Winter Walkabout 2025

Spending an entire Saturday hanging out and day drinking with your friends is a simple adult pleasure few realize they can experience. All you gotta do, see, is call or text these “friends” – which I’m sure you, handsome and charming Chronicle reader, have in spades – and tell them you want to hit up Southside spot the Yard, where a whole line of delicious drinkeries outweigh the noxious vibes wafting off the Tesla dealership next door. Then you and your compatriots wander the various brewhouses, wine dealers, sake sellers, and seltzer slingers to enjoy their wintry specials for this year’s walkabout theme: By the Fire. Did I mention the overabundance of really, really good food trucks? Yeah, they’re in on the special theme, too. God: Isn’t being alive just great? – James Scott