Business & Tech Long-Vacant Divisadero Car Wash Site Is Finally Headed for Redevelopment Construction at the long-stalled Touchless Car Wash site at Divisadero and Oak streets is set to begin later this year, as Greystar, the largest developer in the US, has acquired the project from the previous builder.
Arts & Entertainment Owner of SF’s Iconic Rooky Ricardo’s Records, Dick Vivian, Dies at Age 78 Dick Vivian, the beloved owner of Rooky Ricardo’s Records in the Lower Haight, whose easy charm and vast collection of soul 45s drew generations of customers, many of whom became lifelong friends, died Friday after a pancreatic cancer diagnosis last year.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved Lower Haight Beer Mecca Toronado Gets Sold to Regular Patron Concluding a year in which the beloved beer destination Toronado was purportedly being sold to a crypto bro who was talking about installing a roof deck, and then that sale fell through, we now have word that the bar is going into good hands.
SF News Over 7,000 PG&E Customers Lose Power Across SF Friday, Presumably Due to Heat Wave While the story is developing, PG&E shut off power for an estimated 7,400 customers in San Francisco Friday, including the beleaguered Sunset District, as the SF Emergency Management Department warned residents Thursday that SF's record-breaking heat wave could put a strain on the grid.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink That Toronado Deal Appears In Jeopardy as Staff and Patrons Balk at Potential Tech Bro Takeover It appears there was a deal moving forward to sell craft beer haven Toronado to a new owner, and that owner was even making plans to install a rooftop beer garden. But founder and longtime owner Dave Keene appears to have had second thoughts.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Jules, the Brick and Mortar Version of the Hot Pizza Pop-Up, Sets an Opening Date in the Lower Haight We finally have an opening date for Jules, after a bit of delay, in the former Iza Ramen space in the Lower Haight.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lower Haight Beer Bar Toronado Allegedly Being Sold to Crypto Guy Who Wants to Attach a Coin to the Brand There appears to be a buyer for Lower Haight beer mecca Toronado, though the deal may not have gone through yet and hasn't been confirmed by both parties.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Legendary Lower Haight Beer Mecca Toronado Is Up For Sale, Blowout Celebration Planned Next Month After 38 years of slinging "extreme" beers for a crowd of beer geeks and average beer lovers alike, the Lower Haight's Toronado is facing the end of an era and an uncertain future.
SF News Four SF Men Charged With Murder in Lower Haight June Homicide An early June shooting on the Lower Haight’s Rose Street took the life of 25-year-old Yeurra Blaylock III, but four San Francisco men have been arrested, charged, and are in custody for the killing.
SF News [Updated] Utility Worker Dies After Collapse of Trench at Oak and Divisadero Some sort of sidewalk collapse occurred Thursday morning over a utility trench near the Lower Haight neighborhood, trapping one person underground.
SF News In Escalation of AV Backlash, Black-Clad Person Seen Vandalizing Cruise Vehicle With Hammer As has become clear, autonomous vehicles are not going to be allowed to proliferate on San Francisco's streets without some kind of protest. And the latest act of protest took things to a newly aggressive level.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Cocktail Bar With Food From Nopalito Vets, Stoa, Debuts In Lower Haight A new cocktail and snack spot from a team of industry vets has just debuted in the corner space that was formerly home to Black Sands Brewery, and, briefly, Fort Point's Lower Haight outpost.
SF News Lower Haight Smells Even Worse Than Usual, Thanks to Sewer Repair Project A highly unpleasant odor is causing a stink in the Lower Haight, as a sewer repair effort permeates a chemical odor throughout the neighborhood, but the SFPUC insists there’s no public health hazard.
SF News SFPD Arrests Two in Year-Old Fatal Lower Haight Shooting, DA Abruptly Releases One of Them A case that had appeared to have gone cold has heated up for San Francisco police, as they just arrested two suspects in a June 2022 Lower Haight shooting. But DA Brooke Jenkins has released one of the suspects, “pending further investigation."
SF News SFPD Investigating Homicide In Lower Haight There was a fatal shooting Monday evening on a residential block in the Lower Haight where another fatal shooting occurred almost exactly 11 months earlier.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Stoa, a New Cocktail Bar From the Nopalito Team, Is Coming to the Lower Haight The Lower Haight has continued to be a pretty bustling neighborhood during the pandemic, and while a couple of key vacancies remain, one corner spot is set to have a new business by early next year.
SF News 35-Year-Old Restaurant Phuket Thai Closed After Building Fire; Fundraiser Launched For Displaced Tenants A major apartment building fire on Wednesday at Divisadero and Haight displaced 12 residents, some of them low-income and/or elderly — and a fundraiser has been launched to help them out. Also, the ground-floor restaurant, Phuket Thai, is likely to remain closed for a long while.
SF News SF Man Fatally Shot In Lower Haight There was a homicide Thursday night in San Francisco's Lower Haight neighborhood, and a 20-year-old man is dead.
SF News 58-Year-Old Man Arrested In Lower Haight Shooting That Left 19-Year-Old Permanently Blind The SFPD announced the arrest of a suspect in a shooting that happened Sunday night in the Lower Haight, stemming from a verbal altercation between an older man and several younger men outside of a business.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mexican Spot Otra Opens In the Lower Haight; Korean Fried Chicken Chain Bonchon Debuts at the Metreon New restaurants are opening again! This week we have news about a new modern Mexican spot from the team behind Son's Addition opening in the Lower Haight, and the debut of some new KFC (Korean fried chicken) downtown.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Maven Is Closing After Nine Good Years In the Lower Haight Chalk up another pandemic casualty in the bar and restaurant scene, and this one is going to hurt for denizens of the Lower Haight — Maven is closing on March 29.
SF News Court Clears Way for Condo Conversion on Property Where 100-Year-Old Woman was Evicted Iris Canada died at age 100 a month after her eviction in 2017, and the case that galvanized tenant activists just ended with a whimper of ‘Sure, build the condos.’
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mad Dog in the Fog Closes, Popular Quiz Night Moves to Kezar Pub Mad Dog in the Fog is closing after more than 30 years in its home at 530 Haight Street, and the owner promises that the popular sports bar will be relocating.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink State Bird Provisions Team To Open Lower Haight Vegetarian Spot The consistently successful husband-and-wife team behind State Bird Provisions and The Progress next door is expanding for the first time outside of their Fillmore environs.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rosamunde's Haight Street Space To Become a Different Sausage Shop Called Berliner Berliner Fear not, sausage fans and Toronado regulars! The shuttered Rosamunde in the Lower Haight is being taken over by a longtime Rosamunde employee and getting turned into a German sausage place.
