It has been three months since San Francisco first enacted its stay-at-home order, and the city is now taking its first tentative steps toward reopening restaurants and cafes for sit-down service. Outdoor dining officially began as of June 12, and restaurants across town reopened patios and took over sidewalks to welcome back diners wanting to dine out. Here's a list of places with outdoor spaces in San Francisco that confirmed they'll be open for service.This list will be continuously updated as more restaurants and cafes open for outdoor dining. Not on the list? Email Food + Drinks editor...…It has been three months since San Francisco first enacted its stay-at-home order, and the city is now taking its first tentative steps toward reopening restaurants and cafes for sit-down service. Outdoor dining officially began as of June 12, and restaurants across town reopened patios and took over sidewalks to welcome back diners wanting to dine out. Here's a list of places with outdoor spaces in San Francisco that confirmed they'll be open for service.This list will be continuously updated as more restaurants and cafes open for outdoor dining. Not on the list? Email Food + Drinks editor...WW…

San Francisco’s Smuggler’s Cove has the largest rum selection in the country.It has multiple “Best Bars in America” nods from the likes of Esquire, Playboy and Food + Wine.And it has an unparalleled movie set-caliber interior filled with waterfalls, boat parts and mermaid carvings.What it doesn’t have, though, is any idea of whether it’ll ever be able to open again.“I like to think of myself as a reasonably responsible owner, but I certainly never thought I’d need 12 months of rent and to pay for the staff’s Kaiser policies for a year,” says owner Martin Cate. “I did save as much as I could...…San Francisco’s Smuggler’s Cove has the largest rum selection in the country.It has multiple “Best Bars in America” nods from the likes of Esquire, Playboy and Food + Wine.And it has an unparalleled movie set-caliber interior filled with waterfalls, boat parts and mermaid carvings.What it doesn’t have, though, is any idea of whether it’ll ever be able to open again.“I like to think of myself as a reasonably responsible owner, but I certainly never thought I’d need 12 months of rent and to pay for the staff’s Kaiser policies for a year,” says owner Martin Cate. “I did save as much as I could...WW…

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateMy fingers are bleeding. Everywhere.I’m holding my mangled hand above my heart (I read somewhere this is how you stop something from bleeding, even though it is very clearly not stopping any bleeding) with my 10-year-old daughter’s favorite sweatshirt being used as a temporary tourniquet.We’re at campsite 109 in newly reopened Big Basin Redwoods State Park, huddled together around a whimpering campfire — whimpering because I badly cut my hand while trying to split firewood that never made it into our fire ring. We peel off the...…This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateMy fingers are bleeding. Everywhere.I’m holding my mangled hand above my heart (I read somewhere this is how you stop something from bleeding, even though it is very clearly not stopping any bleeding) with my 10-year-old daughter’s favorite sweatshirt being used as a temporary tourniquet.We’re at campsite 109 in newly reopened Big Basin Redwoods State Park, huddled together around a whimpering campfire — whimpering because I badly cut my hand while trying to split firewood that never made it into our fire ring. We peel off the...WW…

ByImageCaptionCloseA 29-year resident of SF (he grew up in the Sunset after immigrating with this family from Ukraine at five years old), Konstantin Kosov has been coming to the Civic Center farmer's market for 20 years.A 29-year resident of SF (he grew up in the Sunset after immigrating with this family from Ukraine at five years old), Konstantin Kosov has been coming to the Civic Center farmer's market for 20 years.After losing 95% of his clients, San Francisco's 'Fruit Jesus' rises againBack to Gallery“Hello?”I answer the phone to the faint sound of slurping in the...…ByImageCaptionCloseA 29-year resident of SF (he grew up in the Sunset after immigrating with this family from Ukraine at five years old), Konstantin Kosov has been coming to the Civic Center farmer's market for 20 years.A 29-year resident of SF (he grew up in the Sunset after immigrating with this family from Ukraine at five years old), Konstantin Kosov has been coming to the Civic Center farmer's market for 20 years.After losing 95% of his clients, San Francisco's 'Fruit Jesus' rises againBack to Gallery“Hello?”I answer the phone to the faint sound of slurping in the...WW…

"I just want something to look forward to."That's the verbal time bomb 7-year-old Zetta Dovas left in the lap of her dad this month.And so Oakland resident Ari Dovas did what any dad would do: He tried to defuse it with a holiday - in this case, Easter. So he set out to re-create the celebration he'd done with family friends for years, using what everyone uses nowadays: Zoom.But no amount of huntable colored eggs, bunnies and computer cameras were going to erase the morose hovering over the Dovas' first-grader."I asked her, 'How was it?' and she said, 'It was a good try.' And I realized she...…"I just want something to look forward to."That's the verbal time bomb 7-year-old Zetta Dovas left in the lap of her dad this month.And so Oakland resident Ari Dovas did what any dad would do: He tried to defuse it with a holiday - in this case, Easter. So he set out to re-create the celebration he'd done with family friends for years, using what everyone uses nowadays: Zoom.But no amount of huntable colored eggs, bunnies and computer cameras were going to erase the morose hovering over the Dovas' first-grader."I asked her, 'How was it?' and she said, 'It was a good try.' And I realized she...WW…

