SF’s Foreign Cinema paid over $230K for violating health care mandate

San Francisco restaurant Foreign Cinema agreed to pay over $220,000 in restitution to workers, along with fines, for failing to meet the city’s expenditure requirement on health care. Blair Heagerty / SFGATE Popular San Francisco restaurant Foreign Cinema has agreed to pay over $220,000 in restitution to workers, along with fines, over allegations that it failed to … Read more

The San Francisco pro-yuppie prank that tricked the entire city

FILE: Protesters, police, and journalists thought the Mission District’s Dolores Park was meant to be the site of a pro-yuppie rally on June 7, 1999. Nobody on the yuppies’ side showed up. Anadolu/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images In June 1999, 200 protesters flocked to San Francisco’s Dolores Park to protest a “Stop the Hate” rally… … Read more

Rosamunde defies troubled history, announces reopening

Though it’s not very often that you hear about a positive “surprise turn of events” in the Bay Area’s post-pandemic restaurant scene, one classic outpost in the Mission District is slated to challenge the status quo and rise from the dead.  Rosamunde Sausage Grill, a decades-old German sausage house in San Francisco, originally planned on … Read more