Subject: Folsom

• 45-year-old Razor Scooter Rider Nailed by Car Today

  November 30, 2007

• SF Weekly's 7-Day Dish

  February 7, 2008

• Lemonade: Moving to NYC, Free Party

  October 14, 2008

• SoMa's Paradise Lounge Scheduled to Reopen on Halloween Night

  October 21, 2008

• Snacktion: Shakti Black Pepper Papadum

  Name: Black Pepper Papadum Brand: Shakti/Planetary Products Origin: Berkeley Found at: Rainbow Grocery (1745 Folsom) Cost: $2.99 Ingredients: Urd bean flour, salt, papdkhar, black pepper, asafoetida Calories per serving: Not listed Why I bought it: Previous experience has proved this crispy bean wafer that's a staple of most Indian restaurants to be a tasty and filling snack that only takes 45 seconds to prepare in the microwave (and only slightly longer on the stove). Shakti/P

  January 28, 2009

• Serious Bread: Pure Grain Pumpernickel

  This 100% rye bread is lighter and less sour than most of this style, and has a wonderful nuttiness.

  January 29, 2009

• Drink of The Week: Basil Canteen's Full Moon

  It was more like a half moon outside on the night we stopped by Basil Canteen (1489 Folsom) and enjoyed the restaurant's Full Moon of house-infused ginger vodka with juices of pear and cranberry. This cocktail is so well-balanced that it would be perfectly easy to drink it a little bit too quickly, but sipping it slowly is a rewarding experience, as the spears of fresh ginger bring out a deeper flavor the longer it marinates. If you enjoy that pleasant little burn of the root, chewing on the s

  February 6, 2009

• A Tale of Two Cities at Basil Canteen

  Basil Canteen (1489 Folsom), is an offshoot of nearby Basil Thai (1175 Folsom) that opened last summer. Where the original Basil specializes in more formal dishes, the Canteen's focus is on small plates and snacks from the streets of Thailand. It's a great spot to stop for a light meal before hitting the multitude of nightclubs around the corner on 11th Street.

  February 19, 2009

• Drink of The Week: Prince Neville's Famous Authentic Jamaican Hibiscus Drink

  This beverage has beguiled this writer several times at Other Avenues (3930 Judah) and Rainbow Grocery (1745 Folsom), but never stopped to learn that Prince Neville's is a San Francisco brand brewed by the former chef and manager of the now defunct King Jamaica restaurant in the Western Addition. A family recipe he learned from his grandmother, this is much more pleasantly intense than the Mexican version of hibiscus coolers because of the liberal addition of ginger root. It is sweetened with h

  February 13, 2009

• Snacktion: Sconehenge's Honey Pecan English Tea Scones

  Name: Honey Pecan English Tea Scones Brand: Sconehenge Origin: Berkeley Found at: Rainbow Grocery (1745 Folsom) Cost: $4.20 Ingredients: Unbleached flour, buttermilk, butter, eggs, sugar, baking powder and salt Calories per serving: Not listed Why I bought it: There was virtually no coherent argument to be made in favor of leaving them on the shelf. Tasting notes: It states on the package that these scones are made from an old(e) English monastery's recipe, and that people would line

  March 9, 2009

• Snacktion: Freeland Foods' Go Raw Chocolate Super Cookies

  Name: Go Raw Chocolate Super Cookies Brand: Freeland Foods Origin: Mountain View Found at: Rainbow Grocery (1745 Folsom) Cost: $5.59 Ingredients: Organic coconut (unsulphured), sprouted organic sesame seeds, organic date, raw organic agave nectar, raw organic cacao Calories per serving: 149 Why I bought it: Despite being burned a few times, the search for good raw and vegan Snacktion continues. Besides, super cookies rule the world! Tasting notes: These are pretty addictive, mastering

  March 2, 2009

• Drink of the Week: Zaré at Fly Trap's Minted Memory

  At Zaré at Fly Trap (606 Folsom), there are many reminiscences on growing up in Iran (since chef/owner Hoss Zaré and cocktail director Reza Esmaili both did). One especially addictive and dangerous one is the Minted Memory, made of Bombay gin, Pimm's No.1, minted vinegar syrup, and lemon. Minted vinegar is one of those ingredients that sounds strange but works well, cutting into the harshness of the gin in a pretty remarkable way. It's all as cool as the cucumber slice that floats in it, emi

  March 13, 2009

• Beer Bar of the Week: City Beer

  SF's only nothing-but-beer store is also one of the city's best beer bars.

