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​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 >>

Recent Openers

​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 >>

Recent Openers

​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 >>

Recent Openers

​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 >>

Recent Openers

​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 >>

Want to Get Fit? Get on a Trapeze

​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 >>

Ashbury Market Appears to Be Shuttered

Fady A./YelpThe sign over the Ashbury Market.​SFoodie passed by the Ashbury Market (205 Frederick) Sunday afternoon to find it boarded up. The market, which has been owned by the Wong family since the 1950s, is where E&O chef Arnold Eric Wong and BevMo's Wilfred Wong both got started in the fo ... More >>

Cops Chase Down Cyclist Who Didn't Steal Bike

 Pee Wee isn't the only one who has a good bike story ​Police punished a cyclist on Wednesday even after learning the bike he was riding was not stolen and he was no thief. At about 8:45 p.m on Monday, police spotted a man riding his bike along Cole Street in the Upper Haight. San Francisco p ... More >>

East Bay Murder Spree Just Got More Complicated: Body Discovered

Has Efren Valdemoro's victims list grown by one?​Last week's bizarre spate of East Bay killings just grew even more ghastly and complicated with today's discovery of a yet-unidentified body at the Hercules home that started the whole grisly tale. The body was found in the residence of 73-year-old ... More >>

Efren Valdemoro, Murder Spree Suspect, Shot Dead By CHP in Supermarket

Hercules Police DepartmentEfren Valdemoro, the man at the center of a string of suspected murders​Efren Valdemoro, the 38-year-old man killed by CHP officers near the fish section of Richmond's 99 Ranch Market following a high-speed pursuit last night, is suspected in at least four other murders a ... 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 >>

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 >>

Scenes From a Prostitutes' Protest

Lois BeckettNell Myhand of Legal Action for Woman addresses the gathered prostitutes​Gawkers hoping to spot women decked out in Frederick's of Hollywood gear were likely disappointed with today's noontime prostitutes protest. Perhaps 20 casually dressed demonstrators gathered at Polk and Sutter to ... More >>

Hand Off That Funky Fry Oil at Various S.F. Drop Points

Daniel Greene/FlickrYou could make someone's '83 Volvo very happy with this.​You can now repurpose used cooking oil in the greenest of ways, even if you haven't converted your own car to drive on biofuels. If you live in San Francisco, you can now get rid of that dodgy fry oil left from cookin ... More >>

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Bradley Woehl and his progeny on the goGary Fisher, the local mountain bike luminary whose name is plastered on hundreds of thousands of bicycles worldwide, has endowed a San Francisco chair in kid fun, reports local bike shop owner Bradley Woehl.Well, it's not exactly a chair, as the accompanying p ... More >>

"Challenge Me to the Extent that You Believe I Should Be Challenged." - Gavin Newsom's Ironic Conclusion to the State of the City

By Benjamin Wachs If you ever wondered who was going to be the Ed Wood of YouTube, San Francisco has an answer. Gavin Newsom added a new video to his YouTube channel yesterday - a one-and-a-half minute introduction to 311's new online service. The video itself is not worth commenting on...the ... More >>

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