Fisherman's Wharf

The Ghirardelli Chocolate store has long been a must-stop destination for SF tourists, and now the place is about to get even more immersive, and it's been redubbed the Ghirardelli Chocolate Experience Store.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

San Francisco food icon Cecilia Chiang, proprietor of the legendary Mandarin restaurant, died Wednesday at the age of 100, and with her goes a century of taste memories and a long lifetime of stories spanning two continents and multiple wars.

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.

The landmark illuminated Ghirardelli sign went back up Thursday morning, after a dark and dismal couple of months in which it was missing.

Investigators are still seeking the source of the fuel leak in the heart of Fisherman's Wharf, which is home to sea lions and other marine life.

A bubble tea chain has also closed its doors.

The company has declared bankruptcy and is closing locations across the country, with the Bay Area particularly hard-hit.

Big museums are likely to survive the crisis, but smaller ones without endowments are staring down a collapse in tourism.

Craving fried chicken? You're in luck.

Plus, a hit Korean fried chicken chain is coming to the Metreon.

Here's where to get out and about for your three-day weekend.

NBC's new dramedy "Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist" is set in San Francisco, with some scenes filmed in North Beach.

Halloween fun is extending into the weekend, as are lively events like an ocean-centric art show and massive ballpark science fair.

The bar's owners say it's "closed until further notice" as they deal with the aftermath.

Plus, a popular burrito chain has shuttered an SF location.

Honor the 30th anniversary of Loma Prieta with a safety session, then catch vintage witchcraft flicks or drop in at the Potrero Hill Festival.

The current schedule reflects "the number of part time operators we wish we had", said SFMTA's Julie Kirschbaum.