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Say Goodbye to Hayes Valley Farm At Farewell Celebration This Weekend

A few months ago the news broke that Hayes Valley Farm, the great urban ag experiment on the old Embarcadero Freeway on- and off-ramps, is closing its gates by June 1 to make way for a 182-unit apartment complex (and before you get too outraged, remember that this was the original deal the farm made ... More >>

Lunchpad: Adventurous Sandwiches And Candied Bacon In Hayes Valley

When you think "noir" and "lunch," what comes to mind might be two crooks plotting a heist over ten-cent coffee in a greasy spoon somewhere. That's changing at Hayes Valley's relatively new arrival, Noir Lounge -- which occupies the former Frjtz. As a wine bar that opens mid-afternoon, looking to e ... More >>

Hayes Valley Farm to Close by June 1

If you, like me, have been meaning to go check out the scene at Hayes Valley Farm but haven't gotten the chance yet, now's the time to make it a priority. The farm's organizers announced on their blog over the weekend that the city of San Francisco is finally going to make use of the land, meaning t ... More >>

Learn to Be a Farmer at Farm School

On the heels of the news that Hayes Valley Farm, the demonstration farm and education center, is closing, 18 Reasons has announced a new series of classes called Farm School. The class description explains that it's not a "comprehensive how-to-start-a-farm class," but that it's "perfect for people i ... More >>

Have a Burger at Biergarten Tonight

Parker Vaughan was simply flipping his signature patties at the company picnic when the employees decided to give it a whirl back at work. After all, hamburgers find their origins in Hamburg, Germany. Now, Biergarten brings burgers beside beer and brats on Wednesdays, and Thursdays if they don't ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

Gift Guide: Make-Your-Own French Macaron Sampler in Hayes Valley

All through December, SFoodie is bringing you local gift ideas for the food obsessives in your life. Did you know that there are four places to get beautiful French macarons within three blocks of each other in Hayes Valley? Are you looking for a gift for that friend that is obsessed with French ma ... More >>

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Hayes Valley Bakeworks: Baking for Good

Bakeworks Makes Eating A Maple Bacon Cinnamon Roll A Good Deed

Sure, you can switch out sugar for agave nectar, butter for low fat yogurt, or throw in some whole wheat flour, but let's face it, it's hard to really make baked goods guilt free. Hayes Valley Bakeworks may have an edge on how to make you feel kind of good about yourself while noming on a gargantuan ... More >>

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The Beehives Are Leaving Hayes Valley Farm, But You Can Buy Honey Before They Go

edibleoffice/FlickrThe beehives at Hayes Valley Farm.​The bees of Hayes Valley Farm have had it rough. In 2010, the first colonies to settle in at the urban farm were slaughtered by a malicious neighbor. Early this year, Karen Peteros of SF Bee-Cause and her crew installed new hives -- triple the ... More >>

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It's All About Meat: A Bacon Truck, Beef Sandwiches, and Pig and Pie

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. The smell of bacon is wafting through the city air today, as Bacon Bacon Truck, which we mentioned earlier, parks in SOMA for its first day. SFist shares the news that bacon lovers can pick up lunch this ... More >>

Man Shot and Killed in Hayes Valley

Man shot to death​A man was killed late Monday night in Hayes Valley, according to police. The victim was shot in the head sometime around 11:40 p.m. on the 500 block of Webster Street.Medical authorities have not yet identified the victim, who was described as a black man in his 20s.

Hayes Valley Gets Off the Grid Six Days a Week

Chris MacArthur​Lucky Hayes Valley residents -- you are the first folks to get Off the Grid food trucks six days a week.Starting this week, two trucks will park on Linden Street, home of Smitten Ice Cream and Blue Bottle Coffee, for both lunch (11 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.) and dinner (5 - 9:30 p.m.) on ev ... More >>

Hayes Valley Farm Begins Beekeeping Classes One Year After the Insecticide

Don HankinsHaven't you always wanted to do this?​Last July, the volunteers at Hayes Valley Farm discovered that someone -- probably an irate neighbor -- had broken into the farm overnight and sprayed insecticide into three beehives on the site. A quarter of a million bees died, several thousand do ... More >>

Daniel Patterson Pushes a Food Cart, Ritual Adds Buzz to Proxy

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Tasting Table spots what appears to be the Bay Area's humblest-looking lunch cart, but with the fanciest of pedigrees: Porky's from Daniel Patterson. Decorated with pigs, the Uptown Oakland cart serves o ... More >>

