SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local's Corner And Affiliated Local Mission Market Once Again Targeted For Boycott Remember the controversy and discrimination allegations that erupted over the Local Mission mini-empire earlier this year? Well, embattled owner Yaron Milgrom, who lives within a couple of blocks of his four Mission businesses
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now Open In the Mission: ABV, A Cocktail Bar From Beretta and Bourbon & Branch Alums Open as of yesterday on 16th Street, in the space formerly occupied by Tokyo Go Go, is new cocktail and bar-bite spot, ABV (3174 16th Street). We told you about the project almost
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mexican World Cup Players Return From Brazil, Dine At Papalote Popular Mission Mexican spot Papalote (3409 24th Street) took to Facebook today to shout out the news that members of Mexico's World Cup team Carlos Alberto "Gullit" Peña and José Juan "Gallito" Vázquez
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Amber Dhara Closes After Two Years, Several Rat Problems In some unsurprising restaurant news, perpetually empty, enormous Indian restaurant Amber Dhara (680 Valencia Street) has given up the ghost just a month after its brief, rat-related, Health Department shutdown. The restaurant, which
SF News 9 Suspicious Fires Strike SoMa and Mission In Past 3 Weeks A series of nine, likely related acts of arson have occurred in less than three weeks, most in SoMa around several highrise construction projects, seemingly the work of a firebug who has not
SF News Gang War?: Shooting This Morning At 16th And Dolores An unidentified man in his 30s was shot early this morning at the normally quiet corner of 16th and Dolores Streets, and this is starting to freak everyone out. As Mission Local reports,
SF News 22-Year-Old Shot In Oakland Marks City's 40th Homicide; S.F. at 11 Oakland's homicide rate is creeping up for 2014 but remains lower, and slower to grow, than at this time last year. Four separate shooting incidents yesterday resulted in four injured men, one of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wo Hing Space On Valencia To Become Urchin, From Ame Team The husband-and-wife team of Hiro Sone and Lissa Doumani, who own Ame at the St. Regis and Terra/Bar Terra in St. Helena, have inked a deal to take over the former Wo
SF News New Dolores Park Restroom To Rise From The Ground Next Week This is just a quick update on the ongoing construction happening in the northern half of Dolores Park, but next week is when the concrete trucks arrive! As Dolores Park Works reports, Cara
SF News Mission Development Property Breaks Real Estate Record A development property on 16th between Valencia and Guerrero, the Superior Automotive site at 3150 16th, just sold for $8.7 million in a land deal that may be the highest price ever
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Pie Cart Shuts Down; Local Newspaper Laments Let me tell you the story of Pie Fridays. It was one of those ever so precious San Francisco food phenomena that sprung up near the corner of 19th and Linda Streets in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tamale Lady's 16th Street Shop Due Open By Late Spring As we learned just before the new year, Virginia "Tamale Lady" Ramos is finally going to get her own brick-and-mortar storefront in the Mission which will soon become a go-to tamale destination. Today
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Cat Window Cat window spotted in the Mission, shot by Gerard Livernois.
SF News Hipster Half Of Dolores Park Closes In T-Minus 10 Days Hear ye, hear ye: There's only one more weekend left of a fully open and operational Dolores Park, with the northern half of the park (Hipster Hill, Fixie Flats, tennis courts) closing for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Second Sightglass Coffee Opens, 20th Street Neighborhood Reaches Peak Hipness Sightglass Coffee, the celebrated SoMa coffee temple and preferred hangout of tech media types, opened their second location on 20th Street in the mission this weekend, pushing the neighborhood block into peak hipness.
SF News Alleged Mission Bank Robber Nabbed A 53 year old San Francisco man has been arrested for the robbery of a Mission District bank on Monday, just blocks from the scene of the crime. According to SFPD spokesperson Officer
SF News Mission Bank Robbed Over at 22nd and Mission, where a Wells Fargo and a US Bank compete for your dollars, a rapscallion walked into a bank, handed the teller a note, and casually sauntered out with
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reader Meet-Up Deemed A Roaring Success! Thursday night at Virgil's Sea Room on Mission Street a slew of good looking and well-read people came together to drink beer and eat hamburgers. It was our first SFist reader meet-up since
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, At Virgil's Sea Room... The SFist Reader Meetup is happening! When, you ask? Tonight from 5:30-7:30. Where? I just said, it's at Virgil's Sea Room in the Mission. What's to drink? For starters, $3 Speakeasy
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Elbo Room Might Not Be Long For This World You need to take this with a grain of salt and not go screaming about it on Facebook like it's a done deal, but the people who own the property that the Elbo
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Urban Putt, Miniature Golf Course, Bar, And Restaurant, Set For April Opening In The Mission Get ready, everyone. Miniature golf is coming very soon to 22nd and South Van Ness, and it will come complete with a bar from the Trick Dog team and a full-service restaurant from
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Do This: 6th Annual Slow Crab Dinner [Updated] Photo: Yuichi Sakuraba/Flickr [UPDATE 12/4: The dinner has been cancelled.] It's officially winter, and that means—you guessed it—SantaCon is just around the corner. But don't despair yet: you can
SF News Photo: People Waiting In Line To Buy Stuff Oh really? You're no better. You know, many of you have willingly—and, far worse, pridefully—waited in long lines for a bowl of Sriracha ramen, a scoop of artisan ice cream, or
SF News Bar Fight Leads To Stabbing In The Mission Over yonder in the city's increasingly grating Mission District, a bar fight (possibly stemming from 26 Mix) turned stabby near the intersection of Mission and 26th Street Thursday morning. "Four male suspects are
