
This Week in Noe Valley: Cole Valley Hardware Eyes.This Week in Noe Valley: Spin City Reboots As a Ca.This Week in Noe Valley: Local Gifts, Ghost Kitche.This Year in Noe Valley: The Biggest Stories of 2019.This blog turned 11 this year - time flies! Thanks for reading both here and on Twitter for simpler times? Here were the top stories of 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 20. Happy New Year, Noe Valley! Here's to a safe, fun and prosperous 2020. So on that high note, it’s a wrap for 2019. And the sunsets and views! How lucky are we?! We also have one of the most beautiful (and Instagrammed) flower shops in San Francisco. And we have treasures like the amazing story of the custom shoe shop on Church (spoiler: it involves the Holocaust and Mother Theresa). Even the fairies are happy here.Īnd there's more! Omnivore is amazing – we have world-class chefs visiting our hamlet to talk about their books and share food! There's an oyster bar and fish market called Bellingsford slated to open sometime in 2020 (fingers crossed). We have a Town Square with fun gatherings and an awesome Farmer's Market. Noe Valley Cheese Co is better than ever after 33 years. Telmo Faria serves SF’s most innovative Portuguese food at Uma Casa on Church St. Master sushi chef Jiro Lin works his craft at Hamano. We have world-class restaurants here including La Ciccia, Al's Place and Saru. The head of the SFMTA lives in Noe Valley and the J Church has nowhere to go but up. Noe Valley also has the best chocolate shop on the planet (and a local Recchiutti-trained chocolatier sells his confections there). Church Produce closed abruptly but Baron's Meats stepped into the gap by offering 100+ new grocery items and has awesome fish and meat. Cole Hardware is showing signs it will be reborn so we’ll once again have a nearby hardware store. Spin City will reboot as a new café/roastery with small snacks and great coffee. There is still so much to look forward to in 2020. The reality is that we can expect more SkinSpirits and One Medicals if the economics of retail don't change.īut, but, but… it wasn't all doom and gloom.

Sadly, there are still way too many empty storefronts on 24th Street with no sign that this is likely to change anytime soon. View 230 Judah St, San Francisco, CA 94122, USA rent availability, including the monthly rent price, and browse photos of this studio, 1 bath apartment. Meanwhile, the Noe Valley Whole Foods got some unwanted national attention as activists briefly shut down the store to protest animal cruelty (and hate on Jeff Bezos). We also got some new lash and beauty spas but no new major retail openings of note. Charlie's Corner got a new lease on life thanks to the kindness of benefactors and a GoFundMe. In happier news, YogaFlow finally filled in the old RadioShack space. Even a $1500 a month doggy daycare can't make it on 24th St. The owner of nearby Lucca Ravioli retired and shuttered the business – and we all lost a great San Francisco institution. Rare Device closed it's Noe Valley outpost and consolidated to its Divisadero location – and was promptly replaced by a psychic (yes, really). Shoe Biz shuttered after several fits and starts (case in point: it's a temporary popup shoe store right now but it's basically gone). In other corners of retail, most of the news was about closings or near-death experiences.
