SF News Grocery Outlet Opens In North Beach at Former Safeway Site as Chain Celebrates 80 Years Grocery Outlet opened its newest San Francisco location Thursday on the edge of North Beach and Fisherman’s Wharf, ahead of the company’s 80th anniversary this weekend.
SF News Homeless Man Allegedly Struck and Critically Injured By Off-Duty SFPD Officer Driving In North Beach A homeless man was reportedly struck and badly injured by a vehicle Monday morning in an alleyway behind the SFPD's Central Station in North Beach, and the driver was allegedly an off-duty SFPD officer.
Arts & Entertainment Verdi Building Demolition In North Beach Reveals Long-Hidden ‘Ghost Sign’ From Over 100 Years Ago SF’s map of “ghost signs” recently gained a new addition following the partial demolition of the Verdi building in North Beach, which revealed a large, hand-painted ad for “Carnation Mush” dating back to at least 1914.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Year and a Half After Reopening, Park Tavern Is Closing For Good It's always sad when a bustling restaurant that felt like it had been there forever loses its mojo and withers away. But that was the case for North Beach's Park Tavern, not just once, but twice.
SF News Prominent North Beach Eyesore, the Verdi Building, Cleared for Partial Demolition A burned-out and long-blighted property facing Washington Square Park in North Beach is finally going to see a partial demolition and redevelopment, following an appeal from a single North Beach resident.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Original Joe's Needs to Stop Having Fires. North Beach Location Suffers Small Kitchen Fire Original Joe's really needs to beef up its fire insurance and clean its kitchen flues. The flagship location in North Beach, which moved there after its original location burned down, suffered a small fire on Wednesday night — the owners' third fire in 20 years.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: SF Firefighters Put Out Roof Fire North Beach SFFD firefighters quickly extinguished a fire on Green Street in North Beach Monday evening; a massage therapist in San Mateo County was arrested for sexual battery; and a longtime KTVU anchor is departing.
SF News Coyote Seen Lounging on Rooftop In North Beach North Beach residents spotted a sleepy coyote enjoying the view on a rooftop last week, and it was long gone when Animal Control officers arrived at the scene.
SF News Supes Veto Appeal to Legalize $5M North Beach Mansion Illegally Converted From Four Units The SF Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to reject an appeal to retroactively legalize a $5 million North Beach single-family home that was illegally converted from four rent-controlled units by a previous owner.
SF News Drivers Arrested In Separate Collisions That Killed Toddler In Mission Bay, Man In North Beach SFPD announced Friday that officers arrested a Walnut Creek driver suspected of fatally striking a two-year-old in Mission Bay in late February, as well as a driver from Mountain View accused of killing a man in North Beach in early March.
SF News $5M Dream Home In North Beach Was Illegally Converted From Four Units; Board of Supes to Decide Its Fate A family thought they had found a dream property in North Beach, a rare single-family home with a roof deck and four spacious bedrooms. But somewhere in its last couple of renovations, a previous owner did something they shouldn't have.
SF News Pedestrian Killed, Scooter Rider Injured In Collision With Vehicle In North Beach One person is dead and another was injured in a collision between a vehicle and both a pedestrian and an electric scooter Thursday night in North Beach.
SF News SF Firefighters Rescue Injured Woman From Hoarder Apartment Fire In North Beach A woman reportedly suffered severe burns and was hospitalized after a fire broke out in her overstuffed, single-room occupancy apartment unit in North Beach on Tuesday.
SF News Extension of Central Subway to Fisherman’s Wharf Gets Its First City Hall Hearing Supervisor Danny Sauter is trying to resurrect the old idea of extending the Central Subway out to North Beach and Fisherman’s Wharf, but officials realize there’s no way this gets funded while Trump is still president.
SF News There’s Suddenly Talk of Extending the Central Subway to Fisherman’s Wharf, Despite Muni’s Gigantic Deficit Who’s got the appetite for another billion-dollar transit overhaul that would tear up North Beach and Fisherman’s Wharf with construction for years on end? Because the push to add more stops to the Central Subway begins today.
SF News Saturday Links: ‘Pizza Box’ Trash Cans Launch in North Beach, Rest of SF Still Awaiting Actual Trash Cans Legendary 49ers quarterback John Brodie, who played with the team a record-breaking 17 seasons, died at age 90; the White House posted a doctored image to social media of a Minnesota protester crying; and North Beach launched some special "pizza box" trash cans.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved North Beach Soufflé Restaurant Café Jacqueline Closes After 46 Years A full-throated "Noooo!" is being shouted around San Francisco today by anyone who knew and loved Café Jacqueline, because the stalwart, soufflé-focused restaurant has closed for good.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Caffe Trieste Co-Founder Ida Giotta Has Died at Age 101 The first espresso house on the West Coast, North Beach's Caffe Trieste, has lost its grande dame. The cafe’s co-founder Ida Giotta recently passed away, barely a month after her 101st birthday.
Arts & Entertainment North Beach Building Owned for Over 50 Years By Francis Ford Coppola Put Up as Collateral A striking, flatiron-shaped building in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood, owned since 1973 by filmmaker and winery owner Francis Ford Coppola, has been put up for collateral on a loan as Coppola continues weathering the financial fallout from his flop passion project 'Megalopolis.'
SF News Day Around the Bay: Apartment Fire Erupts in SF’s North Beach, Quickly Contained by SFFD Surfers were met with 40-foot waves on the opening day of surf season in Mavericks, California; take part in a hyphy video shoot at Powell Station Saturday; and no injuries were reported after an apartment fire in North Beach Friday.
SF News Update: Supervisors Pass North Beach Zoning Changes That Have Neighborhood Small Businesses Up in Arms North Beach’s supervisor Danny Sauter just passed legislation allowing storefronts to merge in that neighborhood, supposedly to fight vacancies. Business owners wonder what he’s talking about, pointing out one of the city’s lowest vacancy rates.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Group Behind Bourbon & Branch and Rickhouse Opens New Bar With Rotating Globally Inspired Menus A new cocktail destination debuts in North Beach today called Long Weekend, and its menu and decor will change on a rotating basis, focusing on a single global city at a time.
Arts & Entertainment Legendary North Beach Punk Venue Mabuhay Gardens Could Possibly Reopen A building that has been home to a generic nightclub and venue for years, but which was once home to the local epicenter of the Bay Area punk scene, is back in play with a group of investors looking to revive it as a music venue.
Arts & Entertainment Field Notes: Recology AIR 35th, Aquatic Park Doc, Rodin with Pipe Organ, and Teen Chase Film In this week’s Field Notes: a live pipe organ at Legion of Honor, stone legacy in Mill Valley, Recology’s Artist in Residence exhibit, and an Aquatic Park doc. Also: Amy Tan with Christian Cooper, teen film 'The Jar', and Sacramento’s music archive.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco Republicans Celebrate Trump Victory at North Beach Restaurant Known For Hosting Anti-Trans Event A small cabal of proud Republicans in San Francisco gathered Tuesday night at American Bites, a restaurant in North Beach that last year hosted a bizarre and hateful anti-trans dinner event.
