America’s oldest Chinatown shares secret sights never before seen publicly in the just-released coffee table book and deep-dive community profile ‘San Francisco’s Chinatown.’

A cast of D-list QAnon mini-celebrities had planned to protest in Dolores Park Saturday, but have scored a permit for Civic Center instead.

Here are some shots of Saturday’s unveiling of a new landmark plaque honoring the U.S. birthplace of the whiskey-and-caffeine concoction Irish coffee.

We haven’t seen live concerts from big-name national acts in 7 months — but they’re coming back next week, at Burlingame’s Bayshore Drive-In.

If you want to see San Francisco’s cleverest Halloween decoration display of 2020, a West Portal house really has you covered.

We could be stuffing our faces with Tommy’s Joynt turkey this Thanksgiving, and the old-school Van Ness sandwich-and-stew hofbrau has announced a “reduced” reopening for Thursday, October 29.

They’re basically building a 200-room glass hotel on top of the current Cort Furniture brick facade at Battery and Merchant Streets, but nary a Planning Department permit has been granted for the new plan.

One San Francisco cineplex will reopen this weekend for the true movie theater experience, but with no concessions, small crowds, and of course masks required.

The delivery-and-take-out only Burma Bites opened today, delivery app DoorDash is a surprise investor.

With more than 1,800 businesses now sprawled onto sidewalks and streets, City Hall has approved a six-month extension of the popular arrangement.

Thursday night’s 49ers game will feature a cameo from Bayview soul food truck and catering service Vegan Hood Chefs, as they’ll appear on prime time TV in a Bud Light commercial.

Many of the trees along 24th Street are coming down, but a Day of the Dead ‘ceremonia’ paid a spiritual homage to those 50-year-old ficuses set for removal.

A 10-year-old Mission District mural attributed to street artist Banksy got graffitied, so cue up the debate on the ethics of tagging over someone else’s tagging.

Some crude speculation about Kamala Harris’ anatomy has led to the resignation of the Las Lomitas Elementary School District president.

The imminent indoor dining shutdown prompts House of Prime Rib to go take-out only, but you have to come in and place the order yourself.

Starting Tuesday, the site of the Alemany Farmers’ Market will be the newest free coronavirus testing center, with no insurance required.

Postal Service change of address data indicates as many as 90,000 households may have moved out of SF in the pandemic, with Nob Hill the most frequently fled neighborhood.

The cultural fabric of Union Square has been brightened with a spiffy new incarnation of the iconic Britex Fabrics sign.

Work will be slightly less scarce for 30 underemployed artists and performers in the coronavirus economy, as a new San Francisco Creative Corps will be giving the gift of gigs.

A lucrative location was rendered a terrible location when the pandemic hit, and Martin Yan’s namesake foray into shopping mall chic has closed.

Oakland is closing the digital divide with a $7.7 million CARES Act grant that will provide free public WiFi to as much as 85% of the city.

An unruly customer messed with the wrong grandmother at Panchita's Pupuseria, where the matriarch owner took matters — and a large wooden table — into her own hands.

Vehicle thefts are up 50% in the Taraval and Richmond Districts, and surfers say a new lockbox key system is responsible for a spike in thefts targeting their cars.

At least a dozen feral cats have been shot and killed by park authorities at Martin Luther King Jr. Shoreline, and animal lovers are up in arms over the aggressive tactics.

For the 91st holiday season in a row, the gigantic Monterey cypress tree at Stanyan and Fell Streets still dazzles as San Francisco‘s ‘official’ Christmas tree.

Sup. Dean Preston calls safety upgrades to the Fell and Divisadero Streets intersection that’s notorious to cyclists as one of the most dangerous in town.

The two-month-old 30-Stockton Presidio bus route extension has some Marina residents up in arms over costs, congestion, and how they feel the buses ruin their views.

