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,
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
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
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
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
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
Arts & Entertainment Check Out The Bizarre Outfits Worn At St. Stupid's Day 2012 Here's one thing we like about April Fool's Day, the lamest day of the year: the St. Stupid's Day Parade. On Sunday, the 32th annual St. Stupid&
Arts & Entertainment Scenes From Last Night: Slipping Into The Penthouse Club Opening Last night marked the long-awaited opening of San Francisco's latest den of iniquity and charred meats: The Penthouse Club on Broadway and Montgomery Streets. While San Francisco loves to knock
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink North Beach Scores New Penthouse Club & Steakhouse Fitting for a neighborhood with a seedy past, North Beach will be the proud recipient of the Penthouse Club & Steakhouse, which we told you about in December. Well, now the location has
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Acclaimed North Beach Pizza Chef Opening Second North Beach Italian Eatery Tony Gemignani, the pizza genius behind Tony's Pizza Napoletana in North Beach which was recently called "America's best pizzeria" by USA Today, is opening up a second
SF News Proposed Cab Stands on Broadway Will Help You Vacate North Beach Faster, Possibly Alleviate Crime As part of their ongoing (and some might say misguided) efforts to fix the taxi situation in San Francisco, the Municipal Transportation Agency is fielding proposals for new cab stands spread around town.
SF News SFPD Now Says Broadway Shooting Started With Mistaken Identity Late updates from the SFPD's investigation in to last Sunday's North Beach shooting that put two innocent bystanders in the hospital: The department explained to the Chronicle that the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Anthony Bourdain Also Filmed at Mr. Bing's Today Boy, do we love us some Mr. Bing's in North Beach. In fact, it's where we might or might not have gotten into a heated argument recently with the
SF News Bystander Hit in North Beach Shooting A 40-year-old woman walking home on Francisco Street near Taylor Street in North Beach ended up in SF General Hospital last night after she was hit in the back during a
Arts & Entertainment Celebrate Zoetrope's Summer Issue, July 19 Featuring new fiction from Stuart Dybek, as well as Emily Ruskovich and May-Lan Tan making their literary debuts, the summer issue of Zoetrope features a cover designed by Beck. Yes, that Beck.
SF News Suspicious Fire Displaces 25 North Beach Residents Late last night around 12:40 a.m. a 2-alarm fire was reported on Powell Street between Vallejo and Green in North Beach. SFFD responders had the fire under control by 12:
SF News Man Found Dead From Gunshot Wound In North Beach View Larger Map Police are trying to figure out why a man died in North Beach last night. After authorities were called to a Mason Street jewelry store, police found the body dead
Arts & Entertainment Tonight Addendum: Pop-up Dance Party at Cafe Zoetrope We almost forgot! Before cementing any plans for the evening, we strongly suggest you head over to Coppola headquarters in North Beach for a choice pop-up dance party to help celebrate the