Outer Richmond

Cops Looking for Ricky Philsith, Man Accused of Choking, Sexually Assaulting Woman

San Francisco police are asking for your help finding the man who has been accused of attacking a woman in the Outer Richmond area earlier this month. According to police, on Jan. 7, 35-year-old Ricky Philsith (aka Ratanaphon Philsith), attempted to sexually assault the victim on the 400 block of ... More >>

Cassava: A Savory Japanese Breakfast

Braving Brunch: Refreshing Japanese Breakfast at Cassava Bakery Cafe

Notorious for long lines, brunching in the city can easily turn into a whole-day affair. From wait times and signature dishes to ambiance and drink selections, Braving Brunch is your go-to resource for navigating mid-morning meals. The Spot: Cassava Bakery Cafe The Neighborhood: Outer Richmond Th ... More >>

5 Places to Celebrate National Seafood Bisque Day

October 19th is National Seafood Bisque Day, so we have come up with 5 places for you to get your crustacean on. Bisque is a thick, creamy soup of French origin and is typically made from lobster, crab, shrimp, and crayfish. The term "bisque" is also sometimes used to refer to creamy soups made from ... More >>

Hong Kong Lounge II: Find Dim Sum's Quieter Side

Hash House Harriers, Local Running Club, Creates Hazmat Scare in the Richmond District

There's plenty of people out there who say runners are crazy people -- and yeah, they will run barefoot in the snow with no shirt on just to get that runner's high, but it's not like they are Osama bin Laden-crazy. However, yesterday a Richmond neighbor became suspicious of a running man after seein ... More >>

BOSF 2012: How to Find an Apartment

Progressively Modest: Eric Mar Stays out of the Headlines

That Sinking Feeling

Before the Flood

Jang Soo BBQ: Rethinking Korean Barbecue in Style and Substance

Bacon and Snowballs Roll Out, Venga Sets Up Shop, Four New Coffee Shops, and More

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Food Truck News: Who doesn't like bacon? Okay, I don't, but I'm a rarity, which is a good thing for Bacon Bacon Truck. Inside Scoop reports the porcine truck from former E&O general manager Jim Angelus is ... More >>

'Girafa' Pleads Guilty to San Jose Graffiti Charges, Fined $38,000

A guilty conscience?​San Francisco resident Steven Free, known by his graffiti writer's moniker of "Girafa," has pleaded guilty to multiple counts of felony and misdemeanor vandalism in San Jose, agreeing to pay $38,000 in fines.San Jose cops arrested Free in 2009 on 10 felony vandalism counts. As ... More >>

Richmond Safeway Remodel: Take Your Virtual Tour Today

Generally speaking, residents of the Outer Richmond, which includes your author, have it pretty good. We're close to great parks and beaches, exceptional Chinese food is never more than a few blocks away, and we harbor a dirty little secret: The fog isn't nearly as bad as we like to tell you.

A16 Changes Chefs, Puerto Alegre Colonizes Bombay Ice Creamery

​ ​The past 36 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Inside Scoop broke word that Liza Shaw is leaving A16, where she's been exec chef (and has worked since the beginning). Replacing her will be her chef de cuisine, David Taylor. In other chef ... More >>

Have a Jelly Doughnut for Hanukkah

Israel Kosher Meat's sufganiyah, $2.​Israel Kosher Meat, Poultry & Deli is a Russian Jewish deli in the Outer Richmond that wears its age as unabashedly as it does its faith. While the shelves are sparsely stocked and the front window needs a good scrubbing, Yelpers love the place for its ... More >>

While the Buzz Machine Goes Dormant, Delano's Market Quietly Closes

​ ​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene.All of us blogs took Thanksgiving off, and all the restaurants seemed to go into dormancy this weekend -- seriously, SFoodie was out and about this weekend, and non-downtown San Francisco seem ... More >>

Superior Palace Feeds Nostalgia for the Supercheap Rice Plate

Alex HochmanMandarin pork spareribs plate, with built-in "dessert."​We fondly remember the days of supercheap Chinese rice-plate lunches, the kind we stuffed ourselves silly on under bad fluorescent lighting, returning to the office in desperate need of a breath mint and a nap. Well, we're hap ... More >>

John Campbell's Unveils Retail Bakery in Potrero

John Birdsall​Who says nothing's open on holidays? Last Sunday ― the Fourth of July ― the Potrero outpost of John Campbell's Irish Bakery opened its retail space in the former site of Pinkie's Bakery/Bento 415/4505 Meats. Campbell's had already been using the space for production baking. T ... More >>

John Campbell's Irish Bakery Opens in Pac Heights

John Campbell'sThe original location.​Just in time for St. Patrick's Day: John Campell's Irish Bakery, the three-year-old Geary Street bakery whose scones SFoodie believes are some of the best things in town to eat, opened a second location in Pacific Heights yesterday. Located on the corner of Fi ... More >>

Pieroshki, Dyed Eggs, Kulich ― It's Easter in the Outer Richmond

Kovalchuk.Nikolay/FlickrKulich.​"Kulich [pronounced koo-LEECH] is a sweet Easter bread that's kind of like panettone," says Biba Belikow, a congregation member at the gorgeous, gold-domed Holy Virgin Cathedral in the Outer Richmond. This Sunday, the cathedral is holding a kulich-decorating event f ... More >>

