Food Editor 

Lauren Saria

Longstanding Vietnamese restaurant Crustacean will move to a new FiDi location this month.

There are two new pizzerias on both sides of the Bay. Plus Chika & Sake cooks its pork for hours to coax out the umami.

BART is struggling to address rising homelessness at a time when it desperately needs to win back riders.  

The South of Market area teemed with Japanese businesses from the 1880s to the great earthquake of 1906. 



Despite challenges such as rising absenteeism and a protracted pandemic, many families expressed excitement about the new school year.