Valentine's Day

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Mi Amor

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Au Bon Coin

A welcoming French restaurant that feels like a few hours in Paris

Secret Garden

Intriguing Italian food in a delightful setting tucked away in a mysterious hidden courtyard

Valentine's Hookup: Cruelty-Free Comfort at Greens

Ai M./Yelp​To some, Fort Mason standby Greens is dullsville with a nice view; to others, it's a delectable institution worth preserving, a relic that stirs up waves of nostalgia in those who have grazed on its quintessential cruelty-free California fare for the past 30 years. On Valentine's Da ... More >>

Go Out There and Kill

Ai M./Yelp​To some, Fort Mason standby Greens is dullsville with a nice view; to others, it's a delectable institution worth preserving, a relic that stirs up waves of nostalgia in those who have grazed on its quintessential cruelty-free California fare for the past 30 years. On Valentine's Da ... More >>

Valentine's Hookup: Wild Kitchen's Foraged Favorites

forageSF​The Wild Kitchen is getting in on the Valentine's Day dinner action, offering an eight-course extravaganza to celebrate not only the holiday, but its own one-year anniversary. Fittingly, the menu will include what the underground restaurant considers its best dishes: wild boar porchet ... More >>

Baylinks: Laptop Bans, Call the Mayor Day, & Transit Hoopla

BrainchildvnPick. Up. The. Phone.​Artists install working phone booth in front of Newsom's office as part of Call the Mayor Day. [SFAppeal]But maybe the message machine picked up because he was at the Central Subway ground-breaking? [SF Citizen]Valentine's Day: Just so much pink fluff. [SF Girl By ... More >>

10 Things To Do This Weekend For Under $10

Peter Mel at Mavericks ​This is a big weekend if you're into surfing, pillow fighting, swapping spit (and/or records), and other cheap activities. Here's our to-do list. Thao With the Get Down Stay Down & The Thermals @ Sproul Plaza (Fri.)(We posted this one earlier in the week, but here's a r ... More >>

Your Craigslist Valentines

It's tough to be a single woman on Feb. 14, so we've compiled a list of Valentine's dating ads from Craigslist that may appeal to you. If you don't have eyes like Superman, you can always click on the images for larger versions. The first one we've got for you happens to be from Minneapolis, but bas ... More >>

Weekend Party Preview is For Lovers in Underwear

​San Francisco takes great advantage of the big holidays--and big holiday weekends--to get down, and this one is no exception. Depending on your current love life situation, you'll either be stoked or cringing when it comes to all the Valentine's-themed club nights this weekend. For today's Weeken ... More >>

Valentine's Day Tweets: 140 Characters of Love

What's the hottest way to pick up a lover this Valentines Day? Woo with Twitter. We're assuming you guys are all trimmed and ready, and we've already told you the best places to hook up in the city so love is ostensibly just 140 characters away. Go get some.​ He loves me, he loves me not, he ... More >>

Slideshow: Annual V-Day No Pants Party at the Knockout

​Every year, boys and girls shed their pants (and then check them at the coat check) for the annual No Pants Party. This year, the pre game for Valentine's Day brought the stripped down to the Knockout on a Spring-ish weekend. Check out Richard Haick's slideshow here. 

Monday Morning Hangover: Hearts and Soul

So, last weekend was Valentine's Day Weekend. Which means that people who weren't coupled up and doing something all barfy-cute were using it as an opportunity to hook-up. (Because nothing is more fun than waking up on Feb. 14 and wondering whether or not it's appropriate to wish your conquest a hap ... More >>

How Romantic: DPW Worker Robbed of Work Equipment on Valentine's Day

Audrey FukumanWhat better gift than the gift of mop? ​If your beloved gave you the gift of rakes, shovels, and brooms on Valentine's Day -- beware. You may be dating a miscreant who has filched municipal property. A Department of Public Works employee tasked with scouring filth on a day most folks ... More >>

Diamond Lil Makes a Public Appearance, Manresa Bulks Out

​ ​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene.Only two small tidbits for you today: Item the first: Eater says the bustaurant named Diamond Lil will be making two rare public appearances this week: It parks outside Spencer and Daniels (1 ... More >>

Find Your Soul Mate Licking Her Own Butt

​ ​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene.Only two small tidbits for you today: Item the first: Eater says the bustaurant named Diamond Lil will be making two rare public appearances this week: It parks outside Spencer and Daniels (1 ... More >>