  February 25, 2009

• Weird-Ass Beer of the Week: Duchesse de Bourgogne

  This beer tastes like good hard cider, with hints of cinnamon and stout.

  March 3, 2009

• Applicance Sales and Service Does It All

  Parts, repair, and the biggest selection of new appliances around.

  March 24, 2009

• New Restaurants

  September 17, 2008

• New Restaurants

  September 10, 2008

• New Restaurants

  September 3, 2008

• New Restaurants

  August 27, 2008

• New Restaurants

  August 20, 2008

• Also Playing

  Our critics weigh in on local theater

  August 13, 2008

• Also Playing

  Our critics weigh in on local theater

  August 6, 2008

• Morning Buzz: A Foodie Day Planner

  Friday, June 5, 2009 Let's do lunch: It's carb-wallow Friday! You've been good all week, picking at salads. Now take SF Weekly critic Meredith Brody's advice and load up on the spaghetti and meatballs and ginger cake at Park Chow (1240 Ninth Ave. at Lincoln, 665-9912). Drink therapy: The Giants are outta town -- time to reclaim the ballpark from cargo-shorted suburban dweebs. Represent at Acme Chophouse (24 Willie Mays Plaza at Third St., 644-0240) for $5 happy-hour noshes, $3 drafts, and $4

  June 5, 2009

• Art Printz

  Wide-ranging modern dance

  October 5, 2005

• Video Vandals

  Beware what you toss out

  September 14, 2005

• July Fourth

  June 29, 2005

• Best Urban Retreat

  May 11, 2005

• Gyms/Exercise Clubs

  January 19, 2005

• Club Directory

  March 17, 2004

• Gyms/Exercise Clubs

  January 21, 2004

• BeatBox

  Short of funds post Xmas? How does 10 house DJs for the price of none sound?

  December 24, 2003

• San Francisco

  October 1, 2003

• Holiday

  January 1, 2003

• Arts & Entertainment Readers' Poll

  May 15, 2002

• Folsom Street Flair

  From gay leather bars to Irish pubs

  November 7, 2001

• Five Best Places to Get Non-Diner Food After the Bars Close

  May 23, 2001

• Events Listings

  Pride 2000 Events

  June 21, 2000

• Best Place to Get Buzzed on Lychees

  Lisa's on Folsom

  May 17, 2000

• Night & Day

  July 14, 1999

• Night Crawler

  January 21, 1998

• Slap Shots

  June 18, 1997

• A Murder Most Foul: View the Scene of San Francisco's Latest Homicide

  Click here for a larger map.After weeks of quiet times, San Francisco's latest homicides have come in bunches. On Saturday morning, a 23-year-old Richmond man named James Jamonte Turner was shot to death at around 2 a.m. at Third and Folsom (above); three other men were seen fleeing the scene on foot. That murder came just one day after Bayview's 21-year-old Norris Bennett was gunned down at around 4:40 p.m. in the vicinity of Griffith and Navy Streets (where the good folks from Google Street Vi

  April 20, 2009

• City of Burgers: Craggy Gay Goodness

  SatisfyingYou gotta figure the mud-flap-and-license-plate décor at this Folsom Street man tavern works like Levitra on guys with a thing for grease monkeys. For everyone else, there's the Classic Burger ($7.50), customizable with swag like bacon or a fried egg. The Classic goes down like a truck-stop hand job: Not exactly oozing finesse, but satisfying all the same. The beef has a high fat content--30 percent--so the craggy, hand-formed patties turn charliciously black on the flattop, while the

  May 5, 2009

• Hot Meal: Schmidt's Deli

  There can't be too many German restaurants in San Francisco to suit us -- we're BIG schnitzel fans! -- so learning that Christiana Schmidt and Isabell Mysyk (owners of the gemütlich East German Walzwerk on South Van Ness) were opening a deli on Folsom brought a tear of joy to our eye. So did the choice of eight different sausages ($8 each), served with sauerkraut, potato salad, and two kinds of mustard (hot and grainy). Pictured above is the excellent, smoky-yet-mild Thüringer bratwurst.