Rectangular slices with premium ingredients and punny monikers have made a name for Square Pie Guys, who will expand with a new Oakland location on top of their cult-hit SoMa spot.

Albany Bowl is the latest legacy business to be guttered by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the owner says its lanes will not reopen.

San Francisco’s most charitable Christmas tradition carries on, as 2,000 pounds of prime beef are being served at Glide.

Despite all the ship traffic, marine biologists think the San Francisco Bay is the safest place to move endangered sea otters so they can multiply safely.

The Moscone Center says it faced declining business even before the pandemic, but the city is loath to help amidst COVID-19 budget deficits.

The bonded, black and white duck couple have become rock stars on Twitter and Reddit, but they’ve been enduring some serious pain and suffering behind the feathers.

A TV pilot Bruce Lee wrote in 1971 is now a big-budget TV series set in 1870s San Francisco Chinatown, and it’s streaming now on HBO Max.

The $31,000 a month is a godsend to keep California’s oldest continuously run restaurant open, but the source is a sports site with a lengthy rap sheet of sexual harassment and male toxicity.

While you can’t go to hot tub parties in Park City, Utah for the Sundance Film Festival this year, the flicks are coming to SF as Fort Mason will be a ‘satellite’ site for the 2021 festival.

Supportive housing for more 115 people is coming to a Bayview parking lot, while 43 beds will be available at Post and Hyde Streets.]

SF’s only Marshalls location has its days numbered, as the discount apparel retailer will close its Market Street store.

The culture of Cow Hollow may be under attack, or maybe some joker called the police for a pretty cheesy reason.

The Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a relief measure that would pay ailing Chinatown restaurants nearly $2 million to serve up meals for their neighbors in need.

The Girls Scouts of Northern California will not do-si-do with their normal cookie sale booths during the pandemic, but tag along as we show you how to buy Girls Scout Cookies online in the Bay Area.

A former Richmond District art and framing shop that almost became a cannabis dispensary will now be the permanent home of the Russian-Speaking Jewish Community of SF Bay Area.

After rocking the nation’s world at the Biden inauguration, poet laureate Amanda Gorman now has a mural homage at the Hayes Valley SF Zen Center.

A random, unprovoked pellet gun shooting Friday night in the California Street Whole Foods parking lot left a 28-year-old woman hospitalized.

Another “tiny house” proposal is in the works for what’s currently a safe sleeping site at Jones and Turk Streets, and while it’s still just a submitted plan, the funding is reportedly lined up.

We’re now learning the shuttered Cliff House was broken into and robbed in late January, with thieves making off with vintage historical decor that was scheduled to be auctioned off next month.

The former Coloso Coffee at Swan’s Market will reopen as a new Souvenir Coffee in March, hot on heels of Souvenir’s new San Francisco location whose grand opening was last week.

The city’s only sanctioned Vehicle Triage Center for people living in RVs, next to Balboa Park BART, will be decommissioned by March 15, as a 138-unit affordable housing complex will take its place.

The pup-ular Golden Gate Park Dog Training Area sees its first remodel in 60 years at the city’s largest doggie play area.

DPW crews are dealing with the aftermath of a huge tree falling and smashing a parklet at the popular Absinthe Brasserie & Bar.

The temporary COVID-19 mural magic of the Paint the Void project comes to Chinatown in time for the Lunar New Year feasts, as three restaurant parklets get rejuvenating murals.

Increased foot patrols, handbills, and police liaison programs aim to beef up security in advance of this weekend’s Year of the Ox celebrations.

Former SF mayor Art Agnos is among those speaking out and filing lawsuits claiming that an environmental impact report on the expansion was shoddy and rushed.

Shelter in place won’t block a youth-led tour group from giving Chinatown tours, as they’ve rebuilt the neighborhood in the virtual world of Minecraft.

The online retailer hopes to demolish everything that’s currently on seven lots along Seventh Street, and build a three-story delivery and distribution station.

