SF News First Crime-Related Embarrassment of APEC: Czech News Crew Robbed A Czech news crew who came to San Francisco to cover the APEC summit and drove around Sunday shooting B-roll of charming scenes like the Painted Ladies in Alamo Square was robbed of their camera equipment in North Beach.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Park Tavern In North Beach Gets Eviction Notice, Owner Says It's Staying Open There's been some financial drama at one of North Beach's biggest restaurants in recent weeks, and only five months into a long-awaited reopening, the restaurant was served an eviction notice this week.
SF News Suspect In North Beach Assault, Pipe-Bomb-Throwing Had Federal Bomb Conviction, Domestic Violence History The suspect has now been named in Sunday's bizarre incident that began in North Beach and led to a police chase across the Bay that included improvised explosives.
SF News Man Suspected of Assault In SF Church Allegedly Tossed Multiple Explosives Out of His Car, Led Authorities on Chase Across the Bay A wacky story involving a chase from San Francisco deep into Contra Costa County began unfolding Sunday evening in North Beach, when a suspect allegedly assaulted a parishioner at Saints Peter and Paul Church on Filbert Street.
SF News Cruise Cars Get Into Robo-Traffic Jam In North Beach Friday, Caused By Outside Lands-Related 'Connectivity Issues' Just one day after autonomous car expansion was approved in SF, a bunch of Cruise self-driving cars snarled traffic in North Beach Friday night — and it's all on video.
SF News Fire at North Beach's Historic Liguria Bakery Quickly Contained There was an oven fire Friday morning at Liguria Bakery in North Beach, and while it sounds like it was quickly extinguished, the extent of any damage is not known.
SF News SFMTA Lowers the Speed Limit to 20 MPH on Nearly Two Dozen SF Streets Several streets in Chinatown, Fisherman’s Wharf, North Beach, and Union Square just got their speed limits lowered from 25 to 20 mph, despite arguments that drivers ignore city speed limits and police don’t enforce them anyway.
SF News Four Arrested for April North Beach Shooting That Killed One, Injured Four Others The first reported North Beach shooting in years was in late April near “strip club row,” and SFPD has now arrested four suspects, one of whom was also shot during the incident.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Quince Team Opens Salon and Private Event Space In Former Cookhouse In North Beach As Michelin three-star Quince prepares to reopen this summer and celebrate its 20th birthday, owners Lindsay and Michael Tusk have announced the opening of their new private event space and test kitchen upstairs from Vesuvio in North Beach.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Flour + Water Pizzeria Gets North Beach Opening Date The much anticipated new Flour + Water Pizzeria in North Beach is opening in two weeks, and it will be the first new blood on a busy stretch of Columbus Avenue in many years.
Sponsored Dive into the Vibrant and Culturally Rich 67th Annual North Beach Festival San Francisco's renowned North Beach neighborhood, also referred to as Little Italy, is preparing to celebrate its vibrant history and the cultural melting pot it is today at the 67th Annual North Beach Festival taking place on Father's Day weekend, June 17th and 18th.
SF News SFPD Finds Large Haul of Guns and Drugs While Arresting Suspected Illegal Gun Suppliers In North Beach An SF man was arrested for firing shots at police on two occasions in January, and the ongoing investigation led SFPD to the North Beach home of an alleged gun supplier, and boy did they find guns and drugs while searching his residence.
SF News Man Stabbed Multiple Times Near North Beach, Suspect In Custody A Monday night stabbing at Broadway and Battery Street has left one man hospitalized, but the suspect was still at the scene when police arrived, and was taken into custody.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Pizza, Bagel & Beer Fest Launching In North Beach In August A new food festival for the carb-crazed is coming to North Beach this summer, and it's being organized by none other than Tony Gemignani, of Tony's Pizza Napoletana fame.
SF News North Beach Shooting Happened During Attempted Mugging, One Suspect Now In Custody San Francisco police now seem to know the outlines of what occurred Sunday night near the Condor Club in North Beach, when five people ended up with gunshot wounds, one of them fatal. And one suspect has been arrested.
SF News [Update] Sunday Night Shooting In North Beach Leaves One Dead, Four Wounded There was a shooting or shootout of some kind Sunday night at the busy intersection of Columbus Avenue and Broadway in San Francisco's North Beach, and a preliminary investigation has found five victims, one of them deceased.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Park Tavern Set to Reopen In North Beach, Following Lengthy Renovation While open briefly during the pandemic, North Beach's once bustling brasserie Park Tavern has been closed for more than a year and a half. But that is about to change — and there's a new executive chef in the kitchen.
Arts & Entertainment New Carol Doda Mural Now On Display Outside North Beach Bistro Bodega Groundbreaking exotic dancer Carol Doda, once known as "the new Twin Peaks of San Francisco," now graces the peaks of North Beach, as the nation’s first topless dancer receives tribute in a new outdoor mural at Columbus Avenue and Filbert Street.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Condor Club In North Beach Seeks Legacy Status The judge in Santa Clara Co. Sheriff Laurie Smith's corruption trial won't dismiss the charges even though she resigned, a Capitol Corridor train collided with a Tesla, and the notorious Condor Club wants Legacy Business status.
Arts & Entertainment Italian American Heritage Parade Returns to North Beach Sunday for Its 154th Year It’s Fernet-Branca shots, Peronis, and parade floats all around on Sunday, as the “oldest continuously running Italian heritage parade” in America returns to North Beach, amid another weekend chock-full of activities.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Flour + Water Pizzeria Not Gone For Good, Will Open 'Flagship' Location In North Beach, and Multiple To-Go Spots The original Flour + Water Pizzeria on Valencia has rebranded as Yellow Moto Pizzeria following an ownership split, but that doesn't mean that Flour + Water Pizzeria as a concept is dead.
SF News Car Theft and Burglary Suspect Injures Multiple People While Trying to Flee Police In San Francisco A suspect believed to be connected to multiple recent auto burglaries in the North Beach area and whom police say they found driving a stolen vehicle in the vicinity on Tuesday, now faces multiple possible charges stemming from a reckless chase through the city.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink El Farolito Is Coming to North Beach After All The North Beach El Farolito is suddenly expected to open “any day now,” as after an eight-month battle over SF formula retail rules, a compromise deal has greased the skids for the taqueria to open near Grant Avenue and Broadway.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin-Starred Coi, Daniel Patterson's Flagship, Shutters After 16 Years In North Beach Chef Daniel Patterson, one of the Bay Area food world's most celebrated innovators, has seen his restaurant footprint shrink considerably in recent years. And now, sadly, his longtime fine-dining flagship, Coi, has permanently closed.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Stinking Rose Will Reopen One Block Up the Street, Under the Same Ownership The North Beach restaurant beloved for putting way too much garlic on everything will head one block up Columbus Avenue, and reopen this coming Monday.
