SF Restaurants, Food & Drink One of the Coolest Tucked-Away Bar Spaces In the City Comes Alive Again Near Union Square In some very good news for fans of the former Benjamin Cooper and its cozy, hidden-from-the-street space near Union Square, it has reopened as a new bar with a similarly sexy vibe.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Brucato, a New Restaurant and Distillery Tasting Room, Opening Next Month In the Mission A trendy new local maker of excellent amari — Italian-style, herbal digestif and aperitif liqueurs — Brucato Amaro, has set an opening date for their first tasting room, which is doubling as a full-service restaurant and cocktail bar.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Six Best New Bars In San Francisco, 2024 San Francisco always has been a drinking town, and 2024 brought a collection of cool new watering holes in which to wet one's whistle — and one where you can also get your dance on.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Six Holiday Cocktail Pop-Ups and Special Menus to Check Out Before Xmas It's become a bona fide thing to host a holiday-themed pop-up or "experience" in your bar for the month of December, and that is happening once again at a bunch of spots around San Francisco and beyond.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Five Best Cozy Cocktail Spots In SF, Including Three With Fireplaces Tis the season, regardless of what you celebrate, to hunker down in a cozy place and warm yourself with a drink — which sometimes has the added benefit of numbing you to the increasingly cruel world outside.
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 Trick Dog Rings In 10 Years With a 'Museum' of Its Menu Artistry, and a Drive to Keep On Innovating Even in a national landscape littered with creative cocktail bars, with a new-school cocktail culture that is now two decades old and spawning still newer schools, San Francisco's Trick Dog remains a singular thing, and place.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Liliana May Be SF's Best New Date Spot For the Cocktail-Inclined San Francisco is stupid with great cocktail bars — though sadly we have fewer than when a pandemic decided to kill some off. But how many actually double as great date spots where you can sit down, hear each other, and get a complete meal?
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dalva's Bar-Within-a-Bar, The Hideout, Swings Back Open For the First Time In 2.5 Years Fans of good cocktails in cozy spaces can rejoice, at long last, over the reopening of Dalva's Hideout, the separate, semi-secret bar back behind Dalva on 16th Street that hasn't welcomed guests since early 2020.
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 To-Go Cocktails Become Fully Legal Statewide on Jan. 1, But With a Bunch of New Rules That Make the Law Pointless On Saturday, the new California law making to-go cocktails a fully legal and legit thing statewide will take effect — and it will stay in effect for five years, pending extensions.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Five Holiday Cocktail Spots In San Francisco For Your Yuletide Imbibing Pleasure It's that time of year again, and you may as well get drunk. San Francisco usually does it up nicely during the holiday season, and this year things should be extra festive given how dismal last year was.
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 News Bartenders Behind Benjamin Cooper, Big, Open The Douglas Room On Friday Renown for tiny Tenderloin cocktail bar Big has outlived it by several years, but it remains a byword in the cocktail world and lives on in two bartenders who made it what it
