SF City Guides
Rainbow Grocery Launches Brand New Curbside Pick Up Today
Brand New, Groceries / Supermarkets, Only in San Francisco, What's Closed / What's Open Rainbow Grocery has just launched curbside pick up beginning February 22, 2021. Their curbside pickup will be available 4 days a week, Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. Rainbow Grocery’s Announcement: Here at Rainbow, we’ve been working hard to create better ways for our loyal customers to be able to shop at Rainbow while more...
Filipino Fast Food Chain Jollibee Returning to SF
Bay Area Updates, Brand New, Eat & Drink, What's Closed / What's Open San Francisco will once again have a Jollibee, the world famous fast food chain that hails from the Philippines. Its previous SF location, near Moscone Center, closed in 2011. With roughly 1,300 restaurants worldwide and over 40 in the US, the chain is famous for its unique comfort food favorites, like more...
VP Kamala Harris is Selling Her SF Condo
Bay Area Updates, Goodbye San Francisco says goodbye to its former resident, Kamala Harris. Our new United States Vice President just listed her San Francisco condo for $799,000 a little over a week ago and the sale is already pending. Her one bedroom loft apartment is the on the top floor of a boutique 8-unit building more...
SF City Hall Lit Up Red for the Mars Lander
Uplifting, Wow In honor of NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover landing 127+ million miles away, San Francisco’s City Hall lit up red yesterday. Every evening at sunset, over 220 state-of-the-art LED lighting fixtures illuminate City Hall’s exterior. Normally, a soft white glow shows off the play of light and shadow on the full façade more...
Muni Rides Now Free to SF’s Vaccination Sites
COVID-19 Updates, Vaccines Mayor London Breed Announces Free Transportation on Muni To and From COVID-19 Vaccination Sites Friday, February 19, 2021 Starting Tuesday, February 23, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency will offer free Muni trips and expanded Essential Trip Card credit for customers traveling to and from COVID-19 vaccination sites in San Francisco San Francisco, more...
SF Wants You to Join Its “Monuments & Memorials” Advisory Board
Artsy Fartsy, Brand New, Have Your Voice Heard, Only in San Francisco The San Francisco Arts Commission is seeking qualified candidates to participate in the Monuments and Memorials Advisory Committee (MMAC), a body that will host hearings with community members and establish the criteria and guidelines by which to determine the future of historic monuments in the City’s art collection. The MMAC’s charge more...
Contra Costa Now Vaccinating Essential Workers
Bay Area Updates, Brand New, COVID-19 Updates, Vaccines Contra Costa Health Services today updated its eligibility policy for COVID-19 vaccine to extend vaccination eligibility to residents who work in the education and childcare sector, food and agriculture workers, and emergency services workers as defined by California’s vaccination plan Phase 1B . Residents in these groups, as well as county more...
Highway 1’s Gorgeous Wildflower Superbloom
Outdoorsy, Wow Thanks to ABC7 for sharing that there’s beautiful wildflowers blooming along Highway 1. You can find this massive field of wildflowers blooming in Davenport, in a field that’s just south of Bonny Doon Road, north of Santa Cruz.
20% of Contra Costa County Has Been Vaccinated
Bay Area Updates, Vaccines Thanks to KRON4 for sharing the positive news that nearly one-fifth of Contra Costa County residents have been vaccinated. In addition, the COVID-19 case and test positivity rates are steadily declining, which health officials are saying, the county will likely transition from the state’s purple tier to the less restrictive red more...
SF Announces Drop-in Vaccines (No Appt. Needed)
COVID-19 Updates, Vaccines, What's Closed / What's Open Mayor London Breed announced today that San Francisco General Hospital is offering drop-in vaccinations daily for SF residents 65+ from 9am to 3pm through February 23rd with no appointment necessary. According to Mission Local, previously people eligible for walk-in vaccinations needed to live in certain zip codes. Now, all residents of more...
Feud Erupts Over SF’s Ferris Wheel Extension to 2025
What's Closed / What's Open A battle has erupted over whether or not “SkyStar,” San Francisco’s temporary 150-foot-tall observation wheel in Golden Gate Park should be granted a 4 year extension. Originally planned to last only a year in honor of the park’s 150th anniversary, the wheel sat unused for six months at the beginning of more...
SF’s 27-Year-Old Muddy’s Coffee House to Close Permanently
Goodbye, What's Closed / What's Open Thanks to Mission Local for sharing the sad news that Muddy’s Coffee House near 24th and Valencia in San Francisco has announced it is planning to close on February 25th after 27 years in business. The owners (who also run the similarly-named Muddy Waters Coffee House on Valencia and 16th which more...
Santa Clara County Expands COVID-19 Vaccines for Essential Workers
Bay Area Updates, Brand New, COVID-19 Updates, Vaccines Santa Clara County officials announced today that healthcare providers across the County will expand access to COVID-19 vaccination to workers in education and childcare, emergency services, and the food and agriculture industries, starting February 28, 2021. As vaccine access expands to these additional groups, focusing vaccination efforts on the most impacted more...
Over 4,000 No Shows at COVID Vaccine Appointments
Bay Area Updates, COVID-19 Updates, Vaccines Thanks NBC Bay Area for sharing the disappointing news that more than 4,000 people didn’t show up for the vaccination appointments in Santa Clara County this week. And unfortunately, this is a common problem. About 10% of people don’t show up to their vaccination appointments at county-run sites. This weekend was no more...
There Are Now 2,000+ Parklets in San Francisco
Bay Area Updates, City Insight, Eat & Drink, Only in San Francisco, Outdoor Dining Thanks to KTVU for sharing the news about the massive proliferation of parklets in San Francisco. There used to only be a few dozen parklets, but now there’s more than 2,000 parklets in The City with another 1,000 in the pipeline. The Director of the San Francisco Shared Spaces Program says more...
