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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sean Penn Saves Tosca (Sort Of) Big, wonderful news in the bar world today, folks. Business Times reports today that iconic North Beach bar Tosca (242 Columbus) will receive new owners. Furthermore, a Michelin-starred chef will be in charge.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Important Sandwich News: HRD Coffee Shop Expanding To North Beach HRD Coffee Shop, the home of one life-altering Mongolian Beef Cheesesteak, is expanding beyond their tiny dive-diner space at Third and Bryant Streets in SoMa. Inside Scoop reports the second iteration, called HRD
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Txoko To Close At Year's End Alas. The nearly unpronounceable Txoko, which took over the historic Enrico's spot in North Beach, announced that it will close this week. Though they did unfurl some damn noteworthy grub -- we slammed
SF News Central Subway to Extend to North Beach? Amid lawsuit threats and much hemming and hawing from local businesses, Muni chief Ed Reiskin has a new proposal for the Central Subway. Rather than opening up the subway tunnel at the Chinatown
SF News High Heels Cause Beat Down In North Beach Early Monday morning, around 1 a.m. in the lap of North Beach's carnal corner at Columbus and Broadway, two ladythugs assaulted a woman with her own high-heeled shoes. The 24-year-old victim had
Arts & Entertainment Everything's Happening This Weekend: Anti-Colonialism, Columbus Day Parade Can you hear them? Shhhh. Hear that? They're coming. No, they're coming. Damn tourists. And there's nowhere to hide. Quick review SFist's "How To Walk On The Sidewalk Like A Reasonable Human Being,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eat Here Tonight: Park Tavern With visions of a crystalline diamond-cut iPhone 5 dancing in your head, a food truck or (vile) taqueria won't do. They just won't do. You need something chic (but not too chic since
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tosca Landlord Just Wants A Less Surly Bar Owner Tosca Café, the classic North Beach watering hole threatened with eviction after allegedly not paying rent for the past decade or so, was officially served an eviction notice by landlord and strip club
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Legendary Tosca Cafe Faces Eviction From Strip Club Magnate In terms of drinking holes going down the drain in San Francisco, the city has managed to band together long enough to save the Tonga Room, and maybe even make some improvements on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photo Du Jour: Molinari Delicatessen "Molinari Delicatessen" by Demetrios Lyras.
Arts & Entertainment Look at These Whimsical Art Fliers We Found in North Beach We came across these fliers on Thursday in North Beach at Columbus and Taylor. We're not sure who created them, but they sure are exciting. Also, as Haighteration has pointed out, they've been
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: A Tour of North Beach By Night Mondays are the real sacred days of the week. Your friends who work in the service industry know this to be true, as their only competition for cafe and laundromat space remains moms,
SF News NIMBY Watch: North Beach Folks Want to Stop/Stall Central Subway Construction It wouldn't be Monday in San Francisco without a tale of a construction project that someone, somewhere is going to fight tooth and nail to stop. Work is beginning on the North Beach
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fior d'Italia Closes After 126 Years Billed as the oldest Italian restaurant in the country, North Beach staple Fior d'Italia closed its doors for good, reports the Chronicle. The restaurant survived several disasters, including the Great Quake of 1906
SF News North Beach SUV Hit-Run Suspect Sought Police need the public's help in finding the person who struck an elderly man on Saturday night and then fled the scene. A 62-year-old man was walking east across Columbus Street "outside of
SF News The Lusty Lady Threatened By Worker Disagreements The Lusty Lady Theater, San Francisco and the world's only strip club cooperatively owned and operated by the women entertainers themselves, stands in danger of coming apart at the seams. As Uptown Almanac
Arts & Entertainment Everyone Hates Party Buses Drunken hordes descend on North Beach every weekend, but they're not all recently graduated frat boys and brogrammers from the Marina tripping their way down Broadway from Polk Street. A lot of them