Translating Chinese New Year's Menus, Part 5: Hakka Restaurant

Click to enlarge.​The year of the iron tiger officially arrived last weekend, but Chinese restaurants around the Bay Area are offering special New Year's banquet menus over the course of the next few weeks. Soundtrack for 2010.​SFoodie drove around the city collecting some of them, which Adobo H ... More >>

Translating Chinese New Year's Menus, Part 2: New Hing Lung

Click to enlarge.​In honor of the blossoming year of the metal tiger, last week SFoodie drove around San Francisco picking up New Year's menus ― a million thanks to Adobo Hobo's Ed Chui and his parents for translating them for us. 2010: Sponsored by Kellogg's.​We'll be rolling out the menu ... More >>

Soups, small plates, and snacks shine at Taste of Formosa

The Crime That Just Keeps Giving -- Car Arsons Return to S.F.

www.lcpstc.org​The apparent "anything you can do I can do better" competition between unknown miscreants on both sides of the bay to see who can immolate more vehicles recorded a couple more San Francisco entries yesterday and early this morning. Sometime between midnight and noon on Sunday -- tha ... More >>

The Food's Tasty, the Room's Nice. Why is La Vie So Sleepy?

Susu/FlickrWhy so quiet?​People take pity on empty bars, bleak little dives with dart boards and televisions. In a dead room, there's no need to shout, which makes for better conversation. Likewise, everyone gets a seat. Drinkers can spread out. No one scoops up the wrong pint. Restaurants, h ... More >>

Local Frequency: Bay Area Band Q&A w/ Adam Stephens

Dan Monick​Adam Stephens is the singing and guitar-playing half of successful San Francisco duo Two Gallants (Tyson Vogel is the drumming and backing vocals half). Signed to Saddle Creek records since 2005, they've toured incessantly in support of their three full-length albums and have finally ta ... More >>

Yu-Zen and the art of sushi

Early-Bird Special: Yu-Zen

cygnoir/FlickrYu-Zen's futo maki.​An early nibble from the Weekly's Wednesday food review. We all know the taste of mid-grade sushi-joint food like we know the taste of a McDonald's burger: starchy tempura, elaborately gooshy fantasy rolls, watery miso soup. Get something better, and it seem ... More >>

The Meter Is Running: Municipal Transportation Agency Outlines Plan to Extend Parking Meter Hours -- Which Could Raise $9M for City

​Earlier today, the Municipal Transportation Agency unveiled the results of a study regarding its tentative plan to extend parking meter hours to weekday evenings and on Sunday. There's no shortage of details -- reporters were even handed a city map with "pink" and "teal" parking zones -- but whet ... More >>

Thawing Out with Sushi: A SFoodie Lunch Planner

​Friday, October 9, 2009 If you're anywhere near the Outer Richmond at lunchtime, chances are you're articulated extremities will feel as frosty as Otter Pops. Understandably, cold fish is a hard sell. But, suggests SF Weekly restaurant critic Meredith Brody, the sushi here is so good you mig ... More >>

In the Court of the Dumpling King

Gary Soup/Flickr Sheng jian bao: Worthy of coronation. Old episodes of Check, Please! Bay Area aren't always the best barometer of local restaurant excellence, but in the case of Shanghai Dumpling King, one came through like the Earl of Warwick. Local Filipino-American writer and St. Mary's C ... More >>

Soup Therapy, All-You-Can-Pound Suds, and Flaunting Your Man Ink: A Foodie Day Planner

 Friday, July 24, 2009 Let's do lunch: What the hell, it'll be foggy all over the city today, so why not lunch in the Outer Richmond. Keep warm, says SF Weekly food critic Meredith Brody, with soup dumplings, knife-cut noodle soup, and garlic chicken wings at cash-only Shanghai House (3641 Ba ... More >>

Shanghai comes to Chinatown via Bund

Early Bird Special: Bund Shanghai

Jen SiskaNote to aspiring restaurateurs: The fiercest Chinese eateries are in diaspora neighborhoods, places like the Outer Richmond or northern Peninsula, where second- and third-generation Asian Americans actually live. Seems like nobody told the owners of Bund Shanghai (640 Jackson at Kearny), a ... More >>

SF Weekly's Seven Day Dish

SF Weekly's Seven Day Dish

SFWeekly's 7-Day Dish

Desperately Seeking Soup Dumplings: Bay Area Xiao Long Bao

Desperately Seeking Soup Dumplings: Bay Area Xiao Long Bao

Battle Lines

Richmond residents take aim at plans to expand a medical center they say is already overbuilt

Driving San Francisco Sane

Although the city has more cars per square mile than either New York or L.A., driving in S.F. is no nightmare. In fact, once its intricacies are mastered, motoring here can be downright civilized – and civilizing.

Roe v. Age

Don't be intimidated by the metallic chic or the weird-sounding dishes

Best Neighborhood Movie Theater

Balboa Theater

Tally Ho

We thought we'd lost the motorloaf forever. Then we checked the phone book.

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Letters to the Editor

News Flash; Sex Change and the City; Defining Dance

Best Flaming Bowl of Liquor

The Scorpion

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Shades of Blue

Blue Point beautifully balances enthusiasm and know-how