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
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,
