Arts & Entertainment The Ten Most Scenic Muni Lines There's an old joke that "San Francisco is the only town that goes in 6 directions: East, South, North, West, Up, and Down." Built on peaks and valleys of all kinds, public transportation
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 25 Best Burgers In SF And Oakland Sure. Some people only want a burger if it comes from a diner or a drive-thru. But many of us have learned the virtues of the $12 or $15 or $20 restaurant burger,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 11 Best Wine Stores In San Francisco A good wine store requires several things: broad selection, outside-the-box options, value, convenience, and knowledgable, unpretentious staff. When it comes to wine, the quality and broadness of the selection might be subjective, but
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Best Pizza In San Francisco: A Definitive List Last year we skirted the issue of naming the "best" pizza in town by creating a list that was more about the best pizza you can find in a given neighborhood or for
Arts & Entertainment The 12 Best Local Theaters In The Bay Area The SF Bay Area may not hold a candle to New York when it comes to theater offerings, but you may not be aware of the rich array of small local and regional
Arts & Entertainment Seven Fun And Easy Weekend Staycation Ideas In SF Sometimes, there just isn't time or money for a real vacation. But you do realize that the city you live in happens to be one of the highest ranked domestic tourist destinations in
Arts & Entertainment The 12 Best Niche Stores In San Francisco Sometimes you just need a part for your electric train set, or a skein of a specific brand of alpaca yarn, and you don't want to wait three days for Amazon. In this
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink AL's Place Named Best New Restaurant In The U.S. By <i>Bon Appetit</i>; Rintaro Also Makes Top 10 No sooner had I sang the praises of Aaron London's first solo restaurant AL's Place in the Mission, Bon Appétit's Andrew Knowlton has just bestowed the big honor of naming it the best
SF News The Best Public Restrooms In SF When you're in the middle of downtown shopping, or getting off BART/Muni in desperate need of a place to pee (since station bathrooms remain closed, pending some coming upgrades), this primer will
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink It's About Time: <i>Bon Appétit</i> Declares SF The Best Food City In The Country We saw last week that Bon Appétit restaurant critic Andrew Knowlton had named a full half-dozen new SF restaurants to his Top 50 list of new spots around the country tying us with
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Best Post-Midnight, Late-Night Eats In San Francisco Sadly, San Francisco has never been a 24-hour dining town, and late-night eats are neither easy to come by, nor often all that great. But that is changing (slowly!) In the past we've
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Six New SF Restaurants Make <em>Bon Appetit</em> Short List Every August, Bon Appétit releases their highly influential Best New Restaurants list, which is always 10 names long and generally comes with the promise of immediate tourist crowds as it did three years
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 16 Best Tacos In San Francisco A person could spend a couple months eating at a different taco establishment every day and still not exhaust San Francisco's supply. Naturally they're not all good, but many are, and we're likely
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Nine Best Veggie Burgers In SF (And Oakland) Not all veggie burgers are created equal, just as not all meat burgers are created equal, and many a vegetarian and vegan will tell you this. "Compressed patties of yuck" is how SFist's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Seven Best Frozen Cocktails In SF We almost had some summer there, right? Assuming it will be warm again in SF, someday, we bring you this concise list of some of the best in frozen cocktails, both out of
Arts & Entertainment The 9 Best Outdoor Getaways In And Around The Bay Area It's summer, officially, and and thus vacation season, but a lot of us have either not found the money to take a real vacation this year like we deserve, or we haven't had
SF News 50 Things That Prove SF Is Still Rad No doubt, we are a city in transition. But despite the doomsaying proclamations of some, San Francisco, for whatever quirk of its DNA, has always been a city of booms and busts, with
Arts & Entertainment The 17 Best Gay and Lesbian Clubs And Parties In San Francisco It's Pride Week, and with that comes a whole bevy of once-a-year parties to fill the dance cards of every LGBT party kid in town. But San Francisco is, after all, one of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 14 Best Jukeboxes In San Francisco Sadly, we live in an age when lazy/frugal bar owners junk their beloved vintage jukeboxes because they break too often and cause too much of a headache, in favor of the scourge
Arts & Entertainment The Six Best Swimming Pools In San Francisco Attention all urban swim folk: SF has a bunch of nice indoor and outdoor pools hidden away, both public and private, for your fitness and pleasure. First off, if you're going to swim
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Progress Lands Among <i>Food & Wine</i>'s Best New Restaurants Continuing their winning streak of national honors which has kept tables at State Bird Provisions and now The Progress pretty hard to come by chefs Stuart Brioza and Nicole Krasinski just garnered another:
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 14 Best Bars Wherein To Watch The Warriors In The Finals Ugh. Trying to watch NBA Finals/World Series/NFL Playoff games at bars can be a hassle. You have to pick a bar that you know won't be so crowded that you can't
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF's 13 Best Bars To Find Someone To Hook Up With/Make Out With With wedding season kicking into full gear and June Gloom arriving early, it’s the perfect time for a singleton in San Francisco to get a bad case of loneliness. If watching another
Arts & Entertainment The 12 Best Urban Gardens in San Francisco It's flower-blooming season! There’s no better time all year to visit San Francisco’s network of beautifully maintained urban community gardens and enjoy the bloom, bounty and contribution they bring to our
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 11 Best Old Man Bars In SF A neighborhood really isn't complete without an old man bar. Sadly, in places all over town like the Mission and Hayes Valley, you'd be hard pressed to find anywhere that a wizened older
