SF News Day Around The Bay: A Gingerbread Bouchon Bakery This pastry chef made a perfect gingerbread replica of Bouchon Bakery as a job application. [Eater] A violinist was pepper sprayed and robbed of instrument in the Mission. [Mission Local] These new traffic
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Indochine, A New Vegan Spot From Sunflower Team, Opens On Valencia; Also, What's Up With Sunflower? Though popular Vietnamese spot Sunflower remains closed in their prime corner location at Valencia and 16th the team, who still has another restaurant on Potrero Hill, remains cagey about why it abruptly closed
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Santa The Hutt Quits Boozing This season Betabrand, famed and defamed for their creation of the Suitsy (a onesie suit) has reprised their holiday horror photo scene starring Santa the Hutt. Passersby at the Valencia Street store are
SF News Video: Tribute To Local Skateboarder Murdered on Haight Street Malcolm Armstrong, a transplant from New York, had found his place in San Francisco's skateboarding culture before he was stabbed and killed on Haight Street recently as Mission Local reports. While an investigation
SF News Supreme Court Takes Case Of SFPD Shooting Of Mentally Disabled Woman The U.S. Supreme Court agreed yesterday to hear San Francisco vs. Sheehan, 13-1412, a case that could set precedents for police treatment of the disabled and mentally disabled. According to the AP,
SF News Six Injured In Shooting Outside Mission Street Hip-Hop Show Six people were shot in the Mission District early Wednesday morning, apparent victims of a dispute that boiled over as a hip-hop show let out at an area nightclub. It was 12:46
SF News Report: Which Neighborhood Home Values Appreciated The Most? A suspicion-confirming report from Paragon Real Estate Group points to three neighborhoods that have seen the greatest bump in home values since the financial crisis: Bayview, the Inner Mission, and Bernal Heights (in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hapa Ramen Finally Gets Brick-And-Mortar Location This Weekend Chef Richie Nakano has been promising the city a permanent home for his Hapa Ramen pop-up and farmers' market stand since the first Obama Administration, and it is finally, finally happening on Sunday.
SF News Video: TechCrunch and AOL Commissioned This Housing Crisis Film Since when did AOL and TechCrunch inherit the mantle of the Bay Guardian? Just kidding, but they did commission this video from Stateless Media about San Francisco's housing crisis titled "You Can't Go
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland's Hawker Fare Taking Over Amber Dhara Space For Mission Off-Shoot Good news for all rice-bowl lovers: Oakland's popular Thai-influenced Hawker Fare, from chef-owner James Syhabout (Commis, Box & Bells, The Dock at Linden Street), is taking over the massive space at 18th and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bi-Rite Ice Cream Preferred By North Korean Refugee Who Spent 10 Years In Prison Camp North Korean refugee Kang Chol-hwan just did a Reddit AMA yesterday, and among the questions asked in addition to "What were the worst things you saw in your prison camp?" and "Do you
SF News Alleged Mission Pimp Beats Woman Who Declines His Job Offer An alleged pimp has been arrested after a mid-day attack on a woman walking near a Mission District Park. 37-year-old Marlon Bishop was taken into custody Tuesday afternoon, and "was booked on suspicion
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tired Of Getting Vandalized, Local's Corner Is Closing “Maybe we should have made it clearer that our use of ‘local’ isn’t about being local,” is a thing owner Yaron Migrom said about his restaurant Local’s Corner to San Francisco
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Mission, Circa 1992 Adam Pfahler of the San Francisco punk band Jawbreaker recently came across some unprocessed Super 8 footage that he shot around the Mission in 1992. He got the film processed, and he uploaded
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Is Munchery Breaking The Law By Storing Food In Idling Refrigerated Trucks? [Updated] It appears that swiftly growing prepared-food startup Munchery is, like some other startups, breaking some laws in order to do business here in S.F. As Uptown Almanac reports, in addition to collecting
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Elbo Room to Become Retirement Room? The Elbo Room is entering what could be its twilight year(s) with current owner Matt Shapiro's lease expiring in November 2015. Now, 647 Valencia Street property owners (and Elbo Room founders) Dennis
SF News Mission Shootings Injure Six In 15 Minutes, Narrowly Miss Bystanders At least six people were injured in two shootings in the Mission last night. According to the San Francisco Police Department, as of this morning, no suspects are in custody, and police are
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Circolo / Gordon's House Of Fine Eats Space Is On The Market Again In The Mission A space that was home to one of the most popular restaurants of the first dot-com boom, but which has since become a bit of a cursed spot ever since, is on the
SF News SFPD Arrests 35, Seeks Photos Of Even More Law-Breaking SF Giants Revelers Mission Explodes from Brian Emerick on Vimeo. The numbers are in! According to San Francisco Police Department Chief Greg Suhr, 35 people were arrested in the melee following the SF Giants World Series
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Scenes Of Peaceful Revelry In North Beach, Castro, Mission Sure, a couple people got shot, a bus got trashed, and stuff got lit on fire. And that may reflect poorly on our city, but what did you expect? There were still many
Arts & Entertainment IT'S DONE: San Francisco Giants Take The World Series For Third Time In Five Years A lot of people said this would go to seven games. And a lot of people thought the Giants would win. A lot of other people thought the Royals would pull it out
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Luna Park Finally Closing; PlumpJack Team To Turn It Into A Bar I don't know about you, but Luna Park (694 Valencia Street) has been one of those longstanding, mediocre Mission restaurants that always makes me go "That's still there?" So suffice it to say
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oh No! The Lexington Club To Close After 18 Years [Updated] Bad news for the LGBT community: The city's only, long-standing, dedicated bar for gay women*, The Lexington Club (3464 19th Street), is getting sold and sounds likely to close very soon. In a
SF News Warning: Homophobic Loon Let Loose Again On Mission Streets A guy who's been in jail on hate crime charges since July, stemming from an incident involving some shouty hate speech at Arizmendi Bakery that escalated into threats of violence, is expected to
SF News The Tension Over Soccer Fields Is Not About Tech Bros, It's Too Few Fields, Says Chron Everyone got real up in arms over the video those Dropbox and Airbnb dudes who have since apologized squabbling with local kids over the rules governing the Mission Playground soccer field. As we
