Noe Valley

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Best S.F. Neighborhoods for Trick-or-Treaters

Years ago, the lore of houses that gave out full-size Snickers bars or other extraordinary treats on Halloween was passed from kid to kid. These days there's the Internet, and real estate website Zillow.com has compiled a list of the best S.F. neighborhoods to trick-or-treat in, reports our news blo ... More >>

Canadian Tea-tailer DAVIDsTEA Opens First San Francisco Shop

DAVIDsTEA opened its first San Francisco shop on August 25. The Canadian tea-tailer launched in 2008 and now has 78 locations across Canada, where it has helped to popularize the idea of loose tea, and it's now making serious inroads in the Bay Area. Eater SF reports that a Noe Valley (3870 24th St. ... More >>

Occupy Noe Valley Tries to Save More Homes

Since Occupy Bernal has proven to be the only local Occupy group to actually get shit done, homeowners in Noe Valley went ahead and formed a similar movement, riffing off Bernal's model of not occupying.In other words, no tents necessary.Tomorrow, Occupy Noe will start collecting signatures at the N ... More >>

Guess Which SF Neighborhood Has Been Most Generous to President Obama

President Barack Obama swung through the Bay Area last week like a college kid driving home for the weekend to do laundry. His stops hovered in the south Bay, in San Jose, Redwood City, and Atherton, where he held a rally and hosted the typical Expensive Dinners for Wealthy People. Obviously, Oba ... More >>

Del Popolo Readies to Roll, Ryan Scott's Please & Thank You, and Estela's Return

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. While it won't be the City's first mobile pizzeria (that would be Casey's Pizza), it will be the first one specializing in Neapolitan-style pizzas. Tablehopper reports Del Popolo from Jon Darsky (formerly ... More >>

This Sunday: Meet Cakespy and Eat Some of Her Free Cake!

​What: Cakespy and FREE CAKE at Omnivore Books Where: Omnivore Books When: Sun., October 30, 3-4 p.m. Cost: Free The rundown: CakeSpy's cake-fueled leader, Jessie Oleson, will be at Omnivore to talk about her new book, Cakespy Presents Recipes for a Sugar-Filled Life. One of the greatest ... More >>

Two Sisters Bar & Books Opens Friday and ACRE/SF Sells Coffee and Clothing

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Two very worldly sisters are channeling Krakow, Vienna, Paris, Brooklyn, and our own Northern California into Two Sisters Bar & Books. Grub Street reports, via Urban Daddy, the bar will open this Friday f ... More >>

Pizza and Belly Dancing, Taking on a Curse While Making Fresh Tofu, and More

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Last week we mentioned two pizza places eyeing S.F., the opening of Pachino, and the shutdown of PizzaHacker. Just in case that wasn't enough pizza news, Fisherman's Wharf is getting ready to welcome a ne ... More >>

Brick & Mortar Music Hall start food service, Ti Couz announces closing date

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Tablehopper reports that Brick & Mortar Music Hall, (1710 Mission at Duboce) which opened in the former Coda space in late March, is starting to focus on food. Part-owner Michael O'Connor will hire one of ... More >>

No. 20: Sardine and Avocado Toasts from Contigo

Christian HaasContigo's sardine and avocado toasts, $2.50 a piece.​SFoodie's countdown of our 92 favorite things to eat and drink in San Francisco, 2011 edition. Here in California, ingredients rule the table. Excellent, impeccable produce and proteins, minimally manipulated, almost always resul ... More >>

Sweet Deals on Some of Our Favorite Sweets

John BirdsallSandwich cookies from Sweet Constructions are half-off this week via Yelp.​Let's hope you didn't give up sugar for Lent. This week Yelp has partnered up with sweets pushers all over the city to brighten your smile (while destroying your teeth). Participating shops, many of them S ... More >>

Would Mordecai Bow Down to Any of These Hamantaschen?

