W Hotel

Disco duo Tiger & Woods brings mystery to San Francisco

By: Julia B. Chan 03/25/12 4:06 AM

The notoriously secretive dance duo Tiger & Woods is playing a live set on the rooftop of the W Hotel in San Francisco on Saturday. Read More

W Hotel gives SFMOMA expansion a bad review

By: Sarah Gantz 11/27/11 11:02 PM

A major expansion planned for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art could take a step forward today when it goes before the Board of Supervisors Land Use Committee, but it would not come without resistance.The committee could approve zoning changes needed to relocate Fire Station No. 1 from a Howard Street property to Folsom Street and to vacate a landlocked alley between the museum and the W Hotel. Read More

Trace is setting a high bar for fine hotel dining

By: Patricia Unterman 11/10/11 9:00 PM

A restaurant in a hotel already has many strikes against it. I always assume it will be overpriced, with a kitchen distracted by having to prepare three meals a day plus room service. Trace, the restaurant in the Hotel W, headed by Aqua and Oliveto alum Paul Piscopo, is the exception. Piscopo’s ingredient-driven cooking is some of the best in The City at surprisingly moderate prices. Additionally, its location makes Trace a go-to place for meals around Yerba Buena. Read More

President Obama arrives in SF to jeers, not cheers he received in past

By: Ari Burack 10/25/11 7:17 PM

As President Barack Obama made a brief fundraising visit to San Francisco Tuesday, citizens who voted overwhelmingly for him in 2008 gave him an earful — though he probably didn’t hear it. Read More

PHOTOS: President Obama's trip to SF brings out protesters

By: Staff report 10/25/11 4:12 PM

President Barack Obama visited San Francisco on Tuesday for a brief fundraiser at a downtown hotel. Read More

Barack Obama's visit to San Francisco attracts hundreds of protesters

By: Stephen Buel 10/25/11 1:05 PM

Hundreds of protesters lined the streets in San Francisco outside the hotel where President Barack Obama held a fundraiser Tuesday. The demonstrators lined the corners of Howard and Third streets in San Francisco in opposition to everything from war and budget cuts to a proposed transcontinental oil pipeline and the federal government’s crackdown on medical marijuana. Read More

Obama to visit San Francisco for fundraiser on Tuesday

By: Bay City News 10/24/11 12:19 PM

President Barack Obama will make a brief visit to the Bay Area on Tuesday to attend an afternoon campaign fundraiser in San Francisco. Air Force One is scheduled to land at San Francisco International Airport early Tuesday afternoon. The president will attend a lunch fundraiser at the W Hotel in San Francisco, a campaign official said. Read More

Ellie Goulding's light-speed tour ended in San Francisco with a slow show

By: Ken Garcia 04/24/11 4:00 AM

Ellie Goulding at the W Hotel in San Francisco

Those of you raised on neon ’60s-era psychadelia, bad ’70s-period schmaltz or even ’90s bass-pumping dance mixes don’t need to move your radio dial to understand how the music industry has changed. It’s gone viral, which like most things infectious and techno-related, has both considerable up and downs. Read More

Stick around San Francisco for a change

By: By Kathleen Jay 11/19/10 3:01 PM

The W Hotel — a 31-story property with 404 rooms in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood — has always attracted a modern, hip clientele. As sophisticated as its neighbors — the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and Moscone Center — the hotel, which features a stellar restaurant, a Bliss Spa and a bilevel bar — has reason to celebrate this month a makeover of its presidential suites, known in W-lingo as Extreme Wow suites. Read More