Comfort Times Two: A Guide to Mac and Tots

Marthie D./YelpCastro flamer: Blue's Flaming Mac and Cheese ($10.29), perfect with a side of tots.​Childhood favorites individually, mac 'n' cheese and tater tots combined add up to the perfect hangover combo or blue-day pick-me-up. When the urge for mac and tots strikes, we head to one of the ... More >>

Zeitgeist Finally Does Away With the Honey Pots, Monroe Opens Soon

​ ​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Eater SF and SFist bring good news and bad news: Zeitgeist is finally replacing the Porta-Potties in the beer garden with actual bathrooms. The bad news: The bar is closing until Feb. 14 in ... More >>

Open Your Heart

​ ​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Eater SF and SFist bring good news and bad news: Zeitgeist is finally replacing the Porta-Potties in the beer garden with actual bathrooms. The bad news: The bar is closing until Feb. 14 in ... More >>

This Week's Review: Hearts on Fire!

Caitlin Kuhwald​Making heart the subject of my Valentine's Day review may be a stunt, but eating heart meat isn't. Whether it comes from a chicken, duck, pig, lamb, or cow, heart is an amazing cut: smooth and yet not slippery-gushy, lean and robust. Heart meat readily takes to fire, smoke, chiles, ... More >>

Guide to SF Beer Week's Food Brew Pairings, Part 1

bittermelon/FlickrBeer Week supper at the Alembic.​Stories abound of Belgian monks who toiled through laborious days with nothing to nourish them but low-alcohol beers designed for sustenance. But you're no monk. You're a hungry beer geek. Luckily, multiple beer dinners and pairing seminars ar ... More >>

Eat More Hearts for Valentine's Day at Avedano's

​I wasn't the only person who consumed hearts in honor of/protest over Valentine's Day. Avedano's Meats, the sustainability-minded butcher shop in Bernal Heights, is making hearts the focus of its first event open to the public. The Lonely Hearts dinners take place in the butcher shop's private di ... More >>

Tomorrow Night at the Roxie: Vancouver Punk, Global Profanity

The Furies​If you've ever doubted the punk-rock pedigree of our neighbors to the north, ask yourself this: could just anybody make it work going by the name Joey Shithead? Tomorrow night the Roxie Theatre, in conjunction with Indiefest, presents Bloodied But Unbowed, a documentary about the punk s ... More >>

Russell's Super Nuggets, Meat-Mouth Conversions, and Rad Drinking!

​SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. adria.richards/FlickrDear Russell: We forgive you for the whole RushCard thing.​• New mac 'n' cheese restaurant Homeroom is opening in Oakland the day after Valentine's Day. Who gives a shit, right? YOU DO! ... More >>

Gay Couples to Stage City Hall Sit-In to Celebrate Valentine's Day

Love hurts​For many San Francisco gay couples, Valentine's Day is just a bitter reminder of what they don't have -- marriage certificates. So expect a huge turnout at San Francisco City Hall for the hallmark holiday today; gay couples across the nation will celebrate their love with a little civil ... More >>

Beer is for Lovers: Guide to Day 4 of SF Beer Week

greenwithevil/FlickrDear Russian River Brewing: We heart you.​Monday, Feb. 14 Hey there, Casanova. Sipping wine on Valentine's Day is played out. You don't want to be predictable, do you? This year, treat your date to one of these beery adventures, offered on Day Four of SF Beer Week. ​ ... More >>

A Valentine's Day Fact -- STDs Are on the rise in San Francisco

Sexy time stats​Leave it to the San Francisco Public Health Department to use Valentine's Day as a way to get people to not want to have sex.Health officials decided to use this hallmark holiday to tell us the hard, cold truth about our Valentines -- they aren't so pure after all. As it turns out, ... More >>

P. Diddy Is Here To Help You Celebrate V. Didday with 'LoveLOVE vs. HateLOVE'

​Rap impresario and motivational speaker Sean "Puff 'P. Diddy' Daddy" Combs wants you to have a festive, funky, and above all, thought-provoking Valentine's Day. Which is why he and his femmetourage Dirty Money have just released the eminently Kierkegaardian LoveLOVE vs. HateLOVE mixtape, a handfu ... More >>

One Love Bake Sale Yields Big Haul for City Clinic

Gil Riego Jr.Thanks to you guys, we made nearly $1,300 for a good cause.​Sunday's One Love bake sale at La Victoria is now no more than a memory, a cake box or two we forgot to compost (sorry, Jaime!), and a huge pile of cash. That's right: Thanks to the generosity of the 12 pastry shops who d ... More >>

