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COVID Has Changed Some Customers For the Worse
Restaurant customers sure have changed over the last few months. When outdoor dining first became the new normal and restaurants could serve indoors at lower capacity levels, diners slowly ventured back out into the world, eager to eat a meal they didn’t prepare themselves and have it served by someone

Pica Pica, Our Favorite Arepas, is Closing
Another day, another small business gone. We’re highlighting Pica Pica Arepas because their arepas were delicious and their people were great. We even had them as part of our Delicious Card, I mean, how many super authentic Venezuelan eateries do we have in the city? The answer is not many,

What it’ll Be Like Attending Burning Man via Virtual Reality This Year
It’s technically been years in the making, but with only two weeks left before Burn Week it’s also time to finalize 3D models, particle effects, and interactions from dozens of theme camps participating in the BRCvr virtual world, as part of the globally-connected virtual Burning Man in 2020.

SF Board of Supervisors Intends to Create an Advisory Committee on Reparations
GUEST POST BY WESLEY WELLS We’re sitting through the San Francisco Board of Supervisors meetings and breaking them down for you so you don’t have to! Here’s the mini minutes for the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, August 18, 2020. Full minutes available right here. Video and transcript available right

Do Servers Really Spit in the Food?
One of the darkest fears in the heart of every restaurant customer is that if they send their food back to the kitchen for any reason at all, that same plate of food will eventually return to the table with a loogie that came from deep within the tortured soul

Comic Whose Mom Just Died From COVID-19 ‘Returns’ To The Bay For Zoom Comedy Show
‘Conan’ writer Laurie Kilmartin may be best known for livetweeting her mother’s dying of coronavirus in June, but this Walnut Creek native is “returning” to the Bay Area for the Thursday night, August 20 Zoom revival of Marga Gomez’ “Who’s Your Mami Comedy” show at the Brava Theater. The show

Beautiful Murals Cover Fugly Barricades At Buena Vista Cafe’s Outdoor Dining
The SF outdoor dining rules come with some pretty ugly requirements in order for the restaurants to get city approval to serve outdoors. At the famed Buena Vista cafe, credited with bringing Irish Coffee to the United States, the city required they put giant, ugly orange barricades around the seating

Broke-Ass Stuart is in Serious Trouble
We had a meeting on Friday to look over the Broke-Ass Stuart financials to see how bad they are. And WOW. They aren’t just bad, they are TERRIBLE. That’s why we’re writing to ask you to please join the Broke-Ass Stuart Patreon at $6 or above. An Inside Look at