Cole Valley

Meet the Man Who Shot Everyone in His Neighborhood … Not That That’s a Bad Thing

Goodbye West San Francisco, Hello East Jerusalem

SF Weekly Letters

Room with a Few

A young San Franciscan’s dream: A room in a nice house, affordable rent, and a built-in social network.

Renaissance men at the Nag's Head

A young San Franciscan’s dream: A room in a nice house, affordable rent, and a built-in social network.

Thinking Big

Tenor saxophonist Mitch Marcus starts with the concept of the big band, then goes further

The Kids All Write

A new anthology argues that reading and writing still matter

Best Hidden Basketball Court

A new anthology argues that reading and writing still matter

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, October 20, 2004

Progressive Failure

Why San Francisco supervisors who call themselves progressives should get the boot in November

Stow It

The lay of the lake

Heaven Help Us

Take an infernal excursion

Gyms/Exercise Clubs

Take an infernal excursion

Best Expansion by a Local Burger Joint

BurgerMeister

Best Neighborhood Coffee Shop

Cafe Cole

Take Ral of Me

Tracking down the mysteries behind Ral Partha Vogelbacher's cinematic break-up album

Half-Baked

Unexpectedly underwhelmed at Roxanne's

Letters to the Editor

Week of May 29, 2002

SOMA Sayonara

Cafe Monk closes its doors

I Like Trouble

Julia Roberts' next film will be shot, and set, in San Francisco

Letters to the Editor

That Sinking Feeling; A Biased Opinion; An Issue of Some Gravity; Book Learning; A Sad Development

Best Gift Shop

Egg

Several Jugs of Wine and Thou

Egg

Letters

Egg

My Heart Belongs to Zazie

Egg

Ordinary People

Blessed comfort marks historic lesbian union

Murder at the Pink Tarantula

Carmel Sanger's death -- a walk-in shooting at a SOMA hair salon called the Pink Tarantula -- was professionally brutal. Her life was a wondrous combination of the drag queens and musicians and druggies and gays and bikers and lesbians and tattooists and

A Little Night Music

Cole Valley's Zazie is a simple cafe by day, a chic bistro after sunset

Slap Shots

Cole Valley's Zazie is a simple cafe by day, a chic bistro after sunset

Guardian Angels?

The relatively new, unregulated field of conservators leaves the elderly at risk

Laurine Wickett of 'Top Chef': The SFoodie Interview

Left Coast CateringWickett: Not exactly in love with Vegas.​The 38-year-old Rochester, New York, native has an earthy, tousled vibe that makes you think of a Montessori teacher sipping post-pilates soy chais in Cole Valley. When she arrived in S.F. in 1990, Wickett started cooking at long-defu ... More >>

Local Warming: Climate change comes to S.F.

Left Coast CateringWickett: Not exactly in love with Vegas.​The 38-year-old Rochester, New York, native has an earthy, tousled vibe that makes you think of a Montessori teacher sipping post-pilates soy chais in Cole Valley. When she arrived in S.F. in 1990, Wickett started cooking at long-defu ... More >>

Tastes Real

Support your local farmers' market for better food — and a better economy.

Twelve-Year-Old Shames Whatever You Did For Haiti

Yep, that's a homemade scarf. Beat that, philanthropists!   Maybe you plunked down $20 dollars at some Haiti benefit concert. More likely you said you would and never did. Well, slackers, Sophie Drukman-Feldstein hit the sidewalk in front of her Cole Valley house Thursday a ... More >>

Seeking Street-Food Vendors: Ashbury Market

Fady A./Yelp​The owner of Ashbury Market wants to spark a little street-food fire in Cole Valley. Earlier today, Resat Turgut tweeted that interested cart vendors looking for free kitchen space should hit him up. His idea? Give vendors a place to prep, in exchange for offering Ashbury Market's ... More >>

Ashbury Market Kicks Off Street-Food Tuesdays: Adobo Hobo, Gumbo Man, Sweet Constructions

christine w./YelpOnTuesday nights, Adobo Hobo will bring a taste of Filipino to Cole Valley.​Cole Valley's street-food experiment is expanding. Two weeks after SF Delicious and Mad4Madeleines began selling on Thursday nights from Ashbury Market's deli annex, more vendors are making an appearan ... More >>

