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Two people are in critical condition after being struck over the weekend by drivers in the Mission and on Van Ness Avenue.
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Plus, the Ferry Building has a new tart shop.
Numerous tipsters have asked why Souvla has been closed for nearly four months. Here's what we've learned.
Plus, Dominique Crenn is putting one of her restaurants on hiatus to help feed the hungry.
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In this roundup, a mix of Hayes Valley business closings, openings, and re-workings as shelter-in-place drags on into the summer.
"It's very upsetting," said Chapman, whose family owned the diner for 68 years. "I didn't plan this kind of closure."
The 13-year-old restaurant specializing in "comfortable food" appears to have vacated its prime Hayes Valley address.
"For hospitality, there has never been a worse time," says Steve Izzo, who co-owned the restaurant with his wife, Lee Ann.
It's Tops' famed neon signage at Market and Octavia streets was removed on Wednesday.
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"To see the surveillance video was so shocking to us," one of the owners of the Scandinavian inspired eatery said. "It is ridiculous."
As a citywide effort to expand open air business gains traction, merchants prepare for a new way of life.
In one incident, a man grabbed a bottle of wine from a picnic table and then threatened to harm the picnicker with the bottle.
The woman was found in the Hayes Valley park on Tuesday afternoon.