Of all the weekend joints in all the towns in all the world...
Your Perks: 1) Moroccan goatskin leather bags that are naturally waterproof, or seaside-vacation-proof. 2) Shoes that were made in the heart of New York’s Garment District. Makes for quite the origin story. 3) Attractive pleasure-inducing devices that induce a lot of pleasure. They’re good at their job.
Oro, Before: A place you’d go for delicious cocktails, housemade charcuterie, bites of
sea urchin and other good things.
Oro, Now: Same story. Only with lunch, which involves things like a double cheeseburger and
an open-faced pork belly sandwich. No hard feelings, before.
The International Ocean Film Festival is coming to Fort Mason and bringing a bunch of water-related movies with it. Expect topics ranging anywhere from surfing to sailing to seafood to sea otters. And probably even some that don’t start with the letter S.
Ho’s Bootleg Tavern is a fun place. A fun place that didn’t used to serve food but now does. Until 3am on weekends. Go for the bacon plate or the butter burger. Or, better yet, the off-menu Top Ramen with chicken, nori and egg. It’s only available after midnight. Which makes an impossible amount of sense.
If we had to guess, we’d say you weren’t at an island-style barbecue right now. Which is sort of shameful. But you can still fix everything on Saturday, when forthcoming restaurant ’Āina has a pop-up at El Rio with rice bowls, reggae and plenty of stiff punch. You can still fix everything...
The North Pole. Crab. Your new watch. Amazingly, these three things are intimately connected in the form of Dutch Harbor, Filson’s brand-new watch line. They’re launching on Tuesday and throwing a party with drinks, crab snacks and stories about sailing an icebreaker to the North Pole. Told you.
