SF News FiDi Restaurant Owners Accused of Using Pandemic Relief Funds to Flip Houses A husband and wife who ran a now defunct SF Financial District lunch spot have been indicted by the feds for improperly using pandemic relief funds for personal expenses, and allegedly laundering a large portion of the money through house flips.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Data Shows San Franciscans Still Aren't Going Out as Much as They Did Pre-Pandemic Y'all are still sitting home, watching Hulu, and feeding your sourdough starters like it's May 2020 — or at least some of you are. And some new data shows that while spending on restaurants and entertainment has fully rebounded from the pandemic in other parts of the country, it still hasn't in SF.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Restaurant Scenes In SF and Chicago Hit Hardest By Pandemic, Says OpenTable A new data set released by reservation-software company OpenTable suggests that San Francisco has fared worse than other major cities in yet another metric of pandemic recovery, and that's restaurant dining.
SF News Study Ranks San Francisco Dead Last In U.S. for Downtown Economic Recoveries Yet another analysis points out the well-reported state of affairs that downtown San Francisco’s economic recovery from the pandemic is awfully sluggish, but this one purports that we’re in last place among 62 North American cities.
Business & Tech Persistent Remote-Work Rules Could Well Kill SF's Downtown Hospitality Scene Economists don't expect that metropolitan areas will see more than half their workers return in-person in the coming years, and that could mean disaster for many small businesses around SF's Financial District and SoMa.
SF News SF Reports First 'Probable' Case of Monkeypox; Possibly Infected Resident Had Traveled to Area With Known Cases San Francisco reported its first suspected case of monkeypox Friday after a resident began displaying symptoms associated with the contagious disease; they are currently self-isolating and have noted they've been in no close contact with anyone during their potentially infectious state.
Arts & Entertainment SF Opens Applications for Grants to Music and Nightlife Venues As promised earlier this year, the first round of grants from SF's Music and Entertainment Venue Recovery Fund is about to beginning taking applications.
SF News San Francisco Mayor Challenges Residents To Buy From Small Businesses, Eschew Amazon or Target, For 30 Days As the city and its small neighborhood businesses attempt to crawl back toward normalcy in the waning months of this pandemic, San Francisco's Mayor London Breed is challenging residents to put themselves on a diet from chain retail, and patronize local businesses only in the month of May.
SF News With Warmer Weather and Drops in COVID-19 Cases, Weekend Crowds Gather Across San Francisco Parks Now that over 40% of San Franciscans have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, some of the city's most popular parks were inundated with warm bodies Saturday — sparking mild concern from some local medical experts.
SF News Bay Area Tenants and Landlords Can Now Apply for Grants to Cover Back Rent From 2020 A state application portal went live Monday for tenants and landlords seeking rental relief grants relating to pandemic hardship — part of a $2.6 billion federally funded aid program in California.
SF News Bay Area Epidemiologist Suggests the Last Year of the Pandemic Was Just One Big 'First Wave' Marin County-based epidemiologist Dr. Larry Brilliant, who offered some prescient warnings last April about not letting up the Bay Area's strict lockdowns for fear of subsequent COVID surges, is back with some dour predictions and words of caution.
SF News Yep... Panic Buying Is Back Across the Bay Area You're not the only one who's noticed empty toilet paper aisles and woefully long grocery store lines in San Francisco (and elsewhere in the Bay Area).
SF News History Reminder: The 1918 Flu Came Roaring Back In January In San Francisco Because People Stopped Wearing Masks Now as we're at least ankle-deep in a growing surge of cases in the Bay Area, it's worth remembering that San Francisco suffered its worst part of the last pandemic after the holidays, in January 1919, when a lot of people were sick of wearing masks.
SF News Bay Area Sees Slight Uptick In COVID Case Counts, Hospitalizations as Three More Counties Enter 'Orange' Tier The Bay Area isn't seeing anything close to what some other states and regions are seeing, and hopefully we will not as flu season arrives. However there are at least small signs of a slight uptick in cases outside of San Francisco in the past week.
SF Politics Pelosi Tears Into Trump Over Revelations That He Openly Admitted to Downplaying Virus Threat Revelations coming from on-the-record interviews that Trump (bafflingly) did with veteran journalist Bob Woodward for his forthcoming book 'Rage' have provided insight into the president's disgustingly flawed approach to the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.
SF News Alameda County Leads Bay Area In Deadliest Two Days of the Pandemic So Far Alameda County added 17 new COVID-related deaths on Wednesday and 21 on Thursday, the highest two-day total of any Bay Area county since the pandemic began.
SF News Pandemic Updates: Bay Area Hospitalizations Drop; SF Restaurateurs Confused By New State Rating System The number of COVID-positive hospitalized patients in the Bay Area declined 27 percent in the month of August, but August was the deadliest month so far in the region since the pandemic began.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Adored Hayes Valley Champagne Bar The Riddler Closes Over Financial Hardships Another day, another shuttered Bay Area restaurant. The Riddler, the esteemed SF champagne bar that matched bubbly with tater tot waffles, announced on Instagram this week they're waving goodbye to their Hayes Valley watering hole — and are now selling their wine selections at half price.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink After 23 Years, SF's Farallon Restaurant Permanently Closes Farallon, the 23-year-old seafood staple near Union Square, has officially closed its doors due to the pandemic — adding its name to the still-growing tally of over 370 restaurants in the San Francisco metro area that have shuttered since March.
SF News 5 Socially Distant Ways To Stay Cool in San Francisco Amid the Record-Breaking Heat Wave It's starting to feel like an early 2000s Nelly song both inside our domiciles and while out running errands. In lieu of air conditioning and open public swimming pools, here are a few socially distant ways to keep yourself cool during this heat wave — that’ll last for at least a few more days.
SF News Pandemic Updates: Bay Area Hospitalizations Drop While SF's Tick Upwards Between Alameda, Contra Costa, and Santa Clara counties alone, 1,123 new cases were added to the Bay Area's cumulative total today, and Friday's increase is the biggest one-day uptick in the region since mid-July.
Arts & Entertainment Strolls Through San Francisco and Oakland Zoos Offer Flashes of Pre-Pandemic Normalcy With zoos in San Francisco and Oakland reopened, attracting sold-out weekend crowds and droves of giddy weekday visitors, spending an afternoon mesmerized by macaws is quickly proving to be a cathartic source of familiarity for many; that's been the case for us, as well.
SF News Yelp Data Shows 5,000 San Francisco Area Businesses Have Closed Since Pandemic Began It’s been an unprecedented, extinction-level time for small businesses across the nation. Moreover, new findings from Yelp reveal that some 5,000 SF area businesses have closed since the global health crisis started — with over 2,000 of them now permanently shut down.
SF News California Health Secretary Says 300,000 Health Records Backlogged Because of CalREDIE Glitch Earlier this week, it was revealed a data system hiccup led to the state grossly underreporting COVID-19 cases. Yesterday, that glitch was estimated to have caused some 300,000 health records in California to go unprocessed — many of which were COVID-19 test results.
Business & Tech Alaska and American Airlines Announce Bay Area Layoffs Joining the series of layoff notices sent to airline employees at multiple companies in the last month, Alaska Airlines and American Airlines have given the heads-up to hundreds of local staff that their jobs could be on the line.