The District 5 supervisor is lobbying the SFMTA to eliminate fare until COVID-19 blows over, “to restore ridership and put money into struggling San Franciscan’s pockets when they need it most.”

Parklet problems in Pacific Heights, as an adjacent building owner is demanding the removal of a parklet, which could mean the end for Harry’s Bar.

A bike network improvement project in the Presidio is being completed shockingly on schedule, and features what’s believed to be the city’s first protected bike lane roundabout.

The brutal attack on a 67-year-old man was recorded on security video, as another violent incident against an elderly victim continues a worrisome streak.

Five current or under-construction affordable housing projects in Potrero Hill just got a major boost from Google’s billion-dollar housing effort.

The $22 million facility was financed entirely through private donations, and gives San Francisco a third Planned Parenthood location for low or no-cost reproductive care.

Vintage Sutro Baths bathing suits are already fetching more than $1,000, and the autographed movie star photos go on sale Friday.

The corned beef and cabbage will be served up for St. Patrick’s Day, as the Van Ness Avenue hofbrau Tommy’s Joynt adds indoor dining to their current take-out fare.

An hour-long virtual show next week “showcases the LGBTQ+ culture of Chinatown” with drag shows, cocktail demos, and the neighborhood’s untold queer stories.

Half of JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park has been car-free for nearly a year now, and bike and pedestrians are rallying Saturday to make this arrangement permanent.

A three-year saga on the fate of the ficus trees on 24th Street is coming to an end, as the removal of 33 trees has started, though most of the other ficuses are merely being pruned.

The pared-down ‘Target Express’ store on Ocean Avenue near City College just got its pink slip, and will close in late June.

The fresh coat of graffiti on the oft-painted Bernal Rock is a stone-cold declaration against recent attacks on the Asian American and Pacific Islander community.

It's Martini Time again at Tadich Grill this Monday, as the historic steak and seafood outlet reopens after being fully closed the last seven months.

The 30-year-old palm tree that served as the namesake for the Mission’s Lone Palm bar has met its demise, but a new palm tree is apparently in the works.

A three-day Godzillafest welcomes audiences back into the Balboa Theater on Friday, May 14, but only at 50% capacity.

The unpretentious, old-school omelette destination at Diamond and Chenery Streets closed April 1, though another cafe will apparently replace it.

The SFPL reopening will only involve the first floor and a “browse and bounce” program, but the access to computers will also be part of the limited library operations.

The new old-school, must-have garment is a limited edition Derby jacket with Muni-inspired illustrations by celebrated artist Jeremy Fish.

Queer Black twin sisters Melonie Green and Melorra Green named community Grand Marshals for SF Pride 51, with more Grand Marshals to be named next week.

These ten-foot concrete towers of Bayview pride are going up along Bayshore Boulevard, and the finished product will be a lot more decorative.

The beautifully restored and boozy movie theater will bring back the light, camera, and action in July, though no specific dates or films have been announced.

When the James Beard Award-winning Zuni Cafe reopens for indoor dining, they’ll be closing the gap between front-of the-house and back-of-the-house wages by eliminating tips and adding a 20% service fee.

More than six years after we lost the kitschy favorite Empress of China, the opening of its potential Michelin star contender Empress by Boon now looks to be just a month away.

You’ll need a vaccination card for admission to the newly reopened Feinstein’s, but the Hotel Nikko’s cabaret theater has booked stars worth getting the shot for.

You won’t need proof of vaccination or a negative test result to visit the Exploratorium when it reopens this summer, but the Tactile Dome will be off-limits.

The Blackpool Boat Tram popularly known as “Boat Boi” returned to the rails Friday, in advance of this weekend’s reopening of Muni Metro service and stations.

The old combination of Don Johnson and Cheech Marin is bringing new life to downtown San Francisco, in the form of gunshots and exploding cars for the “Nash Bridges” made-for-TV movie.

