SF City Guides
Hyped-Up Vegan McDonald’s Knock-Off Coming to SF
Brand New, Eat & Drink, San Francisco Mr.Charlie’s, an all-vegan fast food restaurant, that’s gone viral for its spoof of McDonald’s, is opening up in San Francisco – and seems to be begging to be sued by McDonald’s. The cheeky plant-based Impossible burger joint uses McDonald’s iconic red and yellow colors, and offers up a “Frowny Meal.” The restaurant, Mr.Charlie’s more...
Dungeness Crab Season Finally Opens on New Year’s Eve
Bay Area Updates, Eat & Drink The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) will open the commercial Dungeness crab fishery statewide on Dec. 31, 2022. Fishing Zones 3-6 (all areas south of the Sonoma/Mendocino county line) will open under a 50 percent trap reduction on Dec. 31, 2022 at 12:01 a.m., with a 64-hour gear more...
New “Slim Silhouette” Trash Cans Coming to SF
Brand New, San Francisco San Francisco Public Works recently announced the selection of the durable, tamper-resistant and easy-to-clean “Slim Silhouette” model as the City’s preferred new public trash can design. The Slim Silhouette design was one of six trash cans that was publicly tested this past summer. Three of the tested models, including Slim Silhouette, more...
Huge Private Property on Bay Area Coast to Become Public Park
Outdoorsy At a public meeting in Pescadero on December 10, the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District (Midpen) board of directors approved the purchase of 6,300 acres of the Cloverdale Ranch in San Mateo County from Peninsula Open Space Trust. The purchase is the single largest for Midpen in its 50-year history, and preserves nearly 10-square more...
Iconic SF Park Gets Fresh New Grass for 2023 Picnics
Bay Area Favorites, Outdoorsy, Parks & Beaches, San Francisco Yerba Buena Gardens is installing brand new grass that will be ready for picnics in the new year. Yerba Buena Gardens shared on Instagram, “Fresh sod has been rolled in and the lawn is now closed as we … watch the grass grow. 🍃 We anticipate the lawn will be established more...
Check Out SF’s Tiniest Christmas House
Adorable, Christmas Tucked away in the San Francisco Main Library is The City’s tiniest Christmas House. You’ll find this itsy bitsy living room decked out for the holidays in the SF History Center’s reading room on the 6th Floor of the Main Library (100 Larkin St #6). It’ll be on display through January more...
SF Chinatown’s Firecrackers & Lion Dancing Every Saturday
Celebrations, Fun & Games, San Francisco San Francisco Chinatown is celebrating every Saturday with firecrackers and lion dancing. Hundreds of firecrackers will be set off at 3 pm in front of The Wok Shop, at 718 Grant Ave, San Francisco, along with a lively lion dance. And yes, they’ll be hosting this event even on the Christmas more...
Oakland’s Starline Social Club Closing Down
East Bay, Goodbye, Oakland Unfortunately, Oakland’s Starline Social Club has announced it is closing. The club took to Instagram to announce that the club is going up for sale and will cease operations on January 1 after their last show on New Year’s Eve. Thanks to KQED for sharing the news about the final hurrah will more...
Check Out 20+ SF Fire Stations Decked Out for the Holidays for 2022
Holiday Lights, San Francisco San Francisco Fire announces the 3rd annual Fire Station Community Holiday Decorations Competition for 2022. During the 1940s, stations would compete for the best decorations and best-decorated stations for the Holiday seasons. This tradition was lost in the 1950s, and last year we brought it back. Firefighters and their respective stations more...
SF Chinatown’s 1st Holiday Light Festival
San Francisco For the first time, San Francisco Chinatown is lit up for the holidays. Chinatown is hosting its first-ever Holiday Light Festival through the end of the year. When the initial idea was kicked around, it was going to be a low-key holiday lane with 20-30 businesses participating, but now over 200 Chinatown businesses more...
SF’s New Central Subway (Supposedly) Will Get High-Speed 5G
Brand New, San Francisco, Transportation San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), and Mobilitie, the leading wireless infrastructure provider in the United States, recently announced they will bring wireless connectivity to the Central Subway system in time for its grand debut in January 2023. Passengers of the highly anticipated Central Subway will have unlimited access to ultra-fast more...
Sneak Peek Inside SF’s Famous Storybook Christmas House
Bay Area Favorites, Christmas, San Francisco You may have seen Caleb Simpson‘s famous house tour videos on Tik Tok and Instagram. He makes MTV Cribs-style videos for this generation. Normally, his videos feature apartments in New York from everyday people to designers to celebrities, but now the content creator has popped up in San Francisco. In this more...
SF Getting Rid of 1,000+ Parking Spaces in 2023
San Francisco, Transportation Thanks to ABC7 for letting us know that due to new SFMTA Bus Stop Guidelines that the city will be removing approximately 1,200 parking spaces to help make it easier and safer for people to board Muni buses, especially those with mobility issues. The new guidelines, which were approved by the more...
SF’s 117-Year-Old Bar “Savoy Tivoli” Reopens After 4 Years
Bars, Reopening, San Francisco, Sponsored After a four year closure, the historic 117-year-old open-air bar, Savoy Tivoli of North Beach, will finally officially re-open on Thursday, Dec 15, 2022. In 2018, The Savoy was forced to close while the building that houses it underwent a city mandated earthquake retrofit. Prior to that, the Savoy had been more...
Huge End-of-2022 Craft Market at Hangar 1’s Alameda Distillery
Holidays, Sponsored On the third Sunday of each month from 11a-5p, enjoy browsing through Head West Marketplace’s 100+ local craft and plant merchants at Hangar 1 Vodka’s Alameda distillery, which is a converted WWII-era airplane hangar. This Sunday (December 18th) it’s your prefect chance to pick up last minute gifts from local more...
