SF Restaurants, Food & Drink While You Wait: Sotto Mare photo credit: zemistor via photopin cc People in San Francisco like waiting in line for food (a lot). Sometimes, that wait is worth it. While You Wait, SFist's guide for how to pass
SF News Central Subway Rat Army Now Invading North Beach The army of rats that plagued work sites along the $1.578 billion Central Subway route in SoMa has apparently grown in strength as construction moves into North Beach. Residents in the neighborhood,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink While You Wait: Tosca (By Lauren Sloss) Apparently, people in San Francisco like waiting in lines for food (a lot). Sometimes, that wait is worth it. Introducing While You Wait, a guide for how to pass the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mama's Expands Their Brunch Empire In North Beach Ever-popular breakfast and brunch spot Mama's (one of SFist's top ten) is finally going to expand beyond their cozy 35-seat establishment in North Beach with a second location not that far away, at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Lusty Lady Has Been Gutted, Will Become New Cocktail Bar From Tosca Crew In the roughly six months since the Lusty Lady slid her partitions closed for the last time, the noted North Beach worker-owned peep show has been stripped of its former neon glow. In
SF News San Francisco's Cheapest Hotel Is (No Surprise) Not Fit For Humans At the Europa Hotel in North Beach (310 Columbus Avenue) you can get a room for the night starting around $36, which is basically unheard of in this town. But guess what? You
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: North Beach Bohemian Chic bohemian in North Beach, shot by Travis Jensen.
SF News Legendary North Beach Stripper Carol Doda Arrested For Alleged DUI Storied stripper and living legend Carol Doda, who single-handedly defined North Beach's red light district of the 1960s, was arrested Saturday night on suspicion of drunk driving after her car collided with a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Take A Look At The New Tosca, Its New Chef, And New Food We've all been waiting the last five months to see what New Yorkers Ken Friedman and April Bloomfield have done to the inside of the well loved, and elegantly decayed Tosca Café in
Arts & Entertainment You Ever Wanted To Be In 'Beach Blanket Babylon'? Now's Your Chance Get out your sheet music, all ye showpeople. It's audition time for S.F.'s ever so long-running, ever-changing, pop-culture- and political-referencing revue Beach Blanket Babylon, so now's your chance to become a
Arts & Entertainment Tim Burton Transforms North Beach Into 1950s San Francisco This morning crews on the set of Big Eyes, a forthcoming film from director Tim Burton, transformed Grant Avenue into a scene right out of 1950s San Francisco. The film, tentatively set to
Arts & Entertainment Video: Romolo Claims Another Victim For your late-afternoon, slow-news-day amusement, this delivery truck done got itself stuck on Romolo Place in North Beach. According to Chad Fox, who caught the footage above, the siren song of Romolo tempts
SF News The Lusty Lady To Close In Two Weeks San Francisco's celebrated, unionized and worker-owned peep show the Lusty Lady will close its doors in just two weeks on September 2nd. According to the co-op, which broke the news on Facebook and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Restaurant And Bar Coming To Old Purple Onion Space Legendary North Beach comedy venue The Purple Onion closed last fall after 60 years in business, and in its place, this fall, will be a new restaurant on the main level (above the
SF News Elderly Man Attacked In North Beach An older man was found just after midnight last night in an alcove on Columbus Avenue suffering from severe head trauma. This was on the 900 block of Columbus, between Chestnut and Lombard,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Do This Tonight: Boozy Gelato Happy Hour Mondays can be rough, and sometimes it takes a stiff drink or a creamy pint of ice cream to shake off the beginning-of-the-week blues. Tonight, you won't have to choose between alcohol or
Arts & Entertainment Go Hear This Tonight: Sandra Bernhard Although an LA Times review recently (and somewhat oddly) described Sandra Bernhard as "a walking-talking blogger before blogs were invented," you won't find any cat GIFs or food porn at her one-woman show,
SF News Homeless Man Les Rowe, Former North Beach Fixture, Returning To Georgia A homeless man known to many North Beach residents just as Les will finally be heading back home to friends and family in Georgia after spending a year hospitalized following a hit-and-run accident.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: Eric Ross' Award-Winning Pizza Acrobatics This past weekend in Las Vegas at the annual World Pizza Games, Eric Ross from Tony's Coal Fired Pizza & Slice House took top honors. Ross won first place in his division. He
SF News Video: Massive Brawl Breaks Out In North Beach The trash that collects in North Beach on weekend nights is a sight to behold. Take, for example, the fight that broke out early Sunday morning after the clubs closed. While no one
SF News Check Out This Awesome '60s Sign Unearthed Beneath Awning In North Beach Friend of SFist Chad Fox just snapped this photo of a ca. 1968 sign for a hippie women's clothing boutique called Middle Earth at 1317 Grant Avenue in North Beach. Middle Earth, as