San Francisco’s biggest employer reopened its very big headquarters to employees, in the city’s most significant office reopening yet.

Sal will laugh again in less than a month, as the Fisherman’s Wharf’s coolest attraction announces its coin-operated magic will return in mid-June.

The largest hotel on the west coast is back in business Monday, May 24th, but not at full capacity, and not with its 46th floor panoramic-view bar just yet.

Frameline’s schedule announcement features many treasures, but the biggest news is two days of screenings that will reopen the Castro Theatre.

The Exploratorium won’t be reopen in time for Pride, but they are throwing three Pride events in their weekly Thursday night After Dark series.

Unlicensed street vendors are slinging beers, shots, and cocktails on the wharf’s walkways, and an obscure state law prevents the Port of San Francisco from cracking down.

The sitting vice president of the United States no longer needs her SoMa apartment, and it sold with an asking price of $800,000 just one week after the listing hit the market.

The ladies will be scantily clad, but men must adhere to a highly non-sexual dress code, when the old Slim’s reopens as YOLO Nightclub next Friday, June 18.

Say hello again to the Instagram trap on wheels known as the Hello Kitty Cafe Truck, which holds court all day Saturday at the Stonestown Galleria.

One of San Francisco’s original cannabis dispensaries will be back at a new location, as ReLeaf gets Planning Commission approval right at the SF-Daly City border.

Though Union Square is still mostly boarded up like a ghost town, a new cannabis dispensary opening today is creating a big buzz.

Clearly unqualified in the first place, conservative commentator and Trump appointee Michael Savage is gone from the Presidio board as Biden cleans house.

Black-owned food businesses serve up Juneteenth feasts by the Bay at this weekend’s Ferry Plaza Farmers Market.

The McDonald’s in the Fillmore and Ingleside are both offering “one free menu item” for those who get their vaccine shot, but the deal only applies if you’re not yet vaccinated.

Open bar has been a long-forgotten indulgence amidst the pandemic, but leave it to the Sisters to bring it back for their Pride prom.

A new "Welcome Center and Counterculture Museum Shop for the Haight” brings a breath of fresh air, and bouquets of fresh flowers, as boutique shop Haight & Ashbury celebrates the neighborhood's rich history.

The “green bus” and ferry operators of Golden Gate Transit would love for you to visit Marin County this weekend, so they’re making the rides free.

Club Fugazi’s upcoming show ‘Dear San Francisco: A High-Flying Love Story’ has big shoes (and hats) to fill, but this highly anticipated “acrobatic love letter” to the city now has tickets on sale and an opening date.

The Pacific Heights purveyor of jade vagina eggs and quack-science ‘calming mists’ was open for but four months, and could not muster up the wellness to survive the pandemic.

Public Works just installed new cherry blossom trees on Sutter Street in Japantown, and they should be blooming by next spring’s Cherry Blossom Festival.

Yes, that’s President Joe Biden in the polyester green outfit in 1970s San Francisco, as the president re-ups an old Fisherman's Wharf vacation photo.

A couple more additions to the late summer Muni service reinstatements, and the M-Ocean View gets its trains back, and the 31-Balboa returns on a limited route.

Assemblyperson Phil Ting found nearly $30 million in state funding to build and open a new “once-in-a-generation project” called Edge of the Square, dedicated to arts and media highlighting the AAPI community.

After digging into a curiously unreported $180,000 loan to a building inspector, the SF City Attorney has won a $1.2 million settlement from a developer who may have benefited from DBI looking the other way.

Oakland City Council threw some amendments for affordable housing and anti-displacement measures into the Oakland A’s stadium deal they approved Tuesday, and the A’s are again threatening to leave.

Even Juanita MORE! chimed in calling for more stories of housing above Pine Street’s historic Grubstake Diner, which will be demolished and rebuilt as an eight-story housing development.

