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May 8, 2012
Another Civil Servant Accused of Domestic Violence
A Japanese diplomat based in San Francisco has been accused of not being so diplomatic when he allegedly beat his wife repeatedly, pushed her out of a car, and knocked her tooth out. According to press reports, 32-year-old Yoshiaki Nagaya, a San Bruno resident, appeared in court yesterday to answer ... More >>
Blogs
March 30, 2012
HayaHon Begins Izakaya Popup at Former Mercury Lounge, Now Called SPACE 1582
Mark Hayashida has covered a lot of culinary territory since graduating from college: cooking Classic French-inspired cuisine at the LA Ritz-Carlton, working on the sushi bar at the San Jose branch of Blowfish, cooking at Google, helping open Skool in Potrero Hill. Three weeks ago, he and partner ... More >>
Blogs
February 17, 2012
President's Day Weekend: Another Carmaggedon?
Closed for businessWhat better way to celebrate the Great Emancipator than with hair-pulling traffic and even more of a clusterfuck than usual for Bay Area commuters? The westbound deck of the Bay Bridge heading into San Francisco will be closed at 8 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 17, until 5 a.m. on Tues ... More >>
Blogs
January 26, 2012
Tom Brady, Patriots Quarterback, Wants Your Kidney
Give him your kidneyTom Brady has movie star good looks, a supermodel wife, a palatial estate, and three Super Bowl rings -- and one at play Feb. 5. But what he really wants are your bodily organs.Not for himself, but for his longtime mentor, Tom Martinez, a QB coach who has been waiting fo ... More >>
Blogs
December 26, 2011
Jeremy Tooker's 2011 Food Finds: Ramen Dojo, Super Duper, and Mission Chinese
SFoodie is calling up food types around the city to ask them about their favorite discovery of the past year, whether it's new or ancient, an ingredient or a person. We'll be running their responses over the course of the next 10 days. Jeremy Tooker of Four Barrel shares with us his three favori ... More >>
Dining
November 16, 2011
Fresh Eats: Off the Grid: Fort Mason Event Goes Into Hibernation
SFoodie is calling up food types around the city to ask them about their favorite discovery of the past year, whether it's new or ancient, an ingredient or a person. We'll be running their responses over the course of the next 10 days. Jeremy Tooker of Four Barrel shares with us his three favori ... More >>
Blogs
November 8, 2011
Off The Grid Ends Fort Mason Season on November 18
Chris MacArthurOff The Grid will send its weekly Fort Mason gathering to hibernate away from the cold and wind for a few months after November 18. Organizer Matt Cohen tells SFoodie to expect the event's return to happen in mid-March. While the main party takes a break, Off The Grid's numero ... More >>
Blogs
September 14, 2011
Fight Night: Boxing in the Bar
Denizen415, used with permissionDon't take it outside, boys...The definitions of both "sports bar" and "bar fight" are malleable, it would seem. In a good way. Last night marked another edition of Tuesday Night Fights put on by the San Francisco Boxing Union. Patrons of Roccapulco Supper Club ate ... More >>
Blogs
August 12, 2011
Hot Sauce and Panko Combines Wings, Waffles and Heat
Photos by Luis ChongNot long ago SFoodie reported about the openings of
Blogs
June 29, 2011
Cheese Shop Crime, Passion Cafe for Rent (Again), Maharani's Back, and Macaron News
The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. What's with all the restaurant crime? Saturday it was a shooting outside Little Joe's, and today Eater SF recounts the latest robbery attempt at Mission Cheese. Via the shop's newsletter, Eater learned a ... More >>
Blogs
June 20, 2011
Kleptomaniac Cat Strikes Again (video)
Cat burlgar purrr-loins items from his neighbors By daytime, Dusty, a sweet-looking Siamese cat is nothing more than an innocent house pet who likes to lounge in the yard of his San Mateo home. But when the sun goes down this feline moonlights as a burglar -- a cat burglar that is. His skills for ... More >>
Blogs
June 1, 2011
Jeremy Fox Collaborates, Commis and Locavore See Chef Changes, Marin Food Trucks, More!