Alex HochmanFrom left: Hamantaschen from House of Bagels, Cinderella Bakery, and Noe Valley Bakery, traditionally eaten at Purim, which starts Saturday at sundown.​Purim isn't exactly a well-known Jewish holiday, so for the goyim, we offer a quick recap with Star Wars references to make it eas ... More >>

SFPD: DNA Links Dead Man to Murder of San Franciscan Charles McAleer-Bonilla

Charles McAleer-Bonilla​The San Francisco Police Department is announcing that DNA evidence ties a suspected bank robber and kidnapper who recently died in a shootout with the Sacramento Sheriff's Department to the April stabbing death of San Franciscan Charles McAleer-Bonilla in Noe Valley.

Vibranz Bubbles Up in Local Kombucha Scene

Tamara Palmer​We've got a promising newcomer to add to our local resource guide to kombucha. Healdsburg's Vibranz, a new line of bottled kombucha beverages from the makers of Sonoma Sparkler juices, sent us some of its nine flavors to sample. The company hopes to distinguish itself in the mark ... More >>

Baylinks: Rainy Days, Vandals, & Name Dropping

Not quite.​Rainy Sunday Streets not exactly a recipe for fun. [SFCitizen]Sirron Norris gallery gets a brick through the window. [Mission Mission]The start time for Muni meetings might get changed to noon. You can hit it on your lunch break! [City Insider]Start-up is name dropping local writers who ... More >>

Charles McAller-Bonilla, 30, Stabbled to Death in Noe Valley

View Larger Map The Medical Examiner's office moments ago told SF Weekly that the man stabbed to death late last night near 28th and Sanchez was Charles McAller-Bonilla, a 30-year-old San Francisco resident. KTVU-TV reported that police were first called to the area due to reports of some manner of ... More >>

Baylinks: Mudslides, Caligula, & Poo

by zoomar via flickr​Dog owner argues for pets' right to poo. [Noe Valley SF]Mission taqueria goods delivered all the way to NYC! [Mission Mission] Post-storm Ocean Beach: flotsam and jetsam as for days. [SFAppeal] Chris Daly compares Gavin Newsom to Caligula. Good night, everybody! [Sweet Meliss ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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

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 ... More >>

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 d ... More >>

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 vege ... More >>

Ambition Goes All Wilt-y: S.F. Restaurant Closures in August

ipodgirl/FlickrEighty-sixed.​There were some major folderoos in the dog days. Pres a Vi, the ambitious small-plates-and-wine-bar spot that occupied major footage in George Lucas' big, bland Letterman Digital Arts Center in the Presidio, closed, leaving its much smaller progenitor, Va de Vi, th ... More >>

New Restaurants

ipodgirl/FlickrEighty-sixed.​There were some major folderoos in the dog days. Pres a Vi, the ambitious small-plates-and-wine-bar spot that occupied major footage in George Lucas' big, bland Letterman Digital Arts Center in the Presidio, closed, leaving its much smaller progenitor, Va de Vi, th ... More >>

New Restaurants

ipodgirl/FlickrEighty-sixed.​There were some major folderoos in the dog days. Pres a Vi, the ambitious small-plates-and-wine-bar spot that occupied major footage in George Lucas' big, bland Letterman Digital Arts Center in the Presidio, closed, leaving its much smaller progenitor, Va de Vi, th ... More >>

New Restaurants

ipodgirl/FlickrEighty-sixed.​There were some major folderoos in the dog days. Pres a Vi, the ambitious small-plates-and-wine-bar spot that occupied major footage in George Lucas' big, bland Letterman Digital Arts Center in the Presidio, closed, leaving its much smaller progenitor, Va de Vi, th ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 Ca ... More >>

Art Crawl

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 Ca ... More >>

Love Thy Neighbor

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

Night+Day San Francisco

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

Best Cross-City Hike

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

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Bus to Nowhere

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

Letters

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

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

Letters

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

Bombs Away

The Pigeon Lady of Noe Valley has neighbors diving for cover

Dish

The Pigeon Lady of Noe Valley has neighbors diving for cover

Dish

The Pigeon Lady of Noe Valley has neighbors diving for cover