Arts & Entertainment Gay It Up: Your Official SFist Guide To Pride Week 2016 Is Here Yes, Pride Sunday itself has become a bit less of a gay celebration in recent years, but with its million or so attendees in San Francisco and the strong tradition that many LGBT
Arts & Entertainment The 11 Best Hikes: East & North Bay Edition Hiking weather is here, and hikes to our east and north where the weather can be way more summer-like in the summertime are a very good idea on weekends to escape the gloom
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cala and Locol Land On <i>Food & Wine</i> Best New Restaurant List Every magazine gets their annual turn to declare their favorites among the nation's crop of new eateries, and this week we get Food & Wine's 2016 Restaurants Of the Year list, which features
Arts & Entertainment The 9 Best Swimming Pools In San Francisco For those who love swimming, you ought to know that this city has a bunch of swell indoor and outdoor pools, both public and private, that you should probably check out. For the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Where To Get A Good Doughnut In SF Though we try at SFist to make a point of not recognizing the National ___ Days that were invented by trade groups and publicists to get the media to cover their products, but I'm
Arts & Entertainment The 12 Best Bike Rides In The Bay Area Among the Bay Area's many, many charms is the diversity of amazing bicycle rides all within a short distance of wherever you happen to be. From urban rides through city parks, to grueling
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Petit Crenn And The Perennial Land On <i>GQ</i>'s Best New Restaurants GQ, whose longtime restaurant critic Alan Richman was not always well liked by chefs but who won many James Beard Awards for his work, has a new "Eater-in-Chief," and that's Brett Martin. Martin
Arts & Entertainment The 10 Best Flower And Plant Shops In San Francisco You need to get some birthday flowers for someone, or bring a dinner party host a little something that isn't wine, but you don't know where to start and/or you're not sure
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Best Outdoor Bars: East & North Bay Edition Just a couple weeks ago we brought you an updated list of the best outdoor and patio bars in San Francisco, and now it's time to give some similar attention to al fresco
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 15 Best Breakfast Sandwiches in SF The breakfast sandwich is, in its best form, the platonic ideal of a morning meal a filling and deeply satisfying indulgence that is the polar opposite of a quinoa bowl. Often there is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink <i>Bon Appetit</i> Shows Some More Love For SF Much like Bon Appetit restaurant critic Andrew Knowlton did last summer when he called SF the best food city in the country and named two SF restaurants to his annual list of the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Drops Gialina, AQ From Top 100, Adds Petit Crenn, Trestle, And 17 More A couple of weeks earlier than usual, Chronicle restaurant critic Michael Bauer has unveiled his Top 100 Restaurants in the Bay Area a longstanding Chron tradition that serves as a kind of locally
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 16 Coolest Outdoor And Patio Bars In SF Hey, guys. It's spring! And while that can mean wind and occasional sprinkles, it can also mean fine, balmy, fog-free days and evenings that are made for outdoor drinking and eating. Below, our
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 13 Best Stoner Foods In San Francisco It's 4/20, y'all, and while hopefully most of you have gotten over the novelty of getting high and won't be joining the throngs at the unsanctioned 4/20 smoke-in on Hippie Hill
Arts & Entertainment The 13 Best Record Stores In SF & Oakland Hey guys remember Tower Records? And Discolandia? And Force of Habit? And Medium Rare Records? Yeah, me too. Music is now, on the bright side, easier to find and listen to than it
Arts & Entertainment Seven Easy Date-Night Ideas Around SF, Oakland, And Berkeley Last year, SFist brought you a list of nine easy ideas for nights out on the town, with a friend or a date, organized by neighborhood so you don't have to be ordering
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two SF Chefs, Ravi Kapur And David Barzelay, Named <em>Food & Wine</em> Best New Chefs The prestigious annual honor of being named to Food & Wine's Best New Chefs issue will be going to not one but two local chefs this year, once again proving San Francisco is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 12 Best Soup Dumplings (Xiao Long Bao) In The Bay Area There is some mad competition among dim sum parlors on both coasts for the claim of "best soup dumpling," because these multifaceted Shanghainese delicacies known as xiao long bao (or XLB) are far
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF-Based OpenTable Defends Asia SF As City's 'Hottest' Restaurant I was expecting after reaching out to OpenTable yesterday about their list of the nation's 100 Hottest Restaurants to find out that perhaps someone in another city's OpenTable offices, or even someone from
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 25 Best Dive Bars In San Francisco Whether drowning sorrows on your lonesome or slumming it with friends, dive bars are good for a lot of occasions. Firstly, they're often cheaper than their mixology-obsessed counterparts in tonier parts of town.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink OpenTable Believes SF's Hottest Restaurant Is... Asia SF Yesterday at SFist HQ we got an email from the OpenTable team letting us know that their hotly anticipated (JK) list of the nation's 100 "hottest" restaurants for 2016 had just been revealed.
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Do This Week With spring officially upon us, and the rain mostly in the rearview mirror, you no longer have a healthy excuse to stay inside and lament the state of the world. So get out
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 11 Best Bagels In The Bay Area, Ranked While many will contend that the very fact that Noah's has become a local institution is proof positive that San Franciscans are a provincial, taste-challenged bunch of heathens who wouldn't know a real
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Do This Week It's a beautiful week with another potentially stormy weekend ahead, but let's just pretend it's spring because it already basically is and get out there doing non-internet things. TUESDAY, MARCH 15 NEW ORLEANS
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Where To Eat The Best Irish Food In San Francisco As St. Patrick's Day approaches, we at SFist thought you needed a primer on the best of many places around San Francisco to indulge in traditional Irish pub grub (and baked goods) whilst
