North Beach
Did San Francisco’s Oldest Bar, The Saloon, Actually Burn Down in 1906?
The Saloon, in North Beach, is regularly touted as San Francisco’s oldest bar, dating back to 1861. While other bars were started sooner, their original buildings were destroyed during the 1906 earthquake and fire. The Saloon miraculously survived thanks to the firefighters and sailors that stretched a hose from the Bay in order to rescue the prostitutes that lived above the watering hole.
North Beach Fire Businesses Bounce Back in New Pop-Up
All of the businesses shut down by the the tragic St. Patrick’s Day North Beach fire are back, in the form of a new pop-up restaurant that’s a great way to help these displaced businesses and staff get back on their feet. It’s called Doors Open and it literally keeps
The San Francisco Beer Passport is Here!
Step into a world of adventure with the San Francisco Beer Passport. There’s no better way to explore San Francisco than to literally drink it in. This passport is amazing! Each one contains 27 coupons to buy one beer, get a second beer FREE at 27 of the finest locally
A Week of Partying to Support Those Affected by the North Beach Fire
The GoFundMe page is right here for this who can’t make it to North Beach this week. North Beach might be my favorite neighborhood. Part of this is because many of SF best bars up are up there. But I also really love it because it actually feels
The Oldest Surviving Buildings in 7 San Francisco Neighborhoods
San Francisco is an old, iron safe filled with gold, glory, disaster, and secrets. SFCentric History is a column, by SF writer V. Alexandra de F. Szoenyi, that digs in the vaults of local history and shares the sensational people, places, and things that rocked San Francisco. One of the indicators that
Lessons from the ‘Cougar Ball’ in San Francisco
Reporting from the cougar dating scene in North Beach. The dating dynamic of mature ladies mingling with younger men in San Francisco.
Artists you should know: Chris, Deanna and Mez of Tattoo Bogaloo
The reason why the sitcom Cheers became so popular was not, contrary to popular belief, Frasier’s sexy, sexy, sexy voice, but rather because it provided audiences with a fictional place where they could feel at home. This is one of the things that makes or breaks a business, and it’s
Searching for History and the Good Life at the Barbary Coast
Why, I wondered, would someone as cool as Termeh throw her goodbye party at The Barbary Coast in North Beach?
Then I got to the entrance and it sucked me in again, dammit. It gets me every time.
We Wanna Send You On A Food Tour in the Mission District!
Avital Tours offers high-end social dining experiences in San Francisco and Los Angeles for locals and travelers alike. Their walking food tours are built by locals for locals. Their goal is that someone who lives in the Mission comes on our Mission Food Tour and learns something about her own neighborhood –