SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Che Fico Is Closing Its Downstairs Alimentari, Replacing It With To-Go Counter It's a third pivot for the space downstairs from Che Fico, where Che Fico Alimentari will be calling it quits on May 9 to make way for a more high-volume to-go operation and more private dining space.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Brunch Spot Called Early to Rise Set to Open Next Month In Former Automat Space Another pop-up-turned-brick-and-mortar business is taking over the space that formerly housed Automat in the NoPa neighborhood, and it comes from a former chef at Spruce and Quince.
SF News Three-Alarm Fire In NoPa Leads to Multiple Injuries, Several Buildings Impacted Around one hundred San Francisco firefighters were on the scene of a residential fire in the Western Addition/NoPa neighborhood Monday morning, and one person was hospitalized with injuries after jumping from the burning building.
SF News NoPa Home Featured on ‘Hoarders’ Sells For $500K Over Asking, Despite Atrocious Conditions A Lyon Street house that made for a very depressing segment on A&E’s ‘Hoarders’ just sold for $1.2 million ($500,000 over its asking price), even though it still very much looked and smelled like a house that had been featured on ‘Hoarders.’
SF News [Updates] Three-Alarm Apartment Fire Injures Three, Displaces 13 at McAllister and Divisadero The news copters were out and traffic was being diverted around busy Divisadero Street in San Francisco's NoPa neighborhood due to a two-alarm apartment fire on McAllister Street.
SF News Bicyclist Sustains Life-Threatening Injuries After Accident Near Panhandle A bicyclist is in rough shape after getting into a crash near the Panhandle of Golden Gate Park Thursday afternoon.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Pandemic Broke Up the Partnership Behind Nopa, But Now Chef Laurence Jossel Is Happy He Kept the Place Alive 15-year-old Nopa, the beloved Divisadero restaurant that in many ways kicked off a new (and gentrified) era for the corridor when it debuted in 2006, survived the pandemic by slinging takeout pork chops and burgers.
SF News Deplorable Teens Shake Down Muni Passenger For Shoes A teenage boy had a rough ride on Muni Friday, when a group of fellow teens demanded his shoes at gun and knifepoint. Police say the crime went down at 9:40 p.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nopa Cuts Back Late-Night Dining Hours Say it ain't so, Nopa! The acclaimed Divisadero restaurant whose late night service, heretofore until 1 a.m., has been a staple among industry insiders and bourgeoisie burger lovers, is changing it up,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Souvla 2.0 Now Open On Divis For Gyros, Greek Froyo, And Backyard Patio Dining Where a location of Herbivore once sat on Divis, now spit-fired meats reign at Souvla, the second location of the supes pops casual (but organically priced) Greek souvlaki spot. Doors appear to have
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink What SF Restaurant Owners Are Saying About The Current Restaurant 'Bubble' Valencia Street probably already hit "peak restaurant" last year, and if you believe chef and restaurateur Dennis Leary (The Sentinel, Golden West, House of Shields), so did the rest of the city. San
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Note To Yelp: Stop Trying To Make 'DivCo' Happen Back in the heyday of the Bold Italic, the website and its events team tried to do a "micro-hoods" thing where they rechristened familiar sections of the city with their own, non-realtor-approved monikers
SF News Sixteen Displaced, One Injured In Three-Alarm Fulton Street Fire In #SF right now a major fire on Fulton between Baker and Lyon pic.twitter.com/SBp4YziJaD— Chris Golden (@chrisgolden) February 14, 2016 Sixteen people have been displaced and a young boy injured
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Jay's Cheesesteak Closing On Divis, Namu Gaji Spinoff On Its Way The latest development in the Valencia-fi-cation of Divisadero: A Namu Gaji spinoff called Namu Claypot is headed for the space currently occupied by a very non-gentrifier spot, Jay's Cheesesteak & Burgers (553 Divisadero)
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Once Upon A Time, The Nopa Space Almost Became A Blockbuster Video It's kind of amazing the way neighborhoods morph and change over time, some for better and some for worse, sometimes incrementally and sometimes pretty quickly. The last five years, for instance, has seen
SF News Mastiff Attacks Infant In Panhandle-Area Home A Panhandle pup is in the doghouse this morning after it took a bite out of an infant Wednesday, but before you freak out and close the tab, don't worry: the baby should
SF News Ed Lee Has A Mayoral Opponent: Amy Farah Weiss, The YIMBY We haven’t had a notable non-establishment candidate for mayor in this town since 2007 when Chicken John and Josh Wolf both cracked 1%. But those guys didn’t have the fortune to
SF News One Man Dead, Another Injured After Shootings In NoPa, North Beach Two shootings in San Francisco this weekend have left one man injured, another dead, and no suspects in custody. According to San Francisco Police Department spokesperson Officer Gordon Shyy, police were called to
SF News Cyclists Are Getting Attacked, Robbed Of Bikes In The Panhandle We mentioned this briefly last week, but now there's been a community meeting in which SFPD's Park Station police confirmed there had been six separate incidents of violent bike thievery in the Panhandle
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now You Can Buy And Sell S.F. Restaurant Reservations Too The increasingly distasteful "sharing economy," which is becoming more of an "a**hole economy" with every new greed-driven app, takes another step in a distasteful direction with ReservationHop, a site that lets people
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chef Ravi Kapur To Open New Sutter Street Restaurant With Two Nopa Partners Big news from the new-restaurant front: Long dormant S.F. chef Ravi Kapur (Boulevard, Prospect) has slowly put together his own project for a couple of years now. Today the Chron reports that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Best Cocktails In San Francisco Part of the problem with compiling any list of favorite cocktails is that the research will usually result in some slight short term memory loss. With more celebrated cocktail bars than this city
SF News Photos: Muni Bus Crashes Into Car At Fell & Masonic At around 6:30 today, a Muni bus crashed into a car at Masonic and Fell. An SFist reader, who has asked to remain anonymous, sent us these photos and the following description
SF News Woman Shot Near McAllister & Divisadero, Street Riddled With Bullet Holes [Updates] Last night around 10:15 p.m. a 26-year-old woman was shot on McAllister Street near the intersection with Divisadero. Haighteration reports neighbors in the area heard five or six "large caliber" shots
SF News Bay To Breakers: Man Dies After Fall From Apartment Building Roof [Updated] During a Bay to Breakers party at 2040 Fell Street, a man suffered life-threatening injuries after falling from a roof on Sunday afternoon. He fell four stories from the top of the Panhandle-adjacent
