After a twenty-year run, the dining room at the Ritz-Carlton shuttered last month to make way for a "less formal, more approachable" concept. Yesterday, Inside Scoop followed up with a few more details on the forthcoming reopening from Chef Ron Siegel and company. Naturally, the first order of business was to drop the stuffy "Dining Room at the Ritz-Carlton" moniker in favor of something more slick and modern. Enter: Parallel 37, which is both San Francisco's latitude and Siegel's new name for "a bar that has action and life in it, and not a place that's hush-hush." more ›

That's right. SFist classed up its act last Friday when we jumped into a cab, threw our hair back, and deadpanned to the driver, "Take us to the Ritz." Yes, we went to the famed and supposedly inaccessible Mobil Five-Star awarded The Ritz-Carlton Bar and Dining Room, and thank God we did. It was remarkable -- surprisingly so. more ›