San Francisco – Page 7 – Capp Street Crap

Public toilet

October 9, 2014

Submitted photo: Late night potty

Shotwell slice

October 7, 2014

Unemployed. Will work for pizza.

More than year after a fire forced it to close, beloved Senegalese restaurant Little Baobab is finally on the mend. For the past three months, crews have been working to fix up the damaged space at 3376 19th St., between Mission and Capp streets. Owner Marco Senghor said he’s planning to reinvent Little Baobab as a […]

Mission Street co-working space forced to shut down

October 6, 2014

Long-established businesses aren’t the only ones having trouble on Mission Street. Found in violation of city zoning laws, co-working space 20Mission is about to power off. Downstairs neighbor to 20Mission’s so-called “hacker hotel,” the business will close Friday after the city cited it for operating an office in a space zoned for retail. Steve Lombardi, […]

Weird Fish on its way out?

October 3, 2014

It looks like the owner of a new wine bar opening in the space that used to be The Corner, at 18th and Mission streets, is also starting up a restaurant in the Dante’s Weird Fish space. According to public records, Irfan Yalcin who owns Pera in Potrero Hill, is behind both of the new places.

Someone’s in The Corner

October 3, 2014

Three years after The Corner restaurant shut down, a new wine bar is finally moving into the long vacant space. L’Emigrant, immigrant in Italian, will open at 18th and Mission streets by the end of the month, according to owner Irfan Yalcin who describes it as “the city’s most affordable wine bar.” Yalcin, who was […]

Star treatment

October 1, 2014

Once again, I find myself questioning the upgrades at Alioto Park.

Underwear everywhere

September 30, 2014

Offering compelling evidence that Mission isn’t turning into Valencia Street anytime soon, lingerie store Sin Cherry opened its shop near 17th this week. The store is pretty much directly across the street from revamped porn store Mission Secrets, which has begun selling lingerie and also has a mannequin modeling some in its front window.