Jay Barmann

One of only three three-star restaurants in San Francisco, Quince, is reopening later this month following a renovation that was billed as lasting six months, but has stretched on for nearly eleven.

The man accused in Sunday’s bizarre bomb-throwing spree and assault has been formally charged; a new mural honoring Bernal Heights native Sean Monterrosa, shot by police in 2020, is being completed for Dia de los Muertos; and a Sonoma sheriff’s deputy was reportedly exposed to fentanyl.

The Ferris wheel that’s been spinning next to Golden Gate Park’s Music Concourse for three years is relocating to the more heavily touristed Fisherman’s Wharf, and will reopen in two weeks.

SF Supervisor Dean Preston says he’s deleting his Twitter/X account, two weeks after the company’s owner, Elon Musk, tweeted that Preston should “go to prison,” becoming the latest in a string of city supervisors to leave the platform.

A longtime Italian stalwart in North Beach is calling it quits, a legendary Japanese yakitori shop is coming to Japantown, and more news from this week in the Bay Area food scene.

After a number of concerning incidents involving its autonomous vehicles getting in the way of fire engines and ambulances, Cruise announced a set of software improvements Thursday aimed at “minimizing operational impact” for emergency responders.

It was time again for the Chronicle to update their bizarrely unhelpful Top 25 Restaurants list for Fall 2023, and it remains like a less informative version of the Eater 38, but with 13 fewer restaurants, representing a region which deserves far better coverage.

An expert in receivership of large properties who’s based in Southern California has been given the go-ahead by a judge to take over the operations of the San Francisco Centre mall, formerly known as the Westfield San Francisco Centre.

A report of a man with a gun inside a Chase Bank in the NoPa neighborhood prompted SFPD officers to evacuate a Lucky supermarket Monday afternoon.

A United flight from SFO to Tel Aviv turned around mid-flight following the outbreak of attacks by Hamas; the SFPD arrested nine shoplifters in a ‘blitz’ operation at the SF Centre; and a winning $1.3M Powerball ticket was sold in San Francisco.