SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Lucky Store In NoPa Sets Closing Date The Lucky grocery store at Fulton and Masonic now has a closing date; BART had another equipment problem Tuesday morning on the Yellow Line; and the Gann Fire in Calaveras County has grown to 3,000 acres.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Grocery Stores Where You Can Still Buy Food (and Booze) on Thanksgiving Day Last-minute, unanticipated needs are sure to strike any Thanksgiving Day celebration, so we've listed all of the major SF grocery chains’ Thanksgiving Day hours, for when you absolutely need that forgotten food item or an alcohol restock.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink OG Whole Foods Location In Mill Valley Announces Permanent Closure, Prompting Outcry, Petition One of the first Whole Foods locations in the country, the one that debuted in a Quonset hut structure on Miller Avenue in Mill Valley over 30 years ago, has been closed since July for "repairs," and now may be closed for good.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 20,000 Safeway Workers Could Strike Saturday if Deal Not Met A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reinstate support services to immigrant families separated at the border; a 16-foot-wide Instagrammable ‘Heart SF’ sign has been unveiled downtown; and Northern California Safeway employees brace for a potential strike.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gus’s Community Market on Haight Street Is About to Get Bigger, Expanding Into Vacant Spot Next Door The Haight Street Gus’s Community Market store is already about 7,000 square feet, but it just won City Hall approval to grow to almost 11,000 square feet, by expanding into the long-vacant space next door that used to be the Haight Ashbury Music Center.
SF News Exclusive: Shuttered Mission Street Walgreens to Become Locally Owned Produce and Meat Market Is it a "doom loop" when an SF Walgreens closes, but a locally owned fresh produce market pops up in its place? That's what's happening, as Casa Guadalupe has filed permits to move into the former Walgreens at Mission and Cesar Chavez.
SF News Bi-Rite Officially Found to Be SF's Most Expensive Grocery Store; Grocery Outlet the Cheapest The Chronicle did some real service journalism for you this week, surveying the city's grocery scene in these inflationary times, and telling you just where you can find the cheapest avocados, bread, and milk.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hayes Valley Trader Joe's Will Open At Long Last On Friday Neighbors in the vicinity of the new, very much anticipated, long-delayed Trader Joe's at Fulton and Laguna streets in Hayes Valley have been noticing some very well-stocked shelves and refrigerator cases in recent days. And now we have the official word on the opening.
SF News Construction Is Actually Happening Inside the Forever-Delayed Trader Joe's In Hayes Valley It's been a while since we had any update on the long-awaited, approved but still not open Trader Joe's at Fulton and Laguna streets. But there is movement happening inside the store space!
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fillmore Safeway Delays Closing Until 2025 Responding to outcry from the community and clearly some pressure from the city, Safeway now says it will keep its Fillmore District store open until early next year (at least).
SF News Can City Hall Get Safeway to Stick Around Longer In the Fillmore? They're Going to Try As expected, SF Supervisor Dean Preston made a move at Tuesday's Board of Supervisors meeting to begin a process of cajoling Safeway not to shutter its 40-year-old grocery store in the Fillmore District, at least not yet.
SF News Fillmore Safeway to Close to Make Way for Housing, Depriving Neighborhood of Its Only Grocery Store A long troubled but still very active and popular Safeway location in the Fillmore neighborhood is slated to close in early March, with the site being sold to a residential developer.
SF News A New Grocery Store Likely to Replace Former Safeway Near Fisherman's Wharf We have an update on the beleaguered, mostly empty NorthPoint Centre near Fisherman's Wharf, at the edge of North Beach, and its adjacent apartment complex, and it's good news for those in the neighborhood who miss having a full-service grocery store.
SF News Filipino Grocer Island Pacific Market Wants to Move in on Vacant Outer Mission Space Can Alemany Boulevard handle two specialty Asian grocery stores within a mile of each other? The Filipino grocery chain Island Pacific Market thinks so, and has submitted applications to move into a vacant spot not far from the wildly popular H Mart.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Duc Loi Supermarket, the Go-To Banh Mi Spot In the Mission, Is Closing Next Week It's your last weekend to grab a banh mi from Duc Loi at 18th and Mission, as the 36-year-old Vietnamese grocer and sandwich counter is closing up shop — though the store will continue on under new ownership.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Civic Center Whole Foods Employees Say Store Didn't Close Just Because of Crime Much like Walgreens before them, Amazon-owned Whole Foods may be scapegoating San Francisco's petty crime problem and feeding into a narrative in order to avoid talking about the economics of the store they just shut down.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Much-Delayed Hayes Valley Trader Joe's Wins Approval at Last A Trader Joe's that's been in the planning stages pretty much forever for the new building at 555 Fulton just received its final approval from the SF Planning Commission.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hayes Valley Trader Joe's Moves Ahead, But Won't Open Until Late 2022 At Earliest The Trader Joe's that nearly everyone in the Hayes Valley environs is jonesing to shop at will not become a reality until late next year or even possibly early 2023, according to a newly released timeline from the company.
SF News SF Supervisors Propose $5 Per Hour Hazard Pay Bonus For Grocery Workers, But Stores Have to Pay It It’s merely a non-binding resolution “urging” grocery stores to give their workers a $5 per hour raise, but the stores are expected to foot the bill.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Andronico's Market Coming To a Long-Ago Safeway Next To Seacliff A grocery store property in the Outer Richmond that tried to go down-market as a Fresh & Easy location a few years ago is going to pivot to an upscale clientele as Safeway plans to put an Andronico's there.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Church And Market Safeway No Longer 24-Hour Warzone, Now Closes At 1:30 A.M. This month marked the end of an era for the Church and Market Safeway, a grocery store previously open to the brave, drunk, strung out, and hungry at all hours of night. According
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trader Joe's On Market Street Opening Two Weeks Early, Next Thursday If your idea of a holiday is two buck Chuck and those TJ's ginger snap cookies, Christmas is coming early this year. Though word last month was that San Francisco'
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Market Street Trader Joe's Promises March Opening After a bout of delays put the kibosh on Trader Joe's plans to open a location at Fourth and Market Streets this October, the company appears to be back on track
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bristol Farms Calls It Quits After 10 Years At Westfield Mall High-end, SoCal-based grocer Bristol Farms, which was around for the opening of the Westfield Centre back in 2006 and has served downtown lunchers and casual dry-goods shoppers leaving Bloomingdales ever
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thanksgiving Prep: Grocery Stores With The Longest Lines, Ranked Most slacker San Franciscans still have Thanksgiving food shopping to do, and many of us who were time-wrecked by the short holiday week still haven’t even started the big grocery pilgrimage.
