As North Beach cruises through the end of another Indian Summer, it’s hard not to feel grateful to be here. We’ve experienced a return to form in recent days, with a flurry of new restaurant and bar openings that shows
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Through all of its ups and downs, San Francisco continues to be a food city, and there’s no sign that’s about to change. There are an awful lot of good chefs out there, and it’s been my pleasure to know
San Francisco has been a food town since its early years, and to this day it remains one of the most gastronomically obsessed cities in America. The numbers tell the story: according to the most recent estimates, San Francisco has
Everyone has an opinion about Yelp, it seems. I understand the criticism: the platform is overloaded with inane reviews, and negotiating the mudslingers definitely requires a critical eye. But there’s also a very good reason the website has remained
After a decade and a half as a North Beach resident, you can imagine I’ve seen a lot of people come and go. And in a neighborhood like ours, that of course goes for bars and restaurants as well; after
When Eduardo Bonilla opened La Fusión in San Francisco ten years ago, he was coming off a fifteen year stint at Zuni Café, Judy Rodgers’ venerated Market Street eatery. It would be his first restaurant, and here the chef
There are a lot of good things about North Beach, and as regular readers know, I spend a fair amount of time enumerating the neighborhood’s virtues here on the blog. I’ve been here for a decade and a half now,
In 2007, roughly one year after I moved to North Beach from Lower Manhattan, Sotto Mare opened its doors on Green Street. They chose a busy location, directly between the street’s two most storied watering holes, Gino & Carlo and
Every once in a while you come upon a restaurant and a chef that reminds you what it’s all about. In July, I wrote here about one such chef, the remarkable Eddy Bonilla of La Fusion, who has been
After suffering through one of our coldest summers in years, this month San Franciscans are rejoicing at the return of sunshine and warm weather. Our long-awaited Indian Summer has arrived––and for the most part, crowds seem to be following suit.