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Recent Openers

Recent Openers

Summer Guide: Classic Cocktails Are Alive and Well in S.F.

Number 9: Liguria Bakery's Pizza Focaccia

SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​Everyone in San Francisco, it seems, has his or her favorite kind of focaccia from Liguria Bakery. Some will defend to their death the honor of the rectangles dimpled with green onions, others the loaves thickly speckl ... More >>

Recent Openers

Napoleon Super Bakery Is All About the Bun

​Rice Plate Journal is a yearlong project to canvas Chinatown, block by block, discovering the good, the bad, and the hopelessly mediocre. Maximum entrée price: $10. While Good Mong Kok Bakery, on Stockton and Jackson, has Hurculean steamed buns and fried sesame balls in its window, and AA ... More >>

Recent Openers

Japan Meets Ireland in a Cocktail Shaker for Quake Relief

​Land of the Rising Shamrock Where: Burritt Room, 417 Stockton (at Sutter), inside the Crescent Hotel When: Thu., Mar. 17, 8 p.m.-midnight Cost: Voluntary Red Cross donation at the door The rundown: What happens when you combine a national U.S. Bartenders' Guild conference in town, one of ... More >>

What To Do This Weekend, Feb. 4-5

Phil Y./YelpLatte art at Farm:Table, a stop on Saturday's Tenderloin Coffee Crawl.​Craving more? Scroll through additional listings here. Fri., Feb. 4: Whole Beast Supper Club Goat Dinner La Victoria, 2937 24th St. (at Alabama), 6 and 9 p.m. Chef Kevin Bunnell is hauling a whole goat to the t ... More >>

Jam Master William Werner at Macy's

William Werner/Facebook​Good Food Awards Jam Celebration Where: Macy's Union Square, 170 O'Farrell (at Stockton), 397-3333 When: Sat., Jan. 22, 2 p.m. Cost: Free The rundown: As Good Food Month picks up steam, we know it's tough to keep track of all the edible happenings around the bay. On ... More >>

Swelter a Little at Tuesday's Hawaiian Cocktail Shake-Off

Sarah_Ackerman/FlickrSomewhere on Maui, people are drinking mai tais. In shorts. ​Chances are you went to sleep last night wearing three layers, a hat, and an extra blanket and were still cold ― nothing like 40-something-degree weather to make you think about visiting someplace warm and gett ... More >>

Joey & Eddie's Soon-to-Be-Former Owner Launches BeeBo, Michael Mina Picks a Date

​ ​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene.According to Paolo L. at Inside Scoop, Joseph Manzare, owner of the just-closed Joey & Eddie's, is launching a temporary restaurant in the same space until the sale of the restaurant goes ... More >>

Friday Night: Pavement at the Greek Theatre, Berkeley

Gretchen RobinetteStephen Malkmus of Pavement​Pavement Quasi June 25, 2010 @Greek Theatre, Berkeley Better than: Pavement's hometown show in Stockton the previous night. The night after its gushy homecoming in Stockton, reunited indie-rock band Pavement summoned its energy, reached deep into its ... More >>

What Pavement Songs are You Hoping to Hear in Berkeley or Stockton?

​It's Pavement week here in Northern California: The (temporarily) reunited indie-rock band will bring its shady lanes and crooked rains to its hometown of Stockton for a show Thursday night at the Bob Hope Theatre, and to Berkeley's Greek Theatre on Friday. For the hometown show, Pavement's origi ... More >>

Congee With Pork and Preserved Egg at Hing Lung

T. PalmerCongee goes with doughnuts like white on rice.​As a daily windup to the Weekly's Best of S.F. 2010 on May 19, we've teased out 92 of our favorite local dishes that taste like here. All the tasty details after the jump.

Federal Judge: California Cities Can Sue Wall Street

​A group of California cities and counties can proceed with a lawsuit alleging shenanigans by some of the world's largest financial institutions, a federal judge ruled today.In a decision delivered in federal court for the Southern District of New York, Judge Victor Marrero denied a motion to dism ... More >>

Victoria Pastry's Pignoli by the Pound

​Oh, the joys of bulk food: The torrents of brown rice that gush out of the dispensers at Whole Foods. The deep sense of righteousness that comes from hefting a scoop out of a tank of rolled oats and pouring the whole grains into a recycled brown paper sack. The 24-packs of Cheetos from Costco, wh ... More >>

10 Things to Do This Weekend For Under $10

​Finally! The decade from hell is officially over and now, with the world out of its childish '00s on to its '10-plus tweens, we have so many growing pains to look forward to. So what's your New Year's resolution? If it's to party like a charmed indie pop star on a meager roadie budget, why no ... More >>

New Restaurants

Oops, Chase Did it Again (Allegedly)

Last week, we wrote about how San Francisco was greeting Chase Bank -- poised to take over 700 WaMu banks in California by the end of March -- with a federal class action lawsuit claiming that the bank defrauded its credit card customers by jacking up the interest rates on "blank check" loans. (Read ... More >>

Don't Shop Till You Drop

Save yourself (and our economy) with holiday shopping nourishment.

Farewell, Ferry Queen

Free 'Shrooms & Wine At The Cellar: Did I Mention It's Free?

Art Collab

Fresno? Fres Yes!

Literary

New Wave Thuggin'

Kirby Dominant brings together niggaz and white girlz

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

Our guide to readings, spoken word, and other literary events

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

Play Right

Making theater happen

Artbeat

Our critics weigh in on local exhibits

Best Freebies (tie)

Best Place to Learn a Romance Language

Outside Game

You have to pick the right time and place, but if you do, you'll swear San Francisco was made for patio dining.

Water Pirates

The politics of Thirst at the Roxie

Five Best Breakfasts

Canoe

I Give You ... Canoe!

Fool's Golf

Your own private Caddyshack

Three Best Tenderloin Dives to Look for Dashiell Hammett's Ghost In

Five Best Places to Grab a Post-Midnight Snack

Finnegans Cake

The Book on Byblos

Bay Bayou

Picnic Time!

Puttin' on the Ritz