The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. More news on chef changes, collaborations, and owner switch ups. Earlier we mentioned, via Grub Street, that Jeremy Fox would take over Saison for a week. Now Grub Street reports he'll be collaborating wi ... More >>
Blogs
May 27, 2011
Pollo Campero Coming to S.F., Berkeley to Gain Artisan Butcher Shop, and Off the Grid
The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. As SFoodie first reported in 2010, there was a rumor going around about the popular Guatemalan fried chicken chain, Pollo Campero, coming to San Francisco. Today, Inside Scoop confirms these rumors are tr ... More >>
Blogs
May 24, 2011
Muni Driver Assaulted with Skateboard, Police Arrest Three Teens
Skating right on down to juvenile hall Skateboarding might not be a crime, but hitting your bus driver with a skateboard is. Police booked three teenagers today on suspicion of assaulting a Muni driver after boarding a bus near Chinatown. According to police, the three teens got onto the 30 Stock ... More >>
Blogs
April 26, 2011
Few Deportable Inmates Are from San Francisco
Mexicans top the list, but the Soviets aren't so far behind. Yesterday, we told you about California being a national leader when it comes to the number of criminal aliens incarcerated in our state prisons. It turns out that very few of those criminal aliens hail from San Francisco. Criminal alie ... More >>
Blogs
April 13, 2011
Curry Up Now Gets Grounded, Coffee Bar Gets Ready to Pull Downtown
The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Everybody always asserts that food trucks are a threshold endeavor toward brick-and-mortar, and it's finally coming true. Tablehopper catches a whiff of Curry Up Now, the restaurant, opening this weekend ... More >>
Blogs
March 25, 2011
Kati Rolls, Three-Fingered Gamblers, and Holy Cannoli: This Week in Food Bloggery
Amanderson2/FlickrA kati-roll vendor in Kolkota.Five highlights from the blogs this week: 1. John Birdsall interviews Annamika Khanna from Kasa about the closing of her Marina branch, learns why she's doing weekly vegan dinners at the Corner if she eats dairy herself, and gets the sad news that ... More >>
Blogs
March 10, 2011
Men Walking Across United States Pass Through San Francisco
Will these four men become as famous as Forrest?Four magicians have set out to walk nearly 3,000 miles across the United States -- from San Francisco to New York City. And their reasoning is not much different from Forrest Gump's: Because they felt like it.SF Weekly spoke to the crew via phone on ... More >>
Blogs
December 15, 2010
Giants World Series Trophy at City Hall (PICS)
Oh happy day! At San Francisco's City Hall, one eventually gets used to the sight of statuesque brides in frilly gowns and strappy sandals clomping through the metal detectors. But a fella with a two-foot-tall, traffic cone orange hat, a matching scarf and a gleeful Jack-O-Lantern smile? No, he's ... More >>
Blogs
November 30, 2010
November 2010 Openings & Closures: Roast Meats In, Markets Out
Beast and the Hare/FacebookBeast and the Hare opened this month.November brought on a rush of restaurants who pushed to open before the holiday bonanza season. Several were lower-priced spinoffs of tony restaurants, while others were additional locations (or relaunches) of familiar names. On the ... More >>
Blogs
November 23, 2010
Patxi's Comes to Noe Valley, The Counter Goes to San Mateo
The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene.In the week building up to Thanksgiving Day, the openings are dribbling in. Just a few: According to Eater SF (who plucked the info from Noe Valley SF), the Noe Valley branch of Patxi's Pizza ( ... More >>
Blogs
November 11, 2010
Locanda da Eva Spruces Up, Things Are Popping Outside San Francisco
The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene.Locanda da Eva in Berkeley shut down for the long weekend to redecorate, and Carolyn A. of Eater SF posts pics of the new look. SFoodie says: niiiiiiice. San Francisco gossip was apparen ... More >>
Blogs
October 12, 2010
LGBT Suicides: Aiyisha Hassan, Daughter Of Marin Non-Profit Executive Director, Takes Life
Aiyisha HassanThe rash of young gays and lesbians committing suicide has now struck the country's LGBT capital here in the Bay Area: Aiyisha Hassan, a 20-year-old Marin County native who identified as lesbian, killed herself on October 5. Hassan was a former student at Howard University in Washin ... More >>
Blogs
September 17, 2010
Where Do San Francisco's Firefighters Live?