The Landmark Clay Theatre took a big step toward historical landmark status on Monday, but oddly, the owner does not want the theater saved or given historical designation.

The very contentious mural featuring a slain Native American will be uncovered and again on full display as a Superior Court judge rules the school board did not follow the appropriate process in covering it.

Anne Hathaway’s silver screen debut premiered 20 years ago today, and these San Francisco film locations made sure nothing came down on the princess’ crown.

With former employees claiming they’re still owed more than $50,000, SoMa’s swanky Bar Agricole plots its reopening under a supposedly more equitable “sociocracy” model.

San Francisco and six other Bay Area counties will require masks again, even if you’re fully vaccinated, at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday.

After COVID restrictions tampered down their 10th anniversary last year, Mission Street’s craft beer and mimosa destination celebrates Thursday night with the Sycamore's 10 (+1) Anniversary Party.

Cherished but financially beleaguered Mills College had a lifeline in a merger offer from Boston’s Northeastern University, but a superior court judge just threw down a restraining order that could scuttle the deal.

A few dozen rabble-rousers surrounded the San Francisco In-N-Out Saturday, to raise awareness about what they think is cruelty in the burger chain’s animal style.

Roughly $180,000 in saved Cliff House memorabilia is coming home, as auctioned historical items will return in a pop-up museum at the former Cliff House gift shop.

The free, one-day Mission District music and food bash is back, but with a Stern Grove-style reservation system that behooves you to reserve a spot fast.

Groups like Walk SF and the SF Bicycle Coalition are rallying to keep the Great Highway car-free, and have an unexpected ally in state senator Scott Wiener.

Both the Cliff House and Louis’ Restaurant locations will be getting new restaurant tenants, but we won’t know who they are until all sorts of National Park Service red tape and bureaucratic hurdles get worked out.

Upscale Neopolitan-style pizza place Fiorella will open its third San Francisco location Monday, their first to have a hard liquor license and a rooftop deck.

The Union Furniture Company went out of business in the 1970s and its vintage sign has become an eyesore, but an incoming cannabis dispensary won approval to restore it.

The aftermath of a 700,000-gallon water spill at the Stern Grove outdoor concert facility didn’t just cancel one show, it may cancel the entire Stern Grove 2022 concert season.

Juri Commons, a tiny park connecting Guerrero Street and San Jose Avenue, reopened in a Monday ribbon-cutting with new plants, play spaces, and exercise gear.

The Panoramic SoMa is the latest of the four buildings proposed for homeless housing that’s getting a rocky reception from neighborhood residents.

The popular al fresco piano concert series returns as a shorter five-day affair, but still with many key figures from the local jazz, classical, and pop music scenes.

The fabulous but consistently underused outdoor theater has been spiffed up with new bike racks, ADA access, and food truck areas, and Mayor Breed was awfully careful about keeping her mask on at Saturdays ribbon-cutting.

SF’s third-oldest dispensary will finally be allowed to reopen in Crocker-Amazon, after surviving an appeal from a neighboring church.

Whips and chains will take a backseat to masks and vaccination cards, as safety precautions force the Folsom Street Fair to rebrand this Sunday’s proceedings as “Megahood2021.”

The sushi rolls, sashimi bowls, and flaming fish fillets of Elephant Sushi are on their way to Hayes Valley, as the cult-hit sushi spot hopes to open this October at the former home of shuttered Little Gem.

Five months out may seem a little early to declare a major event in these unpredictable times, but the SF Lunar New Year Parade will start selling its coveted bleacher seats for the 2022 event in just over a month from now.

After an 18-month absence, and permit drama that nearly doomed the event, Telegraph Avenue will once again feel the First Friday fun with music, art, muscle cars, food, and fashion.

Mission District cocktail bar Dalva, and its crafty back speakeasy the Hideout, have used the pandemic upgrade to upgrade their floors, furniture, washrooms, and more.