Flesh and Aphrodisiacs: Guide to Day 5 of SF Beer Week

bittermelon/FlickrHold on to that lovin' feeling: V-Day redux, with oysters, at Magnolia Pub.​Tuesday, Feb. 15 The glow of Valentine's Day is behind us, and a thick gloom has replaced our early summer weather. Before you let the doldrums take hold, remember that the SF Beer Week cup is still ... More >>

Will You Be My Ultrahip Valentine?

bittermelon/FlickrHold on to that lovin' feeling: V-Day redux, with oysters, at Magnolia Pub.​Tuesday, Feb. 15 The glow of Valentine's Day is behind us, and a thick gloom has replaced our early summer weather. Before you let the doldrums take hold, remember that the SF Beer Week cup is still ... More >>

Why Waste Pot on Listening to REO Speedwagon? An Intrepid Search for an Answer

​ Listen to this while high: Hi Infidelity by REO Speedwagon. Huh?: If you were getting high thirty years ago, you did so to this record whether you remember it or not. ​ Behind the buzz: Formed in 1967 as a cover band by students at the University of Illinois in Champaign, REO S-Wagon was y ... More >>

Jealous Guys Debut 'Brainwashed By London' Video, Plus Bonus Vid

When we last reported on San Francisco's answer to the Clipse, The Jealous Guys, it was to spread word of their free Valentine's Day jam, The Love Mixtape. Now they've dropped a video -- black and white, natch -- for the single "Brainwashed By London," from the very same album. The flick finds them ... More >>

Lightness of Being

When we last reported on San Francisco's answer to the Clipse, The Jealous Guys, it was to spread word of their free Valentine's Day jam, The Love Mixtape. Now they've dropped a video -- black and white, natch -- for the single "Brainwashed By London," from the very same album. The flick finds them ... More >>

Act Quick: Tables for Two Still Available on Valentine's Day

SharontroySaha, in the TL​Reservations book up quickly for this Hallmark holiday. Even on a Tuesday night, couples will fill every table for two in San Francisco with their gooey cravings for public displays of affection. Although the holiday is still three weeks away, most restaurants offer ... More >>

Top Chef Casting Calls Coming to SF

SharontroySaha, in the TL​Reservations book up quickly for this Hallmark holiday. Even on a Tuesday night, couples will fill every table for two in San Francisco with their gooey cravings for public displays of affection. Although the holiday is still three weeks away, most restaurants offer ... More >>

Medical Marijuana Week: Protest President Obama, Mail Nancy Pelosi a Heart.

Pot smokers getting no love from Obama this Valentine's Day ​The week doesn't often begin on Friday. But then again, it's not often Medical Marijuana Week -- is it?Indeed not. And that Medical Marijuana Week coincides with Valentine's Day is no mistake: It was the Compassionate Use Act that got us ... More >>

Border Control Cracks Down on Immigration of Red Roses

CBP​Red roses will be getting the pat-down by border control this Valentine's Day to ensure those flowers you give your honey come Tuesday are free of nasty bugs.The U.S. Customs and Border Control will continue stopping every red rose over the weekend, scanning to see if any of those flowers are ... More >>

Valentine's Day Warning: These Five Love Songs Are Not About Loving People

​Rob Sheffield's book, Love Is a Mix Tape, meticulously details the many categories of the medium: The Party Tape; The Walking Tape; You Broke My Heart and Made Me Cry and Here Are Twenty or Thirty Songs About It. But there's not a thing in it about Valentine's Day mix tapes. You know, those ... More >>

Occupy Bernal: Neighbors to Dump Banks on Valentine's Day

These are just really cool t-shirts​If you are bitter about Valentine's Day, who better to take it out on than Wells Fargo and other big banks? After all, they are the ones who broke your heart, right?We know they've hurt a lot of hearts in Bernal Heights, which is why Occupy Bernal has big plans ... More >>

SF Beer Week: Singles Edition

roberthuffstutter​You already celebrated Valentine's Day early, and now you're feeling jaded. Take one last shot at finding your soulmate at this aphrodisiac-fueled event: Oyster Extravaganza, Valentine Edition Where: Magnolia Pub, 1398 Haight St. (at Masonic), (415) 864-PINT When: Tuesday, ... More >>

Candy Heart Valentine's Day Graffiti Might Make Lonely Folks Feel Better

You know how candy corn tastes like sugary candles, and Peeps taste like sugary foam, and candy hearts are pretty much just sugary chalk? Over on our sister blog The Exhibitionist, our funny, talented, and entirely un-housebroken writer Angela Lutz has put the hearts-are-just-chalk theory to the tes ... More >>