Coeur D'alene? Really?Not long ago, SF Weekly played with a data application the Bay Citizen created regarding where the city's employees live. It turns out, a number of city workers -- including more than a few firefighters -- live in far-off realms such as Placer County, Los Angeles, or even Sa ... More >>
Blogs
August 26, 2010
Photo of Catholic Church's Stolen Bell Turns Up
That's not the photo...We've written a bit about the 600-pound bell stolen from St. Michael's Korean Catholic Church. Inspector Rich Dalton was back at the Broad Street and San Jose Avenue house of worship today, but secretary Soonae "Theresa" Shim says there has been no development in tracking d ... More >>
Blogs
August 10, 2010
T.G.I. Frisco: San Francisco's Dearth of Chain Restaurants
Kevin Y./YelpOkay, so we do have an Olive Garden out near S.F. State.Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Yesterday at LA Weekly's Squid Ink, SFoodie's sister food blog with the WTF name, editor Amy Scattergood passed along a list from Nation's Restaurant News of America's 15 favorite casual- ... More >>
Blogs
July 8, 2010
Sustainability the Focus of Napa Farms Market in SFO's New Terminal 2
tifflaw/FlickrCupcakes on a plane!Third Wave coffee from Equator. Organic ice cream from Three Twins. Hog Island oysters, Frog Hollow Farm peaches, Kara's cupcakes ― the lineup of producers at the upcoming Napa Farms Market in the San Francisco airport is shaping up.When the new Terminal 2 open ... More >>
Blogs
June 24, 2010
This Year, Yes We Can Is Taking It Outside, Mostly
Hedy MacferranYes We Can jam-making workshop at La Cocina in July 2009.Live Culture ― Eat Real organizer Anya Fernald's food-craft incubator ― got national attention last year for its DIY canning workshops at La Cocina. This year, Live Culture has reconfigured those Yes We Can classes as ... More >>
Blogs
May 21, 2010
San Francisco Unemployment: Bad, Could Be Worse
Ah, the monthly Labor Market Info from the California Employment Development Department. It's like an old friend, dependable and reliable. Actually, it's more like that friend you've had since college. And you don't really have anything in common with them anymore, but you feel really bad about c ... More >>
Blogs
April 14, 2010
Simply Mochi Remixes a Traditional Japanese Dessert
simplymochi.comWe adore San Francisco's old-school mochi overlords Benkyodo, who've been open on and off for more than 100 years and continue to dazzle us with modern interpretations of this Japanese dessert. But recently we've been swayed to cheat on them by Simply Mochi after their appearan ... More >>
Blogs
January 22, 2010
S.F. Unemployment Numbers Drop -- But This Isn't Necessarily a Great Thing
'I dunno, Paw. That sure don't sound like good news to me.' A quick glance at this month's unemployment numbers for San Francisco and its neighboring counties reminds us of how deftly numbers can be tortured. So, while the unemployment rate in San Francisco dropped between November and December f ... More >>
Blogs
August 21, 2009
S.F. Unemployment Numbers: Every Time a Teacher Loses Their Job, a Bartender Is Born
The leaves rustle gently in the wind, and deer raise their dewy muzzles expectantly to the sky. Birds twitter in anticipation. Hark! What's that sound?Shhh. It approaches.Here's this month's unemployment statistics from the state Employment Development Department! So, there's good news and bad ne ... More >>
Blogs
August 14, 2009
Every Day Is Growhouse-Bustin' Day in the Sunset
We wrote earlier about how San Francisco cops at Taraval Station busted marijuana growhouses on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday a few weeks ago. When asked if they'd raided one on Thursday, Lieutenant Mike Caplan answered no -- but noted that the day wasn't over yet. While smoking marijuana ... More >>
