I was walking by there yesterday when I heard someone say "hey did you know Cafe du Nord is closing down?" and my mind went into a gentrification black hole for the thousandth time.
So yeah, weird.
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 18:06 (seven years ago) link
reverting to their previous setup, but still under some configuration of the new ownership, is the headscratcher. I never understood their "let's make this into an upscale bar/restaurant" strategy, seemed strangely myopic about the layout and history of the place.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 18:22 (seven years ago) link
will be interested to see who does the booking and what their new setup is. Apart from having to cart gear up and down those goddamn stairs, it was def one of our favorite places to play
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 18:23 (seven years ago) link
wasn't particularly fond of it as a venue, but if SF can be plus one music venue and minus one awful upscale bar with generic ambiance and drinks/food, that's a victory.
― sarahell, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 18:36 (seven years ago) link
http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Rich-SF-residents-get-a-shock-Someone-bought-11738236.php
― 龜, Monday, 7 August 2017 17:05 (seven years ago) link
Busted a gut laughing at this line:“I was shocked to learn this could happen, and am deeply troubled that anyone would choose to take advantage of the situation and buy our street and sidewalks,”
Make that $$$$$$ Tina and Michael!!
― Fetchboy, Monday, 7 August 2017 17:22 (seven years ago) link
fkn hilarious A+ troll
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Monday, 7 August 2017 17:46 (seven years ago) link
I'm sure they'll get steamrolled by the even richer people of the HOA but it's still amazing.
― louie mensch (milo z), Monday, 7 August 2017 19:00 (seven years ago) link
I mean, I dunno, I kinda love that the tax collector's office was pretty much openly trolling the homeowners even more, they were pretty much flat out saying "Most everyone here knows how to do this and to heck with you if you can't change addresses."
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 7 August 2017 19:08 (seven years ago) link
holy crap at the final 2 paragraphs. also lol
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 7 August 2017 19:21 (seven years ago) link
Ours is a wonderful city
https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/ofc/6256376954.html
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 21:45 (seven years ago) link
idg why I'm seeing this all over the place, is the fact that there are entitled assholes here news to anybody
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 21:48 (seven years ago) link
I think for me it's the insane specificity throughout. But 'The Solution' section might be my fave.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 21:49 (seven years ago) link
(dry senses of humour need not apply)
― kinder, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 22:07 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/undefined.jpg
COME TO MY TAPE RELEASE SHOW, EVERYONE. ALSO REVIEW MY TAPE (how do ppl get stuff reviewed i so confused)
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 22:46 (seven years ago) link
WHOOPS
http://i.imgur.com/nWzvtZx.jpg
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 22:47 (seven years ago) link
Will it be an all night rave
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 23:03 (seven years ago) link
will there be psychedelic drugs
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 23:03 (seven years ago) link
no and no! short sets, and bart friendly lol.
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 23:05 (seven years ago) link
seriously though im all about short sets. no one wants to see more than 20 minutes of anything.
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 23:06 (seven years ago) link
ha I think it's within walking distance for both me n Ned
I'll see if I can get the wife to go/get babysitting
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 23:06 (seven years ago) link
Yeah for me it'll be a matter of staying awake. (Flippant but: usually out by 10 pm these days.)
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 23:08 (seven years ago) link
I'm gonna try to make it just b/c that flyer's so rad.
― Fetchboy, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 23:40 (seven years ago) link
And b/c Chaki.
― Fetchboy, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 23:41 (seven years ago) link
I think I have to work that night. :(
Who gets to clean up after MOM?
― sansa riff (sarahell), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 23:59 (seven years ago) link
Wolf Eyes tonight and tomorrow night at the peacock lounge. I'm going tonight. Looking forward to finally catching SBSM.
― Fetchboy, Thursday, 26 October 2017 03:13 (six years ago) link
What's a good place for breakfast/brunch on a Monday morning in San Francisco or Oakland?
― Moodles, Friday, 17 November 2017 06:30 (six years ago) link
Swan Oyster Depot
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 17 November 2017 07:39 (six years ago) link
Swan is great. I had a good breakfast at Plow in Potrero Hill.
― mizzell, Friday, 17 November 2017 14:18 (six years ago) link
you will wait for hours at Plow lol. just go topork store
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Friday, 17 November 2017 15:21 (six years ago) link
Pork store is good
― Οὖτις, Friday, 17 November 2017 15:26 (six years ago) link
st francis fountain my dogg
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 17 November 2017 15:29 (six years ago) link
Also good
― Οὖτις, Friday, 17 November 2017 15:37 (six years ago) link
My wife and I will be in San Francisco for a few nights this summer, late July. I hit up ILX at large for Montreal recommendations last year and it worked out really well, right down to the airbnb location, so I thought I'd do the same for SF. So ... any recommendations for neighborhoods, locations, things to be aware of when booking hotels/airbnb/etc? And obviously if someone has had a great specific experience staying at a particular airbnb, that would be super helpful as well.
