This Week in Noe Valley: Le Cupboard Closes, Home Prices Soften and Other Noe Valley Mysteries

The latest news from, about and for Noe Valley from around the interwebs:

• Crab season is here – and Barron’s Meats has it! [@BaronsonChurch]
• Noe Valley home fails to fetch 2015-era price [Socketsite]
• Folio Books sales benefit Children’s Book Project after Thanksgiving [@ChildrensBookSF]
• Le Cupboard abruptly closes, new team supposedly on the way? [@CourtneySF]
• Uma Casa makes a best new restaurants of 2017 list [Thrillist]
• Martha & Bros makes the best coffee shop list [Thrillist]
• A profile of the eccentric Noe’s Nest founder [JWeekly]
• A rundown on the first D8 Supervisor debate (housing, housing, housing) [Bay Area Reporter]
• Noe Valley mysteries [@NoeValleySF]

[Photo: Salesforce tower from Laidley at Noe via thatswhathappensman]

This Week in Noe Valley: Plant Thieves, Uma Casa Love and Fleet Week

The latest news from, about and for Noe Valley from around the interwebs:

• Plant thieves are rampant in SF [Hoodline]
• Some of the biggest shoppers on Valencia St? Noe Valleyeons [SFGate]
• Uma Casa brings Portuguese fine dining to Noe Valley [The Mercury News]
• Mayor Lee and Supervisor Sheehy tour Noe Valley to encourage local business [Hoodline]
• It’s beginning to look a lot like Halloween [cjung5 and the_pickled_hutch and daijaaana]
• Celebrating Fleet Week at the Farmer’s Market [nativebaking]

[Photo: Old Noe Valley via juliegeb]

This Week in Noe Valley: Real Foods Fate Is Nigh, Most Expensive House in the Hood and Firefly Does Lunch

The latest news from, about and for Noe Valley from around the interwebs:

• One reason Noe Valley is so awesome today: FUF was started by concerned Noe Valleyeons who planted lots of trees [SF Weekly]
• City-owned tree in Noe chopped down by rogue building owner, neighbors livid [Curbed]
• Michael Bauer on Uma Casa [SF Chronicle]
• Noe Valley nuggets = buffalo Tater Tots with blue cheese crumbles [Bay Area Reporter]
• Interview with Jack Epstein, owner of Chocolate Covered [Candy Atlas]
• Noe Valley is about to have TWO bougie TV dinner shops [NVSF]
• Firefly now does lunch! [Firefly]
• The most expensive house in Noe Valley (again) [Curbed]
• Real Foods fate could be determined as soon as August [NVMPA]
• Growing up in Noe Valley in the 50s [Kate Campbell]
• The Dubliner the night of the Warriors title win #gowarriors [thedubliner]
• The cost to buy in Noe Valley right now: $1155 per square foot [Curbed]

[Photo: Castro St via simon_schleicher]

This Week in Noe Valley: Fairy Houses and Saturday Morning Demolition

The latest news from, about and for Noe Valley from around the interwebs:

• David Talbot posits that the SF real estate craziness is killing off the elderly – including Carl Jensen on 26th St [SF Chronicle]
• Fairytale treehouse [muzacart]
• Fairy house #2 on Sanchez [@NoeValleySF]
• Saturday morning demolition on 24th Street [@NoeValleySF]
• Baron’s Quality Meats open house today attracts a crowd [@nelson]
• More on Baron’s including plans to add sandwiches and groceries [SF Chronicle]
• Foodie Chap interviews Telmo Faria of Uma Casa [CBS Local]
• Yelpers love Saru sushi [SF Gate]
• Scene from Omnivore’s popular cookie bakeoff [adbonifacio]
• Old Noe [frabjous_warrior]

[Photo: Tulips]

This Week in Noe Valley: Exit Radio Shack, Easter Egg Hunt Is On, Noe Valley Then and Now

The latest news from, about and for Noe Valley from around the interwebs:

• District 8 Supe Jeff Sheehy’s priorities include crime and homelessness [Hoodline]
• Radio Shack on 24th St closing – everything for sale, all items must go [Hoodline]
• Heartbreaking: 93 year old dies while fighting eviction from home of 63 years on 26th St. [NVSF]
• Noe Valley Easter Egg Hunt is scheduled for a April 15 @ Douglass Park [NVMPA]
• Inside a stunning $2.5 million Queen Anne Victorian for sales on Fair Oaks [Curbed]
• Contrast: A $2 million fixer on Jersey [The Front Steps]
• 24th and Hoffman Street then and now [@DavidGallagher]
• Creepy: Real estate drones [bluskyfilms]

[Photo: New Portuguese restaurant Uma Casa on Church oakwoodroasted]

This Week in Noe Valley: New Restaurants, Dorian D. Clair Clock Stories and Stormageddon

The latest news from, about and for Noe Valley from around the interwebs:

• Uma Casa Portuguese restaurant opens and critics love it [SF Eater]
• Uma Casa also makes 7x7s most anticipated new restaurant list [7x7]
• Dorian D. Clair’s amazing clock shop is nearing it’s 30th anniversary [Marin IJ]
• HIV/AIDS activist Jeff Sheehy replaces Scott Wiener as supervisor [Scott Wiener]
• ICYMI: Fattoush is becoming Sasa’s Pizza [NVSF]
• We're not sure what’s happening here at 1050 Noe St. [jimwatkins]
• Whole Foods is cleaned out for Stormageddon [@NoeValleySF]

