In The Hand In Japantown Sunday Night Curious: A 32-year-old man was taken to the hospital with a gunshot wound in his hand after having some sort of exchange with two male suspects just after 10 p.m. Sunday near
SF News Supervisors Want To Fill Freeway-Sized Hole On Geary On Geary Boulevard, the great chasm that separates the Fillmore from Japantown and Pac Heights could be filled in as the city attempts to tie the neighborhoods back together while making the 38-Geary
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Cherry Blossom Realness Revelers doing the bon odori dance (a traditional Japanese dance) at the Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival. Photo by Joanne Wong.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco's Best Restaurant Bathroom Named Sure, mid-November seems a tiny bit early to be releasing the year's "Best of" lists, but EaterSF's Best of 2011 Awards are notable for at least one category you won't find in any
SF News Pedestrian Struck, Killed Near Japantown Although the car's driver has a green light and there was no indication of speeding, according to police reports, an unidentified elderly man was killed by a car after trying to cross Geary
SF News SFist Blotter Hey, did you know that most gunfire in SF (and everywhere else, we assume) goes unreported? It does. At least according to the Examiner, it doesn't. They report that ShotSpotter--that magic recording device