Outer Sunset

A Korean-Chinese hybrid restaurant that had only been open for a few months in San Francisco’s Outer Sunset District is suddenly closing its doors for good.

The popular Sunset-Parkside free outdoor movie series Movies in McCoppin returns Friday for the first time since 2019, with a free family movie every Friday night of October.

The new boss is the same as the old boss at the Outer Sunset’s popular organic brunch spot Outerlands, as general manager Riley Bartlett now owns the place, and he’s already reopened the restaurant.

Not even a chilly fog could dampen spirits as the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Music Festival made its return to Golden Gate Park over the weekend after a pandemic-driven hiatus.

The daily fresh-made bread of Outerlands has stopped coming out of the oven, but its owners say that a new ownership team is coming and will “continue the same” traditions at the restaurant.

Add another slice of cult-hit Bay Area food fandom to the emerging Stonestown Galleria food court, as Berkeley-based pizza slice hit Blondie’s Pizza is the latest big restaurant name the mall has pulled in.

The battle between a big private school and a little farmers market could end, as Supervisor Eric Mar has brokered a compromise deal, and the Outer Sunset Farmers Market has just won a ten-month extension either way.

It may not have the magnitude of the boba tea trend, but Korean corn dogs are the latest food craze slowly taking shape in the Bay Area.

The Sunset District may get an on-demand community shuttle soon — because currently, the neighborhood's selection of public transit routes is sparse.

Chalk up another popular restaurant brand coming to the Stonestown Galleria, as cult-hit burger chain Shake Shack will open its third San Francisco franchise there later this year.

A small stretch along the Great Highway is generating far worse air quality readings than any other spot in the city, which could be a public health problem, or could be that sea salt and spray are screwing with the monitors.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Something called the Ocean Beach Climate Change Adaptation Project could render nearly a mile of the Great Highway car-free, regardless of what happens in the broader car-free Great Highway debate.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

A majority of respondents to a recent survey by the San Francisco County Transportation Authority say they think the Upper Great Highway along Ocean Beach ought to remain closed to vehicle traffic post-pandemic. 53 percent of residents, many of them living in the Sunset District, said the four-lane stretch between Sloat Boulevard and Lincoln Way should remain the pedestrian and bicycle promenade that it has been for the past year.

As Hoodline first reported in November of 2019, Noriega Produce will open as a fully-fledged Gus’s Community Market. The Outer Sunset grocery store, owned by the team behind local chain Gus's Community Market, will open on Tuesday, February 2 at 3701 Noriega St. (at 44th Ave.).

The pandemic has cemented our love affair with comfort foods — chief among them pizza and to-go cocktails. DamnFine (3410 Judah Street), one of the newest restaurants to grace the Outer Sunset, is intent on being a one-stop destination for all that and more.