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.
SF News Hunter Pence Joins Volunteer Group Cleaning Up Trash in North Beach and Chinatown Four-time all-star and two-time world champ Hunter Pence came out of right field to help with a community trash pick, for a group that does this three or four times a week.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink North Beach Restaurant Also Gets Heaps of Hate After Being Mistaken For Place That Turned Away Cops It should surprise no one that online pitchfork mobs tend not to read very carefully or get their facts straight.
SF News Stanley Roberts Wrongly Identified As Owner of Restaurant That Refused to Serve Police, Gets Swarmed By Trolls Veteran journalist Stanley Roberts broke the story of a North Beach cafe refusing to seat on-duty police. The right-wing blogosphere wrongly reported Roberts actually owned the restaurant, and he’s been served heaping helpings of online harassment ever since.
SF News SF Restaurant Refuses Service to Police Officers, Weapons Made Staff 'Uncomfortable' On Friday, the new brunch spot Hilda and Jesse in North Beach asked three uniformed, armed SF police officers to leave the establishment shortly after they were seated; employees were cited as being "uncomfortable with the presence of their multiple weapons."
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink North Beach’s Historic Comstock Saloon Reopening ‘In a Few Weeks’ The vintage 1907 throwback bar will be pouring their famed Barkeep’s Whimsy again soon, though an initially reported reopening date of October 19 may no longer be operable.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Could the El Farolito Debate Finally Move the Needle on SF's Formula Retail Rules? It might take San Francisco's boundless passion for burritos to finally force some changes to the city's rules around chain restaurants and retail — and when the retail landscape continues to look dismal in once thriving neighborhoods, maybe we should be rethinking this altogether.
Arts & Entertainment Parades are Back, as Italian Heritage Parade Returns to North Beach in October The nation’s “oldest continuously running Italian heritage parade” returns October 10, the first major parade to float the idea since COVID hit.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink An El Farolito is Coming to North Beach The famed “Mission burrito” of El Farolito is making its way to North Beach, a super culinary development that expands the taqueria’s bright yellow SF footprint beyond the Mission District.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink North Beach Restaurant Throwing ‘Shark Week Party’ Thursday Night Just when you thought it was safe to go back to North Beach, the Detroit and Chicago-style pizzeria Capo’s is setting off a frenzy with a Discovery Channel meetup Shark Week Party.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink All-Day Breakfast Restaurant Hilda and Jesse Coming to North Beach A new all-day breakfast restaurant from a pair of local restaurant vets, which began as a pop-up, has found a permanent, brick-and-mortar location in North Beach.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Retired Boxer Gets Misdemeanor Citation In Alleged Attack on Filipino Teen Outside Gino & Carlo Bar In North Beach A story broke over the weekend that was initially characterized as another anti-Asian attack, this time outside a famed North Beach bar, with a victim who was 18 years old, but it appears to have been more of an interpersonal conflict.
Arts & Entertainment Circus-Themed Show By Pickle Family Circus Vet Reportedly Set to Take Over 'Beach Blanket Babylon' Venue Club Fugazi A well known circus creator has reportedly inked a deal to take over Club Fugazi in North Beach, the longtime home of Beach Blanket Babylon before its New Year's Eve 2019 closure.
SF News Catholic Priest at SF's Saints Peter and Paul Church Dies From COVID-19 The saga of the Catholic Church in San Francisco during this pandemic has led to a high-profile tragedy this week as we learn of the death of one of the priests at Saints Peter and Paul Church in North Beach.
SF News COVID Outbreak Hits North Beach Catholic Church That Hosted Illegal Wedding A San Francisco church that violated state and local public health orders to host an indoor wedding ceremony with about 100 people last July — only to be caught in the act by city officials — is now the center of a COVID outbreak in its rectory.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tacolicious Announces Closure of North Beach, San Jose Locations Growing local taco restaurant empire Tacolicious has permanently closed two of its locations, the owners say, due to the pandemic and the economic climate. The seven-year-old North Beach location and the Tacolicious at Santana Row in San Jose are no more.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New 'Trash Pizza' Spot Headed for North Beach Focuses On Using Food Waste A new restaurant focused on the sustainable practice of cooking with foods that would otherwise be discarded is planning an opening in San Francisco's North Beach.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tosca Cafe Reopens for Outdoor Dining (For Real) in North Beach, Under New Owners The saga of North Beach's landmark Tosca Cafe — which eight years ago appeared in danger of closing forever, only to be saved once, close again, and be saved yet again by a well known trio of new owners last year — is turning another page this week.
SF News Rash of Home Burglaries Rattles North Beach, Other SF Neighborhoods San Francisco residents in multiple neighborhoods report signs and stories of multiple burglaries, as thieves may be trying to take advantage of a large percentage of residents who have temporarily fled the city.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Owner of Trattoria Pinocchio in North Beach Posts Problematic Signs, Calls San Francisco a 'Cesspool' Trattoria Pinocchio, a North Beach eatery known for plating authentic Sicilian dishes, served up a side of hate speech this week after the owner posted a slew of problematic signs on the restaurant’s windows.
SF News SF Catholic Church Being Blamed For Allowing 100-Person Wedding Where At Least 10 Were Infected With COVID-19 A wedding that had been rescheduled from April to the July 4th weekend at the landmark Saints Peter and Paul’s Church in North Beach was crashed by city officials as the bride and groom's families pressed ahead with having 100 people attending indoors.
Arts & Entertainment After Years of Protest and Vandalism, Columbus Statue Is Removed From Telegraph Hill As recently as October, Supervisor Aaron Peskin was vowing to prosecute the vandals who tossed red paint all over the statue of Christopher Columbus near Coit Tower. But now it's gone. Will Columbus Avenue be next?
