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A hyped Cake Picnic sold out in one minute. Excluded bakers are throwing their own parties.

‘It was easier to get tickets to see Taylor Swift than the Picnic’

March 12, 2025

Hedge Coffee is brewing up a cafe and roastery over on Shotwell Street

The coffee company got its start at a mobile coffee cart 10 years ago

February 28, 2025

An SF food reviewer asks: Is a place ‘worth the hype or do just white people like it?’

Amber Richele is going TikTok viral for her honest takes on San Francisco’s hottest spots

February 26, 2025

Do Park Rangers really need to be fingerprinting hot dog vendors?

Amid a terrifying national deportation crisis, San Francisco is still trying to crack down on immigrant vendors, to little avail

February 19, 2025

Saying goodbye (temporarily?) to Sam Wo, a Chinatown institution

The beloved little restaurant, which first opened around 1912, is losing its chef-owner after four decades

January 24, 2025

A humble church cookbook from Stockton defined Cantonese home cooking for a generation

The St. Mark’s cookbook, first published in 1966 to raise funds for a Methodist church in the Central Valley, remains a cult classic across California

January 14, 2025

Activist group exposes lax enforcement of animal cruelty laws at San Francisco’s live animal markets

A San Francisco Animal Care and Control representative told Gazetteer SF they don’t have the resources or authority for proactive policing

January 7, 2025

I can’t stop thinking about this local news anchor’s pizza meatloaf

KGO-TV anchor Dion Lim knows the dish she posted to Facebook doesn’t look appetizing, but says it tasted damn good

January 6, 2025

Acclaimed Hamburger Project chef steps down after haranguing influencer over TikTok review

Geoffrey Lee, the celebrated head chef of Hamburger Project, is at the center of an online firestorm after his response to a TikTok influencer’s review of the place

January 2, 2025

SF’s only Cheesecake Factory proves one thing: Union Square isn’t (quite) dead 

The masses are lining up at Macy’s to eat at a corporate franchise — and it’s almost worth the wait

December 26, 2024