Wednesday will be Tacolicious’ initial dog meetup happy hour on Chestnut Street, with gourmet dog dishes served, and they’ll try to make fetch happen at their locations too.

The easy part was approving the purchase of the Mission Inn for transitional housing for the homeless, but two of the three other similar projects face furious neighborhood opposition.

What had been a CBD “wellness boutique” on Cortland Avenue will now be a full-blown cannabis dispensary with a “women-focused business model,” Mary Modern.

Artist Charles Gadeken’s fake trees with real pretty lights will be back in Peacock Meadow in December, and will remain glowing through January 2022.

Five more Walgreens locations are biting the dust across the city, and corporate headquarters is claiming it’s because of “organized retail crime.”

In an attempt to halt the closure of laundromats — and the removal of in-unit laundry machines — the Planning Commission just passed a set of laundromat protections.

The drummer for the Roots will be in the house for his hit concert documentary “Summer of Soul” as SFFILM resumes in-person screenings for its films.

The Falun Gong dance and propaganda spectacle returns for one-week engagement in early 2022, so you might see a billboard or two.

Home to “the largest Gin Selection in California” and arguably the nicest bathrooms in the Tenderloin, Whitechapel reopens its doors Tuesday night with a new executive chef and a new pool table, too.

In a quick rubber-stamp vote with no discussion, the supervisors approved the $87 million purchase of the Panoramic, adding 160 units of supportive housing stock.

The SF Board of Supervisors gave the final green light to the Grubstake Diner’s six-year quest to rebuild with a towering condo complex on top, denying the neighboring condo residents’ appeal over shadows and historical resources.

An erroneous claim that Target is closing its downtown San Francisco Metreon location was picked up by conservative media, but shot down by a simple email from a Chronicle reporter who asked the company.

A hairy situation will be developing Saturday in South of Market, with live music, DJs, and wrestling, but the Bearrison Street Fair pre-parties start beefing up on Friday.

While initial reports described “no reported injuries” in a shooting that also hit Ritual Roasters and several cars, SFPD announced Sunday that one victim has been shot and suffered “life-threatening injuries.”

The temporary outdoor Just Add Music permits have bars’ and venues’ parklets bustling, but nearby residents are lodging complaints, often with dog-whistle grievances over “thuggy” crowds.

Plans to build affordable housing at the troubled ex-McDonald’s are still on, though much delayed, but the city just scrapped plans to put a homeless drop-in center there during the interim.

Opening today, Thriller Social Club updates the arcade bar concept by reviving old carnival midway games, but with modern touches like an $80,000 golf simulator.

The large Day of the Dead procession will be virtual this year because of lingering pandemic concerns, but a few small gatherings will dot the Mission and the Tenderloin.

The Mad Dog is chasing a liquor license for their apparent newfound home, after the popular sports bar closed its old location just before the pandemic shutdowns.

The big empty Macy’s won't be an empty Macy’s anymore, as the long-promised Stonestown Galleria Whole Foods Market says it’s “Opening in December.”

The Colombian reggaeton star J Balvin took to Californios before taking the Outside Lands stage last weekend, and staff at the two-Michelin starred California Mexican restaurant described him as “a polite and nice person.”

Social media is piling on a new local TV station report about how “luxury condos overlook city’s worst squalor,” with some mocking how the issue is framed, and others eager to lodge the insult “Pelosiland.”

Tiger sisters Molly and Milou had both suffered from arthritis and advanced kidney disease, and the Oakland Zoo made the difficult decision to euthanize both on Monday.

The great Walgreens closures are underway, and signs in the stores claim “90% Off” sales, but the shelves are nearly 100% empty and draped in caution tape.

The celebrated “Your Dive” bar El Rio will be toasting to both its 42nd and 43rd birthdays Saturday, after last year’s celebration was obviously cancelled, with free food and free El Rio merchandise for early arrivers.

