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Polk Street Bans New Bars; Willie Brown Likes South
Polk Gulch: Yesterday the Board of Supes voted unanimously in favor of a neighborhood moratorium on new bars on Polk Street between O'Farrell and California Streets. [SF Appeal] Westfield: The Creme Brulee Cart's fourth outpost, at the Westfield Centre, is...
Willie Brown Says Healthy S.F. Violators Should Just Negotiate With Herrera
He says they should come clean and not pay for lawyers.
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Tonga Room Hosts MC Hammer’s Birthday, and Willie Brown Was There
Hammer still has at least 300 friends.
Subway Nixes Five-Dollar Footlong Deal In S.F.
The chain cites the higher cost of doing business in S.F. as the reason they can't participate in the promotion.
‘Old San Francisco’ Is Dining at Original Joe’s In Droves
Willie Brown says the crowd is '75 percent [native] San Franciscans.'
Gold Dust Lounge Does Not Quite Get Reprieve from Preservationists, But the Fight Is Far From Over
Now Willie Brown's come out with some fightin' words for the landlords!
Crashing Ed Lee’s Inauguration Dinner; Store-Bought Orange Juice Full of Fungicide
• The amusing story of SFist's Andrew Dalton attempting to crash Willie Brown's post-inauguration dinner for Ed Lee over the weekend (here's a review of buffet items from the morning affair), and failing to find out what, if any, Brown's...
Former S.F. Mayor Given Particularly Crappy Table at New York Restaurant
A man generally accustomed to wide berths and VIP treatment gets shafted at Scalinatella in midtown.
Willie Brown Takes Villaraigosa to Dinner; Thomas Keller on Sous-Vide
Apparently, our mayor has an appetite for "extreme" eating.
Willie Brown Encourages Wolfgang Puck to Take Postrio Space
Da former Mayor tells the chef he should open up one of his Cut steakhouses there.
Willie Brown Doesn’t Recognize Valencia Street, Calls Locanda and Atelier Crenn ‘Winners’
He compares Crenn to Gary Danko and Quince.
Willie Brown Urges Race-Blind Tasting of Fried Chicken
Remarkably, he says, the white chefs' chicken he tried was just as good as the African American chefs' chicken.
Willie Brown Doesn’t Always Tip
A "very well-known man-about-town" who sounds like Willie Brown neglected to tip a staffer at a "restaurant near the Ferry Building" that sounds like One Market when said staffer returned to him his fedora. "With Earth Day on the way,...
Willie Brown Demands Large-Typeface Menus, No More Amuse-Bouches
"Some time ago I raised questions about the testing that goes on with the so-called little treats that restaurants send out. Please give me the option to say yes or no before you show up with them."
Chef Loses It On Willie Brown
"Pay [for] somebody's dinner because the reso is late? Do you get [a] free ticket when your flight is delayed?"
Willie Brown Can’t Get Enough of Bourbon Steak; Reidinger Likes the ‘Kitschy Drama’ of Miss SaiGon; Kauffman Loves Haltun
Haltun, which opened in May, is apparently pretty good.
Willie Brown Files Unofficial Review of Tres Agaves, and It’s Bad
"If you go to Tres Agaves, stay in the bar. Eat the chips and guacamole, drink the margaritas, and say you’re on a diet."