SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Very Large New Sports Bar From PCH Team Coming to Chase Center/Thrive City An enormous, two-level sports bar and entertainment complex is coming to Thrive City at the Chase Center early next year, and it will feature a beverage program from Pacific Cocktail Haven founder Kevin Diedrich.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Nightclub With Rooftop Bar, Dante's Inferno, May Be Coming to Former Destino Space on Mint Hill A new bar and nightclub serving Caribbean food, and featuring a rooftop cocktail lounge, is in the works at 1815 Market Street, near the Castro Safeway on Mint Hill.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Saison Cellar & Wine Bar Opening In June In SoMa A new wine bar offshoot of Saison is opening this spring a block away from the Michelin two-star restaurant on Townsend Street, and at the helm is Saison co-founder and sommelier Mark Bright.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Owners of Beer Hall On Polk Take Over Former Mikkeller Brewpub Near Union Square The space that was home to beer bar and gastropub Mikkeller at the foot of Mason Street is going to be coming alive again soon, once again as a brewpub.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Owners to Transform Former Broken Record Bar Into The Halfway Club, a Cocktail Bar With Food The former Broken Record space in Crocker-Amazon will be reborn this September as The Halfway Club, a new project from a pair of industry vets.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ittoryu Gozu Chef to Open Japanese-Style Hi-Fi Bar In SoMa With Grilled Meats, Cocktails Wagyu steak specialist Marc Zimmerman and his Ittoryu Gozu chef de cuisine are set to open a casual offshoot restaurant called Yokai, in the former Salt House space in SoMa.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Virgil's Space Next to El Rio to Become Space-Themed Bar Called Mothership The former Virgil's Sea Room is going from vaguely seafaring-themed to space-travel themed, and the new name for the place will be Mothership.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Slate Bar On 16th Street To Become New Spot Called Spirit Animal Mission bar/nightclub Slate appears to be in the process of changing hands and changing names, though the bar remains open as Slate for the time being, and likely for several months.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission's Gashead Tavern to Become New-School Irish Bar Called Casement's Five-year-old English-styled gastropub Gashead Tavern (2351 Mission Street) is being taken over by a trio of local bar vets and transformed into the kind of modern Irish bar that exists in Ireland — craft cocktails and all.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Marina To Get A Second Country-Western Bar, This One With A Mechanical Bull Yee-haw? Westwood, a new country music bar from one of the guys behind The Brixton, Trademark & Copyright, Horsefeather, and Last Rites, is headed for the former Stock in Trade space on Lombard by late May.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 40th Floor Terrace Bar Opens Tonight At Loews Regency Hotel A new almost-rooftop cocktail bar with sweeping views of downtown and the Bay is opening tonight, Thursday, at the Loews Regency Hotel at Sansome and California. And it's now the highest-floor outdoor bar in SF.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Range Space To Be Revived As The Beehive, A 60s-Themed Cocktail Bar You may recall that when Range sadly called it quits on Valencia Street on New Year's Eve after 11 good years, owners Phil and Cameron West suggested they were holding onto the space
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Regarding Flowershop, Lazy Bear's Cocktail Bar Set To Open This Summer It's been more than six months since we heard wind of the fact that Lazy Bear chef-owner David Barzelay was plotting a craft cocktail bar with the restaurant's bar director Nicolas Torres. Now
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Coin-Op Game Room, A New Arcade Bar, Debuts In Former Drake/Orson Space Next Week We heard about it back in April, and it has finally arrived: Coin-Op Game Room, an arcade bar mini-chain launched in San Diego that opened a second location in Sacramento in 2015, will
Arts & Entertainment Beatbox To Be Reborn As Halcyon, A Nightclub And Multi-Purpose Venue Beatbox, the former gay nightspot on 11th Street that called it quits after five years in July, will get new life under the ownership of longtime SF impresario Gina Milano, formerly of Bambuddha
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yet Another Arcade Bar Heading For Former Orson/Drake Space On Fourth Once an elegant, buzzed-about restaurant with an industrial-chic aesthetic and headed by a celebrity chef, the space at 508 4th Street that was formerly Elizabeth Falkner's Orson will soon become Coin-Op Game Room,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Lexington Club Space Will Become A Cocktail Bar Called Wildhawk Well, ladies and gentlemen and genderqueer fans of the former Lexington Club, the worst thing you may have expected would happen to the onetime lesbian bar is happening: It's becoming a high-end cocktail
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Orbit Room Will Live Again! Fans of its craft cocktails and surprisingly excellent pizzas were devastated this past spring when The Orbit Room shut its doors abruptly after 20 years. Now we get the welcome news that some
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 Name For Bar Replacing Truck: The Wooden Nickel Following our report last week that Mission gay bar Truck is set to close fairly soon, a tipster sent in the public notice of the liquor license transfer which has the DBA for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink DNA Lounge Owner Snags Longtime Small Club Space At Fifth And Folsom The storied small club space at Fifth and Folsom which has been home to Annie's Social Club, the Covered Wagon Saloon, Cherry (the birthplace of the popular Bootie party) and most recently Qi
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Forgery, A New Craft Cocktail Spot, Coming To Former Sloane In SoMa Back in December we heard that the PlumpJack Group had moved in on the former Sloane nightclub space in SoMa (1525 Mission Street near 11th) with plans for a lounge of some kind,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Bar Guys From Tonic & Bullitt To Reopen Spats In Berkeley This Spring Two bar owners who just can't seem to get their fill of opening new bars, Ben Bleiman and Duncan Ley, are adding to their ever-growing portfolio once again, taking over the lease at
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 Old Devil Moon Will Bring Craft Beer To La Lengua A new beer bar and restaurant is headed for the Mission/Bernal border next year, and it's called Old Devil Moon. The folks at La Terraza on Mission and Cortland are retiring from
