This Week in Noe Valley: De-Victorianizing SF, Local Foodie Faves, And Signs of Summer Coming

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

• Hipsters and techies don't like Victorians [Left Coast Cowboys]
• Inside a stylish house on 25th St. [HomeDSGN]
• A love letter to children’s clothing popup TugTug [SF Girl by Bay]
• A local author's stroll through Noe Valley [corey m.p.]
• Noe Valley stereotype: We wear a a lot of clogs [The Tinja]
• Contigo’s chef Brett Emerson shares some spring recipes [Wall Street Journal]
• David Lebovitz AND 15 years at Noe Valley Pet Co  + 15 years ago awesome [@omnivorebooks and NV Bakery]
• La Ciccia once again on the bay’s Top 100 restaurants list [SF Chronicle]
• Endless summer dreaming [wbsurflessons]

[Photo: via daryldorko]

This Week In Noe Valley: The Housing Crisis Explained, First Review Of Porcellino, And A Rare Green Tesla Spotted

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

• Porcellino is open in the old Incanto space and the first review is in [Inside Scoop SF]
• Easter decorations Noe Valley style [Robbie Miller]
• Noe Valley Steelhouses hit the market [SocketSite]
• Noe Valley Garden Tour coming on June 7 [FONV]
• Does your laundromat do this? [@spincitycoffee]
• Rare lightning green Tesla Roadster (with a handicap tag) spotted in Noe [Tesla Motor Club]
• SF's housing boom repeats an old story [KQED]
• The median rent in SF is $3200 - in Noe Valley it's $3700 [Curbed]
• And what $3200 gets you in Noe Valley (and around the city) [Curbed]
• The best encapsulation of the SF housing crisis you'll ever read [TechCrunch]

[Photo: @PamelaKSantos]

This Week in Noe Valley: Spring Calling, An Upcoming Community Safety Meeting, And MF Chicken Scrapped

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

• Tacolicious not opening MF Chicken in Noe Valley after all [Tablehopper]
• Staircase porn [Houzz]
• MLS District 5 real estate data [Real Data SF]
• Scott Wiener hosting a public community safety meeting this Tues [@Scott_Wiener]
• Keiko Fukuda, Judo master and a living link to the founder of Judo, dies at 99 [New York Times]

[Photo: NVSF]

This Week In Noe Valley: Free Beer, Get Your Wax On, And The Google Bus Presages Dystopia

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

• What? There's a Game this weekend? [Caterina]
• La Tira now open for your waxing needs [La Tira]
• Free beer: local brewers open their homes during Beer Week [Barrel Walk]
• Essay: the significance of the Google Bus [Rebecca Solnit]
• Turn your Victorian into a sanitarium [Remodelista]
• Four bedrooms, $3.6M, and a possible new comp [Socketsite]
• Buy this house and you can name-drop Coppola [Curbed SF]

[Photo: kslatz312]

Rebirth Of Cool

In 2009, Gerry and Lisa lost their newly-constructed house to fire while on vacation. No one was hurt. "The first thing Lisa and I realized is that within the grand scheme of things, we have lost little.... Our children are here and well today. The rest is stuff, and most of it can be replaced, and of what cannot, we have memories."

And boy did they replace. All the details that bothered them from the first go-round were fixed: plaster instead of drywall, marble and granite instead of quarzite, a fire-vulnerable master suite moved to a lower level.

Today the New York Times profiles the rebirth of the 27th St house:

Gerry Agosta, who has spent 30 years in the Bay Area as a general contractor and developer, said there’s a hard truth in his line of work: “You never get a chance for a do-over. Every site commands a different design, so you’re always doing things for the first time.”

[NYT: From Ashes, Upgrades]
[NVV: Love Eases Heartbreak After Fire on 27th Street]