Subject: Noe Valley

• San Francisco Restaurant Needs Your Name -- Prize: Free Dinner in Noe Valley, God-like Naming Powers

  November 1, 2007

• San Francisco Restaurant Needs Your Name -- Prize: Free Dinner in Noe Valley, God-like Naming Powers

  November 1, 2007

• Streetlight Records to Close Noe Valley Store

  Thirty-two years after opening shop in Noe Valley, Streetlight Records is closing its flagship store. The 24th St. music outlet is shuttering due to a combination of poor CD sales and rising rents. General manager Jeffrey Moss send out a statement today saying the remaining Streetlight stores in San Francisco (2350 Market Street ) as well as the ones in San Jose and Santa Cruz will remain open, so all isn't lost in the world of independent music retailers. It is a bummer, though, to hear about

  November 17, 2008

• Exile in Rental Land

  June 7, 1995

• Glow for It

  June 21, 1995

• Chatterbox

  August 9, 1995

• Dish

  August 23, 1995

• New Restaurants

  March 18, 2009

• Baby, Te Amo

  Adorable new Italian cafe and wine bar in the Mission already draws many fans

  July 11, 2007

• Drinking to the dead

  February 14, 2007

• Love Thy Neighbor

  Unless your neighbor tries to build a homeless shelter in Noe Valley

  December 13, 2006

• Night+Day San Francisco

  By Julianne Balmain and Kate Chynoweth

  August 30, 2006

• Best Walking Tours

  City Guides

  May 19, 2004

• Best Time Portal

  California Historical Society

  May 14, 2003

• Best Brunch Alternative to Chloe's

  Fattoush

  May 14, 2003

• Noe Way

  Once the baby strollers are put up for the night, Noe Valley becomes a real bar neighborhood

  June 5, 2002

• Best Breakfast Counter

  Herb's Fine Foods

  May 15, 2002

• Best Hot Bowl of Soup

  Grand Isle Crawfish Bisque at Alcatraces

  May 15, 2002

• Best Cross-City Hike

  May 15, 2002

• Letters to the Editor

  Week of May 8, 2002

  May 8, 2002

• Middling Italy

  Noi

  December 19, 2001

• Best Bread

  Noe Valley Bakery

  May 23, 2001

• Best Neighborhood Butcher

  Drewes Brothers Meats

  May 23, 2001

• Best Selection of Nero Wolfe Mysteries

  San Francisco Mystery Book Store

  May 23, 2001

• Best Place to Park Your Car for a Looong Time

  Upper Noe Valley

  May 23, 2001

• Home and Away

  Cafe J

  September 27, 2000

• Best Delivery, Greater Noe Valley

  Haystack Pizza

  May 17, 2000

• Side Dish

  Ouch!, Rat and Raven, The Dirty Boulevard, Who Cut the ...?, Star-ing

  November 3, 1999

• Brighter Than Ever

  September 29, 1999

• Invasion of the Coffee Shops

  Forgive and Remember

  November 25, 1998

• Bus to Nowhere

  Why San Francisco's Byzantine school desegregation program systematically fails the children it was designed to help

  April 2, 1997

• Letters

  March 19, 1997

• The Grid

  March 5, 1997

• Traveling at the Speed of Sound

  An aural activist hears the future

  January 8, 1997

• Samples

  December 11, 1996

• Savor the Day

  A world of crepes in Noe Valley

  September 11, 1996

• Dish

  May 10, 1995

• Early Bird Special: Contigo

  Jen SiskaContigoAfter scarfing pork-belly bocaditos and octopus salad at Contigo in Noe Valley, SF Weekly food critic Matthew Stafford gets all dreamy thinking about the vacay he took in Barcelona. Stafford thinks chef-owner Brett Emerson gets all the details right in this local simulacrum of the Catalan tapas bar. Drool over the full review later today at sfweekly.com. Meantime, here's a taste: The similarities between the Bay Area and Catalonia are striking. Both regions have a fierce independ

  May 5, 2009

• Escape from New York's New Mission Outpost Might Solve that 1 A.M. Pizza Dilemma

