SF News Tech Icon's 8,400 Square-Foot Russian Hill Estate Goes on Sale for $22 Million The estate, built at the Gold Rush's height, was most recently owned by Silicon Valley mogul and pioneer Sanford Robertson, who passed away this past August.
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 News Spec House In Russian Hill, Bought By Sam Altman For $27 Million, Declared a 'Lemon' In New Lawsuit A house that notably sold well below a sky-high asking price in 2020, designed by a renowned SF architect but heavily renovated to the point that the developer was fined by preservationists, is now the subject of a new lawsuit because of its many reported defects.
SF News SF Man Charged With Hate Crime Over Attack on Three Chinese-American Nonprofit Workers A racist provocation in Russian Hill was caught on video that showed three Chinese-American nonprofit workers being harassed by a passerby, and the passerby now faces assault and hate crime charges.
Business & Tech OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Has Coyote Trouble at His $27 Million Russian Hill Mansion Even buying a $27 million home in a tony SF neighborhood will not keep the coyotes off your property, as artificial intelligence mogul Sam Altman admits in an interview with Time magazine that he’s got a coyote that refuses to leave his San Francisco yard.
SF Politics Hilariously, Russian Hill Residents Banned Street Sweeping Years Ago, But Now They Regret That Denizens of Russian Hill made a choice almost 40 years ago to sacrifice well-swept streets in exchange for hassle-free parking. And they still don't have to move their cars on street-sweeping days, but things are kind of a mess and some residents are trying to reverse course, all these years later.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 48-Year-Old Russian Hill Vietnamese Restaurant Aux Delices Is Closing Permanently June 30 Friday will be the last day for pho, imperial rolls, and lemongrass steak at the long standing family-owned Vietnamese restaurant Aux Delices, as the husband-and-wife team who’ve run the place for decades has decided to retire.
SF News One Person In Critical Condition After Two-Alarm Fire In Russian Hill A two-alarm fire broke out in a four-story residential building on Leavenworth Street in Russian Hill Wednesday afternoon, and one person has been seriously injured.
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 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 Restaurants, Food & Drink Rash of Russian Hill Wine Burglaries Suggest We’ve Got a Wine Thief on the Prowl Two successful break-ins, plus another attempt, show a pattern where the perpetrator is interested in stealing Italian wine — while leaving cash and other valuables untouched.
SF News Roof-Leaping Burglary Suspect Dies After Being Trapped Between Two Buildings In Russian Hill A suspect in a residential burglary in San Francisco's Russian Hill neighborhood died Tuesday night following a brief pursuit in which he was reportedly jumping from roof to roof between multiple buildings.
SF News San Francisco Woman Assaulted at Gunpoint in Russian Hill As Thieves Steal Her French Bulldog Puppy A 30-year-old San Francisco woman says this may be the last straw for her giving up on the city after she was assaulted at gunpoint Tuesday evening and had her five-month-old puppy taken from her.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Marvel Kung Fu Flick ‘Shang-Chi’ (Starring Awkwafina!) Now Shooting in SF We’ve got some kick-ass car chase videos from the long-delayed shooting of “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” which is back on track and filming all week in Russian Hill.
Arts & Entertainment VIDEO: 'Ant-Man & The Wasp' Raids Russian Hill To Shoot Car Stunts A new video from the ANT-MAN AND THE WASP set shows a car flip scene on a city street!(via Reddit user Pentapu5) pic.twitter.com/phZylypYKi— MCU News & Tweets (@MCU_Tweets)
Arts & Entertainment Now A Sports Lounge Marijuana Shop Is In The Works The smoke-weed-every-day city of San Francisco will soon get a marijuana gym facility and has played host to a couple of 4.20-mile stoner mini-marathons. But now Hoodline reports that a sports-themed medical
SF News Quick-Thinking Russian Hill Resident Traps Prowler In Laundry Room A hot prowl turned extremely cold for the suspect Wednesday afternoon, when his victim-to-be became his captor, instead. Police say that it all began at 2:20 yesterday afternoon, in a residence on
SF News Man Killed Friday Morning In Brawl Outside Van Ness Avenue Hotel UPDATE: Victim of SF hotel homicide got into a fight with a suspect and sustained fatal wounds, @SFPD says. https://t.co/s7LVCI2mdr— NBC Bay Area (@nbcbayarea) June 2, 2017 A fight outside
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Berber, A North African Supper Club With Cirque Du Soleil-Inspired Entertainment, Coming To Russian Hill Russian Hill better brace itself, because an ambitious sounding new restaurant/supperclub is headed that way this fall, and it's not like anything we have in the city right now. Not since Supperclub
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Another Poke Place Just Opened, This One On Russian Hill The poke trend shows no signs of slowing, and yet another raw-fish emporium has just debuted called Ahipoki, on Polk Street between Broadway and Vallejo. As Hoodline reports via a tipster, Ahipoki takes
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: This Art Is Crap A months-old feces smear — or should we call it a fresco? — on a block of Russian Hill is now a work of public art thanks to a small museum-style label, likely placed there
Arts & Entertainment Russian Hill Home Once Owned By Nic Cage Hits The Market A Gothic Tudor mansion on Russian Hill that will be familiar to some as it is highly photographed in shots of the Bay and the Hyde Street cable car has just hit the
SF News Russian Hill Scuffle Over Smokes Ends With Purloined Coffee Mug Was it a Russian Hill altercation attempted mugging, or just a weird interaction that turned violent? The San Francisco Police Department is (quite rightly) unwilling to speculate on motive, but confirms that as
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 Roof-Leaping Russian Hill Burglary Suspect Identified, Bail Set For $1.3M If you caught the story about the crazed burglary suspect who led police on a totally cinematic roof-to-roof chase on the Nob/Russian Hill border on Saturday morning, you were probably wondering who
