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).
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hi Felicia Spinoff Wine Bar, Called Sluts, Opens In SoMa The promised wine bar offshoot of Oakland's "vulgar fine-dining" outfit Hi Felicia has just opened in the former Terroir wine shop/bar space on Folsom Street — and they're serving Lean Cuisines and Chips Ahoy to accompany your natural wine.
Arts & Entertainment Kilowatt Has Reopened, Redesigned and Under New Ownership Longtime Mission District punk-rock-sports-biker-dive bar Kilowatt has reopened under its new ownership team of ex-Bottom of the Hill and Thee Parkside bartenders, and here are some first-look pics at the new Kilowatt that will soon be a live music venue again.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Upscale, Italian-Inspired Cocktail Spot Opens Today In FiDi A swanky new cocktail and snack bar is opening today in a new spot that was never home to a bar or restaurant before, just above Clay Street in the Financial District.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bourbon & Branch's Bar Group Is Opening Another Speakeasy Nightclub on Market Street, The Dawn Club This winter we shall see the opening of a new bar and jazz venue from the group behind Bourbon & Branch and other cocktail spots. And it's a revival of a legendary speakeasy turned legit nightclub from the 1930s and 40s, in the same spot where that venue resided.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New 70s-Themed Cocktail Lounge, For the Record, Opens In Cow Hollow A couple of Future Bars alums, Barry John Walsh and Janice Bailon, are bringing some 1970s disco and funk flair to the Cow Hollow space that was formerly home to Michael Mina's Test Kitchen (and more recently U:Dessert Story).
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Former Blind Cat Bar on 24th Street Gets New Life as Ruth's at Treat Street Two years into the pandemic, there are signs that SF's always thriving bar scene is bouncing back to life, even in some of the dustier corners where things went quiet in Spring 2020.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Key Klub, a New Wine and Beer Bar, Softly Opens in Lower Nob Hill Once upon a time, the space at 856 Bush Street was a bar called the Key Klub. It lived in that space from the 1940s or 50s until 1987, when it closed. The place was revived in 2014 as beer spot Hopwater Distribution, and now, the Key Klub returns in a new incarnation.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Coin-Op Game Bar/Orson Space Reopens As Thriller Social Club The former Orson space in SoMa, more recently Coin-Op Game Bar, reopens Friday as a new but similar arcade-bar concept called Thriller Social Club, with a new food and cocktail menu and some throwback games inspired by Playland at the Beach.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fancy Japanese-Inspired Cocktail Spot Iris Debuts Thursday on Upper Polk In the former La Folie Lounge space at 2310 Polk Street, the neighborhood is getting a new high-end cocktail spot this week — the sister bar to Nisei, the Japanese tasting-menu restaurant from chef David Yoshimura that debuted in the La Folie space in August.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Nightclub Called Lion's Den Opens Friday in Chinatown I bet you didn't think you'd be reading this news this week: A new nightclub is having its soft opening (in the midst of the pandemic) on Friday in Chinatown, and it's attempting to harken back to the glitz of 1950s-era nightlife in the neighborhood.