We have another cherished San Francisco movie theater reopening Friday, and the Landmark Opera Plaza’s four screens and facilities are embellished with a million-dollar upgrade.

Stern Grove Festival organizers said they needed $4 million to clean up the mess from a late August water main explosion. On Tuesday, the Board of Supervisors gave it to them.

San Francisco has designs on buying a vacant Geary Street building to use as a safe injection site, even though doing so is illegal, and the consequences could be enormous.

The SF Planning Commission unanimously approved a new dispensary called Solful, coming to the corner of Irving Street and 10th Avenue.

Twitter employee Courtney Brousseau was shot and killed after tweeting about his burrito from Dolores Park. The bench he sat on now bears his memorial plaque.

The “Unthanksgiving” gathering at dawn on Alcatraz Island is back on, and boat tickets are still available, plus the ceremony will be streaming online.

A pilot program is bringing food trucks to the northbound lanes of the Great Highway on it’s car-free weekends, and they’ll be out this Saturday and Sunday.

Bask in a double-dose of holiday glow in Golden Gate Park Thursday, as the LED forest Entwined and San Francisco’s “official Christmas tree” both have their official lightings one hour apart.

Lena Turner would not let the Japantown mall closures end her run, as the 91-year-old has opened a new omakase spot Sushi Aoba.

A space-age makeover is underway at the new bar Mothership, in the former Virgil's Sea Room location, with an out-of-this-world curated craft cocktail menu.

The fate of a 46th Avenue home that boldly goes where no one has gone before is going to probate court, as a dispute over ownership could blow up the enterprise.

It’s a musical theater fan’s wildest dream come true, as a Sunday screening of the “West Side Story” remake at the Castro Theatre will feature Rita Moreno for an in-person Q&A.

Amber Senter helped create cannabis social equity policies in the Bay Area and the state of California, and now she's part of the team that just won Planning Commission approval for a new Bayview dispensary.

SF cult-hit drag queen horror movie sensation Midnight Mass has its first in-person show since shelter-in-place, with a little-known Brian De Palma rock musical and, of course, a lip-synch competition.

A 93-foot ground mural is slated to be painted on the park’s Sixth Avenue Skatin’ Place, thanks to community efforts by none other than the Church of 8 Wheels.

A boutique brunch pop-up just got the keys to its new forever home at Harrison and 18th Streets, as Poppy will bring its Australian brunch stylings to the Mission this summer.

If you love the Japanese rice cakes called mochi, early January is your last chance to get it at Japantown’s oldest business Benkyodo Company.

16th Street gastropub the Monk’s Kettle has eliminated indoor dining for the time being, as more restaurants go outdoor-ony or close down entirely as the Omicron surge upends the restaurant sector.

The new owner of the Pacific Heights True Value Hardware made an unusual discovery when he took over — a 50-foot avocado tree that’s pummeling the shop’s backyard with the delicious fruit.

One of the first dining destinations in Uptown Oakland’s restaurant revival is ending their 18-year run, after their new landlord attempted to double their rent, but the restaurant vows that their efforts to feed unhoused neighbors will go on.

Julia Child would approve of Tú Lan’s addition to the San Francisco Legacy Business Registry, as the 44-year-old Vietnamese restaurant just got legacy status.

In a theatrical performance at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting, Supervisor Connie Chan made hay over her car-free JFK Drive proposal, and the mayor called Chan’s comments ”not a responsible way” to decide the matter.

The SF Planning Commission approved a plan Thursday to beautify Chinatown’s Portsmouth Square, and the most popular part of the plan is getting rid of that ugly pedestrian bridge above Kearny Street.

Japantown’s oldest business will survive a few months longer, as their previously announced January closure has been moved out to the end of March.

A new law took effect January 1 allowing streets with dining and retail to lower their speed limits, and San Francisco wasted no time implementing this on seven retail-heavy streets.

A makeshift, community-built park in the Sunset is set to be bulldozed in May, but at least will be replaced with 135 units of affordable teacher housing.

