Eat & Drink

The Do’s and Don’ts of New Year’s Eve in a Restaurant
For better or for worse, we’ve made it through another year. In just a few short days, the dumpster fire of 2022 will be in our collective rearview mirrors and we’ll have a shiny new year ahead of us. Twelve months from now we’ll call 2023 a dumpster fire too,

Le Marais Bakery in the Castro Robbed and Vandalized
One of San Francisco’s best French bakeries was broken into and vandalized on Monday evening. Even their industrial safe was stolen! As a result of this, they are calling upon local and state leaders to step up and fix San Francisco’s property crime issues. According to their Instagram post: “They took

Appease Visiting Tourists With This 1-Day Drive Through San Francisco
I’m sure I’m not the only one that dreads having to accompany visiting friends and family to all of the San Francisco tourist-y destinations. I figured out a solve though. Having lived here for most of my life, I’ve developed the perfect 1-Day Driving Tour of The City with short

This Is What Your Food Delivery Person Wants You to Know
Whether you use Uber Eats, Seamless, DoorDash, or the Pony Express, food delivery apps are as common as a cold. Every time you log in to your app of choice for some Pad Thai or a burrito, that means someone will soon be knocking on your door to satiate your

Oakland’s Starline Social Club is Closing
One of Oakland’s coolest venues has announced that it is closing down. On Saturday, Starline Social Club posted to its 21,000 Instagram followers that January 1st would be its final day. As they said in the post,”We are sad to announce that Starline Social Club is going up for sale and

This is What Servers Want For the Holidays
What your server actually wants for the holidays.

San Francisco’s Love Affair With Fernet & Why
In nearly a decade of bartending all over San Francisco, I’ve had my fair share and then some.
And for many who work behind the bar in this town, it is often the shot of choice. Fernet delivers a punch of complex flavor as an invigorating stimulus in an over-stimulated environment.

How Inflation has Impacted Cost of Basic Goods in US
For 25 basic grocery items, current and historical data was collected using Keepa, which monitors the price of nearly 1 billion products on Amazon in the U.S. Pricing data was collected for Nov. 18, 2021, and compared to the price of the same item on Nov. 18, 2022.