SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bubble Lounge Shutters After 17 Years In North Beach Bachelorette-party planners across the Bay Area are weeping over the news that Bubble Lounge is ending its 17-year run on Montgomery Street in North Beach. The place was mega-trendy circa the dot-com boom
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Acquolina Opens In North Beach New Tuscan-inspired Italian spot Acquolina (which means "mouth-watering" in Italian) has just quietly swung open its doors in North Beach as SFist can exclusively report. The restaurant is an all-day cafe with a
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: 'Fifty Years of San Francisco Street Photography' You ever come across a vintage San Francisco photograph that gives you gasps, goosebumps and throbs of nostalgic fascination? There will be an entire gallery of photographs like that at the upcoming exhibit
SF News Couple Unwittingly Swipes $5500 Artwork From North Beach Alley Everyone knows the laws of the street score, right? If you see something — furniture, books, art, even clothing — sitting unattended out by the curb and it's not someone moving or a garage sale,
SF News SF's Third Fatal Fire This Year: Elderly Man Killed In North Beach Blaze An elderly man was killed in a North Beach fire Thursday night, the third fatal blaze in San Francisco this year. According to the San Francisco Fire Department, crews were called to 1050
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Updated] North Beach's Beloved Capp's Corner To Close Resident Chronicle old-timer Carl Nolte reported over the weekend on a threat to longtime North Beach spot Capp's Corner, originally named for former owner Joe Caporale. The place isn't quite as old as
Arts & Entertainment Lawrence Ferlinghetti Reflects On How SF Has Changed Over His 64 Years Here Beat poet and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti has seen San Francisco through many eras of change. Arriving here in 1951 at the age of 31, the 95-year-old North Beach resident knew the city at
SF News Violent Morning: Head And Back Stabbings In North Beach, Knife Attack On Muni Bus It's been a stabby week in San Francisco, and it's only Wednesday. In addition to a knife attack over the weekend and a slashing on Tuesday, three more men fell prey to bladed
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Restaurant Trestle, From The Fat Angel/Stones Throw Team, Coming To Jackson Square Today we get news of a cozy new spot coming to a former Chinese restaurant in the Jackson Square/Chinatown vicinity from Hi Neighbor, the newly formed restaurant group that's behind Fat Angel
SF News Mayor Appoints Julie Christensen District 3 Supervisor Ed Lee has taken his time, but now sources tell the Chronicle that the mayor has chosen his choice. Neighborhood activist and businesswoman Julie Christensen will be appointed District 3 Supervisor. She'll be
SF News Suspect Remains On The Loose After Shooting At Coit Tower An 18-year-old man continues to fight for his life Tuesday after an early-morning shooting at Coit Tower. Bay City News reports via CBS5 that the victim, who hasn't been identified, flagged down a
SF News Beloved North Beach Resident Shot By Driver During Crosswalk Dispute Witnesses say Roy Motini got into an argument in a NB crosswalk, hit a car with his cane, and got shot by the driver. pic.twitter.com/aNPO5ltG88— Sergio Quintana (@svqjournalist) December 1,
SF News One Pedestrian Dead, Another Injured In Separate S.F. Collisions One pedestrian has died and another has been hospitalized after two separate vehicle collisions in San Francisco in less than 12 hours. According to San Francisco Police Department spokesperson Officer Gordon Shyy, a
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
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Scenes Of Peaceful Revelry In North Beach, Castro, Mission Sure, a couple people got shot, a bus got trashed, and stuff got lit on fire. And that may reflect poorly on our city, but what did you expect? There were still many
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photo du Jour: Comstock Saloon Asks Customers Not To Drive In Some funny signage has gone up at Comstock Saloon (155 Columbus Avenue) in North Beach, where an out-of-control driver plowed through the front windows and damaged the bar last week. The saloon and
Arts & Entertainment Video: The Full-Length Trailer For Tim Burton's <i>Big Eyes</i> Big Eyes is the story of kitschy big-eyed portrait painter Margaret Keane and her fraud of a husband, Walter Keane, who took credit for all her work in the 1950's and 60's while
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink BMW Slams Into Comstock Saloon In North Beach, Two Injured [Updated] Just before 2 p.m. this afternoon a car went barreling through the front doors of Comstock Saloon on Columbus Avenue, injuring two people though it's unclear if the driver was among the
Arts & Entertainment An Appeal: Save Saturday Jazz At Savoy Tivoli photo credit: Anna L Conti Last week, I wrote an eating and drinking itinerary for a Saturday night screening of Moonrise Kingdom in Washington Square Park. I was gratified by the response from
Arts & Entertainment Your Saturday Night Itinerary: Movie Night In Washington Square Park, Plus Where To Eat And Drink photo credit: a_sorense Your Saturday Night Plan: Grand Budapest Hotel in Washington Square Park, dusk. There's something so charming, so romantic about a movie screening in the park. You cozy up with
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Doc Ricketts Arrives, Emmy's Spaghetti Shack Expands, and More The big news this week (besides the opening of Bandidos) is the arrival of Doc Ricketts (124 Columbus), a new restaurant, and Doc's Lab, a new comedy and music venue that's opening in
SF News When SFPD Is 'Too Busy,' North Beach Bartenders Go Vigilante On Presumed Stroller Thief Of course, confronting an alleged criminal on your own is a terrible idea. But when you see your stolen stuff in the hands of others, and the cops won't help, what are you
SF News Pit Bull And Companion Stabbed In North Beach, Say Attack Was Unprovoked [Updated] Pit bulls have a bad reputation — usually due to some idiot owner — but in the case of an incident this morning in North Beach, a pit bull and his companion did nothing to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Big Food News: Coi To Be First S.F. Restaurant To Launch Ticketing System Daniel Patterson's North Beach fine-dining flagship, Coi, will be among the first U.S. restaurants, and the first in San Francisco, to begin using a dining-ticketing system pioneered by Chicago restaurants Next and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meanwhile, At Coi... Maybe you've heard that Slanted Door and Coi (pronounced "Coi") won some lovely trinkets at last night's James Beard Awards? The former nabbed Best Overall Restaurant in Musical/Comedy, while the latter took
