Arts & Entertainment The 10 Most Reliably Sunny Places Around The Bay It's a question many newcomers have when July and August arrive in San Francisco and they're wondering where to find the sun. Newscasts tell you that it's out there, somewhere, in parts of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mister Jiu's, Tartine Manufactory, and SingleThread All Vie For Bon Appetit's Best New Restaurants List As Bon Appétit prepares to release their annual list of the ten best new restaurants in the country, which they call the "Hot 10," they've released a list of 50 finalists for the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 18 Best Sushi Spots In SF You know how some people like to say that even bad pizza isn't that bad, because it's still pizza? The same can not be said of sushi. And you know what you're not
Arts & Entertainment The 9 Most Infamous Cults In The Bay Area 'Cult' is a word that gets thrown around casually a lot to describe everything from Mormonism to Soul Cycle. But here in the Bay Area there's been a special affinity for cultism, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 15 Best Burrito Spots In SF It's been a couple years since we tackled the always controversial Best Burrito list, so it's time to update SFist's official opinions on the topic. We all should know by now that if
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF's Seven Most Expensive Steaks, Ranked What's more American than a huge, juicy, cast-iron seared, wood roasted, or charcoal grilled steak? In this week of celebrating American independence and all things "red-blooded," SFist brings you a roundup of the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 13 Best Local Food Chains In The Bay Area San Francisco is well known for its fantastic restaurants, but also for its relative hostility to chains. Nonetheless, a number of homegrown chain restaurants and mini-empires have proliferated here, especially in the last
Arts & Entertainment The Best Gay And Lesbian Clubs And Parties In SF It's been a minute since SFist has run down the coolest lesbigay clubs and parties around town, and a few things have closed and ended and some others have popped up since we
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 15 Best Chinese Restaurants In SF Food people in the know are going to tell you that if you want the best Chinese food in the Bay Area, these days you have to leave the city. This may be
Arts & Entertainment The 10 Coolest, Least Touristy Landmarks In San Francisco Tourists new to wandering San Francisco, and new residents who need places to wander, should know that there is more to this fine city than Coit Tower, the Golden Gate Bridge, and Fisherman's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 23 Best Cocktail Bars In SF In the last decade or so, San Francisco has become one of the best if not hands down the best, depending on who you ask cocktail towns in the country. Sure, New York
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Best, Not-Wildly-Expensive Wine Country Restaurants Wine Country, particularly the Napa Valley, is the lap of luxury of the Bay Area, and an adult playground for the wealthy from all over the US. If you've spent some time wine
Arts & Entertainment The 9 Best Urban Hikes In SF This weekend is supposed to be sunny and balmy here in the city, so what better time than to find at least one thing to do besides day-drink or finish your costume for
Arts & Entertainment The 15 Best Movie Theaters In The Bay Area More and more it seems going to the movies has become a special-occasion thing for a lot of people, and Hollywood obviously struggles every year to come up with reasons to get us
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tartine Manufactory Named One Of Food & Wine's Restaurants Of The Year They did not take home a James Beard Award the other night in Chicago, however baker Chad Robertson, pastry chef Liz Prueitt, and chef Sam Goinsalvos still got a nice honor this week
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bauer Adds La Taqueria, Ju-Ni, And 20 More Restaurants To Chronicle Top 100 It's the big announcement day for the Chronicle Top 100 Restaurants something that the paper, in previous years, took great pains to keep under wraps until the physical Sunday paper arrived in early
Arts & Entertainment The 13 Best Places To People Watch In SF What should you do on a pleasant weekend afternoon in San Francisco when you have an hour or two to kill? You could do the basics like an urban hike or a park-sit
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink For The First Time, Chronicle's 2017 Rising Star Chef Class Includes No White Males Responding to criticism about the list's usual lack of diversity, and starting last year, the San Francisco Chronicle took the annual Rising Star Chefs feature out of the hands of critic Michael Bauer
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 8 Best New Stoner Foods In San Francisco It's (almost) 4/20, man. So, if you still require such an excuse to indulge in marijuana amongst friends and strangers, you'll be doing so on Hippie Hill on Thursday the first time
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Where To Grab Easter Brunch Where It Won't Be Insanely Crowded Sunday is Easter, and though most of you probably won't be observing the day with a visit to church, it is very commonly a traditional day to brunch. Whether you're headed to Golden
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 18 Best Bakeries In San Francisco Even for as food-obsessed a city as San Francisco is, we have a surprisingly excellent variety of bakeries and patisseries some like Craftsman & Wolves creating modern, idiosyncratic treats and riffs on classics,
Arts & Entertainment The Nine Best Women's Clothing Boutiques In SF In the past SFist has highlighted cool local fashion labels, vintage stores, and the best places to buy a men's suit. But despite SF being a mecca for style-conscious, discerning female shoppers who
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Eight Best Fried Chicken Sandwiches In SF Chef Alison Barakat did not think of herself as a trendsetter when, in 2005, she began serving a fried chicken sandwich at her new Temescal neighborhood bakery in Oakland, Bakesale Betty. Barakat had
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 17 Best Wine Bars In San Francisco The best wine bars are the ones where either you get to taste things you might not otherwise find anywhere, curated for you by a professional with good taste, or where the atmosphere,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 12 Best Irish Bars In San Francisco Not all Irish bars are created equal, despite how similar many may seem. San Francisco, having had a long history of Irish immigration and a continuing strong relationship with the country including annual
