Check Out Dirty Water’s New Sister Bar on Polk

FROM PERKS These Sneakers Take Four Hours to Make People talk about upping their “sneaker game.” Like it’s a game. For those who take their casual footwear a little more seriously, we direct your attention to these handsome, handmade, hand-finished beauties from KOIO. They’re crafted from the finest Italian leathers and suedes, and Perks has them for 20% off.

HERE TO VERVE There’s No World in Which You Don’t Need a Shiny New Coffee Spot Santa Cruz–based Verve Coffee Roasters has just opened their first San Francisco café on Market. Stop by before work and grab some “seed-to-cup” coffee and a prosciutto biscuit from Los Gatos’s Manresa Bread. You knew you weren’t getting out of this without a “seed-to-cup” reference.

BOWL POSITION What Lunch Hath the Twitter Building Wrought Chicken adobo bowls with freshly pressed garlic. Beef pares bowls with braised brisket. Build-your-own bowls. Basically: bowls. You’re in for a lot of those at this casual new lunchery in the Twitter building. Though if you just wanted one, we’d allow it.

STRANGE BEACHFELLOWS It’s a Pretty Damn Good Sale, Is All Coinciding with the launch of their spring line, Welcome Stranger is treating you to a huge sale on things like Norse Projects button-downs, Saturdays NYC hoodies and the occasional boardshorts and T-shirt for good measure and/or a forthcoming beach day that may or may not ever happen.

GO HAM A Pig Roast and Some Beer. Good Thinking. When one of the best BBQ spots in the city tells you that they’re having a whole-hog luau celebration with Fort Point brewery for beer week, you drop everything and go. Is it awkward that you’re still reading this?

MULE INTENTIONS You and a Date Should Drink Drinks Here The people who brought you Dirty Water have now brought you a nice little cocktail bar called Rusted Mule. It’s a much-needed date option on Polk with original 1908 brick walls, sculptures from local artists and a glowing bar. It’s that last part that makes it a bar.