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  • Blogs

    February 6, 2012

    Is the Recession Over for San Francisco Restaurants?

    The national unemployment figures may be dropping at the speed of glacier erosion. But in one segment of the San Francisco economy, at least, the recession may be over. The Bay Area restaurant industry's sales figures are returning to their pre-2008 levels, the Chronicle reported late last week. And ... More >>

  • Dining

    December 21, 2011

    Rocky Road: Food Trucks Clash with Downtown Businesses

    The national unemployment figures may be dropping at the speed of glacier erosion. But in one segment of the San Francisco economy, at least, the recession may be over. The Bay Area restaurant industry's sales figures are returning to their pre-2008 levels, the Chronicle reported late last week. And ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2011

    Plastic Bag Ban: How Much Outreach Do You Really Need?

    Ross Mirkarimi's bag legislation may have just gotten the sack​Mom. Apple pie. Patriotism. No politician who doesn't wish to receive a crash course in the joys of seeking employment with the private sector will dare find him or herself on the wrong side of these notions -- and the political goals ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 28, 2011

    The Chronicle and the GGRA Go After Food Trucks

    Yesterday, the San Francisco Chronicle published a flawed story about the negative impact that food trucks are having on surrounding restaurants. The Chron story, which makes the owner of Chronicle-reporter watering hole Tempest Bar its primary character, reports that the spread of food tr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2011

    S.F. Restaurants Are Not Required to Serve Free Tap Water

    bterrycompton​This week at SFoodie we were wondering whether restaurants are required, by law, to serve tap water for free. It's a simple enough question, but it took a surprising amount of digging to figure out the answer. The Internet provided a few thousand people asking the same question ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2011

    Nancy Pelosi Didn't Help S.F. Restaurants Get Health Care Reform Waivers

    Republicans are just paranoid​Washington Republicans say they're shocked --  shocked that San Francisco restaurants obtained healthcare reform waivers handed out last month by the federal Department of Health and Human Services. They've even spun a conspiracy theory that says Congresswoman Na ... More >>

  • Dining

    May 4, 2011

    Fresh Eats: Midwestern Smash Burgers Shine, Food Trucks Get Pushback

    Republicans are just paranoid​Washington Republicans say they're shocked --  shocked that San Francisco restaurants obtained healthcare reform waivers handed out last month by the federal Department of Health and Human Services. They've even spun a conspiracy theory that says Congresswoman Na ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2011

    Objections to Doc's of the Bay Just the Start of Pushback Against Food Trucks

    John BirdsallDoc's of the Bay rolled up for lunch in Emeryville Tuesday. Will it get the chance to do the same in S.F.?​Last week, Haighteration blog's Andrew Dudley opened the window onto a brewing battle mounted by some Divis neighbors to keep startup burger truck Doc's of the Bay from obtai ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2010

    The Year in Food: Street Food Gets Serious

    Chris MacArthurMobile vending went legit in 2010, thanks to events like Off the Grid Fort Mason Center.​Twelve months, ten storylines: It's SFoodie's annual look back at the year in food. La CocinaAugust's S.F. Street Food Festival drew huge crowds to the Mission.​What burst onto the sc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2010

    Supervisors Pass Streamlined Rules for Street-Food Vendors

    bkusler/FlickrSupervisor Bevan Dufty.​The Board of Supervisors yesterday unanimously passed legislation that streamlines rules for mobile vending, making it easier and cheaper to be a legal street-food vendor in San Francisco. At the Tuesday meeting, the Supes took up rules changes that in pas ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2010

    Tickets Go on Sale for Newly Populist SF Chefs 2010

    Sam PrestianniOpening gala at last year's SF Chefs. Food. Wine. fest. ​It's back, only with a clipped name and a populist new image. Last year's inaugural SF Chefs. Food. Wine. festival took over Union Square for four days in August. Organizers tried to wrap the fest in Aspen-grade Food & Wine ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2010

    Supreme Court Won't Hear Challege to Healthy San Francisco

    ​The U.S. Supreme Court this morning delivered a major victory for gun ownership rights -- and also denied to hear a challenge to San Francisco's universal health care plan. So if you're uninsured and shot within city limits, this is your lucky day.

  • Calendar

    October 7, 2009

    Curried Favors

    ​The U.S. Supreme Court this morning delivered a major victory for gun ownership rights -- and also denied to hear a challenge to San Francisco's universal health care plan. So if you're uninsured and shot within city limits, this is your lucky day.

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2009

    City Attorney Releases List of Restaurant Workers with Tainted Safety Certificates

    jwrb/FlickrWorkers at Burger King will have to re-certify.​The San Francisco City Attorney's office has released a list of workers whose food safety certification are invalid as the result of a scandal involving questionable testing and certification procedures by two or three Department of Pu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2009

    If 2009 is the Year of the Restaurant Closure, Why Are There So Many New Openings?

    Azie was one of 2009's early casualtiesMany assumed that 2009 would shape up as the year of the restaurant closure in San Francisco, and there have been notable failures: Azie, Bong Su, Jack Falstaff. But the large-scale collapse you might be expecting if you read the business pages hasn't occured, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2009

    Supreme Court Sends S.F. Restaurateurs' Order Back -- No Emergency Order For You!

    Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy today informed San Francisco restaurant owners that he found their legal petition to be cold, undercooked, and full of gristle -- before sending it back. Kennedy spurned the Golden Gate Restaurant Association's application for an emergency order that would have ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2009

    An Odd Tradition: Thousands of Dollars Flood to Winning S.F. Supes After Polls Close -- From Their Enemies

    Joe EskenaziSupervisor John Avalos admits that taking post-election donations from former political enemies looks bad -- but having a massive campaign debt is badYou'd think making a donation to a San Francisco supervisorial candidate would be a bit like a horse race: You make your "bets," you cheer ... More >>

  • News

    February 4, 2009

    A Real Wild One?

    Sometimes even restaurateurs don't know the difference between wild and farmed fish.

  • Dining

    July 16, 2008

    State of the Cart

    Join us as we map the street food scene and find out why there aren't more vendors in this most food-involved and temperate of cities.

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2008

    Car-Free My Knee: Peskin Aims to Pull Yoga Mat Out From Under Newsom

    Join us as we map the street food scene and find out why there aren't more vendors in this most food-involved and temperate of cities.

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2008

    MarketWatch on Healthy SF: A Dollar Fee? You Gonna Eat That?

    Join us as we map the street food scene and find out why there aren't more vendors in this most food-involved and temperate of cities.

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2008

    US Supreme Court to SF Restaurant Association: Pay Up!

    Join us as we map the street food scene and find out why there aren't more vendors in this most food-involved and temperate of cities.

  • News

    November 28, 2007

    Reservation Scalpers

    TablePronto's service gets mixed reviews from restaurateurs

  • News

    August 29, 2007

    The Daly Show

    Even in a summer of discontent for San Francisco progressives, bad-boy supervisor Chris Daly remains unbowed

  • News

    February 7, 2007

    Ill-Conceived Law

    Even in a summer of discontent for San Francisco progressives, bad-boy supervisor Chris Daly remains unbowed

  • News

    October 25, 2006

    Stealth Dollars

    Questionable political donations are flowing into the city's most controversial political race

  • News

    March 3, 2004

    Lesson Learned

    Beaten in the mayor's election, S.F. lefties vow to sign up absentee voters for future campaigns

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