If you didn't get enough sugar on Halloween — and who didn't? — we urge you to head over to the Sir Francis Drake this Thursday to check out the 6th Annual Sugar Rush, a strictly-dessert and wine fundraiser for local nonprofit Spark. In addition to an all-you-can-drink bubbles bar, you'll get to eat as many sweet treats from the following restaurants of note:

Arizmendi Bakery
Chez Panisse
Delfina
Farrallon
George's
Let's Be Frank
Oola (preparing ribs and rib sliders, in case you've had too many sweets)
Scala's Bistro

A few offerings you will find at Sugar Rush? Almond raspberry cake with Valrhona Opalys, sig raspberry pate au fruit, and Cognac Dudognon bittersweet chocolate truffle, just to name a few.

Above the sweets and sips and bow ties, though, you will take greater delight in knowing that you helped out Spark, a nonprofit that offers life-changing apprenticeships to youth in underserved and poor communities. A vital program that helps make a crucial difference in a kid's life.

Buy advance tickets online before they sell out.

Details:

6th Annual Sugar Rush Bay Area
Sir Francis Drake Hotel (450 Powell)
Thursday, November 7
7 pm - 11:00 pm

General Admission: $75/advance ($85 at the door)
VIP Admission: $125/advance ($135 at the door)
$1,000 Ticket Package: 10 VIP tickets (save $25/ticket).
Psst: Cocktail attire appreciated

Save the salty for Thanksgiving. Tomorrow you shall unleash your inner child and all the sugar craving that goes along with adolescence at the annual Sugar Rush. What is Sugar Rush? It's an annual benefit for Spark, a program that offers life-altering apprenticeships to youth in underserved and poor communities. But this is where you come in: an estimated 400 leaders and young professionals will gather at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel (at the Empire/Walnut, no less!) to feast on sweets (and some savory for good measure) from noted chefs at Arizmendi, Boulevard, Chez Panisse, Delfina, Humphry Slocombe, Mama's Bakery, Millennium, Recchiuti Confections, and Scala's Bistro.

Wines will be provided by August West Wine, Barber Cellars, Sandler Wine Company,
Pedroncelli Vineyards and Periscope Cellars. Ninkasi will provide the beer.

This sweet night for you mean and an even--wait for it--sweeter future for the students in apprenticeships made possible by Spark. So please help out. Some of you can more than afford it. Come on. Indulge.

What: Sugar Rush
When: Thursday, November 15
Time: 7 p.m./7:30 p.m.
Tickets: General Admission: $75 ($85 at the door); VIP Admission: $125 ($135 at the door)
Where: Sir Francis Drake (450 Powell), SF, 415-392-7755
Psst: Cocktail attire, yo.

In a move the reeks of anti-soda bigotry, Mayor Ed Lee's office slammed "sugary drinks" and other tasty beverages as part of his Soda Free Summer initiative. Hateful! In part of a press release, Lee preaches: ‎"San Francisco is fortunate to have pristine tap water from Hetch Hetchy that is among the cleanest and best tasting in the world. This summer, I encourage everyone to rethink choosing sugary drinks and rehydrate with clean, refreshing San Francisco Water."

You know what doesn't have sugar in it, Ed? Diet Coke. Ha! We love Diet Coke. Anyway.

Lee is right. Hetch Hetchy holds some of the cleanest and best tasting water in the world. His Soda Free Summer plan asks San Franciscans to choose healthier beverages, like "water, low-fat milk and 100 percent fruit and vegetable juices" over other more pleasing sweet drinks.

Although Specialty’s Cafe & Bakery hawks crap sandwiches and other bread- and meat-related items, their cookies are delightful and thick -- especially when served warm. Luckily, the downtown lunchtime staple, according to Broke-Ass Stuart, has "created an app that shows you what kinds of cookies have just come out of the oven at each of their store locations." It;'s called the Specialty’s Warm CookieRadar, and it should provide you with seconds of fun.

We recommend the black and white cookie. Unless you don't like white chocolate, in which case you must be a raging weirdo.

[Broke-Ass, via Eater]

General Mills announced it will reduce the amount of sugar in its children's cereals starting next year. They didn't give specifics as to how, but Lucky Charms, Trix, Cocoa Puffs and other brands will head into single-digits for grams per serving. "The reduction ... doesn't represent perfection but it represents improvement," said Kelly Brownell, ,the director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University. Alas, the fat kid inside us just died a little. (Amy Crocker)

Now that autumn is in the air, the Mission is too clammy and cold, the Avenues are too foggy, and the Marina is too the Marina. So, why not spend your Thursday night in the lovely, twinkly, high-rise building-y downtown area. It simply crackles at night. And it's chic. And it has a good mix of San Francisco ilk. And there's no better venue than 111 Minna, who will be hosting some of the city's best gastronomic sweet treats.

Starting at 7 p.m. at 111 Minna, Sugar Rush: A Benefit for Spark's Youth Apprenticeship Programs will feature desert tastings from such luminous eateries as Boulevard, Chez Panisse, Michael Mina, Range, Recchiuti Confections, Sibby's Cupcakery, and Humphry Slocombe.

Tickets range from $50 to $60, which is a total deal. In addition to the artisan sugar rush you'll feel at this place, you ticket price goes to Spark.

What is Spark? Well, it's billed as "the only program in the nation addressing the dropout crisis by re-engaging at-risk middle school students in their education with individualized, hands-on apprenticeships."

If you care about today's youth and/or the care of your sweet tooth, you will come to Sugar Rush.

What: Sugar Rush: A Benefit for Spark's Youth Apprenticeship Programs
Date: Tonight, November 12
Time: 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Where: 111 Minna Gallery (at Second Street)
Tickets: $50 if purchased online or $60 at the door

Tamara Palmer at SF Weekly revives the OMG-I-TOTALLY-LOOOVE-BACON-TOO trend with a top-five list of surprisingly tasty-sounding bacon-based sweet treats. All of which you can find here in San Francisco. Palmer counts down with: 5) Bacon marshmallows at Perbacco, 4) Peanut butter-chocolate-bacon cupcakes from 4505 Meats, 3) Maple-bacon latte at Pirate Cat Radio, 2) Lori's peanut brittle at Humphry Slocomb, and 1)... well, you'll have to read the original post to find out what won the top spot. However, not every reader is thrilled with this meaty list. As SF Weekly commenter "Shannon" complains, "This makes me really sad. Dessert is the last bastion of the vegetarian. This is a lazy choice for chefs and bakers; you don't need to add bacon to make something salty-sweet. I expect more from our creative Bay Area cooking community."