Blogs
July 17, 2009
Small Confort, Big Unemployement Numbers: S.F. Still Doing a Bit Better than Rest of State
Gather 'round, children, it's that time of the month when we reveal the state's Employment Development Department numbers -- which indicate our employment rates are (still) failing to thrive in this sluggish economy. Basically, the numbers are as lowly as they were last month. Which makes one ... More >>
Blogs
May 22, 2009
State Unemployment Numbers Are In: S.F. Situation Upgraded From 'Shitty' to 'Crappy'
James Duncan DavidsonA sign of the times...The State Employment Development Department today released its monthly accounting of where the state's employment handbasket is in its journey toward hell. And it's a good news-bad news situation akin to: "We've got fresh vegetables -- but we're serving the ... More >>
Blogs
May 14, 2009
Experience Afrofunk: Sila Drops New Album
EKAphotographyElectable: Sila performs with the AFE at Stern Grove San Francisco's favorite Kenyan Afro-groovester, Victor Sila, has just released Black President, his second album with the Afrofunk Experience. I'll admit to being a bit biased--Sila is a friend of mine, and I wrote his bio--but I r ... More >>
Blogs
May 14, 2009
Maker Faire is Not Just For Science Geeks
Hodo Soy Beanery's tofu Maker Faire Bay Area is an annual convergence of science and DiY geeks making merry, but it's also a gathering with potential interest to foodies. As of this writing, there's no word on whether offal tacos from the North Bay's Secret Eating Society will be among the above-a ... More >>
Blogs
February 14, 2008
BART Vows to Make Your Commute More Annoying this Valentine's Day
Hodo Soy Beanery's tofu Maker Faire Bay Area is an annual convergence of science and DiY geeks making merry, but it's also a gathering with potential interest to foodies. As of this writing, there's no word on whether offal tacos from the North Bay's Secret Eating Society will be among the above-a ... More >>
Blogs
November 28, 2007
LastNight: Hustler Club Hosts the SF Fire Fighters Union Toy Drive Kickoff
Hodo Soy Beanery's tofu Maker Faire Bay Area is an annual convergence of science and DiY geeks making merry, but it's also a gathering with potential interest to foodies. As of this writing, there's no word on whether offal tacos from the North Bay's Secret Eating Society will be among the above-a ... More >>
Dining
August 15, 2007
It'za Izakaya
You can get (almost) any kind of Japanese food you want at Hime restaurant
Music
October 5, 2005
Scrawlin' Out
Local hip hop gets an online boost from a selection of top-notch blogs
News
February 23, 2005
Legal Pirouette
Marin County DA Ed Berberian switches his office's position, agreeing to Catholic Church demands to withhold sex-abuse documents from the press
Culture
January 12, 2005
Smart Cookie
Heather Gold clearly likes the people who come to see her bake, and they respond in kind
Summer Guide
June 25, 2003
And You're Off!
Even if you dont know your exacta from a post parade, the racetrack can be a summer joy
Music
October 24, 2001
House Of Tudor
Icky flicks, modern pagans, and disturbed piano-duos
News
August 22, 2001
Letters to the Editor
That Sinking Feeling; A Biased Opinion; An Issue of Some Gravity; Book Learning; A Sad Development
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December 23, 1998
Night + Day
That Sinking Feeling; A Biased Opinion; An Issue of Some Gravity; Book Learning; A Sad Development
Dining
July 31, 1996
Dish
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