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Celebrating Sunset Heroes: People who have kept our community strong through the pandemic and beyond. Cleaning up the west side of San Francisco is a family affair for Pauline Chin, the founder of the Sunset Community Cleanup group. “My sister belongs to a Richmond cleanup group,” Pauline says, and when she saw that group’s efforts, Read more…

Celebrating Sunset Heroes: People who have kept our community strong through the pandemic and beyond. For years, Angela Petitt-Taylor had dreamed of a farmers market in the Sunset District — while many other neighborhoods in San Francisco have a weekly spot to buy produce and other goods directly from farmers and makers, the western side Read more…

Celebrating Sunset Heroes: People who have kept our community strong through the pandemic and beyond. In June 2020, following the killing of George Floyd, Ana Teresa Fernandez, an artist and Outer Sunset resident, created an installation featuring Floyd’s words, “I can’t breathe,” stenciled into a mirrored surface, placed on the Great Highway. Unfortunately, the piece was Read more…

Celebrating Sunset Heroes: People who have kept our community strong through the pandemic and beyond. A year ago, as the health challenges of the pandemic began to make life especially challenging for older adults, two complete strangers Bianca Nandzik and Frank Plughoff immediately swung into action, creating the Sunset Neighborhood Help Group. On March 13, Read more…

Gift giving season is in full swing and time is running short. Luckily the Sunset District is full of shops with plenty of tried and true gifts as well as one-of-a-kind hand made items and art pieces. Jenny Hwa, the founder of Loyale Studio, has helped us all out with a perfectly curated Sunset Gift Read more…

Two Sunset artists — Georgia Hodges and Ana Teresa Fernández — have given the neighborhood some art that inspires, informs, and encourages dialogue. Thanks to Becky Lee for her informative piece in the Sunset Beacon describing the work of Georgia Hodges and Ana Teresa Fernández. Georgia’s piece is a large scale mural on the side Read more…

The Sunset Strong directory now includes businesses in the Inner and Outer Sunset! Business owners: add your business! Residents: search here first before you buy! Follow Sunset Strong on Instagram and Facebook for reminders about all the awesome shops, restaurants, and services available right in our own neighborhood. The Sunset Strong initiative began in April Read more…

Keep a lookout as you whiz along Sunset Boulevard between Santiago and Taraval Streets for the results of a new collaborative effort to create two demonstration blocks of native coastal scrub habitat. Better yet, sign up to volunteer and help out! Climate Action Now! (CAN!) and the California Native Plant Society – Yerba Buena Chapter Read more…

The Outdoor Pop-Up Shopping Event has been going strong for six months now every other Saturday on 20th Avenue between Ulloa and Vicente. With a different mix of vendors and artisans each week, the pop-up shopping opportunity was the brain child of Nora Daly, who started it in response to COVID-19 as a way to Read more…

Check out Erin Bank’s article in the Sunset Beacon describing how some Sunset art galleries have persisted through the pandemic, the wildfires ravaging Northern California, social unrest, financial insecurity, and neighborhood construction projects. Read about how Anne Herbst of the Far Out Gallery (3004 Taraval), John Lindsey of the Great Highway Gallery (3649 Lawton), and Read more…

Thanks to the Sunset Beacon for coverage of Shared Spaces in the Sunset. Don’t miss the outdoor dining and shopping experiences in the neighborhood: Beachside Taraval takes place every Sunday, with Taraval Street closed between 46th and 47th Avenues featuring artisan pop-ups and all neighborhood businesses participating. Irving Street is closed between 19th and 20th Read more…

Mother’s Day may look a little different this year due to social distancing, but we can still spoil Mom with gifts and support small businesses while we’re doing it! Our merchant partners are making the very most of it – offering tons of gift certificates and delivery options. From clothing to home goods, check out Read more…

Several of our Sunset Strong restaurants are serving up delicious Cinco de Mayo fare, for perfect at-home or at-beach celebrations.

We can’t celebrate out and about this year, but we’re grateful for all of these fantastic & festive options:

The Sunset Neighborhood Help Group is a network of all-volunteer Sunset community members who have come together to assist fellow Sunsetters experiencing difficulty taking care of their essential needs, such as grocery and pharmacy pick-ups, during Shelter-in-Place. To date, more than 1,450 group members have responded to more than several hundred cases. Volunteers have printed Read more…

Staff and volunteers at Self Help for the Elderly at South Sunset Playground have really stepped up since the Shelter in Place Order was put in place, rapidly shifting from a congregate meal site for mostly monolingual Chinese seniors to a hub for home meal deliveries. SHE at South Sunset Playground is currently operating five Read more…

Sunset residents Tina Cen and Edwin Camarao have already raised over $11k to buy masks and other personal protective equipment for frontline healthcare workers! Tens of thousands of masks have been donated to Bay Area hospitals, nursing homes and homecare workers. Check out this video (by Thomas Pendergast of the Sunset Beacon) featuring the amazing Read more…

Yina and Soojin, the 2-person team at ODSY Workshop on Irving Street have been making and selling masks and donating half the profits to communities impacted by the public health crisis. For their first batch of masks, ODSY donated to UndocuFund-SF, which provides essential aid to undocumented workers in San Francisco impacted by the pandemic.

The folks at Vanida Thai Kitchen are showing their love and appreciation to healthcare workers by treating them to free meals! From the owner Mahat Papartassee on Nextdoor: 

Sunset small business owner Jackson Wang of Jika Ramen cooks and distributes hundreds of hot meals to homeless and low-income folks in the Tenderloin on a daily basis. Through rain or shine, Jackson and his church group remain on the frontlines in the streets providing this free and crucial service while practicing social distancing. We Read more…

From Andytown’s newsletter: Speaking to the nurses and doctors in the city, we have found that there is a major need for meals and coffee for workers as they pull 12+ hour shifts with their usual coffee and food places closed. We have launched a project to get coffee into the hands of the hardworking Read more…

Seven Stills Brewery and Distillery is using their facilities to make hand sanitizer and donating it to local healthcare providers and nonprofits. You can help cover the costs by directly ordering sanitizer and sending it to a healthcare provider here. We applaud Seven Stills and businesses that are stepping up to serve the community in Read more…

  The SF-Marin Food Bank pantry network distributes fresh, seasonal produce, lean protein, grain, and shelf-stable items to anyone who is struggling to buy food. During the COVID-19 crisis, they have launched pop-up pantries that are open to the public; no need to show ID or sign in to receive groceries every week. Please only Read more…