  Just Tom/FlickrA slice of potato-pesto: No more drunk dialing.Finding that all-important late-night slice of pizza near the 24th Street BART station has, until recently, been a futile adventure in sad drunk dialing: Twin Peaks, will you heed my call? Too late for delivery. How about Noe Valley Pizza? Another no. There are closer pizza joints, such as Serrano's or Mr. Pizza Man. But when it comes to quality, they're more like Domino's, and that can't be a good thing. With the recent opening in

  June 26, 2009

• Market Report: More Earnestness Than Glamour in Noe Valley

  Mary Ladd The Noe Valley Tuesday farmers' market: Call it cozy. A visit to the rather bare-bones Noe Valley farmer's market on a foggy summer day is probably best kept to earnest local food geeks eager to support their 'hood. The Tuesday afternoon market (3-7 p.m.) launched in May, in the parking lot of what's destined to be Whole Foods (3940 24th St. at Sanchez).  Mary Ladd Where else on 24th can you score these? Yesterday's cold weather and the market's chain-link fen

  July 29, 2009

• Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

  ​Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. Growler: Beer & Nosh whips out predictably gorge photos from Saturday's street-food fest, with a harsh chaser: It was crowded, expensive, and with long lines for food that wasn't exactly street food. Ouch. Yupset: An extra helping of Street Food Fest harshness, via Noe Valley, SF: Overheard: "...an hour and a half wait for a taco..." When Noe Valley gets bitchy, you know you've got a problem. Totally granulated: Yeah, we know: Missi

  August 24, 2009

• Art Crawl

  October 17, 2007

• Gloomy Bloom’s brings out the cynic

  September 30, 2009

• New Restaurants

  October 14, 2009

• Doggy Bag: WTF Thursday

  ​Our favorite morsels from the blogs. Say wha?: Behold our roundup of the most confounding recent snippets from S.F. bloggers. Naturally, we've freed these WTF wonders from anything even vaguely distracting -- like context. For that, broseph, you'll have to click. Among carnivores and vegetarians alike, the mere sight of juicy baby leg -- peeking out from the gap between the hem of Gymboree overalls and the top of the Robeez soft sole -- is enough to trigger salivation of Pavlovian pro

  October 15, 2009

• Recapturing That Lomo Feeling: A SFoodie Lunch Planner

  ​Tuesday, October 20, 2009 Remember how you felt when you tasted your first Nuevo Peruvian? Ah, good times. Relive the magic of that first hucatay aïoli, says SF Weekly restaurant critic Meredith Brody, with a lunch of ceviche mixto (including calamari, scallops, prawns, and clams) and aji de gallina (pulled chicken stew with garlic and walnuts) at Fresca, 24 West Portal (at Ulloa), 759-8087. Locations in Noe Valley, the Fillmore, and the Sunset, too.

  October 20, 2009

• New Restaurants

  October 21, 2009

• Forbidden fruit: The trouble with those guys who sell strawberries on street corners

  October 28, 2009

• Is Whole Foods Sucking the Air Out of a Noe Valley Butcher Shop?

  Steve Rhodes/FlickrChalk stencil on the pavement in front of Whole Foods on 24th Street.​If yesterday's SFist post about the financial woes of venerable Drewes Brothers Meats wasn't an attempt to yank our ham bone, it's clear that people -- particularly within the stroller-rich pastures of Noe Valley -- need to get serious about eating meat. Cast aside your smoked tempeh; lose the vegan lasagne. Unless you have an overwhelming religious conviction opposing the joyous scarfing of animal fle

  October 28, 2009

• Drewes Brothers Meats v. Whole Foods: Feh on Both Your Houses?

  oomni/FlickrHell-oo, anybody there?​According to recent blog hoopla, Drewes Brothers Meats in Noe Valley is floundering in the wake of a Whole Foods invasion, and the resulting commotion has swollen into a temporary Ground Zero for concerns about the health of local businesses. As reported at Grub Street, owner Josh Epple suspects he'll have to close by the middle of 2010 if the register doesn't start ringing more mighty soon. Drewes fans worry Whole Foods threatens a landmark dispenser of

  October 30, 2009