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This Beloved San Francisco Ice Cream Company Is About to Expand in a Big Way
Ice cream followers all through the Bay Space, and particularly the Mission District, rejoice: Humphry Slocombe, a fan favourite since 2008 and acknowledged as certainly one of America’s greatest ice cream firms by Meals Community, is taking on a 5,876-square-foot manufacturing facility at 121 Capp Avenue. In line with the San Francisco Enterprise Occasions, the house was leased by competitor Smitten till final month. Particulars about how the corporate will use this new house are unclear up to now, although it’s licensed as a commissary kitchen.
It’s already been a plentiful time for the ice cream firm. Humphrey Slocombe opened a sixth scoop store this summer time in Redwood Metropolis, and has opted for group supply choices by providing its frozen treats by retailers like Native Kitchens and Byte Kitchens.
This Mission District pinball bar is on the market
Gestalt, a mainstay on sixteenth Avenue for many who get pleasure from a pint with their pinball, is up on the market. Proprietor Dan Hawkins confirmed to Mission Native that the house already has one potential purchaser and that the deal may occur within the subsequent month. Close by companies Kilowatt Bar, Bond Bar, and Firepie have all modified arms in latest months, too.
East Bay household unfold makes it on Oakland restaurant’s menu
Graze and Collect, a restaurant and artisan cheese store in downtown Oakland, simply rolled out the Toum & Turkey Sandwich, a restricted merchandise for the vacations. In a enjoyable twist of localism, the toum for the dish — a Lebanese garlic-citrus sauce — comes from Anne’s Toum, a enterprise run by Lebanese American Katia Berberi within the East Bay. The sandwich might be accessible till Saturday, December 3.
Sushi pop-up within the Internal Sundown
The Purple Tail, sister bar to the Mission’s Flying Pig, is enjoying host to a small sushi pop-up referred to as It’s Simply Fish. All through December — with the following occasion on Thursday, December 1 — get jammy shoyu eggs, cucumber salad, hamachi sashimi, wild tuna rolls, and extra on the Irving Avenue bar.
San Francisco, CA
Gay bathhouses could come again. For once, no one is moaning
“We’re gonna try to make these happen,” Mandelman said in an interview. “Or at least ensure that the city is not the barrier to this happening.”
His first try was unwinding restrictions on the operation of gay bathhouses in the city’s health code, a legacy of the AIDS crisis. He followed that by changing the planning code to allow bathhouses and sex clubs to operate in a larger swath of the city. Most recently, he’s attempting to remove the ultimate authority to regulate and permit these businesses from the San Francisco Police Department.
Mandelman introduced legislation Tuesday that would repeal Article 26 of the police code, which outlines standards around sanitation but also requires businesses to keep a registry of all patrons and prohibits services from being offered behind locked doors. The hope is to get the law passed by the end of the year.
In a rare bit of San Francisco comity, pretty much everyone is on board. The Department of Public Health was already responsible for much of the Article 26 oversight, and a stretched police department was happy to get it off its plate. Police found themselves ill-equipped to answer questions about waterproofing and what exactly counts as a prohibited “service.”
What goes on inside a sex club may be the stuff of feverish imaginings, but the business of running one is more prosaic, particularly in San Francisco, where red tape is less a bondage prop and more a fact of life.
Although the Tenderloin queer sex club Eros features a glory-hole alley, video play areas, and a handful of sex slings, what’s top of mind for co-owner Ken Rowe in running the 30-year-old business are his real estate footprint, throughput, and the rising cost of insurance.
Over the years, he’s seen several efforts try and fail to spin up a bathhouse in the city. One of Rowe’s biggest outstanding questions is about utilities. With prices through the roof and the state in perpetual drought conditions, who can afford to fill, clean, and refill pools?
“There’s a reason why we describe ourselves as a sex club. We’re not trying to confuse people,” Rowe said. “But we’ve always said we do better when there’s more choices.”
The allure of reviving bathhouse culture in a gay mecca — paired with a city government trying to make the process easier — has inspired locals to try their hand.
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SF residents concerned city's plan to address sex work will just migrate issue
In San Francisco’s Mission District on Capp Street, sex work was such a problem that traffic barriers were installed to break up the flow of drivers in the area looking to pay for sex. Now, it’s become a problem Juan Gallardo is dealing with because the sex work has moved right outside his restaurant on Shotwell and 18th Streets.
“A lot of mess here in my parklet,” he said. “
This week, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency voted to treat Shotwell St. similarly to that done at Capp.
The SFMTA said new temporary midblock barriers will be placed for 18 months between 19th and 21st streets.
However, residents aren’t convinced the dividers will fix the problem.
“I would assume it’s just moving people around. It’s not changing any enforcement, making it more inconvenient in certain places,” said Garrett Kiel, who lives in the Mission.
Supervisor Hillary Ronen expressed similar concerns. Though, Ronen pushed for the Capp St. bollards.
“It was out of control, and we had to intervene immediately,” she said in a late August news release with the Mayor’s Office.
Ronen said the aged-old issue in the Mission is far more complicated and deserves more nuanced solutions like finding safe alternative work for women or decriminalized sex work.
“None of these are quick fixes, which is I know what the neighbors want, and I understand that,” Ronen said. “I do not think the solution is to barricade off every street in the Mission.”
Many residents, who did not wish to be identified, agreed with Ronan.
Earlier this year, a group of residents and business owners filed a lawsuit against the city for allegedly allowing prostitution, public intoxication, and other ills to run rampant in their neighborhood.
The suit, filed in August, describes unrelenting public and private nuisances along Shotwell Street between 19th and 21st.
For Gallardo, it’s about the safety of his family.
“I have my wife, and I have my daughter, and I’m not comfortable with that,” he said.
San Francisco, CA
Aging San Francisco DMV may be replaced with new office, housing
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