The Progress: A Shared-Plates Paradise

Sarah Stodola — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 22:46:56 +0000

If you’re the sort who generally fails to book restaurants ahead of time, like I am, getting a table at the Progress on San Francisco’s Fillmore District can be as impossible as buying an air conditioner in Manhattan during a heatwave. But on a recent trip out West, after being denied a reservation I learned that the bar area is substantial enough, and that it serves diners on a first-come-first-serve basis. This felt more or less what bar dining is […]

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Vesuvio Cafe: Not Missing a Beat

Sarah Stodola — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 20:35:35 +0000

There are very few tourists to San Francisco for whom Vesuvio Cafe does not show up on the radar. Opened in 1948, just in time to host all of the Beat writers that would flock to the City Lights Bookstore when it opened next door in 1953, Vesuvio is now a countercultural landmark. I haven’t looked in the Lonely Planet San Francisco, but I’d bet money it’s listed in there. Yet, when I went in on a recent weekday mid-afternoon, […]

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The Progress: A Shared-Plates Paradise

Vesuvio Cafe: Not Missing a Beat