Category: Bars
Changes to the menu: Bender’s now home to rotating Sunday pop-ups
June 8, 2016
UPDATE 3:30 P.M. : A reader informs me that Mad’Mzelles Poutine has been a pop-up regular at Bender’s in the past and is “really good” to boot. ORIGINAL POST: Bender’s Bar and Grill, South Van Ness’ go-to source for a boozy meal, is now home to a rotating series of Sunday pop-up restaurants. One of […]
‘Evil Eye’ opens today
June 2, 2016
Evil Eye, the new Mission Street bar and restaurant that took over the short-lived Coco Frio spot, officially opens today. I stopped by with friends for Evil Eye’s soft opening last night, had some tasty drinks and snacks and loved the cozy vibe, complete with 1970s vintage furniture. One of my friends said it reminded […]
‘Evil Eye’ to open on Mission Street
April 26, 2016
The former Coco Frio isn’t sitting cold for long. Soluna partner Matt Norris is opening a “cocktail-driven” restaurant and bar called Evil Eye in the Caribbean eatery’s old space near 25th and Mission Streets, possibly as early as the end of May. Norris, who was also Soluna’s former bar manager and a partner at the […]
Armed robbers target Mission bar (updated)
April 18, 2016
UPDATE 4/19: While the men responsible for a takeover style robbery of the Rite Spot Café on Friday night also wore ski masks, they have not been linked to similar robberies last month in Noe Valley, police said. Armed robbers wearing ski masks held up a bar on the 1600 block of Dolores Street on […]
Hangover helper: Bender’s boozy brunch debuts Sunday
March 31, 2016
To the disappointment of many, though apparently not the fire department, Bender’s Bar and Grill, at 19th and South Van Ness, recently ended a decade-long run of serving up free burgers on its back patio on Sundays. Weekend patrons won’t go hungry for long, though. This Sunday marks the debut of “Bartender’s Breakfast,” the new […]
Burger bummer: Bender’s ending free Sunday barbecues (updated)
March 17, 2016
UPDATE 3/18/16: Johnny Davis, one of the partners at Bender’s, told me that while pressure from the fire department was a factor in the decision to scrap the bar’s Sunday barbecues after 12 years, it wasn’t the only reason. In an email, Davis wrote that the folks who run the bar’s kitchen as Counter Offer […]
‘Wildhawk’ sign up outside the former Lexington Club
March 16, 2016
UPDATE 3/21/16: A spokeswoman for PlumpJack said the scheduled opening date for the bar is Wednesday, April 6, not March 23, the date listed on Wildhawk’s Yelp page. ORIGINAL POST: Wildhawk has come to roost – well, its sign at least. Friend of Capp Street Crap Jeff passed along this photo taken outside the cocktail […]
Bar done: El Tin Tan is closed
February 11, 2016
El Tin Tan, the last old school Latino bar in the neighborhood west of Mission Street, has closed. A walk by the 16th Street bar Wednesday evening found signs removed, the door locked and an Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control notice for change of ownership in a front window. It’s unclear what the new owners […]
Take this Wooden Nickel
January 12, 2016
The Wooden Nickel wants to be the neighborhood’s living room. The Mission’s newest bar celebrated its soft opening last weekend in the former Truck spot at 15th and Folsom streets, despite some finishing touches still left to be done and a sign yet to be hung out front. Even so, its transition from a themed […]
No last call for Mission Bar
December 26, 2015
Lovers of stiff drinks with no pretense rejoice: neighborhood staple Mission Bar is safe for the foreseeable future. Laura Callahan, who owns the 2695 Mission St. dive bar, told Capp Street Crap that she signed a 10-year lease with her landlord in October with the option to renew. Concerned she might have to move her […]