  June 4, 2009

• Sweet Beat: German Pastries Offer a Taste of the Street, and You Won't Get Arrested

  Apfelstrudel (left), cinnamon star, and rhubarb tartlet.If you haven't sampled the Mission's new underground pavement cuisine, now you can score a taste without flouting local permit laws. This week, street vendor Amuse Bouche began selling a trio of desserts via the neo-German deli Schmidt's (2400 Folsom at 20th St.). Like, in totally legit fashion. Amuse Bouche often hawks mini muffins, chai, and apple tartlets from various Mission street venues. On Monday, he twittered this: Come at Schmidt'

  June 18, 2009

• Eating Russian, Drinking Vertical, and Making Karaoke Bearable: A Foodie Day Planner

  ​Friday, August 7, 2009 Let's do lunch: It's counterintuitive, right? On a summer Friday, you're probably thinking sunny picnic, not frozen steppes. But, says SF Weekly food critic Meredith Brody, head to Russian tearoom Katia's (600 Fifth Ave. at Balboa) for the eggplant caviar and mushroom and onion blinchiki. Drink therapy: Nah, it's Friday -- everyone and his mom will beat you to the comfy seats under the windows. Still, with $5 wells and other happy hour specials, you could do wors

  August 7, 2009

• Big Inside, the Anti-Chevys, and Garret Cool: A Foodie Day Planner

  ​Tuesday, August 18, 2009 Let's do lunch: It's worn and tiny, but the handmade dumplings make you feel huge inside. SF Weekly restaurant critic Meredith Brody recommends the Shanghai soup dumplings, scallion pancake, and cucumber salad at Kingdom of Dumplings, 1713 Taraval (at 27th Ave.), 566-6143. Drink therapy: It's a lot classier than a Chevys, you don't have to deal with quesadilla-eating 7-year-olds, and happy-hour prices make it strip-mall cheap. Score complimentary botanas and $

  August 18, 2009

• S.F. Street Food Festival: Crowds, Long Waits on Folsom

  J. BirdsallLines stretched across Folsom and onto the sidewalk.​Crowds eager for street food thronged Folsom between 25th and 26th streets in the Mission Saturday for the first-ever San Francisco Street Food Festival. Organized by small-business incubator La Cocina, the fest brought together nonprofits, big-name restaurants, food vendors in La Cocina's mentorship program, and even a few unlicensed street-food vendors operating legally for the day. The event was a fundraiser for La Cocina, and

  August 24, 2009

• Drink Therapy: Sazeracs and Drumettes with a Killer View

  Vintage Roadside​We know. Unless you decide to cash out what's left of your 401(k), chances are you won't be commandeering a table in the dining room anytime soon. Don't despair. The Holy Cow! happy hour at Epic Roasthouse damn near deserves the kind of hyperbole an exclamation point confers. Weekdays from 3 to 6:30 p.m. in Epic's Quiver Bar, score $5 Sazeracs, Dark and Stormys, and certain vodka cocktails, or $7 selected vodka martinis. Or, if you roll spiritless, $3 bottled beer and $5 w

  August 27, 2009

• Friday Street-Food Market Reportedly Set for Folsom and Second

  J. BirdsallNamu's ssam (aka Korean tacos): Coming to the absurdly named SF Blu.​Eater SF reports that, starting next week, lovers of the Thursday Ferry Plaza street food market will be able to get sloppy seconds, as it were, on Fridays. Beginning September 25, a trio of Plaza stalwarts (Tacolicious, Namu, and Ryan Farr's 4505 Meats) will serve up lunchtime faves that may or may not include Coca-Cola braised beef tacos, ssam, and Dogzillas (respectively) from the courtyard of 631 Folsom (at

  September 16, 2009