Lower Haight

Teeny Tiny Tree House in Golden Gate Park Disappears, S.F. Bloggers Totally Bummed Out

San Francisco is home to a transient population, where talented and spirited youth land and quickly leave, defeated by high rent and no place to park. So we shouldn't be too surprised to learn that the teeny tiny tree house and its occupant have moved on. Richmondsfblog.com went to check out the ... More >>

Six S.F. Spots Offering Sweet Pi Day Deals

Rejoice, for it's everyone's favorite sweet, nerdy holiday, Pi Day (3/14, 3.14, get it?). We aren't usually in the business of celebrating estoteric food holidays like National Fettucini Alfredo Day or National Lucky Charms With All The Marshmallows Picked Out Day, but Pi Day is something else: It w ... More >>

Rickybobby: Mind-(and Body-) Expanding Comfort Food

Listen: SF's YR SKULL Drops "Canyons" Ahead of This Friday's Free Show

S.F. producer/DJ YR SKULL -- known in real life as Drew Marcogliese -- has been making a name for himself at local shows for a while now. He's also a resident at the free Push the Feeling party at Underground SF in the Lower Haight -- a monthly that returns this Friday with live sets from electronic ... More >>

Magnolia Serves Up Warm, Lazy Brunch for Haight-ers

​Magnolia Pub & Brewery has earned an enthusiastic following over the years from Upper and Lower Haight residents, who have found the restaurant a cozy place to sip a hoppy microbrew with friends. Combine the hip, vintage pharmacy atmosphere with a few comfort food dishes (think fried pig ears ... More >>

Is There Something Ironic About Buying Vinyl Online?

We use our newest gadgets to buy some of our lowest-tech gear.​ A colleague today raised this question: Is it ironic, or weird, or even funny, to buy vinyl -- analog music -- online? The issue was prompted by the news of Vinyl Dreams, a new online-only record store started by Michelangelo Bat ... More >>

Lower Haight Chicken Shack Wing Wings Opens on Wednesday

Luis ChongWing Wings occupies the former Roland's Bagels space.​Earlier this year, SFoodie reported that former Little Skillet chef Christian Ciscle would open his own place called Wing Wings, and the grand opening is now set for tomorrow (June 15). Inspired by East Coast chicken shacks and Southe ... More >>

More Food Trucks, New Wings, and Another Valencia Restaurant

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Food truck news: Seeing Sam's ChowderMobile more often? The Feast reports that its fleet is increasing to three trucks, allowing for the inclusion of special events, dinner hours, and attention to lunch h ... More >>

Greenburger's to Honor Buffalo, a Tiki Haven Sprouts Up

​The past 72 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Haighteration reveals that the closed Bistro St. Germain spot in the Lower Haight is about to reopen as Greenburger's (518 Haight, at Fillmore, 829-2491, sfgreenburgers.com). The owners are Matth ... More >>

Recent Openers

In Case You Haven't Heard, We're Having a Free Party This Friday with Richie Cunning and Blackbird Blackbird

​Yeah, so, not that there isn't a ton of good stuff going on tomorrow evening, as with any normal Friday in S.F., but we'd love to meet you at the Fifty24Gallery in Lower Haight. We'll be holding court there with Blackbird Blackbird, Richie Cunning, a shit-ton of free Pabst Blue Ribbon (note: tast ... More >>

Almon J. Johnson Accused of Killing Woman Found in Burning Car

Almon J. Johnson​San Francisco Police arrested Almon J. Johnson, 29, on suspicion of murdering a woman and leaving her body in a burning car that was found in the Lower Haight Sunday morning.Police held a press conference on Tuesday where they said Johnson allegedly killed Vanessa Herrera. He was ... More >>

Announcing the All Shook Down Pop-Up Party, Featuring Blackbird Blackbird and Coming to Lower Haight Feb. 4

Hey dear readers, friends, haters, and, uh, other people: We're throwing a party for you! (Yes, even you, Dude Who Posts Ungrammatical Rage Anonymously at the Bottom of our Stories.)All Shook Down is taking over the Noise Pop Pop-Up Shop for our very own Pop-Up Party on Friday, Feb. 4, bringing you ... More >>

Fresh Eats

Our weekly roundup of SFoodie news

Ten 2010 Restaurant Closures That Hurt

joebeone/FlickrWas Le Cheval too big to fail? Apparently not, thanks to an adversarial landlord.​With the great scything-down of 2008 well past us, San Francisco's restaurant industry sent up hundreds of blooms, some of them quite brilliant. Yet competition, normal restaurant-world pressures, and ... More >>

SantaCon, Noise Pop Holiday Shop, Midnite Snaxxx, Menorah Lighting, Violent Anime, and More

Chrissy PiperTim Kerr plays Needles Pens this Friday​Can you feel it? The holidays are coming. Well, the oily latke meals of Chanukah are already in full swing, and Christmas decorations began to sparkle throughout the city last week. Want a fine way to celebrate this chilly first weekend of Decem ... More >>

A Wine Lover's Ode to NOPA, S.F.'s Newest Zone of the Grape

dj drüe/FlickrRestaurants like Nopa have helped this corner of the Western Addition remake itself as a wine-friendly district.​I've lived on the corner of Broderick and Grove since 2004 and have watched my little neighborhood prosper and grow into one of San Francisco's thriving corridors. It ... More >>