It's been eons since I've been to this city, we're pretty excited.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 1 February 2018 13:56 (six years ago) link
I would stay in Castro/Duboce Triangle/Hayes Valley/Lower Haight/Western Addition area myself as it's super Central and easy to walk/bus around from and not quite as tourist-y as Union Square/North Beach/Fisherman's Wharf/etc. The city's very small and public transit even from the avenues runs pretty frequently so there are no real bad choices as far as where to stay although I'd check Google Maps to and from an address to just double-check how long it takes to get stuff you're super into.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Thursday, 1 February 2018 14:28 (six years ago) link
Thanks! The most specific recommendations I've received so far have been to a) stay in the Mission between Valencia and Guerrero and b) avoid Fisherman's Wharf. Seems like a lot of the big hotels are in ... Union Square? But I don't know if we're going the big hotel route.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 1 February 2018 14:32 (six years ago) link
Yeah, that's the big hotels and if you're not going that route or just simply don't care, don't bother. Alex in SF's recommendations are correct.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 February 2018 14:41 (six years ago) link
Muir Woods now requires parking and shuttle reservations so if you were planning on going there you'll want to reserve your spot sooner than later.
― Fetchboy, Thursday, 1 February 2018 15:19 (six years ago) link
Not positive we're going to Muir Woods, though I think we're going to take a bike tour, so that might be on the menu. The only thing for sure we have figured out (we will be making our way down the coast, more or less, beginning in Eureka through Mendocino and the Sonoma Valley) is a night tour of Alcatraz, which will sell out but which doesn't go on sale until 90 days beforehand.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 1 February 2018 15:48 (six years ago) link
We got a great deal at a boutique hotel near Market & 5th when we went back in 2016. It worked well, since it's pretty easy to get around. I recommend dinner at Nopa and getting the cioppino at Sotto Mare (not typically a seafood guy, but I loved it).
Alcatraz tour was way more fun than I expected, but make sure to book it ahead - we missed the window for getting the night tour, which would've been even cooler.
We did a day trip that started out in the morning at Muir Woods then up to Napa/Sonoma for a winery tour. Thought it worked nicely.
Other things we enjoyed:walking the Sutro Baths "ruins"SFMoMAgetting Pliny the Elder on tapCoit TowerDe Young museumAmoebea/Rasputin for record shoppingwalking by the old Aquarius locations to see the sign and weep silentlyCity Lights bookstore
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:03 (six years ago) link
oops, clearly Aquarius "location"
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:04 (six years ago) link
oh, if you go to Nopa for dinner, follow up with pies at Chile Pies Baking Co. great pies
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:15 (six years ago) link
As touristy as north beach is, Specs and Vesuvio's are both pretty great bars.
― Fetchboy, Thursday, 1 February 2018 16:58 (six years ago) link
Alcatraz is indeed worth it.
I think we're going to take a bike tour
How many miles have you got in you? There's a lot of fantastic choices.
Short: Bike across GG Bridge to Tiburon ferry dock, take ferry back (if you go in the reverse direction, there's ~250ft climb up to the bridge)Pretty long: Bike to Muir Beach and backAs long as you'd like: Bike north through Marin and Sonoma, take SMART train back (various options to get back from San Rafael)
And of course you can go east (but hot in July) or south (Hwy 1 to Santa Cruz) too.
― fajita seas, Thursday, 1 February 2018 17:13 (six years ago) link
if you find yourself in north beach tony geminani's pizza slice joint (by stockton and filbert iirc) is pretty stellar and a nice little walk to/from coit tower. also, land's end (where geary street ends at the beach), i think that's the same as the sutro bath ruins, is really nice on a warm day. and Swan's is always the bomb (cash only) for oysters, house cured salmon and other fishy delights
― freedom is not having to measure life with a ruler (outdoor_miner), Thursday, 1 February 2018 17:27 (six years ago) link
Yesterday Kate and I were at this new spot in Chinatown before a reading at City Lights:
https://chinalivesf.com/
Very self-consciously higher end than a lot of what is around it. The layout's nice and the food was excellent, so there's that.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 February 2018 17:34 (six years ago) link
Since you're starting in Eureka go to Humboldt Redwood State Park on your way south. After that, no need to go to Muir Woods.
Last time we were in the Eureka area we stayed in Trinidad, about 10 miles north of Eureka. They have a great little coastal community. Highly recommended if you want to get away from it all.
― that's not my post, Thursday, 1 February 2018 19:13 (six years ago) link
the new joint across from nopa, barvale, is p good.
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 1 February 2018 19:27 (six years ago) link
All these recommendations have been great, thanks! Keep 'em coming!
Re: the bike tour, we have pretty much a whole Saturday open, and it seems like a lot of the operators offer all sorts of options, which is great. And they promise it doesn't have to be an ordeal, if we don't want it to be.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 1 February 2018 19:42 (six years ago) link
We got a great deal at a boutique hotel near Market & 5th when we went back in 2016.
Do you remember what is was called? Maybe Hotel Zetta?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 1 February 2018 21:16 (six years ago) link