Cole Valley

Padrecito: Mexican Cuisine Gets a Makeover in Cole Valley

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Drink of the Week: Getting Swept Away at Padrecito

There were close to a dozen glasses in front of me, nearly the entire cocktail menu at the newly opened Padrecito in Cole Valley, all sitting in various states of consumption. The wave of drinks crested with the newest cocktails up front, the older and emptier ones ebbing towards the back, while the ... More >>

Recent Openers

Recent Openers

Recent Openers

Bacon Bacon's Kitchen: 7 Reasons Why I'm Not Vegetarian

In the words of Homer Simpson, "Is it bacon day?" Why yes, it most certainly is. Bacon Bacon began with the opening of its food truck in July 2011 and has since opened a storefront dubbed "The Kitchen" just off Fredrick Street in Cole Valley. Located just far enough away from the hustle and bustle o ... More >>

Sunrise, Sunset: A Realtor Hopes to Rename an S.F. Neighborhood

Top 5 Humane Fast Food Joints in San Francisco

Regardless of what some militant herbivores will tell you, not all meat-eaters are evil marauding baby-eaters who have zero regard for where their meat came from. San Francisco is already a leader in providing diners with organic, humanely raised meat -- and it's not just for the fancy restaurants. ... More >>

Mamacita's 'La Hora Feliz' Has Cheap Margaritas, Duck Confit Tacos

Happy hour at Mamacita runs Monday through Thursday from 5:30-6:30 p.m. and Friday until 6 p.m. and features taco and drink specials that don't break the bank without the annoyance of an after-work meat market prowl -- even though it's in the Marina. Tacos are typically served three to an order for ... More >>

Guess Which SF Neighborhood Has Been Most Generous to President Obama

President Barack Obama swung through the Bay Area last week like a college kid driving home for the weekend to do laundry. His stops hovered in the south Bay, in San Jose, Redwood City, and Atherton, where he held a rally and hosted the typical Expensive Dinners for Wealthy People. Obviously, Oba ... More >>

Sit/Lie Law Only Successful at Harassing the City's Aging Homeless, Report Says

A new report released by the city's Controller's Office demonstrates just how ineffective San Francisco's sit/lie ordinance is, with the bulk of last year's citations going to the same 19 repeat offenders, according to the report. Voters approved sit/lie in November 2010, with the hope that it ... More >>

Stag Dining Group Speak: "What We've Done Has Taken Us by Surprise"

As Stag Dining Group, Emory al-Imam, Jordan Grosser, Matthew Homyak, Ted Fleury, and Anil Margsahayam have been putting on professionally clandestine dinners for 18 months now. Just before filing my review of their most recent event -- titled "Guns, Game, and Rose" -- I spoke to two of the stags, Ma ... More >>

The Ice Cream Bar: Old-Fashioned Soda Fountain Goes Modern

The Ice Cream Bar Is an Adult-Friendly Soda Fountain

As long as I can remember, soda fountains -- retro or no -- have been always designated kid-friendly territory. They're for birthday parties and after-school outings, where everyone gets sugared up early enough to crash by 8. And there are plenty of kids hanging around the scoops at Cole Valley ... More >>

Ice Cream Bar Owner Juliet Pries on eBay, Tinctures, and Coca Leaves

​Thanks to byzantine SF permitting processes, it took Juliet Pries almost two years to open the Ice Cream Bar in Cole Valley, the subject of this week's restaurant review. But the delay gave her time to change the focus of the shop, expanding from ice cream into its most distinctive feature: pre-P ... More >>

EOS to Close at the End of the Month

​Eos, the 15-year-old Cole Valley restaurant and wine bar, will close its doors on February 25. Named for the ancient Greek goddess of dawn, Eos was one of the first restaurants to serve Asian-fusion small plates, launching the career of then-owner Arnold Eric Wong (and one of his early sous-chefs ... More >>

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

​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 suggest a bar, while ... 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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.

Goodbye West San Francisco, Hello East Jerusalem

Best Hidden Basketball Court

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

Best Expansion by a Local Burger Joint

BurgerMeister

Best Neighborhood Coffee Shop

Cafe Cole

Half-Baked

Unexpectedly underwhelmed at Roxanne's

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

My Heart Belongs to Zazie

A Little Night Music

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