ByImageCaptionCloseFacade of the Creamery, a restaurant and coffee shop popular with technology startup founders and venture capital investors in the South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood of San Francisco, California, October 13, 2017. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)Facade of the Creamery, a restaurant and coffee shop popular with technology startup founders and venture capital investors in the South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood of San Francisco, California, October 13,SF coffee shop and famed tech meeting hub The Creamery to close permanentlyBack to GalleryAfter 12 years...…ByImageCaptionCloseFacade of the Creamery, a restaurant and coffee shop popular with technology startup founders and venture capital investors in the South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood of San Francisco, California, October 13, 2017. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)Facade of the Creamery, a restaurant and coffee shop popular with technology startup founders and venture capital investors in the South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood of San Francisco, California, October 13,SF coffee shop and famed tech meeting hub The Creamery to close permanentlyBack to GalleryAfter 12 years...WW…

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateLana Nguyen sits in a closet in her parents’ studio apartment in the Tenderloin.She has a Zoom background of the Bay Bridge, but every time she adjusts her body, the background flickers to reveal the tight confines of the surrounding clothes on hangers.“It sounds sad, but I had to take my AP exams in my bathroom,” she says. “It was the only place with a large flat surface.”Nguyen, 17, is a low-income student at George Washington High School in San Francisco, and part of one of the groups hardest hit by Bay Area schools’ shift to...…This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateLana Nguyen sits in a closet in her parents’ studio apartment in the Tenderloin.She has a Zoom background of the Bay Bridge, but every time she adjusts her body, the background flickers to reveal the tight confines of the surrounding clothes on hangers.“It sounds sad, but I had to take my AP exams in my bathroom,” she says. “It was the only place with a large flat surface.”Nguyen, 17, is a low-income student at George Washington High School in San Francisco, and part of one of the groups hardest hit by Bay Area schools’ shift to...WW…

NBA free agency is off to a blistering start with massive extensions going out to the likes of Nikola Jokic, Ja Morant, Karl-Anthony Towns, Zion Williamson, Devin Booker, Darius Garland and Bradley Beal, plus a couple major moves — Jalen Brunson is now a Knick and John Wall is now a Clipper.But the whole of free agency seems to be waiting on one  the current Brooklyn Nets and former all-everything forward who is expected to be the crown jewel of the NBA's 2022 free agency crown., the Warriors are among the teams that have interest in Durant. But as Spears correctly notes: "So does more...…NBA free agency is off to a blistering start with massive extensions going out to the likes of Nikola Jokic, Ja Morant, Karl-Anthony Towns, Zion Williamson, Devin Booker, Darius Garland and Bradley Beal, plus a couple major moves — Jalen Brunson is now a Knick and John Wall is now a Clipper.But the whole of free agency seems to be waiting on one  the current Brooklyn Nets and former all-everything forward who is expected to be the crown jewel of the NBA's 2022 free agency crown., the Warriors are among the teams that have interest in Durant. But as Spears correctly notes: "So does more...WW…

“Where is it?”I’m in the back middle seat of an SUV — sandwiched between my two oldest daughters — ping-ponging my head between windows, scanning California’s Mojave Desert for a giant rock, not any giant rock, THE Giant Rock.The purported largest freestanding boulder in the world, Giant Rock stands seven stories tall, weighs an astonishing 30,000 tons and covers an astounding 5,800 square feet on the ground. It’s probably not actually the largest — there are some other contenders in Western Mongolia and South Africa — but it’s certainly in contention globally.Finding it shouldn’t be hard,...…“Where is it?”I’m in the back middle seat of an SUV — sandwiched between my two oldest daughters — ping-ponging my head between windows, scanning California’s Mojave Desert for a giant rock, not any giant rock, THE Giant Rock.The purported largest freestanding boulder in the world, Giant Rock stands seven stories tall, weighs an astonishing 30,000 tons and covers an astounding 5,800 square feet on the ground. It’s probably not actually the largest — there are some other contenders in Western Mongolia and South Africa — but it’s certainly in contention globally.Finding it shouldn’t be hard,...WW…

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateCarlotta Brown was 43 years old the first time she stepped foot on a golf course.The year was 2007. The course was Lake Chabot, a quirky 27-hole muni in the Oakland hills.She showed up to the course at 9:30 a.m., and then basically never left. For the past 14 years, she’s spent five days a week there, and never once has she hit a golf ball. “All the throwing clubs, missing the ball, hooting and hollering, it’s not for me,” she says.But she's still very much part of the Lake Chabot experience.“She is part of the heart and soul of...…This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateCarlotta Brown was 43 years old the first time she stepped foot on a golf course.The year was 2007. The course was Lake Chabot, a quirky 27-hole muni in the Oakland hills.She showed up to the course at 9:30 a.m., and then basically never left. For the past 14 years, she’s spent five days a week there, and never once has she hit a golf ball. “All the throwing clubs, missing the ball, hooting and hollering, it’s not for me,” she says.But she's still very much part of the Lake Chabot experience.“She is part of the heart and soul of...WW…