Cafe Reverie's Pozole Verde

Cafe Reverie's pozole verde: Bring your own radishes.​When we need to escape the pull of the Internet, SFoodie occasionally works at Cole Valley's wifi-free Cafe Reverie, a friendly place with comfortable seats, beer as well as coffee, and an ever-so-slightly gourmetified menu of sandwiches, burge ... More >>

Fresh Eats: We recommend Reverie's pozole and Ajisen's ramen

Cafe Reverie's pozole verde: Bring your own radishes.​When we need to escape the pull of the Internet, SFoodie occasionally works at Cole Valley's wifi-free Cafe Reverie, a friendly place with comfortable seats, beer as well as coffee, and an ever-so-slightly gourmetified menu of sandwiches, burge ... More >>

Man Sues For Right to Carry Gun Near Cole Valley's Grattan School

Matt SmithDon't mind me, kiddies...​After San Francisco school officials refused to allow local programmer Kevin Hall to carry a sidearm near Grattan School in Cole Valley, he sued in federal court Thursday demanding respect for what he calls his Second Amendment rights."I want to open carry in Sa ... More >>

Eos Wine Salon: High-Class Happy Hour Sips and Snacks

Toro E./YelpAfter a long day of lawyering, there's nothing quite as chill-worthy as the bar at Eos Wine Salon.​The place: Eos Restaurant and Wine Salon, 901 Cole (at Carl), 566-3063 The hours: Sun.-Thurs., 5:30-7 p.m. The deals: Wines for $5/glass, $10/half bottle, $20/bottle; sake or sang ... More >>

A Wine Lover's Ode to NOPA, S.F.'s Newest Zone of the Grape

dj drüe/FlickrRestaurants like Nopa have helped this corner of the Western Addition remake itself as a wine-friendly district.​I've lived on the corner of Broderick and Grove since 2004 and have watched my little neighborhood prosper and grow into one of San Francisco's thriving corridors. It ... More >>

Stag Dining Group: Current and Former Alembic Chefs Organize Underground Dinners

Jordan Grosser/TwitterStag Dining Group organizers choose plates for next week's dinners.​Two chefs with ties to the Alembic are launching an underground eatery next week in Cole Valley. Jordan Grosser and Ted Fleury ― once co-chefs at the Alembic (Fleury's still there, actually) ― come to ... More >>

Bike Bandit Strikes Again

Just a note from a loving victim ​Earlier this week, we warned readers about the rash of bike thefts happening in the Inner Sunset. The thief appears to have migrated to Cole Valley, where there have been increased reports of a cycle crook.Police Captain Denis O'Leary told SF Weekly that the thief ... More >>

Zazie Brunch Lives Up to Hype

​From exposed brick walls and vintage posters to tightly-packed dining tables, Zazie has all the makings of a classic French bistro. The dinner menu features usual regional suspects -- think French Onion Soup Gratinee and Mussels Marineres -- but the Cole Valley gem is at its best during brunch, w ... More >>

Gordon Ramsay Is on His Way, and So Is Ice Cream Bar and Latest Philz Coffee

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Arguably the angriest chef in the kitchen, Gordon Ramsay, is heading to the Bay Area for an episode of Kitchen Nightmares. His team is looking for diners to grab a seat in Fremont at the steak and seafoo ... More >>

Occupy the Pop Charts: Five Reasons Why We Like Third Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins

Gil RiegoThird Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins performing in S.F. last year.​ Yesterday, San Francisco's own Third Eye Blind released "If There Ever Was a Time," a new song in support of Occupy Wall Street. Penned by frontman Stephan Jenkins, the song's lyrics are a cheery encouragement for young ... More >>

Murio's Reopens, Bacon Bacon Expands Its Hours, and Chef Changes

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. The new (and improved?) Murio's Trophy Room is back to serving drinks. Inside Scoop points out the interior is free of the knickknacks and doo-dads that use to line the wall and ceilings, and in their pla ... More >>

Burma Superstar's New Location and The Ice Cream Bar Readies to Open

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. With an hour-and-half average wait time (on a Tuesday!) at the original Burma Superstar on Clement, we can't say we're surprised the owners are looking to open their fourth (second in the City) location. ... More >>

Drink Of the Week: A New Orleans Hangover Never Felt So Good

Lou Bustamante​The tiny bar in the back of Ice Cream Bar, the Cole Valley spot that is attempting to revive the lost art of the soda fountain, is unlike most anything I've seen before. The assortment of tiny bottles, each containing a tincture or extract, lined up next to Boston shaker tins sugges ... More >>