SF Politics Poll Shows Daniel Lurie Beating London Breed by 18 Points Head-to-Head, But Breed Still Leads If You Count All Candidates The good news for mayoral candidate Daniel Lurie is that a new poll shows him 18 points ahead of London Breed in a head-to-head matchup. The bad news for him is that Breed’s still ahead by five points if you count all candidates, though ranked choice favors Lurie.
SF Politics Business Leaders’ Poll Claims 70% of Bay Area Demands ‘Get Tough’ Approach on Homelessness A poll commissioned by a local business group contends that 70% of the Bay Area wants to see the homeless population forced into conservatorships (or something) if they won’t take shelter, and claims their results should be seen as “a screaming wake-up call.”
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink What's Your Favorite Halloween Candy? Oh my god, shut up. I know, multiple studies say that sugar is bad for you, and 48-year-old Halle Berry attributes her glowing good looks to a sugarless life. That's great. But it's
SF News Poll: Do You Bother To Read All Those Campaign Mailings? According to the Chron, 27 different fliers urging San Francisco voters to vote this way or that have been sent off in the last two days, a typical bounty in the weeks leading
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink What's The Nastiest Halloween Treat? In 2010, SFist readers selected Reese's Peanut Butter Cups as their favorite Halloween candy. (We should point out that the noted peanut butter-chocolate orgasms are also French Laundry master chef Thomas Keller's favorite
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Poll: Which Bay Area Restaurant Has The Worst Name? After scores of entries poured in for our query asking for the worst named restaurant in the Bay Area, we have arrived at a cringe-worthy group for you to pore over. One commenter
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Which Bay Area Restaurant Has The Worst Name? While the Bay Area is home to some of the finest gastronomic houses of swell repute, we are also home to some of the silliest and most pretentious restaurant names. Take, for example,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Smuggler's Cove, Tommy's, Bar Agricole Ranked Best Bars in the World The indefatigable Camper English helped conduct a revealing poll for Drinks International on the 50 best bars in the world. And San Francisco? Landed on the list (a surprising?) three times. Smuggler's Cove,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Poll: Pick San Francisco's Best Bar (Final Round) Controversy erupted during our Pick San Francisco's Best Bar poll. Union Square's Jasper's questionably pulled ahead in the high-end bar category during the last hours. Like, literally, within the poll's last few hours.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink What's San Francisco's Best Bar? What with S.F. Blackout Week S.F. Cocktail Week a few days away, we thought it fitting to ask the city's biggest booze fans (i.e., SFist readers) to reveal their favorite
SF News Dennis Herrera Catching Up To Ed Lee, Says Recent Poll According to a recent poll by Grove Insight of Portland, Ed Lee is ahead in the mayoral race. Far ahead. But City Attorney Dennis Herrera is gaining on him. A recent SFGate post
SF News Poll: Choose San Francisco's Next Mayor If the election were held tomorrow, who would you select as your next San Francisco mayor? We saw D11 Supervisor John Avalos officially toss his hat into the mayoral ring on Monday. He
SF News Remember: Select Your Favorite U.S. President While President's Day is kaput - welcome back to work, folks! - you can still vote for your favorite U.S. leader in SFist's "Who's The Greatest U.S. President?" Egos and history
misc Who's The Greatest U.S. President? (POLL) Beating out Abraham Lincoln, Rutherford B. Hayes, Bill Clinton, and Millard Fillmore, actor turned politician Ronald Reagan - who, during his second term, might or might not have served the country under the
misc [Updated] Take Lonely Planet's SF Vs. NYC Poll Comparing San Francisco to New York City is like comparing chocolate to peanut butter (or something like that), but Lonely Planet has set the challenge. They're asking the two cities to tap into
misc Poll: Bars With A Skyline View? Where do you take out-of-towners for a cocktail and some great views? Take the handy poll! We usually go for The View, since it's the most central, and heck, it's called The View,
SF News Au Revoir, Newsom! Well, that's that. Gavin Newsom has left the building. His mommy-I-gotta-go-potty urgency to ditch local politics in favor of a more estimable gig took flight today as he (finally!) left his measly mayoral
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink And Your Favorite Halloween Candy Is... By a landslide, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups ranked highest as your favorite Halloween candy. Created in 1928 by Harry Burnett Reese (H. B. Reese), a former dairy farmer and shipping foreman for Milton
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Poll: Halloween Candy Showdown Final Four Yesterday's Halloween Candy Showdown semifinals proved fatal for some, victorious for others. In the Chocolate/Caramel/Coconut/Peanut Butter/Nougat category, sweet-on-salt tastes proved too irresistible for readers. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups creamed
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Poll: Halloween Candy Showdown On Sunday night, costumed children with makeup on their faces and murder in their eyes will come knocking on your door begging for high fructose sustenance. Unless you want an egg-covered door or
SF News Brown Leads Whitman, Says New Poll A new poll says that, just one day before their first debate together, Democrat Jerry Brown has a slight edge over Republican Meg Whitman. According to AP, "A University of Southern California-Los Angeles
SF News Poll: Brown, Whitman Tied Supported by 41% of voters for the November 2 election, a new poll shows both Democratic gubernatorial nominee Jerry Brown and Republican gubernatorial nominee Meg Whitman are tied. "The survey of 599 likely
SF News UC Berkeley, On of the Top Military Friendly Schools in Calif. According to The Daily Californian, UC Berkeley has been feted as one of the top "military friendly" schools in California due in large part "to its efforts in offering both financial and non-financial
SF News Fiorina Holds Lead Over Boxer According to a CBS 5 KPIX-TV poll, "California Republican U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina has increased her lead over Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer to five percentage points." Boxer, it seems, lost a
misc Poll: What's the New Motto, San Francisco? "Oro en Paz, Fierro en Guerra" ("Gold in Peace, Iron in War") doesn't quite roll off the tongue, does it? Accurate, sure; but clunky. After viewing today's Photo du Jour, we asked you
