SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Saison Loses Chef Laurent Gras, Promises 'New Experience in 2020' Two-Michelin-starred Saison, which dropped down from three stars last year following the departure of chef and co-owner Joshua Skenes from day-to-day operations, is undergoing another transition as the new year begins.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chez Panisse To Lose Longtime Chef Cal Peternell In July After 22 years in the kitchen at Berkeley's landmark of California cuisine, Chez Panisse, chef Cal Peternell is leaving his post in the downstairs restaurant kitchen effective July 5. Peternell tells Inside Scoop
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Expanded Alembic Unveiled, Chefs Leave Keystone and Hog & Rocks, And More This week was full of food development, from the upcoming opening of Dat Spot on Potrero Hill, the rebranding of SliderBar as Ovok, and news about the new pastry chef at cruffin-famous Mr.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Le Colonial Wants To Be Relevant Again, Hires New Chef Longtime locals will recall the heady latter days of the dot-com boom when Le Colonial was one of the absolute hottest tickets in town. Back then, the Tiki-cool environs of the original Trader
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Acclaimed Chef Daniel Patterson Hires New Exec Chef At Coi, Will Be Stepping Back Next Year Highly decorated local chef Daniel Patterson, who's one of only two Bay Area chefs (the other is David Kinch) to be cited for his innovations in the Modernist Cuisine tome, is making the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chino Temporarily Closed, New Chef Moving In 16th Street dumpling spot Chino, which has been fairly popular since its 2014 opening but failed to fully impress the foodinistas when it came to their signature dumplings, is undergoing a revamp of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Head Baker Leaves Mr. Holmes Bakehouse Uh oh... Ry Stephen, the pastry chef/baker who created the cruffin and put uber-trendy Mr. Holmes Bakehouse on the map over the last year has parted ways with the Tenderloin bakery. As
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alta CA Chef Relocates To Outerlands Interesting news from the food scene today: The opening chef at Alta CA, Yoni Levy, who left the restaurant in April, has popped back up in the kitchen at Outerlands, signaling what could
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] Hapa Ramen Closed, Chef-Partner Richie Nakano Out In a somewhat surprising twist, chef Richie Nakano, who launched his Hapa Ramen brand through a series of pop-ups and a Ferry Plaza stand starting back in 2010, has been fired from his
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink <i>Top Chef</i> Alum Casey Thompson Leaves Aveline After Five Months One of the most hyped and anticipated new restaurants of the year has already lost its star chef: Casey Thompson, who's been toiling in Napa as a private chef for several years following
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Famed California Chef Jeremiah Tower Taking Over New York's Tavern On The Green Chef Jeremiah Tower, who made a name for himself in the Bay Area first behind the line at Chez Panisse and later as the chef-impresario of Stars in San Francisco, has decided to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Second Chef Shuffle In Six Months Happens at Outerlands What is going on at the Outer Sunset's premiere destination restaurant? Less than six months after Outerlands parted ways with Brett Cooper the chef who arguably put the restaurant on the foodinista map
