SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Updated] Fizzary On Haight Is Closed With Brewing To Commence On Mission Looks like you'll have to head to the Mission location of The Fizzary for your microbrew chai cola or whatever as the soda store's offshoot on Haight Street is closed for a concept
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Restaurant Discouraging Valentine's Day Baby-Making With Free Branded Condoms Locanda, in SF's Mission district, will be doing their part for parenthood planning and STD-avoidance this Valentine's Day by doling out free "Locondoms" with every meal on Saturday. As Thrillist notes, this is
Arts & Entertainment Now They've Even Gentrified The Porn Shop At 16th And Mission You may have noticed that the seedy little adult bookstore / video porn arcade at 16th and Mission has been cleaned up recently, remodeled and rendered more yuppie-friendly. The former Mission News is now
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gracias Madre, Salumeria Both Tagged With Anti-Hipster Graffiti Two upsacale Mission district businesses, Gracias Madre and Salumeria, have been tagged with graffiti in as many days. The writing on the former reads "White People Trying to Be Mexican, Fuck You." Over
SF News [Update] Man Killed In Mission Fire Identified Though there's been no official word on the identity of the one fatality in Wednesday night's fire at 22nd and Mission, reporters have honed in on a couple who is already mourning their
SF News More Details, Photos Emerge From Deadly Mission Fire At least 40 people were displaced in Wednesday night's big fire at 22nd and Mission, including several Latino families, and reports are emerging that no fire alarms sounded and fire escapes were either
SF News [Updated] One Killed, Six Injured In Mission Fire A fire in a large building at 22nd and Mission streets has killed one, an adult man, and injured six including a firefighter. According to Mission Local, whose offices are in the second
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hawker Fare Opens On Valencia James Shyabout of Oakland's Commis, The Dock at Linden Street, and Thai street-food-inspired Hawker Fare has quietly opened the doors to his new branch of Hawker Fare at 680 Valencia Street, in the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video Makes False Claims About The History Of The Mission Burrito SFGov TV, the SF city media arm, has a running web series called QuickBites, and they've just done a piece on the Mission-style burrito that makes some highly spurious claims. The big falsehood:
SF News SFPD Releases Names Of Sergeants Involved In Mission Station 'Suicide By Cop' In a far swifter turn-around than in a previous case, the San Francisco Police Department has released the names of the officers involved in a fatal Mission District shooting of a man who
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gestalt On 16th Shut Down For Selling Weed Mission beer and bicyclist bar Gestalt Haus has had their liquor license suspended for 30 days after a doorman was caught selling marijuana. California Alcoholic Beverage Control spokesman John Carr issued a statement
SF News Man Shot By Mission Police Left Suicide Note, Tells Cops 'You Did Nothing Wrong' In a totally bizarre twist to the officer-involved shooting that occurred in the parking lot of the SFPD's Mission Station on Sunday evening, the department has just released a suicide note apparently penned
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Updated] Abbot's Cellar Closing After Two Years On Valencia, Owner Partly Blames Minimum Wage Hike The big beer-focused restaurant Abbot's Cellar (462 Valencia), from the team that opened the always-packed Monk's Kettle, has just made the surprise announcement that they're closing at the end of January after two
SF News Xmas Living Room Built From Free Craigslist Items on 18th Street In a Craigslist Christmas miracle that fell a few days after the holiday, San Francisco was graced with a visit from the itinerant Brooklyn artist behind the series Set In The Street, Justin
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Burma Superstar's Valencia Spinoff, Burma Love, To Open Post-Xmas With Spicier, Seafood-Focused Fare The Burma Superstar empire, founded in 1992, planted a flag in the vacated Bodhi space at 211 Valencia Street (at Duboce) back in 2012. Now, at long last, they've nearly completed their new
Arts & Entertainment Video: Meet San Francisco's 5-Year-Old Venture Capitalist Everything But The News, PBS's answer to The Daily Show/The Onion has taken on San Francisco tech culture before, with a report on the early days of ridesharing and an attempt to
SF News Video: Eviction Protesters Chase 'Google Grinch' Jack Halprin "Hit the road Jack," was the sung refrain this morning as protesters once again targeted, and chased, Google lawyer and local landlord Jack Halprin. At 6:30 a.m. according to reports from
SF News Safeway Delivery Truck Crashes, Takes Out Several Cars On Guerrero A Safeway delivery truck collided with another vehicle at 21st and Guerrero on Sunday at around 4:20 p.m. and proceeded to barrel into three parked cars and a building, as KRON
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now You Can Make A 'Reservation(?)' At Mission Chinese Food Mission Chinese Food has managed to keep a healthy horde of hip patrons waiting outside its slightly hidden doors (the awning still reads Lung Shan Restaurant) for several years. In fact, with frequent
SF News SFPD Makes Arrests In Fatal Valencia Street Stabbing, Mysterious SoMa Slaying The San Francisco Police Department sent out a flurry of announcements to press Tuesday, including news that arrests had been made in two recent homicides. According to a release sent by SFPD spokesperson
SF News Rents In The Mission Went Up 20 Percent This Year My wish for 2015 is that we won't all spend whole minutes of every single day bemoaning the latest horrifying figures about the SF rental market, but perhaps the only way that wish
SF News Public Defender: SFPD 'Has Not Acceptably Investigated' Slaying Of Sacred Heart Student, Arrested The Wrong Kid Did the San Francisco Police Department arrest the wrong person in the stabbing death of Sacred Heart freshman Rashawn Williams? According to video evidence presented by the San Francisco Public Defender at a
SF News BART And AC Transit Launch New And More Frequent Overnight Bus Service This Weekend Good news, all you East Bay party people who enjoy cavorting in the Mission: At a press conference on Tuesday morning BART and AC Transit officials are unveiling the final details of a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now Open: Bond, In The Former Esta Noche Space While we were distracted by Thanksgiving, the team from Wish Bar and Lounge unlocked the doors to the restored 3079 16th Street space, formerly Esta Noche, which they're calling Bond. Bizarrely, despite being
SF News Violent Sunday In The Mission: San Francisco Sees 40th, 41st Homicides For 2014 San Francisco was struck with its 40th and 41st homicides of 2014 yesterday, in two violent incidents just a few blocks apart. According to the San Francisco Medical Examiner's office, 25-year-old Casey Bissell,
