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 Restaurants, Food & Drink Third Bi-Rite Location In Russian Hill Readies For Opening Next Week The third and biggest location of high-end grocer Bi-Rite will be opening by the last weekend in August, nearly two years after we first learned it was coming to the Russian Hill neighborhood.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bi-Rite to Open Third Location On Polk Street, Taking Over Real Food Co. In Russian Hill Beloved bougie grocer Bi-Rite is in expansion mode once more, and the next neighborhood that will be getting the honor of a new store is Russian Hill.
SF News Former Hemlock Tavern Site, Now 54 Units of Empty Housing, Finally Moving Forward After Condo Conversion Compromise More than 50 units of housing have sat empty for two years on property that used to be the home of Hemlock Tavern, but they can now be occupied, as the Board of Appeals rules on a developer who said they were building apartments and then switched to condos.
SF News Video: Suspects At Large After High-Speed Shootout On Polk Street Police are seeking the occupants of a grey sedan and a red BMW, after reports that at least a dozen shots were exchanged between the vehicles as they raced down a busy San
SF News SFPD Releases Few Details On Early Morning Polk Street Homicide The San Francisco Police Department is investigating an early-morning death as a homicide, but is keeping mum on most details in the case. Here's what we do know: Officers were called to the
SF News As Bus Rapid Transit Construction Begins, Prepare For Van Ness To Become A Daily Nightmare Construction kicks off this month on the long-awaited, much-debated Van Ness BRT (bus rapid transit) project, in which the heavily trafficked boulevard is going to lose the two center lanes of traffic to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lord Stanley Lands On <i>Bon Appétit</i>'s Best New Restaurants At #3 Coming off a year of local accolades and a fresh-out-of-the-gate Michelin star, Polk Street's Lord Stanley has just garnered some new national attention that is sure to make it a tough reservation to
SF News Yet Another Sinkhole Hits An SF Street, Takes Out Bike Lane Second SF Sinkhole In 36 Hours Opens Up At Polk And Post https://t.co/7pAzQStC2U— Richmond SF News (@RichmondSFNews) May 13, 2016 For the second time in as many days, a San
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 Restaurants, Food & Drink Grubstake Diner To Close In 2017, But Retain 'Railcar-Themed' Location In New Condo Building Last we heard, back in September, some new owners of the property that houses the beloved Grubstake, off Polk Street on Pine, were being a bit vague about the future of the 40+
SF News [Update] Video: Polk Street Crowds Dance On Cars, Light Stuff On Fire Before Super Bowl Involving No Bay Area Team It appears the crowds on Polk Street Saturday night were excited/drunk/angry (who can tell with these things) in anticipation of the Super Bowl, despite the fact that no Bay Area team
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF's Oldest Gay Bar, Gangway, Biting The Dust Soon Another one bites the dust, and this one's sad. One of the more charming remaining gay dives in the vicinity of Polk Street and the Tenderloin one of only two remaining holdouts, in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Whole Foods To Open One Of The First Of Its Cheaper 365 Market Concepts On Polk Whole Foods is rolling out the first of its slimmed down, less expensive 365 By Whole Foods markets in 2016, beginning with one in LA's Silverlake neighborhood, and another now proposed for the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Date Rape Joke On Kozy Kar's Box Wine Is Probably In Poor Taste At the already seedy, boozy, and porn-themed Kozy Kar on Polk Street, where the slippery slope to muddled consent can come any night of the week by way of a few too many
Arts & Entertainment Video: Parallel Parking Fail On Polk Leads To Mass Mockery By Drunk People This is pretty funny. A tipster sent us this video from last weekend in which a hapless guy in what might be a rental car got himself stuck, diagonally, in a parking spot
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nooo! Longtime Polk Gulch Trans Club Divas In Danger Of Closing The long, slow death of the LGBT elements of Polk Street has been discussed and mourned frequently for the last two decades. But now an iconic business that has survived all the change
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Playland On Polk Suspended For Sale Of Cocaine, Marijuana According to the website for Playland, the Polk Street bar will be closed for a "remodel" until March 3rd. But the Chronicle is implying that's some coded language, and maybe not the first
SF News A Drone Thief, A Tech CEO, and a Tech COO Walk Into A Radio Shack... This hilarious bit has come across the crime blotter this morning: A thief tried to pilfer a small drone and a remote-control helicopter from a Radio Shack on Polk Street Thursday morning, only
Arts & Entertainment Video: Justin Vivian Bond Covers Bambi Lake's Vital 'Golden Age Of Hustlers' Broadway star and performer Justin Vivian Bond, who once called San Francisco home before moving to the top of the heap, has covered "The Golden Age Of Hustlers," Bambi Lake's ode to Polk
SF News Watch Out For Stabbings On Polk Street There's a suspect still on the loose in a potentially fatal stabbing that occurred near Polk and Post Streets late Friday night/early Saturday. The victim, a 30-year-old male, got into some sort
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Belcampo Meat Company Opening Polk Street Location Good news for you cooks out there: A new, local and sustainable butcher shop is headed to Polk and Pacific with some serious Slow Food cred. It's called Belcampo Meat Company, and they
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Polk Street Blackout Oh dear. Erik Wilson snapped this shot of a partial blackout Saturday on Polk Street.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Craft Cocktail Bar To Replace Red Devil Lounge The evolution of Polk Street continues as Red Devil Lounge plans to close by year's end. One of the last remaining live music venues left on Polk Street, a member of the Tipsy
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Rooftop Fete Rooftop dwellers catch the scene at this past weekend's Polk Street Blues Festival. Photo by Erik Wilson.
