SF News After Getting City Approvals, Developer of Mint Plaza Sleeping Pod Complex Plans Much Larger Version A year after a sleeping-pod dormitory on San Francisco's Mint Plaza gained media attention and, subsequently, negative attention from the city's building inspectors, the complex has received official city approval.
Arts & Entertainment New 2,000-Pound Star Sculpture From Occasional Burning Man Artists Arrives In Mint Plaza A new star-shaped, gold-painted sculpture, which will cast entrancing shadows from a light within it at night, has just been installed at Mint Plaza.
SF News Mint Plaza Sleeping Pod Complex Dinged With Violations After City Inspection A resident of one of the latest iterations of the pod-style sleeping arrangements we saw during the most recent SF tech boom boasted about the cheapness of his rent on social media, leading to TV media coverage and, now, a city inspection.
SF News Predictably, Story About Sleeping Pods Prompts Investigation By SF Building Inspectors Today in unsurprising news: The San Francisco Department of Building Inspection has launched an investigation into those $700/mo sleeping pods on Mint Plaza, which may not be permitted.
SF News Proposed Mint Plaza ‘Pod Hotel’ Hits a Snag, as Rival Pod Hotel Group Claims Trademark Infringement An odd “pod hotel” concept may be forced back to the drawing board with their Mint Plaza plans, because another hotel firm reportedly claims they’ve trademarked the idea and no one else can use it.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oro Shutters After Nine Months On Mint Plaza In yet another abrupt and fairly high-profile closure, Oro, the second restaurant project of Commonwealth chef-partner Jason Fox, served its last dinner Saturday night. As Fox tells Inside Scoop, "We thought we had
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink All About Oro, The Upcoming Mint Plaza Restaurant From Commonwealth's Jason Fox Commonwealth chef/owner Jason Fox and partner Timothy Felkner, former general manager of Zero Zero, wanted a name for their new restaurant that would ring with the history of its surroundings. Oro, Spanish
SF News Bomb Scare At Blue Bottle Shuts Down Mint Plaza SF Bomb Squad, cops, hook and ladder now outside #SFMint and tech-fave @BlueBottle coffee, closing Mint Plaza pic.twitter.com/viLy9tx6el— Carla Marinucci (@cmarinucci) March 6, 2015 The bomb squad and a bunch
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Johnny Rockets, Chez Papa Resto Closing After two decades in Pac Heights, Johnny Rockets closed over the weekend. Inside Scoop reports: "With the windows papered up this weekend, the employees left a farewell note to the neighborhood, expressing gratitude
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Digests: Chez Papa Resto, Perfect Summer Booze, A-16's Beer Month Tablehopper strutted her stuff on Folsom this week, checking out Sightglass Coffee Bar & Roastery. (We initially read that as a coffee and roasted chicken mashup, which for us sounds pretty damn divine.
misc Day Around the Bay School buses to run on waste grease from local restaurants. [SF Sentinel] 2007, as Chrissy from Newport Harbor: the Real OC might say, is "o-v-e, but the 'r' is not there yet." Totes,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Mint Plaza Now Open for Business Is our new plaza an oasis? Some people think so. Check out the action (179 photos! Blonde real estate cookies!), after the jump.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Food Section Round Up Berrylicious illustration from The Oakland Tribune. We gobble the various food sections up each Wednesday. Here are our favorite nibbles from today's offerings. SF Chronicle: Serious bock-bock time for those of you who
