Two Halloween Parties and a Beer Farmer’s Market Oh, and a New French-Vietnamese Place in Oakland By Joe Starkey
Wednesday
FROM PERKS
Fall Blazers. From Italy. 50% Off.
Glen Plaid. Houndstooth. Birdseye. Pick your autumnal poison from the outstanding selection of virgin wool blazers we’ve assembled from the Italian menswear gurus, Gemelli. Or go for all three, considering they’re all 50% off.
LIVE BETA
Just a Whole Bunch of Tech Weirdness in Hayes Valley
Local startup B8ta has just opened their flagship store in Hayes Valley, offering a hands-on experience with tons of tech you can usually only order online. Feel free to try out VR demos or buy a totally unnecessary single-wheel skateboard thing. Another option would be to not buy that.
Thursday
THE TEMPLE LIFE
Looks Like You're Having Vietnamese for Lunch
Head to the Temple Club tomorrow for a little French-influenced Vietnamese lunching under murals inspired by old Vietnamese propaganda. You could go for the grilled chicken with lime leaf, or be a bit more adventurous with tamarind frog legs. Always err on the frog leg side whenever possible.
FLASH SUD WARNING
Beer and Food. So Much Beer and Food.
Tomorrow evening, the Sirwisa Brewing Collective is hosting an event wherein home and commercial brewers have been connected with local farmers to brew paired beers. Tickets get you tastes from 18 different food and beer stations. Tickets get you glory.
Saturday
CORPSE REVIVER
Gin and Sexy Everything's at Whitechapel
It’s almost time to don your most creative costume and head to the city’s finest gin bar, Whitechapel, for their Corpse Train party. They’ll have a DJ, Halloween-themed decorations and $500 in best costume prizes. No, Stranger Things will not win again this year.
Sunday
ROOF, THERE IT IS
Hotel VIA Debuts Their Rooftop to the Public. Oh, and Throws a Halloween Party.
VIA is debuting their Sunday rooftop day-parties this week with a Halloween bash. Costume prizes will be awarded throughout the day and you can rent a cabana for up to eight people, so your group of Different Phases of Winona Ryders can relax in style. That’s just… that’s just one costume idea.
What Else Is New
DRINKING BUDDIES
Stop Having Dinner With More Than Six People
We think it’s downright insane. We also think this is why people like the most-watched show on television, ABC’s The Good Doctor. And that, if you’re drinking whiskey this fall, you should try one (or more) of these five bottles…
Joe Starkey is the tallest person in the room 90% of the time. He enjoys liquors that aren’t smoky, dive bars that are, and has a vague dread that someone, somewhere might be having more fun than him.
