Meet Our Local Food & Wine Magazine-Named Best New Chefs for 2013
It's awards season in the food world, and following on the recent announcement of the finalists for this year's James Beard Awards, we get news today from Food & Wine about the local honorees in...
View ArticleSpringtime for Art: Four Gallery Shows to See
It certainly feels like spring in the SF art world this week, with internationally renowned color fiend Markus Linnenbrink showing a brilliant batch of new work at Patricia Sweetow Gallery, and...
View ArticleDrink Here Now: 5 Places to Sip This Week
1) I Can Has Beer?Yes, you can have free beer, this Wednesday, with #KittenCamp at Butter. At 6:30pm, the #KittenCamp crew will kick off the final stage of their US tour, bringing this popular UK bar...
View Article15 Minutes with Haven's Kim Alter
How well can you get to know a chef in just fifteen minutes? Kim Alter, executive chef at Haven, in Oakland’s Jack London Square, has had a busy day—and dinner service hasn’t even started yet. Between...
View ArticleTwo Sense: Should I Sleep with My Boss?
I work at a small startup here in the city, just five of us slaving away to build a site and eventually make some money. We're all in our twenties and early thirties and it's more like a group of...
View ArticleTreat Yourself to One of the Largest Selections of Fine, Hand Rolled Cigars...
There are only a select few things on Earth that are unquestionably the best of their kind. A Habano–or Cuban cigar–is one of those things. What makes Cubans the creme de la creme of the cigar...
View ArticleThe Weeknighter: Lucky 13
Weekends are for amateurs. Weeknights are for pros. That's why each week Stuart Schuffman will be exploring a different San Francisco bar, giving you the lowdown on how and where to do your weeknight...
View ArticleOakland Trendsetter Sherri McMullen On Life and Style Across the Bay
Sherri McMullen is the owner and tastemaker of McMullen. Since she first opened her shop in 2007, Sherri has moved up from the original Piedmont Avenue space to the store's current airy and...
View ArticleScenes of the City: Succulence Life and Garden Store
In the Bernal Heights along Cortland Avenue, you'll find the new Succulence: Life and and Garden store. Once housed in the back of Four Star Video, the video store has since closed to make way for the...
View ArticleRuti Clothing Boutique Blends Rough and Sleek in SF
Originally published on CaliforniaHomeDesign.comThe concept of Ruti was born when stylist Ruti Zisser found that the emerging brands she bought in droves in Tel Aviv weren’t available in the United...
View ArticleHave a Ball In Wine Country! Bocce Ball, That Is
There’s nothing wrong with an impromptu springtime trip to Wine Country. Roaming around without a plan has its rewards, but there are days when you just feel more like hanging out somewhere for a...
View ArticleSecret Recipe: Nopalito's Fried Garbanzo Beans
7x7 asks the city's chefs for the recipes to their most loved cocktails, bar snacks, starters, mains, and desserts. If there's a dish you can't stop thinking about and want to make at home, email...
View ArticleStripe is the Payment System Under the Hood at Lots of Your Favorite Sites...
Over the past year, when I’ve asked many of the startups I’ve covered– including SideCar, Postmates, Shoptiques, Exec, and Lyft–how they integrated a payment system into their sites and apps, they’ve...
View ArticleSpring Bling for You and Your Bike
There’s no reason that your Easter bonnet, big wheel or Hunky Jesus outfit should be the only color this spring. Give your bike some bright bling this season—it’ll make your ride more fun, make you...
View ArticleA Primer on SF's Apéritif Cocktails
As the Bay Area experiments the world's different culinary scenes and cultures, more and more of us are eating and drinking like Europeans. We snack on paté, cheeses, and little fried delicacies before...
View ArticleLook of the Week: The New Boat Shoe
Guys, thess are not your typical boat shoes.Once defined by water-repellent leather, non-slip rubber soles and moccasin-toe construction, the modern boat shoe has all the right lines, but with new...
View ArticleWe Wanna Be Friends With: Broke-Ass Stuart
Our city is chock-full of interesting people and wild personalities. Overwhelmed by the coolness? Every week we'll pick one standout local we'd love to be friends with to answer seven essential...
View ArticleYou're Invited: Reed & Greenough's Giants Viewing Happy Hour
Join 7x7 at a special game viewing party to check out one of the season's first home games, at one of San Francisco's new classic venues!We'll have fantastic specially-priced drinks with Finlandia...
View ArticleThe Bay Area's Newest Artists' Retreat
High in the Santa Cruz Mountains, above a former cattle ranch in Woodside, four modular cabins stand on the edge of the Pacific, appearing to have been dropped onto the coastline by intergalactic...
View ArticleThe Many Colors of City Hall
Depending on the time of year, City Hall is bathed in a variety of different colored lights for numerous special occasions, with some colors being more obvious than others.The orange glow for our World...
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