3+ hour, 57+ min ago   (397+ words) This is part of a series called "What It's Like" where we at The Bold Italic tell you what a place in San Francisco is actually like. Based on our own experiences and those of our readers. You can practically…...

1+ hour, 33+ min ago   (518+ words) This is part of a series called "What It's Like" where we at The Bold Italic tell you what a place in San Francisco is actually like. Based on our own experiences and those of our readers. Tartine opened in…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (587+ words) This is part of a series called "What It's Like" where we at The Bold Italic tell you what a place in San Francisco is actually like. Based on our own experiences and those of our readers. Café Zoetrope began…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (577+ words) This is the first in a new series called “What It’s Like” where we at The Bold Italic tell you what a place is actually like. Based on our own experiences and those of our readers. Seventy-three years later Cinderella…...

4+ week, 6+ hour ago   (298+ words) For nearly twenty years, the little castle clinging to the side of Telegraph Hill has been one of San Francisco's most beautiful empty buildings. This September, Julius' Castle is coming back. The landmark restaurant at 1541 Montgomery Street, tucked below Coit…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (306+ words) Until a couple of weeks ago, the space at 4248 18th Street was plating Patagonian steak and house-made dulce de leche. This month, it is smashing patties on a flat-top instead. If the name rings a bell, that is by design; the…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (229+ words) The comeback is over. Park Tavern, the brasserie that has anchored the Stockton Street edge of Washington Square since 2011, with a few dramatic interruptions, announced Wednesday on Instagram that it will close permanently on June 21. "It has been our privilege…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1802+ words) San Francisco is not an ice cream town the way a place with an actual summer is an ice cream town. We eat it anyway: in the fog, in a fleece. Then we get our four real days of heat…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1399+ words) There is a specific kind of San Francisco day that only ramen can fix; the kind of foggy cold that calls for a bowl of pork-bone broth the temperature of a hot tub. I have had that day roughly four…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1880+ words) Fifty dollars doesn't go far in San Francisco. It's one cocktail at the wrong bar, four-fifths of a parking ticket, or a single entrée at a place where the chairs cost more than my rent did in 2014. So the question…...