10 Things To Do This Weekend For Under $10: Basement Disco, KUSF's B-Day & 3-D Blowout

Mean Jeans​This weekend there's no excuse to experience San Francisco in one dimension. Not when there are cheap events coming at you from basements, galleries, comedy clubs, and record stores. Make your weekend 3-D (especially if you hit the ATA Saturday night) with a few of these 10 ways to get ... More >>

10 Things To Do This Weekend For Under $10

Gretchen RobinetteBring Your Own Big Wheel (BYOBW)​This weekend there is so much to see: Lebowski fans in their bathrobes; grown-ass adults on their big wheels; ladies on the turntables; and men who want to "Make the Whole World Pay." If you can't find something fun to do on this list for under a ... More >>

Local Frequency: Bay Area Band Q&A w/ Blood and Sunshine

Geno Valle​Like peanut butter and jelly, and chips and salsa, it's fun putting complimentary elements together. Blood and Sunshine are no exception. Combing their backgrounds of shoegaze and electronica, the duo of Joseph Macrino (vocals, guitar, Omnichord) and James Brennan (vocals, synth, machi ... More >>

Rosamunde's in the Mission Opens Today with Two New Wieners

M. LaddManager Christine Blunck presiding over the weenie case.​As the Mission spinoff (2832 Mission at 24th St.) of Lower Haight institution Rosamunde Sausage Grill opens for reals today (actually, it's been open since 7 this morning), it'll be debuting two new sausages. Owner Josh Margolis t ... More >>

Rosamunde's on Mission Delaying Its Launch Another Week

yon t./YelpThe weenie case at the original Rosamunde's in Lower Haight.​Sorry, wiener junkies: The opening for the Mission spinoff of Rosamunde Sausage Grill has been pushed back. Slated to open Jan 11, the restaurant in the old Café Arguello space (2832 Mission at 24th St.) is now planning a ... More >>

Dogs and Their People Now Resemble One Another More Than Ever

Joe EskenaziMatching grays with a dog is a kindly thing to do -- after all, they're colorblind​It seems you can't just outfit your San Francisco doggie in any old sweater. As captured in the photo above -- and in many, many trips to the supermarket -- the thing to do is match your outfit to your d ... More >>

Tradition, Gilded with Cheddar and Slapped on a Bun: A SFoodie Lunch Planner

Bonnie L./YelpBeer sausage with sauerkraut -- perfect after a cheeseburger.​Tuesday, December 1, 2009 Got extra time for lunch? If yes, head to Lower Haight for Tuesday burger day at Rosamunde's, if only for tradition. That's right: You've had a better cheeseburger. (You've had worse, too -- ... More >>

Seen In San Francisco: Just In Case You Were Wondering, Here's What a Water Main Looks Like Before it Breaks

Joe EskenaziYou don't see that every day​After being traumatized by Trauma, the Lower Haight has been torn to shreds by the Water System Improvement Program. SF Weekly previously noted that this operation involved a pair of giant pipes sheathed in what looked suspiciously like mega-condoms.  ... More >>

Details Emerge In Fatal Lower Haight Pedestrian Incident

​Earlier today we wrote about how residents of the Lower Haight wandered out of their homes at around 7:15 to gape skyward at a loud, low-flying helicopter. "Why would Trauma shoot a scene now?" some must have wondered. It turned out this was no TV show, but a fatal car-on-pedestrian incident on F ... More >>

New Restaurants

A Sweet Ride

Seen in San Francisco: Shattered Remnants of Wild Weekend Crunch Underfoot On Monday

Click pic for larger version...Last week we cried over spilled (organic) milk in the Lower Haight. This week, it's spilled vodka. The remnants of what appear to have been a hell of a weekend party were left on the blacktop for all to see. The genius of local liquor magnate Maurice Kanbar in bottling ... More >>

Marketing Marijuana

Suggestions for brand names in S.F.

Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: DJ Centipede

DJ Centipede claims the distinct honor of having really brought down the dance floor. Literally. As the dude tells it, he was DJing a party in Oakland a decade back and the entire floor collapsed from people bouncing on it. Talk about dropping some bass.You can catch Centipede on Tuesdays (when he's ... More >>

Holocaust Memorial Vandalized -- Yes, Again. The Culprit: All of San Francisco

For the third time in a period of only several months, an unknown vandal hit San Francisco's Holcaust memorial -- meaning, whatever other adjectives you could use to describe someone who sees fit to desecrate the memories of 6 million Jews and 11 million victims of the Nazis, add "unoriginal." Also ... More >>

Nothing But the Best

Uva Enoteca brings quite a bit of dolce vita to the Lower Haight.

Dark Meat's Lower Haight parade

SF Weekly's Seven-Day Dish

Where the hell is Bill? He's at Danny Coyle's

LastNight: Upper Playground presents The Date Farmers

More Than Zero

A trio of twenty-something San Franciscans have invented SFZero, a game that bleeds far into reality

This week: a marriage of vinyl dolls and records at Milk; Slum Village helps introduce you to the "Lower Haters."

Coup de Grace

The Ventura Threeway

Best Unsung Restaurant

Best Hair Colorist

Sherri Wheeler

So-So Chic

RNM

Letters to the Editor

Week of May 22, 2002

Drink Different

RoHan Lounge

The Mix

Night Tripping

Letters

Shock of the Raw

Hanabi's sushi captures the pastel flavors of the sea

Dish

Night Crawler