[Photo: @SFUrbanHiker ]

This Week In Noe Valley: Great Food News, Beware Of Santa, And Noe Valley’s Painted Ladies

The latest news from, about and for Noe Valley from around the interwebs:

• Baron’s Meats is taking over the old Drewe’s Meats space, opening in Feb (yay!) [@OmnivoreBooks]
• Phase 1: Open the shop Phase 2: Sandwiches Phase 3: Craft beer and wine (double yay!) [@BarronsonChurch]
• Uma Casa Portuguese restaurant opening very soon [Hoodline]
• The disappearance of SF’s middle class illustrated with maps [Nick Conway]
• Noe Valley residents evacuated after a gas main break near Noe and Hill Streets [Examiner]
• Coming soon to Whole Foods Noe Valley? [@newmike]
• Long time resident blogs about his favorites spots in Noe [DanielWPolk]
• Does your tap water taste weird? Here’s why [Hoodline]
• Worse than Santacon: Man in Santa hat caught on video burglarizing Noe Valley home [NBC]
• Changes at Le Zinc which will become a new bistro called Chez Marius [@rosewinegirl, Tablehopper]
• James Lick playground is a Christmas tree lot again [bibi_guansen]
• Tom and Jerry’s giant Christmas display is up ("All-American xmas, installed by Mexican workers") [ladiani]
• Did you feel the earthquake? [@iveyjannnette_207]
• We live here [joeychanrealtor]
• Noe Valley’s painted ladies [emdnyc]

[Photo: susannemsm]

This Week in Noe Valley: Burning Man Roots, Time Capsules and Summer in the City

The latest news from, about and for Noe Valley from around the interwebs:

• Now open in the old Common Scents space: Shop Monroe [ShopMonroeSF]
• SF’s most expensive home sale was at 150 Vicksburg last week [Curbed]
• The Peak2Peak walk is happening Sept 10 [Examiner]
• Bits of Burning Man were born in a Noe Valley basement in 1986 [Mixmag]
• And here's what Noe Valley looked like in 1986 [eamonka]
• Why do techie homes all look the same? [@Bartzebest]
• Last day of the Castro cable car into Noe Valley 1941 [@DavidGallagher]
• More about Uma Casa – opening end of Oct (fingers crossed) [Zagat]
• Rumor: Tataki South reboots? [@rosewinebar]
• It’s not your imagination [@omnivorebooks]
• 24th Street in 2006 [mitchphotos]

[Photo: Summer in the city via jkushner04]

This Week in Noe Valley: Town Square in Phase 2, Uma Casa's Opening Moves to Fall + Fun Photos

The latest news from, about and for Noe Valley from around the interwebs:

• VoilaSF is open in the old Video Wave space on Castro St. [cindyloughridge]
• Phase 2 of construction for the Noe Valley Town Square is underway [SF Rec & Park]
• Uma Casa (a new modern Portuguese restaurant) now plans to open this Fall in the old Incanto space [SF Chronicle]
• Overhead shot of one of the Noe Valley Garden tour yards [adbonifacio]
• The Podolls and Rare Device get a stylish shout out in the June issue of In Style magazine #shoplocal [In Style]
• The current state of the Mission in one photo [@NoeValleySF ]

[Photo: Pretty in Pink via jaytay]

This Week In Noe Valley: Property Crimes Rising, Where to Drink on 24th Street, and the Vanishing Middle Class

The latest news from, about and for Noe Valley from around the interwebs:

• Scott Wiener calls for hearings on the sharp rise in property crimes in residential areas [Bay Area Reporter]
• More details on Telmo Faria’s new restaurant Uma Casa (raw bar! oysters!) [Eater]
• Every SF neighborhood ranked by it’s drinking/bar potential (Noe Valley is in last place) [Thrillist]
• Census data: SF households pulling in $200,000 or more is now 15 percent of the city and Noe Valley shows one of biggest jumps [SF Chronicle]
• Santaconners spotted in "suburban" Noe Valley [@SFConcierge]

[Photo: It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas via brandnewjen]

This Week In Noe Valley: Holidays in Full Swing, Jake Gyllenhall in the Hood, and Uma Casa Announced

The latest news from, about and for Noe Valley from around the interwebs:

• Adopt a living tree for Christmas this year instead of a dead one [SF Environment]
• Santa visits Noe Valley Pet Co [@omnivorebooks]
• Channukah Wonderland comes to 24th St on Dec 6 [24on24th]
• A jazz Charlie Brown Christmas coming to Noe Valley Ministry [Noe Valley Ministry]
• Little Folkies holiday sing-a-long is Dec 6 in Noe Valley [Little Folkies]
• Only in Noe Valley: A Tesla leaving Whole Food with a Christmas tree in the trunk [@rdaziz]
• La Boulangerie is open – a peek at the menu [@rosewinegirl]
• Leaky big rig causes massive fuel spill [SF Gate]
• Photo of the diesel spill and cleanup on 28th and Noe [@regnaDKcinQ]
• Jake Gyllenhall spotted in the hood [@jane_e_nevins]
• 2 women mugged at gunpoint at Noe Courts [@ESBAle]
• Former Tacolicious chef to take over Incanto space with SF’s first Portuguese restaurant [Inside Scoop]

[Photo: Billy Goat Hill via salvavito]