San Francisco

Mission District bar Kilowatt is changing hands, and its new ownership team won a Place of Entertainment permit at Tuesday night’s SF Entertainment Commission meeting to bring live music back to the bar’s storied stage.

On the heels of a dressing-down from the SF Historic Preservation Commission, North Beach’s Condor Club was still awarded entry into SF’s Legacy Business Registry, 58 years after becoming the first topless dance club in the U.S.

New owners of the sports bar Bus Stop Saloon, which has been serving drinks in Cow Hollow for more than 120 years, are planning a new restaurant on the second story of the building called Left Door.

Things have gone sour for the milk tea shop at 19th and Valencia Streets, as the original Boba Guys store that opened in 2011 has permanently closed amidst a spate of labor strife and bad publicity.

After being shuttered for the last four years due to city-mandated seismic retrofits and the pandemic, The Savoy Tivoli — the iconic North Beach bar — will celebrate its grand re-opening this week, beginning on Thursday, December 15.

Effective December 21, one of SF’s favorite homegrown grocery chains Gus's Community Market will take over operations at Glen Park’s Canyon Market, and not one single employee will be losing their job at the Christmastime transition.

A new independent distillery joined the ranks of Richmond's craft food and drink scene this year and is off to a running start, opening a tasting room near the Richmond marina and garnering recognition for one of its craft liquors. Called Dissident Spirits, the distillery and its attached tasting room are located in Richmond's Marina Bay neighborhood, within a shopping center that also houses the popular Armistice Brewing Company.

The SFPD station at 18th and Valencia Streets was not looking or smelling good Monday afternoon, as a Recology garbage truck was forced to dump a load of steaming trash there after suffering an apparent truck fire.

A closure could be coming soon as the property is on the market for $6.5 million as a potential development site.

People who love the creative and technical cuisine from the fine dining pop-up Anomaly will be happy to know that the owner, chef Mike Lanham, is about to open a permanent location.

North Beach has always been a place where residents and business owners go out of their way to support one another. So it’s fitting that, just in time for the holidays, neighborhood institution Tony’s Pizza Napoletana and newish cannabis shop North Beach Pipeline have cooked up a fun and tasty culinary collab.

The SFMTA will decide the fate of nearly two dozen Slow Streets on Tuesday, and it’s pretty clear how they’re going to vote on all of them — except for one, the highly contentious Lake Street, and it’s anybody’s guess what will happen with that one.

The new Andytown Coffee location in the Richmond District, across the Great Highway from Ocean Beach, is now open. The sprawling space is the company’s fifth location and the biggest by far.

One of San Francisco’s busiest shopping areas is losing another big retailer: The Container Store. But it's just moving elsewhere in SoMa.

Brunch lovers, take notice. New owners are reviving longtime San Francisco eatery Town's End, which had closed down during the pandemic.

The 4 Star Theater has been closed for nearly three whole years, but the scrappy little theater at Clement Street and 23rd Avenue will rise again this week, with movies plus pizza and bagels provided by nearby neighbor The Laundromat.

After nearly 12 years, Castro neighborhood fine jeweler D&H Jewelers (2323 Market St.) has departed and moved to a new location in the Mission.

A Sunday afternoon one-alarm fire spread to both the first and second floors of the Buchanan YMCA in Japantown, and the facility that serves mostly seniors will remain closed until further notice.