Long-time San Francisco restaurateur and owner of Civic Center’s Soluna Cafe & Lounge, Rene Denis opened his latest venture, Chao Pescao, Thursday — turning the once Cuban-Colombian delivery pop-up into a permanent eatery.

People spilled into the streets Saturday morning and afternoon as SF residents celebrated the election of Joe Biden to the presidency. For some, the wait since Tuesday’s election had felt interminable and the relief and joy at the decision was palpable at the celebrations.

Iconic San Francisco hofbrau/sports bar Tommy's Joynt (1101 Geary) has reopened for the first time in eight months, and the corned beef dinners have already begun flying out the door. 

The team behind PianoFight is launching a virtual venue this week with a fundraising event that aims to let attendees mingle and interact safely from their own homes.

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.

A mobile command van will be stationed in the Tenderloin intermittently in a new effort to disrupt street-level drug dealing.

With construction now two years behind schedule, area businesses say the grants won't make a dent in their six-figure revenue losses.

Three blocks of the Tenderloin will be closed to cars for outdoor dining and shopping.

The city's densest and most child-heavy neighborhood is set to close a block to cars each Saturday afternoon. But it still faces headwinds to creating more outdoor space.

After years of covertly filling Tenderloin sidewalk crevices with resin and found objects, Rik Lee Leipold has received funding to install more long-lasting work in the neighborhood's streets.

The Walgreens, whose theft-plagued empty shelves went viral earlier this year, will close at the end of August.

Prairie, the Mission's restaurant-turned-general-store, is also set to shutter.

Two people are in critical condition after being struck over the weekend by drivers in the Mission and on Van Ness Avenue.