Jay Barmann
San Francisco Embarcadero
Charles Phan's former whiskey bar Hard Water sued over very large back-rent bill
Apparently not all of restaurateur Charles Phan's landlords have worked out deals with him for pandemic-closed properties. Nine-year-old New Orleans-themed whiskey bar and restaurant Hard Water has now been hit with a lawsuit from its landlord at Pier 3.
San Francisco Lower Haight
Beloved Lower Haight spot Cafe du Soleil makes late-pandemic comeback across the street
Cafe du Soleil, the well-loved and worn-in Lower Haight Cafe at the corner of Fillmore and Waller streets, is making a surprise comeback, a little less than two years after it closed permanently at 200 Fillmore Street.
San Francisco North Beach
'Dear San Francisco' opens in longtime 'Beach Blanket Babylon' venue in North Beach featuring stunning acrobatics and odes to SF
'Dear San Francisco: A High-Flying Love Story,' opened Tuesday night at Club Fugazi (678 Green Street), marking a new life for the venue that for 45 years was home to 'Beach Blanket Babylon.'
San Francisco Marina West Portal
West Portal to get new sit-down Mexican restaurant from Original Joe's team
The Duggan family, who own two Original Joe's locations in San Francisco and Daly City and Little Original Joe's, which opened late last year in West Portal, are preparing to open another restaurant in their home neighborhood — but this time it will be Mexican-American food, instead of Italian-American.
San Francisco Duboce Triangle Mission SoMa
KFC/Taco Bell on Duboce no longer serving Taco Bell items
This is going to make some Zeitgeist regulars and people who live near Safeway Heights and the edge of the Mission very sad, but Hoodline regrets to inform you that the KFC/Taco Bell at 200 Duboce Avenue (at Guerrero) has transitioned to being just a KFC, so no more tacos.
San Francisco SoMa
SF Eagle in SOMA gets city landmark status
The Eagle Tavern, or as it's most recently been known the SF Eagle (398 12th St.), was given landmark status by the SF Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, becoming the third LGBTQ bar site in San Francisco to get the historic landmark distinction.
San Francisco North Beach
El Farolito's bid to open in North Beach sparks debate over formula retail rules
There's now a petition and multiple news stories about the fight to allow local burrito favorite El Farolito to open a new location in North Beach, which would be the brand's 12th in the Bay Area.
San Francisco Japantown
Community pushback succeeds in slowing city effort to convert Japantown hotel into homeless housing
One of only two hotels in Japantown, the Kimpton Buchanan Hotel, has been identified as one of four properties around SF that the city hopes to purchase by the end of the year to turn into permanent homeless housing, but neighbors are pushing back.
San Francisco Polk
Condo project on Grubstake site appealed by next-door neighbor condo owners
The eight-story, 21-unit residential building being planned on the site of the historic Grubstake Diner (1525 Pine Street) has hit another hurdle this week, as we learn that an appeal has been filed opposing the project.
San Francisco Dogpatch
Mr. & Mrs. Miscellaneous changes owners in Dogpatch, will become Sunday Social (and keep the ice cream)
Well-loved, 11-year-old Dogpatch ice cream shop Mr. & Mrs. Miscellaneous (699 22nd St.) is remaining open as an ice cream shop, however its co-founder and owner, Annabelle Topacio, has sold it to a new owner, and its name will be changing to Sunday Social come October.
San Francisco Mission
Belgian fry shop Frjtz shuts down SF operations after 21 years
Frjtz, the go-to place for Belgian-style frites and waffles that first opened in the year 2000 on Hayes Street and later had locations in the Mission and Ghirardelli Square, has now ceased to even be a delivery option, which it had been for the past two years.
San Francisco
Bernal Heights restaurants Marlena and 3rd Cousin get Michelin Guide recognition
The 2021 Michelin Guide for California, the company's first guide for the state in two years, is set to be released in late September. And ahead of the release, Michelin inspectors on Wednesday revealed 10 Bay Area honorees in the new category of "New Discoveries."
San Francisco Mission
Namu team abandons space at Dolores & 18th, closing Namu Stonepot for good
The Mission District space formerly home to Namu Gaji and more recently Namu Stonepot (499 Dolores St.), across the 18th & Dolores intersection from Dolores Park, has gone dark, marking the second closure for Namu Stonepot this summer.
San Francisco Mission North Beach SoMa
News from the Bay 'hoods: Folsom Street Market weekend, Park Tavern to renovate, and more
Most of the Bay Area is masking back up, at least in some situations, and tensions are high as COVID cases and hospitalizations tick up. But things continue to reopen, and events are still happening.
San Francisco Mission
Mission Updates: The Handroll Project moves into AL's Deli space; The Jelly Donut reopens after long closure
We have news of a taker for the prominent corner space that was briefly home to AL's Deli (598 Guerrero St.), and beloved doughnut spot The Jelly Donut at 24th and South Van Ness is finally back alive.