One-time northern Iranian pop-up Komaaj is now a full-fledged brick-and-mortar restaurant at the former home of Good Frikin’ Chicken, and their pomegranate chicken (and sumac beef and smoked salmon belly) are still pretty frikin’ good.

These lovely sidewalk benches are now being declared "unpermitted encroachments" on Mirabel Avenue in Bernal Heights, with the Public Works department now demanding $1,400 permits for benches that have been there as long as 20 years.

The current pop-up restaurant Komaaj has posted signage that they’re taking over the former Good Frikin’ Chicken space at Mission and 29th Streets, so the location’s Middle Eastern food tradition will remain intact.

San Francisco's most homegrown “outdoor movie in the park” series is back next month, and Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema has posted all three nights’ schedules and locations.

The Mission-Bernal Big Lots at Mission and 29th Streets has delivered oddball retail joy for decades, but is now boarded up and permanently closed.

While Secession Art & Design went mostly virtual during the pandemic and closed its Mission-Bernal storefront earlier this year, it is having a 15th anniversary party in the neighborhood this week with a pop-up gallery.

St. Kevin’s parish on Cortland Avenue turns 100 years old Saturday, and their Centennial Celebration will serve up the dishes of the Latin American, Filipino, and Pakistani heritages that make up the congregation.

Aww, f***! The rotisserie chicken, shawarma, and kebob hotspot Goood Frikin' Chicken has shut down, after an 18-year run at Mission and 29th Streets.

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.

The healthy takeout concept Mendocino Farms is opening up a new, tenth Bay Area location at the edge of San Francisco’s Bernal Heights neighborhood, at 90 Charter Oak Avenue.

If St. Patrick's Day means beer for you, the Bay Area offers no shortage of options to celebrate – green, Irish and otherwise.

A space-age makeover is underway at the new bar Mothership, in the former Virgil's Sea Room location, with an out-of-this-world curated craft cocktail menu.

The great Walgreens closures are underway, and signs in the stores claim “90% Off” sales, but the shelves are nearly 100% empty and draped in caution tape.