Johnny Doughnuts reopens this weekend next door to Pizzeria Delfina in Pac Heights
Johnny Doughnuts is coming back to life again in SF about a mile away from their shuttered Gough Street shop at California and Fillmore streets. The doughnuts will start coming out of the fryer on Saturday, October 29, with the public grand opening starting at 7 a.m.
The Clay Theatre on Upper Fillmore has finally received historic landmark status
The SF Board of Supervisors granted Fillmore Street’s 109-year-old Clay Theatre a historical landmark designation Tuesday, though it remains unclear if the place will ever operate as a movie theater again.
Clay Theatre on verge of historic landmark designation as SF’s ‘first dedicated foreign film theater’
The SF Historic Preservation Commission has given the OK for the 109-year-old Clay Theatre to become an official landmark, but debunked a few rumors — and no, John Waters’ ‘Pink Flamingos’ did not premiere there.
Turns out Dr. Fauci is an investor in Pac Heights’ Jackson Fillmore Trattoria
Following the breadcrumbs in Dr. Anthony Faci’s financial disclosures yields a delicious discovery — Fauci is a minor investor in SF’s Pacific Heights Italian restaurant Jackson Fillmore Trattoria.
Elite SF school submits plans for eye-catching expansion in Pacific Heights
A private high school on the border of Pacific Heights and Laurel Heights is planning for a big addition to the already scattered campus, and that means a strip mall will have to be bulldozed.
It’s raining avocados at this Pac Heights True Value Hardware store
The new owner of the Pacific Heights True Value Hardware made an unusual discovery when he took over — a 50-foot avocado tree that’s pummeling the shop’s backyard with the delicious fruit.
Landmark status for Clay Theatre moves forward, theater may reopen yet
The Landmark Clay Theatre took a big step toward historical landmark status on Monday, but oddly, the owner does not want the theater saved or given historical designation.
Chef Melissa Perello on the reopening of Octavia and Frances: 'It's like opening two brand new restaurants'
It's been a long 14 months of total closure for a pair of acclaimed neighborhood restaurants, Octavia and Frances, both of which were opened by chef Melissa Perello in the last decade. And she says that the team is taking the task of reopening them one step at a time, with Octavia happening first.