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San Francisco’s minimum wage rose to $19.61 an hour on July 1, 2026, the city’s annual cost-of-living adjustment. Separate rates apply to government supported employees, and two statewide changes took effect the same day.
Fireworks launch from the towers of the Golden Gate Bridge on Saturday, July 4, 2026, the third time in the bridge’s history. The bridge closes to traffic from 9 to 10 pm, and Crissy Field, Marina Green, and the northern Embarcadero are the recommended viewing spots.
Esme, a French-inspired California bistro and the first solo restaurant from San Francisco restaurateur Susan Dunn, has opened at 311 Divisadero Street inside the Metro Hotel.
San Francisco supervisors approved the final map for the first phase of the Candlestick Point redevelopment on June 16, 2026, clearing FivePoint to begin construction on streets and utilities this summer.
Californios, the Mexican tasting-menu restaurant in SoMa, earned three Michelin stars on June 24, 2026, becoming the first Mexican restaurant in the world to reach that level.
The Mess Hall, a 6,200-square-foot food hall with three restaurants, a full bar, a coffee counter and a market, opened at the Presidio’s Tunnel Tops on August 15, 2026.
The DeLuxe, the Haight-Ashbury music room that spent years as Club DeLuxe, reopened June 18 at 1511 Haight Street with live music seven nights a week, three years after it closed.
The San Francisco Dyke March returns Saturday, June 27, 2026, with a 3 p.m. rally at 18th and Dolores and a 5 p.m. step-off on a 2.2-mile route through the Mission and Castro.
ScentFest SF, billed as the West Coast’s first international consumer fragrance festival, runs June 26 to 28 at Fort Mason Center’s Gateway Pavilion with more than 100 fragrance houses and the Osmotheque’s historic scents.
Scarlet, a titan arum corpse flower, is in bloom at the Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park, with daytime and after-hours viewing on June 25 before the two-day bloom collapses.
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