Food

• Four kitchens and bakeries open in September
• Cinderella Bakery opens a Mission shop on 24th Street
• Eater: Cinderella takes the old La Victoria floor
• Sol Bakery: tomato Danishes and fig polenta cake
• Ka Kai pushes northern Thai in the Castro
• Jules and Maria Isabel land on Bon Appétit’s list
• KRON: Jules and Maria Isabel make the national 19
• Sergeant Ma sets a Sept. 9 open on Mission Creek
• Chronicle: Sergeant Ma faces Oracle from 185 Berry
• Rize Up opens a cafe in its SoMa bakehouse
• Prelude closes Sept. 19 at the Jay Hotel
• WhatNow: Prelude’s last service is Sept. 19
• Cole Valley night market holds its pie contest
• Tablehopper: this week’s openings and closings
• Eater: Saam may be the most important new Thai restaurant in America

Policy

• Lurie moves to redo the city’s homelessness contracts
• Lurie calls the housing measure a slush fund
• A rare alliance backs Mahmood after Mandelman strips his committees
• A Flock staffer helps block the Dems’ anti-Flock vote
• Dodson steps down at SF Parents
• AI fired an S.F. shop worker. Sacramento tries robobosses again
• City priced the sprinkler mandate
• City will decide who counts as an artist for new housing
• City expands the good-neighbor rule around homeless services
• MuniMobile stops selling single-ride tickets today
• 48 Hills: the public bank campaign; Lurie wants $33 million more
• Market Street rail tracks still dump cyclists
• Hoodline: Haight and the Western Addition go dark again
• Fire crews rescued 4 from a Saturday-night building fire
• School-board hopefuls answer math and English targets
• S.F. Democrats vote to oppose the billionaire tax
• City health-care rule keeps restaurants from growing
• SFMTA refines the Ocean Avenue red-lane plan
• Meetings set to make the Castro a historic district
• D8 supervisor hopefuls promise Muni changes

Construction

• West Portal fights an upzoned housing block
• Marina Safeway tower clears a planning hurdle
• Developers race to build apartments again
• Portsmouth Square construction hits Chinatown
• Frisc: the AI boom could sideline downtown housing
• Frisc: the data-center fight lands on the Cow Palace line
• Frisc: a music mogul’s empty downtown bank waits for a reuse
• Boxer Stadium gets a youth-league plan
• Marina retirement home expands a Julia Morgan campus
• $40 million Embarcadero Park heads to a Sept. 2 hearing
• A buyer takes the city’s abandoned Mid-Market Lighthouse
• Monroe Elementary in the Excelsior gets a soccer field

Culture

• A colorful parrot is rescued off an S.F. balcony
• Train plays a Haight block party at Mad Dog in the Fog
• Herbie Hancock plays Davies at 86
• Walt Stack, Dolphin club founder, is the city’s running story
• Flower Piano returns to the Botanical Garden Sept. 10
• Changüí from Guantánamo plays Mr. Tipple’s Sept. 2
• SFMOMA’s Matisse salon show closes in two weeks

Opinion

• Rudick: the Great Highway campaign tries to trick voters
• Bote: I welcome our new Pokémon overlords
• 48 Hills: jail conditions are shockingly bad — and there’s a reason
• Harvey: I co-founded Burning Man. It lost its soul
• Valentino: OpenAI and Anthropic are ruining San Francisco
• Redmond: Billionaires bought the S.F. Democratic Party
• WaPo: Lurie is the city’s quiet radical
• Lurie, to WaPo: how the city got back on track
• 48 Hills: Trade Lurie for Mamdani
• 48 Hills: Jenkins sends a message with the bridge trial
• Richmond Review: another supervisor election this November
• Rudick: what if it were your child under that tent
• Magary: Why Your Team Sucks — the 49ers

Economy

• AI boom fuels eviction fears
• A startup takes the old OpenAI / xAI Mission building
• Anthropic staff pour cash into an Alaska governor’s race
• Town, the S.F. AI assistant, nears a $1 billion valuation
• OpenAI doubles its startup fund to $400 million
• City economist: AI’s impact on S.F. is bonkers and complicated

Sports

• Adames is likely done for the season
• Kent’s 21 is retired; he and Bonds explain the hug
• Inside the 49ers’ changing power structure
• 49ers set the 53-man roster
• Bosa and Kittle ease into team drills
• Curry: no question he wants to finish as a Warrior
• 49ers sought the Shanahan crash report before it was public
• Wotus is ejected before first pitch at Oracle

Places

• Presidio brick building becomes a coworking hub
• Sprouts takes the old Nordstrom Rack on Ninth Street
• Grocery Outlet opens on Bay Street in North Beach
• Animal Connection moves the pet shop to Clement
• Nintendo, Pop Mart and BAPE refill Union Square
• FITNESS SF opens a Polk Street weight floor in October
• Dahlia Dell marks 100 years as the city’s flower
• The Mess Hall opens in a Presidio Army building

Nearby

• Monterey fire smoke may drift in through Tuesday
• Northbound 101 through the city closes Labor Day weekend
• Golden Gate Bridge southbound work returns Sept. 7–10
• Sonoma: foragers work uni off the coast
• Silicon Valley: data-center boom meets a backlash
• West Oakland block party at the Panther mural
• Eames Institute opens more of the Richmond archive
• Mill Valley Fall Arts Festival returns under the redwoods Sept. 19