This Week In Noe Valley: An Ode To Plant Thieves, Honoring The Mayor of Church Street, And In Praise Of Aster

News from, about and for Noe Valley from around the interwebs:

• The Great Noe Valley Succulent Heist [Left Coast]
• Jiro Lin, the celebrated omakase chef at Saison, was discovered at Hamano Sushi [SF Chronicle]
• New restaurant Aster is the apex of Brett Cooper’s career [SF Weekly]
• Noe Valley: Where families lock their strollers [@zachmelikey]
• Noe Valley Whole Foods still has the highest sales per sq. foot in the U.S. [via @jimcramer]
• Honoring Larry Gutierrez, 70 year Noe Valley resident and "Mayor of Church Street" [@scottwiener]
• ICYMI: Noe Valley Music is closed [NVSF]
• A $5.8 million flip aimed at hipsters? Oy. [Curbed]
• If you can afford a $5.4M house, is fixing the garage really that big a deal? [Socketsite]

[Photo: Portable/Mess]