Joe Kukura

38-year-old Sai’s Vietnamese restaurant is getting a new, bigger home after losing their lease last year, heading two blocks away to the Bask restaurant at Columbus Avenue and Jackson Street.

One-time northern Iranian pop-up Komaaj is now a full-fledged brick-and-mortar restaurant at the former home of Good Frikin’ Chicken, and their pomegranate chicken (and sumac beef and smoked salmon belly) are still pretty frikin’ good.

The 600 block of Commercial Street is now truly renamed Emperor Norton Place, after City Hall approved the renaming in April, and SFMTA did quick work in getting the sign up last week.

San Francisco starts up its outdoor movie season again Friday night, as the new series Ferry Flicks brings beer and SF-centric movies like “Vertigo,” “Bullitt,” and “Sister Act.”

Diego Rivera’s largest mural ‘Pan American Unity’ is slated to return to its original Ingleside home at City College of San Francisco, and would sit behind giant glass windows that make the mural visible from sidewalks.

The owner of the Mission District’s Taqueria Vallarta and El Trebol has purchased the former Sam Jordan’s Bar & Grill, raising hopes for new life at the Bayview bar that was once SF;s oldest Black-owned bar.

The new Treasure Island mini-library is an “automated book kiosk” sitting outside a convenience market, but anyone with a library card can check out books for free.

The kitsch is strong at the new Cow Hollow-Marina District cocktail bat Rendezvous, where your cocktail could be served in a bong, a box of popcorn, or with a rubber duckie floating in it.

Tia Margarita is busting out the whole enchilada for a three-day 60th anniversary bash this weekend, but still with the same menu, horseshoe bar, and neon sign that it opened with back in 1963.

Taraval Street’s Gold Mirror restaurant will be getting an upstairs cannabis dispensary called Green Mirror, over the objections of many neighbors, but it was not granted the “edibles consumption lounge” the dispensary had wanted.

Friday marks the grand opening of Mexican-Filipino fusion standout Señor Sisig’s new Oakland location, infused with Oakland vibes in both its interior design and its menu.

The 600 block of Commercial Street in Chinatown will be renamed “Emperor Norton Place,” in honor of San Francisco’s greatest Victorian-era icon and eccentric, Emperor Joshua Norton.

A new speakeasy-style basement-level cocktail bar is opening Saturday night beneath Bodega SF, as The Felix brings Chinese- and Vietnamese-inspired cocktails to the Tenderloin.