"These quiet streets sometimes turn rowdy," reports ABC 7 correspondent Amy Hollyfield, live from the killing fields of downtown Walnut Creek. Because of some recent incidents of late-night, post-bar-hopping mayhem, including a videotaped street fight and an incident in which...
In the fanfare over Ike's redemption yesterday, we missed the fact that Planning also gave the green light to Whole Foods and that eight-story condo complex that will be housed in at Market and Dolores, on the spot of the...
Planning approved Ike's move to 3489 16th Street by a unanimous vote.
The City would now like them to get some permits.
Pending approval from the city, Ike's will move to the former Joseph Schmidt Confections space.
North Beach residents are trying to fight an effort by the restaurant Colosseo to have one of their waiters, a trained opera singer, serenade customers with some quiet, recorded orchestral backing. Neighbors say they're afraid that any permit for amplified...
Bevan Dufty was the swing vote giving the Happy Meal toy ban a veto-proof majority, and on election day he sided with the liberals on the Board of Supervisors who don't want kids getting fat just for a plastic figurine....
93 signatures later, Blue Bottle loses the stomach for the controversy.
As the Snitch reports today, Bevan Dufty will be the deciding eighth vote in tomorrow's Board of Supervisors' meeting to make the Happy Meal toy ban immune from Gavin's veto. Multiple news orgs, food franchise people, and activists have appealed...
Despite a gallant effort to overturn Gavin's veto of the proposed "drunk tax," Supervisor John Avalos failed to come up with the necessary eight votes to do so at yesterday's Board meeting. His earlier threats about getting it on the...
After losing a similar battle to fight a Happy Meal toy ban in San Jose, McDonald's allegedly buses in Chinese speakers to a public meeting.
Watch a young woman almost lose it about a proposed burger joint in her neighborhood.
The beloved, much hyped sandwich shop has to vacate by 6 a.m. tomorrow.
An angry guy in a wheelchair threatens to sue the landlord, forcing an empanada shop to close.
The uber-popular Castro sandwich shop has to relocate, and fast.
The Planning Department has suddenly discovered that Ike's Place never had a permit to sell sandwiches out of their 16th Street location.
Plus: Neighbors fight over I Tre Merli, and the future of Señor Swanky's, and more news from last night's Community Board 2 meeting.
The NIMBYs up around Valencia and 21st are still fighting the new building proposed on the site.
Meanwhile, the Boom Boom Room and Le Bain are trying to become even more exclusive.