SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Kennedy's Irish Pub Remains Open After Announcing Closure Nearly two months after it supposedly was closing for good after over 20 years in business, Kennedy's Irish Pub and Curry House mysteriously soldiers on in North Beach.
Arts & Entertainment Washington Square Park Reopens After Six-Month Renovation North Beach's jewel of a green space, Washington Square Park, reopens to the public today following a six-month rehab project by Rec & Parks that included upgraded irrigation and drainage systems.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tosca 3.0 Opening Delayed Until March, Space Used For Private Events For Now The legendary and beloved Tosca Cafe in North Beach won't be making it open by year's end, as the team continues to wait for the liquor license to officially transfer from the previous ownership.
SF News Truffle Store Assault Suspect Released From Jail Due To Lack Of Evidence A charging decision has been put on hold in a North Beach assault case that made the news this week, which means that the suspect in the case is a free man.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink North Beach Chocolate Shop Owner Attacked and Strangled, Saved By Son The owner of a popular truffle shop in North Beach says he was being strangled by an allegedly homeless man outside his store on Monday, and the attacker only relented when the owner's son came out with a baseball bat.
SF News Washington Square Park Takes Its Turn For Six-Month Closure, Upgrades Following on the renovations in recent years of Alamo Square and Dolores Parks, North Beach's Washington Square Park is now taking its turn — specifically to upgrade a 65-plus-year-old irrigation system that was wasting more water than any other city park.
SF News Five Reasons Why The Castro And North Beach Have So Many Vacant Storefronts San Francisco's retail vacancy problem has become a source of persistent blight in the neighborhoods of North Beach and Castro over the last five years, despite a booming local economy. What gives?
Arts & Entertainment Even Lawrence Ferlinghetti Can't Save 'Poets Plaza' Plan In North Beach A long discussed, previously quashed plan to close down a block of Vallejo Street in North Beach in front of the Church of St. Francis from Assisi to create Piazza Saint Francis, The
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Salzburg, A New Austrian-Style Wine Bar, Debuts In North Beach Debuting on Tuesday, October 3, is The Salzburg, a much anticipated new Austrian-themed wine bar project from the team behind nearby spots Union Larder and Little Vine. Hoodline first had word of the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cops Blame Bottle Service For North Beach Club's Ongoing Problem With Street Fights Hue, the nightclub on Broadway in North Beach that was formerly known as Atmosphere, continues to be a headache for neighbors and the SFPD, with the sidewalk outside the club being the scene
SF News Day Around The Bay: More SF Strip Club Patrons Say They Were Scammed Remember the story from a couple months ago involving strip club patrons in North Beach saying they were being scammed and overcharged, sometimes while drunk? Well, even more male victims have come forward,
SF News Man Robbed At Gunpoint On Union Street A man was robbed by a gun-wielding duo Wednesday night, as he stood near his parked car on a quiet SF street. Police say that the mugging went down at 11:40 p.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Noc Noc's North Beach Location Is Up For Sale Billed as a "turn-key craft beer / wine bar," the Noc Noc on Broadway is up for grabs. It looks like the owners of Lower Haight mainstay the Noc Noc are giving up on
SF News 'Hot Cop Of The Castro' Chris Kohrs Settles Civil Case In 2015 Hit And Run This is just a brief update in the ongoing legal proceedings against Hot Cop of the Castro Christopher Kohrs relating to a hit-and-run incident in North Beach shortly after Thanksgiving 2015, which injured
SF News And This Is Why You Don't Play With Swords Two guys who apparently didn't know that swords can be deadly weapons learned that one the hard way Friday, after an incident of bladed horseplay sent one man to the hospital and the
SF News North Beach Neighbors' Anger Grows As More Brawls Spill Out Of Hue Nightclub Hue Lounge & Nightclub, the relatively recent replacement for what was formerly known as Atmosphere at 447 Broadway, has been the site of some unruly sidewalk situations in recent months, most recently a
SF News [Updated] 21-Year-Old Man Fatally Shot In North Beach A 21-year-old man was fatally shot in the face early Saturday near the intersection of Grant and Green Streets in North Beach. As KRON 4 notes, "The area is known for its bar
SF News Four SF Strip Clubs Implicated In Alleged Scheme To Overcharge Drunk Patrons The strip club business has made a long tradition of preying upon the horniness and poor judgement of drunk men and business tourists, charging sometimes enormous sums for lap dances and such which
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mr. Bing's Destroyed Into Clean, Normal Bar Mr. Bing's, a destination for cheap boozers who like games of liar's dice, general squalor, and cheap alcohol, is gone as we knew it. It's been gutted and replaced with a normal, decent-smelling,
SF News Hate Crime Alleged As San Francisco's Giant Menorah Is Stolen #stolenmenorah taken over the weekend from SF Washington Square story @nbcbayarea pic.twitter.com/9E2k3KcGAp— Mark Matthews (@MarkMatthewsNBC) December 26, 2016 In an act that some local religious leaders are calling a hate
SF News Photos And Video From A Very Soggy SantaCon 2016 Santas Galore, @ellagreeneyes get yer a55 up here!! #SantaCon2016 #SantaConSF pic.twitter.com/k09MAH1lmh— Betsy (@studio_gal) December 10, 2016 The annual virus tradition of drunken holiday cheer known as SantaCon went down
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bars To Avoid Like The Plague During Santacon On Saturday Because It's The Actual Plague Isn't it about time that San Francisco passed common sense Santacon laws? I'm talking, of course, about a complete ban. If you're blissfully unaware of the annual scourge, allow me to ruin your
SF News Woman Paralyzed By Falling Tree Branch Files Suit Against City Emma Zhou suffered a skull fracture, brain injury, and severed spinal cord after a 100-pound tree limb fell on her head while she sat on a bench in Washington Square Park watching her
SF News Russian VC Buys North Beach Church For $7M, Plans 'Innovation Center' A church in North Beach is set for a very modern rebirth following its purchase by a Russian venture capitalist. Instead of a christian place of worship, as Our Lady of Guadalupe Church
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Specs' Owner Richard 'Specs' Simmons Dies At 88 In 1968, beloved bespectacled barkeep Richard 'Specs' Simmons bought a down-and-out North Beach watering hole and made it Specs'. Now the bar outlives its owner and namesake: Simmons died on Wednesday morning at
