This week, the SFist food desk had news on Tsk/Tsk, an interim bar takeover from the Bourbon and Branch team, debuting tonight on Divisadero. Meanwhile on Market Street, there was word of minor damage from a fire — likely the result of a hot oven at next-door Hecho — that closed Brewcade's arcade beer garden very briefly. The damage was minor, the doors are back open, and the game is back on. And, in grocery store news, SFist went ahead and ranked the sketchiness of various SF Safeways. You're welcome. Now, on to the rest of the food blogosphere.

First up, the new menu for the grill portion of Bender's Bar & Grill. That's available thanks to the investigative news team at Uptown Almanac, and it's open for business under the name "Counter Offer." The beloved "seitan cheesefake" is no longer, though tater tots and burgers remain.

For three years, Ted Wilson and his executive chef Scott Peterson have operated Fine & Rare as an Off the Grid endeavor, and then as a stall at The Hall. Now Hoodline reports that next month they'll open their 35-seat brick and mortar right off Polk. The place will be a fast-casual concept they're calling a “Northern California comfort cafe" with an emphasis on local seafood and wine. Weirdly, they don't have the wine yet, but may partner with neighboring Empire Room.

Matt Semmelhack, owner of the restaurant group behind AQ, TBD, and Mélange Market, is nearing his debut for his biggest project yet, in the Twitter building. Bon Marché, Hoodline reports, is shooting for an opening during the first week of August. Inspired by Paris' Marais neighborhood, the new brasserie will be open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner with plenty of cocktails and a raw bar.

News from the team behind Fat Angel, Stones Throw, and most recently Trestle — which now has three Michael Bauer stars — is that they've inked their own deal for a big Mid-Market lease. The Business Times reports that Hi Neighbor Restaurant group, as they're called, will occupy the ground-floor retail space at the sparkly new 100 Van Ness high-rise apartment building. It looks like they'll be opening two concepts there, but it's all TBA.

Grubstake, gift to many a late night eater, has a new owner in Nicholas Pigott (who also owns Mayes Oyster House). “We’re going to take over and run it as is,” Pigott tells Inside Scoop, “Nobody is going to notice a difference. We’re going to maintain the status quo.”

Testing the limits of your liver, the already massive SF Beer Week — which lasts 10 days as opposed to a lame, normal 7-day week — plans to be even more massive. The Business Times has some more details on the coming 2016 expansion. In other sudsy news, Taps Social House is no more, as Hoodline reports. It remains to be seen what will become of the big space on Broadway.

Gardenias, the Woodward's Garden of the future, has revealed a few more details about their plans for Pacific Heights. Co-owners Dana Tommasino and Margie Conard tell Eater that the spot will employ a commercial rotisserie, which the space has thanks to outgoing tenants Roostertail. Expect meats like whole herb-stuffed goat or lamb, though not just yet.

Last, and this is a real shame, it seems as if pretty much everyone at BDK has left the project according to Inside Scoop. Yeah, BDK just opened in March, but it seems that the owner, Kimpton, lost the contract for the Hotel Monaco, which housed the bar and restaurant. This all happened virtually overnight and it's now the Marker Hotel. We'll keep you updated on where folks like Chicago transplant chef Heather Terhune (formerly of “Top Chef”) and ace barman Kevin Diedrich (a Chronicle Bar Star who has bounced around more than a bit) end up next.

This Week In Reviews

Monsieur Michael Bauer’s mid-week is of Elite Cafe with new chef James London in the kitchen. Giving us a bit of a history and setting the stakes, Bauer writes that "I had high hopes that London, who grew up in South Carolina and worked at Co-op in the Hotel on Rivington and several other high-profile restaurants in New York, had transformed the menu at this New Orleans-style restaurant that started life in 1928 as the Lincoln Grill and became the Elite Cafe in 1981." Alas, only the first dish — sugar snap peas with truffled goat cheese and Green Goddess dressing — seems to have hit the right note. "In all, the experience was a little disappointing," Bauer confides, awarding two stars.

For his upcoming Sunday review, Bauer raves about the new Belgian spot, Belga, in Cow Hollow, in a way that he never raved about its predecessor in that space, Cafe Des Amis. He loves all the beer and pretty much all the food he tried, including the sausage, salads, and mussels, and the carbonade, which he describes as "a Flemish beer stew with big chunks of beef that remind me of my mother’s pot roast." All in all: three stars.

Peter Lawrence Kane of the Weekly continues to file his reviews ahead of the pack, for better or worse, and this time it's a positive take on Dirty Water. There, in "Market Square," he and his "dining mates" were treated to "a fantastic meat parade." An interesting standout was dessert that could have been an "outtake from the Mad Men finale," according to Kane. These "Floating Islands" are "meringue-and-custard delights with crème anglaise, slathered in almond slivers as if they'd been dipped like ice cream cones."