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San Francisco Mission
Cha Cha Cha on Mission Street to close permanently Friday, Haight Street location staying open
The Mission Street location of tapas bar Cha Cha Cha will close down Friday night after the last sangria and shrimp are swallowed, but the Haight and Shrader Street location is still sticking around.
San Francisco Embarcadero Mission Tenderloin
La Cocina bringing a monthly Ferry Fridays marketplace to the Ferry Building
The nonprofit kitchen incubator La Cocina expands on their popular Tenderloin Municipal Marketplace with a new monthly Friday happy hour marketplace Ferry Fridays at the Ferry Building, with live music and mural painting.
San Francisco Mission
Lers Ros chef-owner to open second 16th Street restaurant called Cauliflower
Tom Silargorn, the acclaimed chef and founder of the Lers Ros chain of local Thai restaurants, appears to be on the move with another restaurant concept, just a few doors down from the 16th Street location of Lers Ros.
San Francisco Bernal Heights Mission
Emmy’s Spaghetti Shack celebrates its 20th (and 21st) anniversary this Saturday
Saturday marks the 21st anniversary of Mission-Bernal home-cooking favorite Emmy’s Spaghetti Shack, but COVID wrecked the 20th anniversary, so they’re celebrating both with DJs and a new Entertainment License.
San Francisco Mission
Nancy Pelosi on hand for grand opening of 143-unit affordable housing complex in the Mission
A new affordable housing complex at 16th and Shotwell Streets drew the likes of Nancy Pelosi on Thursday, as Casa Adelante will be home to more than 300 low-income people, plus provide on-site childcare and a rooftop farm.
San Francisco Mission Potrero Hill
Mission District tapas bar Asiento closing permanently Saturday, but promises a ‘rebrand’ is coming
After 11 years of dazzling the Mission with an out-of-this world mural, Asiento is going out with a big bang on Friday and Saturday nights. But stay tuned, because ownership is promising a “remodel and rebrand.”
San Francisco Mission
Sports bar and Pittsburgh sandwich destination Giordano Bros. is closing Feb. 27
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.
San Francisco Fillmore Mission Upper Haight
Large parts of Valencia, Fillmore, and Haight Streets get speeds reduced to 20 MPH
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.
San Francisco Mission
Casa Sanchez's Mission building could soon become a San Francisco landmark
Perhaps best known for its packaged chips and salsas, Casa Sanchez became San Francisco’s 100th legacy business back in 2017 — and its longtime location at 2778 24th Street might soon be recognized as a City landmark.
San Francisco Mission
Mission District brewpub halts indoor dining, which may be the shape of things to come
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.
San Francisco Castro Duboce Triangle Mission SoMa
Multiple Castro bars & restaurants temporarily close due to Omicron surge [Updated]
Over the holiday weekend, multiple Castro neighborhood bars and restaurants announced they would be temporarily closed due to the recent surge of Covid-19 infections brought on by the Omicron variant.
San Francisco Mission
Peaches Christ’s Midnight Mass returns Wednesday with first in-person screening since pandemic hit
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.