Inner Sunset

A tiny bar with a hefty amount of classy Italian flare is about to open inside the hit Inner Sunset restaurant Fiorella on 9th Avenue.

Midnite Bagel has gone from a nighttime stunt to a pop-up to the pages of the New York Times, and now has an Inner Sunset brick-and-mortar shop opening May 23.

Fans will be sad to know that longtime Inner Sunset staple Pomelo has closed after nearly 25 years in business.

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

After a Halloween hiatus last year due to the ongoing pandemic, San Francisco is hosting spooky, fun-filled events throughout the city this weekend. We’ve rounded up several free-to-attend events to celebrate spooky season each day this weekend.

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

The Sunset Mercantile and its community partners will host the first in a new series of monthly live music events on Saturday, August 28, outdoors at 37th Avenue and Pacheco Street.

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.

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.

UCSF and the City of San Francisco announced a community benefits package that will go along with an agreement for the university to rebuild and expand its Parnassus Heights hospital over the next decade — and it includes 1,263 new units of housing, 40 percent of which will be designated as affordable.

Construction will break ground next month on Public Works' 27-month, multiagency reconstruction of 19th Avenue in the Sunset. And you can bet it's going to make for some extra traffic.

The program, administered by the SF District Attorney's office, will reimburse merchants up to $1,000 for replacing broken windows.

With improvements and plantings complete, Rec & Park reopened the Stanyan entrance to Golden Gate Park to the public this month.

The 34-year-old print shop, owned by an immigrant family from Hong Kong, was destroyed in last week's fire.

Here's the latest look at business happenings in the avenues, including a new Inner Sunset breakfast spot.

Rec & Park's landscapers have let the (wood) chips fall where they may — sparking concern for some locals.

40 of the Haight's unhoused have found safe shelter at the Stanyan Street tent village. But there appears to be no plan for hundreds of others sleeping on the street.

Nopalito is the latest business to fall victim to the pandemic — but when one door closes, a window opens.

The Haight's popular print shop and pinball arcade has filed for permits to open a spinoff cannabis dispensary.

Despite getting the OK from the city, a handful of SF's flea and farmers markets still face roadblocks to resuming service.

As a citywide effort to expand open air business gains traction, merchants prepare for a new way of life.

The city's parks and real estate departments have two weeks to identify land where homeless people can camp at a social distance.

The vacant, city-owned lot will be pressed into use as an emergency tent shelter with social distancing and sanitation.

The McDonald's at 730 Stanyan has officially been demolished. But during its two-year wait to become affordable housing, it's unclear if the lot will get a temporary use.

As Mayor Breed continues to defy hotel room legislation, many city supervisors are hunting for vacant properties to use as tent camps.