Fort Mason Center

Sign of Spring: Off the Grid Returns to Fort Mason

It's spring, everyone! And that means that Off the Grid is returning to its biggest location in town, Fort Mason. Starting March 22, Off the Grid will be at Fort Mason Center Friday nights with live music, 32 vendors (nearly half of them new this year), cocktails from Alembic and beers from Magnolia ... More >>

Off The Pier Celebrates Fleet Weekend With Street Food

Off The Pier Where: Fort Mason Center parking lot, 38 Fort Mason (at Bay) When: Sat., Oct. 6, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Cost: Free The rundown: In honor of San Francisco Fleet Weekend and the America's Cup, Off The Grid presents a smaller, daytime version of its massive Friday night food markets. Street f ... More >>

Live Review, 3/17/12: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, James Murphy, and Zola Jesus Dazzle at The Creators Project

By ELIZABETH PFEFFER Yeah Yeah Yeahs Squarepusher, James Murphy Pat Mahoney Nancy Whang DJ set, The Antlers, Zola Jesus, Shabazz Palaces, Teen Daze, HEALTH, New Pants Feng Mengbo's Bruce Lee VJ Project, The Hundred in the Hands March 17, 2012 Fort Mason Center Better than: Spending St. Patri ... More >>

For the People: Big Bank Hosts Food Truck Event at Fort Mason

​What: First Annual Eaters Choice Awards Where: Fort Mason Center When: Sat., October 15, 12-4 p.m. Cost: varies The rundown: The top 10 voted* Bay Area food trucks will have a celebration at Fort Mason Center on Saturday. Even though it's called the Eaters Choice Awards, this has nothi ... More >>

Family Winemakers Show Offers More Wine Than You Can Handle

Foodgal.com​Family Winemakers of California Tasting Where: Fort Mason Center When: Sunday, Aug. 21, 3-6 p.m. Cost: $65 advance, $75 at the door We can drink a lot of wine, but we find the Family Winemakers of California annual tasting overwhelming, in a good way. There's always about 50 times ... More >>

Let Them Eat Snails: Unusual Bastille Day Events

Guns, revolution, upheaval, Reign of Terror -- now it's time for dinner specials!​Add Bastille Day to Cinco de Mayo and Kentucky Derby Day in the category of "things we don't remember celebrating 10 years ago." That said, this Frenchified Independence Day typically boasts a solid dining rost ... More >>

Chocolate Overload

cjaffepickett/FlickrThings can get all Les Mis-y.​San Francisco International Chocolate Salon Where: Fort Mason Center Festival Pavilion, Buchanan at Marina When: Sat., April 17, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Cost: $25 advance, $30 at the door The rundown: At a recent fondue event, SFoodie spied a brazen ... More >>

Tonight: Off the Grid Selling T-Shirts for Japan Quake Relief

​Not the best weather for an outdoor food-truck fest, maybe, but Off the Grid Fort Mason Center is dangling another incentive* for the waterproof who show up at tonight's season opener: T-shirts for Japan. OtG's Matt Cohen tells SFoodie he'll be selling shirts rocking the new Off the Grid logo ... More >>

Off the Grid Ft. Mason Center Returns Fri. with the Alembic, Tim Luym, JapaCurry

Gil Riego Jr.The weekly evening street food event returns to Fort Mason Center this Friday, Mar. 18, with more vendors than last year.​Last December, street-food promoter Matt Cohen told SFoodie readers that 2010 had been a great year for mobile food in the Bay Area, and he vowed to keep it in ... More >>

Good Eats and Zinfandel Pairing Brings the "Z" Back to Herbst

dr_XeNo/FlickrFifty eateries, fifty wineries, paired up in the buddy system at Herbst Pavilion.​Like bells to Pavlov's dogs, the sight of a capital "Z" this time of year starts us thinking of (if not quite drooling over) red wines native to the Golden State, punctuated by notes of pepper and r ... More >>

Off the Grid Ft. Mason Center Says Farewell for the Season

Chris MacArthurOff the Grid launched at Fort Mason Center in late June.​When it launched in late June, Off the Grid Fort Mason Center was San Francisco's first weekly food pod. On Friday, it says farewell to the 2010 season (it'll return in March 2011). Organized by Matt Cohen and La Cocina, O ... More >>

Food Carts Roll Out for 'Green' Grand Opening of Presidio's Public Health Service

presidio.gov​The Presidio's Public Health Service District is gearing up for a "green" grand opening of its new residential apartments next week, an occasion it plans to mark with the help of some mobile vendors. Kung Fu Tacos, Lumpia Cart, Magic Curry Kart, Adobo Hobo, and Crème Brûlée Ca ... More >>

Debuting at Off the Grid: Mobile Java Maker Curbside Coffee

Curbside CoffeeCurbside Coffee's trailer, minus the logo (see below).​Off the Grid at Fort Mason Center tonight features a soft launch of the liquid kind. Making its debut: mobile vendor Curbside Coffee, in a trailer pimped out with an espresso machine and grinder, a Bunn drip unit, and a load ... More >>

