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Praise for Bay Area Brewers and Chefs at the Great American Beer Festival

Disney may have already trademarked the phrase, but we're pretty sure that Denver's Great American Beer Festival is actually the "happiest place on Earth." As soon as the doors open, thousands of wide-eyed beer aficionados storm the enormous hall, gleefully hustling to their favorite brewery booth f ... More >>

Cu Co's Is Still Open For Now, Big Lantern's Overtime Pay, and Gordon Biersch News

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Haighteration discovered Cu Co's Restaurant was slated to shut before the end of February, due to a landlord eviction; but as of now, the beloved neighborhood restaurant remains open. SF Weekly stop ... More >>

Giants Spring Training: A San Franciscan's Guide via Google Maps

​The fact that Buster Posey is off the disabled list gives Giants fans even more reason to flock to Arizona for spring training this weekend. Simply put: Everyone is eager to see their favorite Giants catcher back in action after his painful knee injury derailed him last May.Let's face i ... More >>

Bouncer Holds Forth at the Wal-Mart of S.F. Breweries

Bouncer Visits Gordon Biersch, the Wal-Mart of S.F. Breweries

​From this week's Bouncer column: All bars are great. Every last one of them, even the nightclubs that advertise on the sides of Muni buses. I have my favorites, of course, and I never miss the ones in hotels or airports. That's why Gordon Biersch on the Embarcadero is my one-stop shop for a ... More >>

New Year's Eve Guide 2011

New Year's Eve Guide 2011

An Estimated 30,000 Showed Up at Last Week's SF Street Food Festival

Chris MacArthur/SF WeeklyMore than twice as many people showed up at this year's SF Street Food Festival compared to 2009's inaugural event.​In Oakland, a day after Eat Real wrapped, cleanup crews are no doubt still steam-washing spilled Gordon Biersch and sisig taco residue from the pavement ... More >>

Trader Joe's Private-Label Revelations More Complicated Than We Thought

Shannon I./YelpMystery solved?​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. In Doggy Bag last week, we pointed to an investigative post at The Faster Times, wherein Earth Island Journal managing editor Amy Westervelt looked behind some private label products at Trader Joe's and found some surprising ... More >>

If You Didn't Get Tix to Giants Brewfest, There's Always Next Week in Oakland

francobobfred II/FlickrSummer essential: Chugging beer in some stadium parking lot.​The only thing more exciting than the prospect of a series the Giants can actually sweep (vs. the cellar-dwelling D'backs) is great, free-ish beer beforehand in the form of Saturday's first annual Giants Brewfe ... More >>

Is a Growler a Cheap Way to Drink? Depends on Where You Shop

Noah Sussman/Flickr​Up in the Pacific Northwest, SFoodie had friends who'd keep a couple of the 64-ounce jugs in their trunk on road trips just in case they passed a brewpub. They'd fill the growlers up at the taps, then bring home beer to drink a few days later. Once we moved, we started hearing ... More >>

The Happiest Hours

We do the legwork to find you 30 of the most satisfying places to sip and snack.

Thin crust, thick beer: Pi Bar and Delarosa benefit from thoughtful brew selections and reasonable prices

The Year in Beer With San Francisco's Scribe of the Suds

Brian Yaeger, the Richmond District's Bard of Beer​ Much time -- and even more beer -- has passed (pun intended) since we last caught up with Brian Yaeger. The San Francisco writer is a hero of sorts to folks who enjoy drinking beer and hope to make a living off of this skill."It's amazing how man ... More >>

Wet Weather for Brews on the Bay Didn't Keep Beer Lovers from Getting Soused

M. LaddSunday's clouds didn't douse beer aficionados' zeal for getting hammered.​This weekend's sixth annual Brews on the Bay -- held on the water, aboard the historic WWII Liberty Ship S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien -- left us feeling tipsy and happy, contemplating good beer and great views. Participa ... More >>

Brews on the Bay Gives You Justification for Pounding Suds

WhatKnot/Flickr​This weekend offers beer drinkers a chance to imbibe at the sixth annual Brews on the Bay, September 12 and 13. Over 40 handcrafted local artisan breweries are participating, with the drinking happening on the historic S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien, the World War II-era Liberty Ship do ... 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 >>

Beer Is Good Food

Tour the city's breweries and brewpubs this summer.

2008 Music Awards Nominees

2008 Music Awards Program

Soundwave's AudioBus series offers road trips with local composers

SF Weekly's Seven Day Dish

No Linkup for You!

In the world of online community, one authoritative man can dictate your social life

Terrorists have won the war on booze

Double Play

Dinner at Acme Chophouse followed by a swell game in the world's most beautiful baseball stadium -- score!

Readers' Poll

Best Restaurant Chaya Brasserie

Schmoozing My Religion

Urban singles look for love along the spiritual path

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Happy Birthday to Me, The Magic Number, Hello Dolly, Correction

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Special Sauce, Dear Michael, Leviathan, Sold Upstream, A League of Their Own, and Royal Flush

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In Heaven There Is No Beer

Polkacide is San Francisco's longest-running musical in-joke

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