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Off the Grid's flagship market in San Francisco. Off the Grid is a mobile food and events platform in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, USA.The platform is known for galvanizing the San Francisco food truck scene in 2010, [1] Off the Grid activates public and private space via temporary food experiences that include public markets, catering events and employee dining services.
China Live is a Chinese marketplace in San Francisco, California, described as being of "epic proportions" [1] that comprise various casual and fine dining restaurants, bars and food and beverage outlets. China Live was founded by George and Cindy Chen. George Chen is an entrepreneur, formerly involved in several local landmark restaurants such ...
The Condor Club nightclub is a striptease bar or topless bar in the North Beach section of San Francisco, California [1] The club became famous in 1964 as the first fully topless nightclub in America, featuring the dancer Carol Doda wearing a monokini. [2]
Jack Mogannam, manager of Sam’s Cable Car Lounge in downtown San Francisco, relishes the days when his bar stayed open past midnight every night, welcoming crowds that jostled on the streets ...
The completion of the Union Street Stores inspired the formation of a commercial district along a five-block stretch of a deteriorating area in San Francisco that became a popular commercial destination in the city and “charting the course and the ambiance of the well-known shopping and dining mecca we know today.” [3] Along with the historic Ghirardelli Square and The Cannery (a former ...
During the California Gold Rush, many Chinese immigrants came to San Francisco to work in gold mines and on railroads in search of wealth and a better life. The earliest recorded New Year's celebration was "a great feast" on February 1, 1851, [7] and the first dragon dance in San Francisco was held for the New Year in 1860. [8]
Swan Oyster Depot is a seafood eatery and cultural landmark located in the Polk Gulch neighborhood of San Francisco, California. It opened there in 1903 and except for a brief hiatus and rebuilding period following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, it has been running continuously in the same venue since that time.
Swedish flat-pack furniture giant Ikea opened its doors to a new store in downtown San Francisco on Wednesday, bucking the trend of big retailers such as Nordstrom and Old Navy closing shops amid ...