Tillage, a coworking space, is nearing its 11th month operating in the Inner Sunset District.
Tillage Coworking Creates Community Among Remote Workers
Everything Nice: A Warm Welcome on Taraval
Taraval Street has always matched the energy from the people who live around it – bakeries and coffee counters open early, and this stretch of Parkside keeps a slower pace than much of the City. Among the longtime neighborhood favorites, enters the newest arrival: Welcome Coffee & Goods, which found its home at 425 Taraval St., near 14th Avenue. The shop is both a place to order a coffee and a place to dig through the racks for vintage clothing. As the sign outside states, “Come for the coffee, stay for the goods.”
Surfers Shane Curnyn and Josh Lowe Co-Create Juniper Architecture
Shane Curnyn and Josh Lowe left the East Coast separately, chasing the same vision: a city dense enough to support an architecture practice and an ocean close enough to surf before work. Fifteen years after founding Juniper Architecture, the two principals run their firm in a former motorcycle repair shop on Balboa Street, blocks away from their favorite surf spot near the Cliff House.
From Coffee to Pizza and Cocktails, DAMNFiNE Pizza ‘Feels like San Francisco’
Along Judah Street in the Outer Sunset, steps away from the ocean, lies an unassuming establishment near the corner of 39th Avenue. This cozy spot has been a fan favorite to locals in the Sunset District since it first opened five years ago.
My Tofu House Closes its Doors After Nearly 25 Years
My Tofu House, the restaurant at 4627 Geary Blvd. between 10th and 11th avenues, closed after nearly 25 years, with its final day of service on Aug. 3. It was the only restaurant in San Francisco that specialized in sundubu-jjigae, a traditional Korean stew made with soft tofu.
Quality Ingredients and Childhood Joy Meet at CSK Kitchen
Chikako Kuramoto’s mother packed her a bento box every morning, kindergarten through high school, on a street of small family-run shops in Mitaka, a suburb of Tokyo, where everyone knew each other.
Beauty Network Celebrates 40 Years on Geary Boulevard
In a time where big corporations are the immediate answer for aesthetic needs, Shlomit and David Heller keep things local with the Beauty Network. The two have been providing beauty services for the past 40 years and continue to offer guidance to those who inquire.
Ocean Indian’s New Chef Combines the Traditional and Unexpected
For the past 35 years, a beloved Indian restaurant has stood at 6127 Geary Blvd. between 25th and 26th avenues. Now, under new and changing leadership, Ocean Indian Cuisine is beginning a gradual transformation, one menu item at a time.
Frank McGinn’s Amazing Fantasy Keeps Love for Comics Alive
When Frank McGinn opened Amazing Fantasy in August 2000, he thought it would take weeks of painting, cleaning and stocking before the comics shop would open. But on the Sunday he took possession of the storefront, Irving Street neighbors poked their heads in to see what was replacing the old Comics and Comix location. They immediately dove into to help: cleaning and painting, whatever it took. One neighbor brought his truck to take away loads of rubbish. On the following Saturday, the shop opened. Community, it seems, has always mattered here.
Richmond Baker Combines Science and Passion in Cottage Bakery
Valeriya Romashchenko opened Cuprum Bakery in 2024, offering sourdough and other baked goods produced in her home kitchen in the Inner Richmond. The popularity of Romashchenko’s cottage bakery, like her sourdough bread, is rising in the Richmond District and beyond.
Backyard Baking: The Latest Culinary Trend in the Richmond District
Walk up to a plum-colored house, just steps away from Golden Gate Park and you will find fresh sourdough bread stacked neatly on a white rack on the stoop, waiting to be bought. Here is where Inna Pak, a Richmond resident and full-time mom, operates her new microbakery, Plum Perfect.
Constance Tea & Matcha Brings a Taste of Japan to the Richmond
Instead of waiting for their orders by the pick-up counter, customers of Constance Tea & Matcha often flock to the back of the studio, where three granite stone mills are actively grinding tencha leaves into the fine green powder that will fill their drinks. At most cafes in the U.S., this step is done thousands of miles away, but at Constance, it happens just 20 feet from the register.
Clement Street Restaurateur Says a Racist Attack is Why He Closed
A San Francisco restaurant owner closed his Richmond District business on July 28 after he was put in a chokehold outside of it in March, in what he said was a racially motivated attack, and after prosecutors declined to file charges.
New Fund Aims to Strengthen Inner Sunset Businesses and Expand Throughout the City
The window of Yvonne’s Southern Sweets sat shattered after vandalism. For Yvonne Hines, the owner of the Bayview shop, this was not merely cosmetic; it was a threat to her business’s ability to operate. For many small businesses, a broken storefront can mean days or weeks without customers, repair bills and uncertainty about whether reopening is even possible.
Everything Nice: Maggie & Mac’s Opens
Maggie & Mac’s, the new spot on the Ninth Avenue and Irving Street corridor, feels less like an opening and more like a place that was always supposed to be in the neighborhood. That is by design.
