There are new parklets springing up all over the city this summer.  Small businesses from restaurants to art galleries are putting up seating areas outside in order to more safely serve the public. For general information about how to erect a parklet safely, and who to contact ect, check out

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

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,

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

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

Yo, still looking for ticks bro? We got the most expensive, fakest tickest to Burning Man you’ve ever seen.

For over 30 years Slim’s hosted live music from every genre in San Francisco.  Punk, rock, R&B, to blues, jazz, folk, and rap performers played this SOMA institution.  It shut forever in March.  And now, perhaps as a sign of the times, Slim’s was bought by San Jose club owners

For decades, customers have been spoon-fed the notion that no matter how ridiculous their request is or how absurd their complaint might be, the customer is always right. They’ve seen the slogan on signs in restaurants and at businesses and there is probably someone, somewhere who has the immortal catchphrase