SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Brucato, a New Restaurant and Distillery Tasting Room, Opening Next Month In the Mission A trendy new local maker of excellent amari — Italian-style, herbal digestif and aperitif liqueurs — Brucato Amaro, has set an opening date for their first tasting room, which is doubling as a full-service restaurant and cocktail bar.
SF News New 16th Street Police Presence Just Moving Blight to Nearby Alleys, Residents Say The hulking police RV and crew of officers now stationed at 16th and Mission may have cleaned up that one corner, but has moved new pockets of crime and drug bazaars to nearby small alleys, making life for residents there a newfound hell.
SF News Two Women Charged For Sunday Crash Into Napper Tandy Parklet on 24th The two women who were in the allegedly stolen SUV that crashed into the Napper Tandy's parklet in the Mission District on Super Bowl Sunday, injuring seven people, have now been charged.
SF News SF Supervisor Jackie Fielder Asks SFPD For Answers About Chase That Led to Sunday's Crash One new SF supervisor is pressing the SFPD for answers about the latest example that left seven people injured.
SF News Shots Fired Near 16th and Mission Minutes After Mayor's Press Event With Wiener Exemplifying the general and ongoing sketchiness of the area around the 16th and Mission BART Station, there was a shooting Monday minutes after and less than a block away from a press conference with Mayor Daniel Lurie and state Senator Scott Wiener.
SF News Tesla Reportedly In Autopilot Mode Plows Into Mission District Plant Store A plant store called Mellow SF was hit by a Tesla that was reportedly in autopilot mode early Sunday afternoon, but the car seems to have taken more damage than the shop, and no people or plants were harmed.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission Street Pollo Campero to Double in Size, and Get a Huge Makeover The “KFC of Guatemala” Pollo Campero has been drawing long lines at their Mission Street location for a decade. But the lines shouldn’t be so long anymore, as the SF Planning Commission just approved the restaurant’s request to expand and take over the neighboring address.
SF News City Attorney Threatens Mission-Bernal Property Accused of Throwing Illegal After-Hours Parties An upstairs spot above two unassuming Mission-Bernal restaurants has reportedly been a hotbed of unpermitted late-night after-hours parties complete with gambling machines for the last two months, and City Attorney David Chiu is investigating.
SF News First Homicide of the New Year In San Francisco Happened In the Mission, Arrest Made Quickly The first homicide of the year in San Francisco happened less than a half hour after midnight on New Year's Eve, at a gas station in the Mission District.
SF News Cafe Worker In SF's Mission District Springs Into Action to Stop Petty Thief A cafe worker in the Mission District is being hailed as a hero for jumping out from behind the counter to pummel a would-be backpack thief Friday morning and hold him until police arrived.
SF News San Francisco Sees Two Homicides In a Single Day, Including Mission District Stabbing There were two separate homicides in San Francisco on the day after Thanksgiving, including a fatal stabbing in the heart of the Mission District.
SF News Buddhist Nuns' Residence Next to Mission District Temple Burns In Two-Alarm Fire, Four Displaced The nuns' residence next door to Hua Zang Si temple on 22nd Street was heavily damaged in a fire Tuesday, but luckily firefighters were able to keep the fire from spreading to the temple building next door.
SF News Four Suspects Being Sought After Shooting In Mission District A woman is in critical condition following a shooting Tuesday morning in the Mission District, and police are looking for four male suspects.
SF News Ruptured Gas Line Prompts Evacuation of Four Buildings In SF's Mission District After a private contractor reportedly ruptured a gas main in the vicinity of 24th and Hampshire streets in San Francisco, four buildings have had to be evacuated and Muni service near Potrero Avenue and SF General has been disrupted.
SF News Those ‘Anti-Sex Work’ Barriers Are Now Coming to Shotwell Street After street bollards and barriers chased the sex work scene off of Capp Street, but merely moved that activity over to Shotwell Street, the SFMTA has voted to bring the barriers to Shotwell Street too.
Arts & Entertainment Beloved Fabric Outlet Store at 17th and Mission Is Closing Permanently on November 23 It will rip the hearts out of crafty types across the Bay Area that the 29-year-old fabric emporium Fabric Outlet has just announced its impending permanent closure, and the place is packed with customers jumping on the 40%-75% off clearance deals.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Man Shot and Injured Near 16th and Mission A man was shot and left with life-threatening injuries Wednesday night in the Mission District; there is now surveillance video of the teen suspect moments after the Ricky Pearsall shooting; and the OPD isn't likely to shake federal oversight soon.
SF News Exclusive: Shuttered Mission Street Walgreens to Become Locally Owned Produce and Meat Market Is it a "doom loop" when an SF Walgreens closes, but a locally owned fresh produce market pops up in its place? That's what's happening, as Casa Guadalupe has filed permits to move into the former Walgreens at Mission and Cesar Chavez.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yep, The Slanted Door Is Returning to Its Original Spot on Valencia Street We called it back in May, and it has come to pass: Chef Charles Phan is bringing The Slanted Door full circle back to its original digs in the Mission District, five years after closing the restaurant at the Ferry Building.
SF News Man Fatally Shot In SF's Mission District Early Monday There was a fatal shooting in the Mission District early this morning, and this is now the third death by gun violence in the Mission in less than a month, and the fourth since mid-June.
SF News Man Fatally Shot In Mission District Following Brawl Near 16th Street BART A 20-year-old man was killed Wednesday evening near the 16th and Mission BART station in SF's Mission District, in the second shooting to occur in that vicinity in two weeks.
SF News Shootout at 16th and Mission Leaves One Dead A shootout late Monday night/early Tuesday near 16th and Mission streets led to a four-car crash and left one individual dead.
SF News Toddler Dies After Fall Out of Mission District Apartment Window A 15-month-old boy who fell from a third-story window in the Mission District last week has died from his injuries.
SF News Man Killed In Saturday's Mission Shooting Was Victim In Infamous 2019 SFPD Brutality Case, Dacari Spiers A tragic footnote to a high-profile police brutality case whose trial dominated SF headlines during the Chesa Boudin days, as we learn that the victim of a fatal Saturday shooting turns out to be the man who made news for being on the wrong end of an SFPD beatdown in 2019.
SF News Cops Bust Mission District Van Packed With Cocaine, Magic Mushrooms, $600,000 in Cash Is it a good idea to have three kilos of cocaine and 600 grand in cash sitting in your van at 17th and Shotwell streets? Probably not, and two people learned that the hard way in a recent Mission District drug bust.
