SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Tiki Bar Pagan Idol, From Bourbon & Branch Team, Debuts Downtown The ever growing Future Bars empire is growing again as Eater brings word that they've surprised us with a brand new addition, Pagan Idol (375 Bush Street at Belden Place). It's a Tiki
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Treasury Brings High-Style Cocktails To The Financial District Way downtown amongst the banks, a handsome new cocktail spot opens tonight in a space that was once home to Cable Car Clothiers at Sansome and Bush. It's called The Treasury, and it's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Orbit Room Reopens Thursday Night! After the death of owner Jay Johnson, the Orbit Room abruptly closed this spring, marking the end of 20 years in business and causing a lot of sadness around the neighborhood. But just
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Enter Whitechapel, A Very Steampunk Gin Bar Spin-Off From Smuggler's Cove Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Whitechapel has got to be among the best. With 350 varieties of the botanical spirit including vintage and rare selections
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tsk/Tsk, A Temporary, 'Low-Brow' Watering Hole, Opens Friday On Divis Earlier we mentioned that former Bourbon & Branch guys Justin Lew and Ian Scalzo were going to be doing something they've done in the past take over a bar, and while taking some
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Bar House Rules Debuts In Former Pesce Spot In Russian Hill There's a new drinking and eating establishment to put on your radar in the Russian Hill environs: House Rules (2227 Polk Street), brought to you by the chef-owner of Hog & Rocks and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Experience Some Serious Cocktail Geekery At Benjamin Cooper, A New Bar From Two Former Big Barmen Among local drinkers, the short-lived, ultra-tiny, always delicious Tenderloin bar Big remains a minorly mythic thing in our memories ephemeral as a pop-up, gushed over, and gone before its time. Well, it's seen
Arts & Entertainment Exclusive: Heklina Talks About Mother, The New Incarnation Of Trannyshack At The Oasis Earlier in the year, local drag star Heklina announced that she would be retiring the name "Trannyshack" after careful consideration, and after getting significant flack from a younger generation of fans. As she
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Manresa Returns To Ring In New Year With our list of The 12 Best New Bars Of 2014 out and a respite from rain, who knows what could happen this weekend. The big news is that Manresa, which suffered a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 12 Best New Bars Of 2014 San Francisco remains a stellar drinking town. And after helping lead the charge in the last decade alongside our brethren in New York in the cocktail renaissance, our bar scene is settling into
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Opening Today: Brewcade, The Castro's New Arcade/Beer Bar You may need to sit down for this: The long-awaited vintage video arcade bar of your dreams opens in the Castro tonight, ushering in a new era in which you will have to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now Open: Bond, In The Former Esta Noche Space While we were distracted by Thanksgiving, the team from Wish Bar and Lounge unlocked the doors to the restored 3079 16th Street space, formerly Esta Noche, which they're calling Bond. Bizarrely, despite being
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Basement Opens In 222 Hyde 'Rave Cave' Space 222 Hyde, which the SFBG lovingly called a rave cave, closed last year due to a change in ownership of the building plus some trouble with their liquor license. Before the team left,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Brewcade Opens In The Castro December 10 And Here's The Full Vintage Arcade Game List The opening of Brewcade (2200 Market Street at Sanchez) the Castro's upcoming beer-and-arcade-game bar from the owner of Blackbird is finally almost upon us. Today they announce an opening date of December 10,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Jackalope Debuts On Polk, An Update on Aveline, and More There's probably already a line forming at the new Hapa Ramen, even though it doesn't open to the public until Sunday, but there's actually plenty else that's been happening in the local food
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink DIY Brewhouse Diving Dog Opens In Oakland, Beer Nerds Rejoice Around 3 p.m. on Friday, Oakland's Diving Dog Brewhouse posted indisputable proof that they have officially opened and are serving at least one customer. According to Diving Dog's Facebook, the lucky first
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Owner Of New Alameda Bar, Capone's Speakeasy, Gets Arrested At His Own Opening Party Mark Strachan might still be hungover from what sounds like a wild party last Saturday, August 30 at his new bar Capone’s Speakeasy in Alameda. At the very least, he's probably still
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Les Clos, A Wine Bar From Saison's Mark Bright, Opens September 20 Mark Bright, partner and wine director at Saison (178 Townsend), is just about ready to unveil his new, down-the-street wine bar spinoff Les Clos (234 Townsend), which we previously talked about back in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Longtime Berkeley Bar Spats, Shuttered For Five Years, May Reopen This Fall UC Berkeley alums and longtime Berkeley residents know the legend of Spats, the dusty but homey Shattuck Avenue bar (known as Oleg's back in the 70s), which has always been a bizarre, sprawling
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now Open: Natoma Cabana, In the Former John Colins Space Replacing the defunct John Colins at 90 Natoma this week is Natoma Cabana, a new "one-stop vacation spot" from local chef and entrepreneur Dennis Leary. After closing his beloved Canteen last summer after
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now Open In the Mission: ABV, A Cocktail Bar From Beretta and Bourbon & Branch Alums Open as of yesterday on 16th Street, in the space formerly occupied by Tokyo Go Go, is new cocktail and bar-bite spot, ABV (3174 16th Street). We told you about the project almost
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Interval, A Bookish New Bar For Mensa Nerds, Opens At Fort Mason On Monday Have you heard about the Long Now Foundation? It's an 18-year-old concern, based in San Francisco, whose focus is on "long-term thinking," as in the next 10,000 years. Their projects, so far,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SRO, A Tiny New Bar From The Big Team, Opens In SoMa A lot of cocktail fans mourned the loss of cozy Tenderloin spot Big, which had to give up the ghost far too quickly last year when the building it was in was sold.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Range Team Opens Third Rail, A New Cocktail Spot, In Dogpatch As of last night, The Third Rail (628 20th Street near 3rd) is open in Dogpatch. The long awaited bar spinoff from the Range team of bar manager Jeff Lyon and chef Phil
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Blueprint Taproom, A New Beer Spot, Now Open In SoMa Check it out, SoMa workers and Design District denizens: You've got a new after-work beer bar to check out. Blueprint Taproom just debuted in the space at 680 8th Street (near Brannan) that
