San Francisco

A very large dispensary will bloom at Lombard and Steiner streets, though those plans were nearly choked because the Department of Building Inspection spaced out on a permit 17 years ago.

No one was injured in the April 8 fire on Noe Street, but it displaced five residents and shut down Sushi Urashima, and crowdfunding campaigns have been launched for both.

North Beach has plenty of places to get your drink on. But until recently, if you were seeking a mellower high from a cannabis dispensary, you were out of luck.

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.

The long-awaited cocktail lounge and restaurant Lobby Bar (4230 18th St.) opens today on the ground floor of The Hotel Castro.

Castro residents and visitors looking for their daily fix of Starbucks coffee, lattes, frappucinos, and more can rejoice.

A pop-up pizza operation in San Francisco is about to move into permanent digs along the border of the Tenderloin and Civic Center neighborhoods.

Mayor Breed sounded less than thrilled that 4/20 is around the corner in a Monday press conference on the topic, and laid out the new rules now that there will be legal cannabis sales that day in Golden Gate Park.

A new restaurant with seating for just nine diners has opened under the radar in San Francisco’s Japantown offering Kappo-style dining at just one seating per night, for only nine guests at a time.

Chalk up another popular restaurant brand coming to the Stonestown Galleria, as cult-hit burger chain Shake Shack will open its third San Francisco franchise there later this year.

An eatery that has become a staple in San Francisco’s Chinatown is closing down after nearly three decades of serving customers.

The saga of the falcons that live on top of the Campanile on the campus of UC Berkeley is about to add a new chapter.

The Giants’ ballpark area will soon have a statue to the first woman who played for the SF Sea Lions in the Negro Baseball Leagues, plus four other new “street room” installations at the Mission Rock development.

City Hall has approved plans to demolish the Phoenix Irish Pub building on Valencia Street, and from the wording of the documents, it does not seem the Phoenix will rise from those ashes.

There's a taker for the large bar-restaurant space at 1875 Union Street that was formerly known as Hollow Cow and Lightning Tavern, and it's called Sacred Taco

The noodle wars are coming back, as the street food festival Noodle Fest will pit 29 North Beach and Chinatown restaurants against one another in a noodle contest with celebrity judges Martin Yan, Soleil Ho, and Broke-Ass Stuart.

A new, still nameless, high-end Indian concept from Taj Campton Place chef Srijith Gopinathan and business partner Ayesha Thapar — who also opened the acclaimed Ettan in Palo Alto together — is coming to the former Dosa space.

Duboce Triangle residents were awoken by a three-alarm fire that broke out at 141 Noe St. (at Henry) at approximately 5:40 a.m.