What to Do This Weekend, April 23-24

Edible Office/FlickrEarth Week at Hayes Valley Farm.​Craving more? Scroll through additional listings here. SATURDAY, APRIL 23 Whiskey 101 at CUESA CUESA Kitchen, 1 Ferry Plaza (at Embarcadero), 2-4 p.m. This CUESA class will give the lowdown on all things whisk(e)y, hosted by Scott Beattie and ... More >>

Get Earthy at Hayes Valley Farm

edibleoffice/Flickr​Earth Week Where: Hayes Valley Farm, 450 Laguna Street (at Fell) When: Sun., April 24 to Fri., April 29 Cost: Free The rundown: If the thought of contending with the crowds at San Francisco's Earth Day party on April 23 makes you feel weary and old, celebrate in a mellower v ... More >>

What's Happening at Hayes Valley Farm?

Hayes Valley Farm/FlickrMore than 2,500 volunteers have gotten dirty at Hayes Valley Farm.​To those of us who lived in Hayes Valley while Octavia was transforming from prostitution alley to boulevard, the chained-off lot between Oak and Fell held a peculiar romance. After a decade of neglect, the ... More >>

Hayes Valley Farm Beekeeper Mourns Slaughtered Colonies, Plots Next Steps

Hayes Valley FarmJust a few of the hundreds of thousands of bees killed Monday night.​ It's a macabre, senseless story: Hayes Valley Farm, the year-old urban garden on the site of the old I-80 off-ramp, reported on its blog yesterday that someone had broken into the gardens on Monday night or Tues ... More >>

Up to 250,000 Bees Killed at Hayes Valley Farm

Hayes Valley Farm This week's bee genocide left hundreds of thousands of insects dead​Ace food writer Jonathan Kauffman caught up with grieving beekeeper Karen Peteros at our sister blog, SFoodie; she lost thousands of bees when an unknown assailant gassed three of her hives at the Hayes V ... More >>

Baylinks: Dog Attacks, Serpentine, & Ace Junkyard

Not that kind of serpentine.​Did you know serpentine was the state rock? Well, it might not be anymore. [Burrito Justice]In the wake of the Golden Gate Park dog attacks, runners try to find ways to deal with maniacal curs. [SFAppeal]Hayes Valley rejects plan to erect signs that will tell drivers ... More >>

Father's Day Portraits at Hayes Valley Farm

Zoey Kroll​Hayes Valley Farm, the "freeway food forest" that's growing in a former section of 101, will host a Father's Day celebration. Pack your own food and beverages for a picnic (there'll already be watermelon there for the eating). Dads should bring their best congenial smile ― and the ... More >>

Mandarina's Ice Pops Are Like Smoothies on a Stick

Blueberry-pineapple.​This week the sun has returned to Hayes Valley Park. The al-fresco lunchers are lunching, the lovers loving, the meth heads stripping off most of their clothes and dancing around, hands down their pants. Oh, spring, we missed you. While doing a little spot-tanning ourselves, S ... More >>

Mysterious Hayes Valley Ramen Truck Rolls Out Tomorrow -- We Think

Shirohige Ramen-YaIs a ramen truck poised to hit Hayes Valley?​UPDATE 3:20 p.m.: Turns out Shirohige Ramen-Ya will debut this weekend, Dec. 5-6, not Dec. 3-4 as reported here. According to a late-morning tweet, tomorrow marks the debut of Shirohige Ramen-Ya, a San Francisco street-food ramen t ... More >>

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S.F. Artist Says Adios to 'Douche Bag' in Chief

This one really is worth a thousand words.Our thanks go out to San Francisco resident Laura Szewczyk for capturing the above expression of inauguration zeitgeist in Hayes Valley. (Szewczyk snapped the shot on her cell phone.) For an explanation of what may have driven this anonymous artist, click he ... More >>

Photos: Where the Dark Art of Custom Corsets Lives On

By Peter Jamison This woman wants to sell you a corset. Autumn Adamme, pictured above, is the owner of Dark Garden, a corset shop on Linden Street in Hayes Valley. These days, corsetry of the kind practiced at Dark Garden is a lost art. In fact, Daphne Merkin, writing in T Magazine, the glossy ... More >>

Holiday Block Parties: Divis. and the Mission

(Junior Panthers)Holiday block parties are a smart idea. I hit the one in Hayes Valley last weekend, where various galleries and boutiques offered delicious drinks (cider with brandy!) and snacks, as well as discounts for folks doing their holiday shopping. This week there are two block parties com ... More >>

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Sunday Dispatch: Capsule Design Festival at Hayes Valley Park

Man Gets Shot and Drives Self to Hospital, Hospital Unimpressed

Death of the Macramé Owl

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