SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Mina Opens Pabu-Chan, a New Sake Tasting 'Jewel Box' In Plaza of 101 California Just outside the doors of PABU, the 11-year-old izakaya that Michael Mina opened in the base of 101 California, there is a new separate sake bar and private event space, and it's called Pabu-Chan.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: New Bars Coming Next Year The Quince and Cotogna team is opening Bar Coto down the street, the former Aphotic team has a cocktail bar coming down the pike, and Nyum Bai/Lunette chef Nite Yun has published a cookbook, all in This Week In Food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Group Behind Bourbon & Branch and Rickhouse Opens New Bar With Rotating Globally Inspired Menus A new cocktail destination debuts in North Beach today called Long Weekend, and its menu and decor will change on a rotating basis, focusing on a single global city at a time.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Amado’s on Valencia Street Has Quietly Reopened, Though Just on Weekends for Now The bar and live music venue Amado’s closed permanently two years ago, but is now somehow open again, with a soft opening schedule of just weekend nights, and food only on Fridays and Saturdays (for now).
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Upscale Billiards Lounge, With Cocktails, Debuts In the Mission District A new upscale billiards lounge with a cocktail bar has just opened on Mission Street, in the space that was formerly home to ECHO nightclub.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Haight Street Bar Hobson’s Choice to Be Resurrected as The Green Heron, From the Red Tail Wine Bar Team Something’s flying into the former Hobson’s Choice bar location at Haight and Clayton streets, a new concept called The Green Heron, from the same team behind SF’s two locations of The Red Tail Beer and Wine Bar.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink One of the Coolest Tucked-Away Bar Spaces In the City Comes Alive Again Near Union Square In some very good news for fans of the former Benjamin Cooper and its cozy, hidden-from-the-street space near Union Square, it has reopened as a new bar with a similarly sexy vibe.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Castro's First Women's Sports Bar, Rikki's, Opens Wednesday A bar dedicated primarily to celebrating women's professional and collegiate sports, which also doubles as the first lesbian bar to open in the Castro in decades, makes its debut on Wednesday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Haight Street’s Trax Bar Is Closing, But Will Reopen as ‘Mary’s on Haight’ A story about a longtime neighborhood queer bar closing during Pride Month isn't great. But in the case of Trax in the Haight, it will reopen soon as a "straight-friendly gay dive bar" called Mary's.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission District’s Beauty Bar Reopening Soon, Getting Its Mural Fully Restored We’re looking at a June reopening date for Mission Street’s beloved kitschy nightclub Beauty Bar, which will be under new ownership, and it’s getting its popular mural redone by the same artist who originally painted it ten years ago.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Huge New Sports Bar, Splash, Opens Friday Next to Chase Center One week ahead of the big All Star Game, the massive new sports bar Splash at Thrive City has opened, with 30,000 square feet of space for eating, drinking, game watching, and game playing.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Bar and Seafood Spot, Bar Maritime, Coming to Former Burritt Room Near Union Square This week we get some new restaurant news about a space in a historic hotel next to the Stockton Tunnel that has sat empty for a few years.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lower Haight's New Cocktail Spot Stoa Lands on National Best New Bars List Stoa, the one-year-old cocktail bar with food in the Lower Haight from the team behind Nopalito, just landed on a national list of the best new cocktail bars in the country.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Ginger's Rises Again The FiDi's only gay bar returns, Fiorella expands to Noe Valley, and longtime Mission stalwart Regalito is going to become something new in a matter of months.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Castro and North Beach Both Welcome New Bars New bars have opened in both the Castro and North Beach neighborhoods, Lazy Bear is set to close this summer for a renovation, and the Chronicle's critic sees a lot of greige at RH's Palm Court restaurant.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Bar in the Former Home of The Uptown Delayed in Light of Owner’s ‘Serial Evictor’ Past There’s some community outrage over how the building owner whose rent increase did in Capp Street bar The Uptown is now himself opening a bar there, in what looks like an owner move-in eviction of a nightclub.
Arts & Entertainment The Stud Announces Its Grand Opening at Its New SoMa Location Will Be April 20 SF’s oldest LGBTQ bar is dragging itself back onto the scene, as they’ve announced a grand reopening date of Saturday, April 20 at their new Folsom and Seventh street location, with liquor licenses and entertainment permits secured.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New 'Micro-Club' Called Zhuzh Opening on Nob Hill The former Soda Popinski's space on Nob Hill is coming back alive this weekend, and it's going to be a new miniature club and bar called Zhuzh, hearkening back to a previous era when SF bars often hosted small-scale dance parties.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland Dive Bar Ruby Room Set To Reopen Under New Ownership Friday Night The red-hued Lake Merritt-area Oakland bar Ruby Room closed New Year's Eve, but has reopened in sputters since, and reopens permanently on Friday night under a new local ownership team.
Arts & Entertainment New Comedy Club and Cocktail Lounge The Function Set to Open on Mid-Market A local comedian is opening a new comedy club this spring in a former dive bar space near Market and Van Ness in San Francisco, and it will be called The Function.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Halfway Club Opens Today in Crocker-Amazon’s Former Broken Record Space The former Broken Record bar at Geneva Avenue and Edinburgh Street will be officially reborn as the Halfway Club when it opens Wednesday night, with a kitchen, full bar, and a “70’s dad’s basement bar” vibe.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Upscale Cocktail Bar Moves In Upstairs From 123-Year-Old Bus Stop Saloon One of San Francisco's oldest bars, the 123-year-old Bus Stop Saloon in Cow Hollow, gains a swanky upstairs neighbor tonight, and it's called Left Door.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Cocktail Bar With Food From Nopalito Vets, Stoa, Debuts In Lower Haight A new cocktail and snack spot from a team of industry vets has just debuted in the corner space that was formerly home to Black Sands Brewery, and, briefly, Fort Point's Lower Haight outpost.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Upcoming Openings of The Dawn Club and Madarae Show Faith In Downtown Nightlife Returning This Summer/Fall In case you hadn't heard, two new nightclubs are headed for downtown San Francisco, with the owners banking on the fact that the wholesale-abandonment-of-SF story has been overblown.
Arts & Entertainment Mini Golf Venue Tipsy Putt (Featuring Secret Speakeasy) Expands to Emeryville, With Plans for Sunnyvale Tee off at the nine-hole miniature golf course and enjoy the patio areas, private party rooms, and "speakeasy" backroom called the Trophy Club (which needs a password, but don't worry, it's available online).