Off the Grid, Urban Wine Experience, Street-Food Birthday: Your Weekend Planner

John BirdsallFriday: Happy Dumpling cheers up Fort Mason Center.​Can you believe it's almost August? Before summer advances into downed foliage and the sun starts setting before the end of happy hour, there's no better weekend to head out and enjoy yourself. Fri., July 30: • Feeling a littl ... More >>

City Says Yes to Three New Off the Grid Street-Food Markets for S.F. Parks

Chris MacArthur/SF WeeklyMobile vendors (like the ones pictured here at Off the Grid at Fort Mason Center) should soon be rolling into three city neighborhoods.​More than four hours into yesterday's Rec and Park meeting, commissioners approved a proposal to create three mobile street-food mark ... More >>

Boobs and Beer Converge for BreastFest

music2work2/FlickrFor once, coming together for a cause greater than the individual parts. ​In the immortal words of The Bloodhound Gang, "Hooray for boobies." Tomorrow brings us the 10th Annual BreastFest Beerfest, this year jiggling over the Golden Gate Bridge and into the city. Benefiting t ... More >>

Off the Grid Organizer Seeking Permits for Street-Food Markets in S.F. Parks

Chris MacArthur/SF WeeklyRec and Park commissioners vote Thursday to allow Off the Grid-like markets in three city parks.​The organizer of S.F.'s Off the Grid street-food market at Fort Mason Center could soon be rolling out similar events in three city parks. At Thursday's regularly scheduled ... More >>

Learning Malaysian with Azalina Eusope at La Cocina

Jun BelenEusope (right), with students in La Cocina's kitchen.​The best way to enjoy Malaysian food is with your hands. Messy hands are a compliment to the chef; the messier, the better, says chef Azalina Eusope. And so we did get our hands messy and had a lot of fun while making Malaysian foo ... More >>

Off the Grid, a Roaming Mobile Food Party, Starts Next Friday

_e.t./FlickrPeko-Peko is one of the vendors lined up for the weekly street-food night market.​The culmination of nearly a year of work and negotiations with city officials and community organizations, mobile food consultant/activist Matt Cohen of SF Cart Project, in conjunction with La Cocina ... More >>

Proliferation of S.F. Farmers' Markets Got You Stumped? Use Our Interactive Map

What with last week's launch of the market at Fort Mason Center, and the reappearance this Sunday of the one in North Beach, it can get confusing. Enter our updated interactive S.F. farmers' market map, courtesy of SFoodie contributor Jun Belen. Click around till you find the market you like, then g ... More >>

Despite the Fog, Fort Mason Farmers' Market Off to a Warm Start

Jun Belen​The city warmly welcomed its newest farmers' market yesterday ― above, State Senator Mark Leno and former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown were present to cut the ceremonial vine to officially launch the Sunday Fort Mason Center market.

Sunday's Fort Mason Farmer's Market Launch to Show Off Prime Vendors

Scream Sorbet/FlickrScream Sorbet will be a regular. On Sunday, it'll offer the beet-lemon scoop shown here.​On Wednesday, we previewed Sunday's launch of the shiny new Fort Mason Center farmers' market. The organizer ― the California Farmers' Market Association ― is offering more details ... More >>

Sunday: Drink Hyper-Local Wines, Donate to Ultra-Local Libraries

JoeyWan/Flickr​Large-scale wine tastings are an odd sort of bacchanal: On one side of the hundreds of tables stand industry reps from around the country, politely pouring tastes and repeating their talking points until they're hoarse. On the other side of the table, the ticket-holders stand three ... More >>

Valentine's Hookup: Cruelty-Free Comfort at Greens

Ai M./Yelp​To some, Fort Mason standby Greens is dullsville with a nice view; to others, it's a delectable institution worth preserving, a relic that stirs up waves of nostalgia in those who have grazed on its quintessential cruelty-free California fare for the past 30 years. On Valentine's Da ... More >>

Our Advice for the ZAP Zinfandel Events Later This Month? Use the Spit Buckets

Wayde Carroll/FlickrA scene from on of last year's ZAP events: Things can get awfully foggy.​Memories of ZAP, the Zinfandel Advocates & Producers series of events can get foggy, unless you're religious about water breaks and using the allotted spit buckets. Stashing a baguette in your bag isn' ... More >>

Threadshow SF: Indie Recessionistas Take Note

If you're like us, you've been hitting up the racks at Forever 21 more than you'd like to admit. And maybe after you've shown up wearing the same outfit as your cubicle mate for the third time in a row (like we have), you've finally realized that it's time to add more "curated" pieces to your wardro ... More >>

What to Seek Out at Saturday's Holiday Chocolate Show

thexocolatebar.comChocolate Mayan calendar by local artisan the Xocolate Bar.​This weekend's Holiday Chocolate Show will host nearly 30 local independent confectioners, and should prove to be a good spot for scoring some thoughtful and beautiful holiday gifts, taking a snapshot of the range of ide ... More >>

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