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.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Update: SF Supervisors Approve Phase 2 Variance to Reopen Bars In July San Francisco's Board of Supervisors is considering seeking a variance from the state in order to give the county health officer more leeway in including certain types of businesses in the upcoming phases of reopening.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland Restaurant Openings: Magpie, Viridian, and Kitchen Story Make Debuts With the holidays behind us, new restaurants and bars are starting to emerge out from under their construction dust on both sides of the Bay. And in Oakland, there are three debuts to talk about this week.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Modern Irish Cocktail Bar Casements Debuts In the Mission, With Meat Pies The newest addition to SF's bar scene is an Irish bar, but it's not the kind that you think.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dear Mom Pivots, Becomes Artist-Friendly Darger Bar Dear San Francisco, The bar known as Dear Mom is no more. In its place, with a fresh coat of paint and new vibe, is Darger Bar a bar with a value-centric
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 98 Turk/Biig Debuts In Tenderloin, Offering Reservation-Only Bespoke Drinks In Former 21 Club Space It will be come as both a welcome haven for cocktail lovers on one of the rougher corners of the Tenderloin as well as one of the clearest examples of neighborhood gentrification in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two New Attached Bars Arrive On Folsom Street In SoMa: Trademark and Copyright Taking over the former El Capitan and Carafe spaces on Folsom between 7th and 8th dual spaces that were also formerly home to Radius, and Julie's Supper Club before that are
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Step Inside Tequila Mockingbird, Now Open In SoMa Having made a name for himself as a chef at the tiny and much loved Canteen, Dennis Leary has spent the last few years as more of a businessman and bar owner. He&
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Anina, A Bright Colorful Cocktail Bar, Opens Today In Hayes Valley Flipper's Gourmet Hamburgers has become "Anina." The new cocktail bar, as Hoodline tells us comes from the owners of Brass Tacks, the bar right next door to what was
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now Open: New Tenderloin Cocktail Spot Rum & Sugar For your wintertime drinking pleasure, a brand new cocktail bar has just debuted in the former Castle Club (823 Geary Street) space in the heart of the Tenderloin, and it's called
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dada Bar Triumphs, Reopens In New Larger Post Street Spot Back in the summer there was a NIMBY kerfuffle downtown in which some three dozen residents of the Ritz-Carlton Residences were trying to block the liquor license transfer of Dada Bar, the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Woods Beer Co. Opening Chill Treasure Island Beer Beach You may know Woods Beer Co. for their creative brews like Yerba Mate IPA at their Polk Street, Oakland, and Dolores Park adjacent locations (that last one being actually the first and née
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now Open: Pacific Cocktail Haven, The Replacement Bar For Cantina Back in December many lamented the news that Latin-inflected cocktail spot Cantina, which has been going strong for most of the last decade just off Union Square, had been sold and would