We all love the Hearts in SF tradition that’s returning for another Valentine's Day, and this year, one of them is from Banksy collaborator Mr. Brainwash.

A new baseball diamond and bleachers, exercise equipment, and 29 new trees are the centerpieces of the new and improved K.C. Jones Playground on Third Street in the Bayview.

The China Beach bathhouse may not be an inviting destination now, but this summer it's getting its first-ever renovation since opening in 1957.

The popular Washington Street pho and noodles lunch spot Sai’s Vietnamese Restaurant is being booted from their location at the end of February, a sudden notice that leaves them little time to relocate.

The Turk and Franklin Street hotel Vantaggio Suites will serve as the fourth hotel converted to housing for the formerly homeless, a replacement after the proposed purchase of the Kimpton Buchanan was nixed.

Following the breadcrumbs in Dr. Anthony Faci’s financial disclosures yields a delicious discovery — Fauci is a minor investor in SF’s Pacific Heights Italian restaurant Jackson Fillmore Trattoria.

For the company’s 170th anniversary, Ghirardelli Square is renovating its chocolate shop and ice cream parlor, plus adding a new pop-up shop.

Established in 1858, 7 Mile House at the SF-Brisbane border turns 164 years old on Saturday, and hosting a party to celebrate its rich — and often outlaw — history.

The Bi-Rite Café may not have been the right fit, so the Assembly Café and Beer Garden will give it a go at Civic Center, with dishes named after local rock acts including a Dead Kennedys chicken sandwich.

Some 200 yards from the Great Highway, a cannabis dispensary is coming to what is currently Black Bird Bookstore. Meanwhile, Black Bird is just moving just a couple blocks up the street.

After two full years of no weekly Friday night food truck meetups at Fort Mason, the granddaddy of SF street food events, Off the Grid Fort Mason, is ready to roll back in this coming Friday, April 1.

The new Whole Foods near Civic Center will be the largest Whole Foods in San Francisco, and will open March 10 to bring a much-needed boost to a corner that has lately been in the news for all the wrong reasons.

There used to be two Giordano Bros. sports bars in SF serving the famed “All-in-One Sandwich,” but as of Sunday night there will be none, as 16th Street sports bar Giordano Bros. will close permanently.

After two years of takeout only, celebrated Berkeley restaurant Chez Panisse will start taking reservations again Monday for their March 8 reopening, but expect those reservations to disappear fast.

Market Street dive bar Lucky 13 may be gone, but its legacy lives on as its sign (and bar stools!) have relocated to a highly appropriate new home at Bender’s Bar & Grill.

Fans flocked to the enormous-portion Chinese restaurant for their final Yan Yan meal, but we’ve confirmed that effective March 1, Yan Yan Seafood has closed permanently.

A fire station, a church with a notable window, and a log cabin with a bawdy past are in the running to be the first Vis Valley building awarded landmark status.

Known for her pink-streaked hair and custom craft cocktails, Waterbar bartender Alexandra Tamez was left in a coma for weeks after a February hit-and-run, and her community is asking for support — and information.

Friday night is opening night for Crybaby, which fills the big shoes and big neon guitar sign of the Uptown Nightclub.

While the Valley Transportation Authority says the San Jose BART extension won’t be completed until 2030, the feds says it’s going to take until 2034, and a battle is looming over the project’s underground boring.

The Palabok Fiesta is still on, though delayed until 2023, a Jollibee says they’re still going to open the Powell Street restaurant in the former Payless ShoeSource.

Officials in Mountain View are relocating a rafter of wild turkeys which have been roosting at the Ames Research Facility for several years. The birds were initially seen as harmless, but have been impeding cars and have even disrupted flights at the nearby Moffett Federal Field.

After a $10 million upgrade four years ago, the Helen Diller Civic Center Playgrounds are now apparently crawling with rats.