SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Bob’s Donuts on Polk Street Opens Friday, Just 300 Feet From the Old Bob’s Donuts on Polk Street After months of controversy over a substantial rent hike, Polk Street’s 24-hour fresh donut mecca Bob’s Donuts will open their much-ballyhooed new location across the street Friday, with a tote bag giveaway and multiple donut-eating contests.
SF News Popular, Recently Shuttered Vintage Store Stuff Opening New SF Location Saturday In Polk Gulch There are actually two new locations of the now-reincarnated vintage emporium Stuff, and the SF shop will have the same giant letters from the old Valencia Street location.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nick’s Crispy Tacos Is Closing Tuesday After 20 Years, But Vows To Reopen Elsewhere Russian Hill mainstay Nick’s Crispy Tacos just abruptly announced its closure with less than a week’s notice, but they say “We are in the process of finding a new home.”
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eight-Story Condo Development With Replacement Grubstake Diner on Ground Floor Wins Planning Approval The Planning Commission took up the project at 1525 Pine Street on Thursday, six years after it was first proposed, and the vote was 4-2 in favor of approval. Meanwhile, the beloved Grubstake lives on.
SF News New 11-Story Condo Slated For Polk Gulch More housing is on the way, with SocketSite reporting that a 47-unit Polk Gulch development is poised to be approved this week by the Planning Commission. Designed by JS Sullivan Development, the building
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Buffalo Theory, A New Craft Beer Spot With 'Creative Comfort Food,' Coming To Polk Last year we had word of a beer bar dubbed Crafthaus headed for the former Quickly space at 1735 Polk Street and owners Quinn Wong, Gil Hoh, and Ted Kim promised Hoodline a
SF News Video: SFPD Seeking Brazen Sunglass Thief The San Francisco Police Department is seeking the public's help to identify an alleged sunglass thief, after they say he stole over $900 worth of merchandise from a Polk Street store. According to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yep, New Owner Of The Grubstake Wants To Raze It To Build Condos Despite some protestations earlier this month claiming that they would continue to run beloved late-night diner The Grubstake "as is," new almost-owners Nick Pigott and Johnny "Love" Metheny have just quietly engaged design
SF News Yet Another Pedestrian Killed In SF: That's One A Day For The Last Three Days An 88-year-old man was struck and killed by a driver in the Outer Sunset Monday morning, the third such fatality in as many days. A driver hit Jinrog Ouyang of San Francisco at
SF News Uber Driver Suffers Seizure, Slams Into Pedestrian And Three Parked Cars Days after an Uber driver suffered a seizure and slammed into a pedestrian, the "ridesharing" company has announced that the ailing driver won't be driving for them until he's checked by a doctor.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink It's Official: Hi Lo Club (Formerly KoKo's) Now Open On Polk After nearly a year of nail-biting anticipation for Hi Lo Club, formerly known as KoKo Cocktails, to reopen at Polk and Pine (1423 Polk Street), the bar officially — and very quietly — opened its
SF News Discover the Wonders of Printed, Vintage Porn At The Magazine On Polk A Different Light Bookstore in the Castro may be shuttering, but quietly on Larkin Street, a nearly 40-year-old institution of the printed page lives on. The Magazine, opened by partners Trent Dunphy and
misc Blocker: 1200 Polk Exploring San Francisco through the lens of city blocks, Blocker is a regular series by Charles Hodgkins. Look for it on SFist every other Wednesday, around the lunching hour (the timing of this
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Magic Bullets: Along with Bonde do Role and JuiceBoxxx, this local outfit (heavy on the bass lines, rhythmic keyboards, and melancholic vocals) performs tonight at 9 p.m. at The Independent, 628
SF News Another Hit And Run We're sorry to pass along the news that a pedestrian is near death after having been hit by a car in the Nob Hill/Polk Gulch area at around 5:30 this morning.
Arts & Entertainment Must John Barleycorn Die? Hey, tomorrow's Saturday. You were going to have a few stiff ones anyway, right? May as well have them at the John Barleycorn. From 1-5 p.m. tomorrow there will be a free
SF News It Takes a Village to Shoot Smack The plan is to post banners up everywhere in the Gulch announcing that you're in Polk Village, then making it official in three years after everybody had gotten used to it by putting
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Fisties: Best Coffee People who've been reading our "Trimethyldioxypurist" missives will not be especially surprised by the winners. For those who are strangers to our periodic ramblings about coffee and cafes around the City by the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Le Trimethyldioxypurist Se Réveille sur la Rue de Polk So first, the good news -- your Trimethyldioxypurist happened on a swell place for a cup of coffee, one that we fully encourage you to try. The bad news? La Boulange de Polk,
