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The SoMa Building That Houses Marlowe Might Get Torn Down to Build a Five-Story Building, Complicating Life for Marlowe

Plans surfaced last week to tear down the 500 Brannan Street building that’s home to the decade-old bistro Marlowe, creating some uncertainty for Marlowe, which may have to become a pop-up or even move.

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This Week In Food: La Connessa Makes a Big Splash on Potrero Hill

A Ju-Ni partner has just opened an Italian restaurant in Merced Manor; the team from Spruce has just opened a huge and sleek new Italian spot on Potrero Hill; and Blue Whale, the new Cow Hollow spot from Empress by Boon chef Ho Chee Boon, opens tonight.

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Mister Jiu's Alums to Open New 'Izakaya-Like' Chinese Restaurant, Four Kings

A space at the edge of both Chinatown and the Financial District is going to become a permanent home for Four Kings, the nostalgic Cantonese and Hong Kongese pop-up from former Mister Jiu's chefs Franky Ho and Mike Long.

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Fisherman’s Wharf Restaurants Fishermen’s Grotto and Tarantino’s Both Face Eviction Over Unpaid Rent

Two more historic Fisherman's Wharf seafood restaurants may be biting the dust, as the 88-year-old Fishermen’s Grotto No. 9 and the 77-year-old Tarantino’s have both received eviction notices for unpaid back rent.

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Trumer Opening Its First US Taproom In Berkeley, With an Oktoberfest Grand Opening on October 7

The 400-year-old Austrian beer Trumer Pils is opening its first-ever US taproom in Berkeley next weekend, and celebrating with an Oktoberfest party that will feature some of their other Bavarian-inspired lagers (and costume contests).

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Humpday Headlines: SF Restaurants Say They're Cleaning Up Vandalism Constantly

The vandalism problem for SF restaurants is huge and costly; Berkeley police chased armed robbery suspects into Oakland, where they crashed a car; and two Oakland residents were arrested in Fresno County with $600K worth of meth and fentanyl.

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Legendary Tiki Bar Trad’r Sam Has Closed Indefinitely, Ownership Dispute Clearly Afoot

The freaky tiki bar Trad’r Sam is by all accounts the oldest continuously operating tiki bar in SF, but it’s currently “closed until further notice,” and court records show a hurricane of a legal battle is underway for control of the establishment.

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This Week In Food: A Downtown Italian Stalwart Calls It Quits

Downtown favorite Barbacco is closing next week after 14 years, Collina debuts on Nob Hill, and Bandit finally soft-opens next to Dolores Park.

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The Richmond's Prik Hom and Noodle In a Haystack Both Honored on New York Times Restaurant List

The New York Times has updated its nationwide Restaurant List for 2023, and two new San Francisco restaurants have been added, replacing two that were on the list last year.

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Elderly SF Woman Suing McDonald's Over Scalding Coffee In Similar Lawsuit to One From Early 90s

McDonald's still apparently serves their drive-thru coffee exceedingly hot, and a San Francisco woman is claiming that a poorly affixed lid on a coffee cup, served to her at the Fillmore McDonald's, led to her getting serious burns, and she's now suing.

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38-Year-Old Oakland Vietnamese Restaurant Le Cheval Closing Permanently, Citing Crime Concerns

Oakland Vietnamese restaurant Le Cheval has been doing business at Clay and Tenth streets since 1985, but will shutter permanently on September 30, with the owner blaming crime for the shutdown.

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Famed Pizzaiolo and Restaurateur Chris Bianco Brings His Talents to Carneros Resort In Napa

The James Beard Award-winning chef behind the wildly acclaimed Pizzeria Bianco in Phoenix is headed to the Bay Area to open his first restaurant here this fall.

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SF's Shuggie's and Noodle In a Haystack Named Best New Restaurants By Bon Appetit

It's that time of year again, and Bon Appetit has just revealed its Best New Restaurants of 2023 — seeing fit to include two from San Francisco this time around.

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Former Arinell Pizza Space on Valencia Street Is Getting a Black-Owned Coffee Roaster Shop

A second location of SoMa’s Sextant Coffee Roasters will fill the void left by Valencia Street late-night pizza place Arinell Pizza, with an opening date of late next month.

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Cliff House Revitalization Moves Forward, Will Include Restaurants From Team Behind Trestle and The Vault

Finally we get word that a contract has been signed, and a San Francisco native with experience revitalizing landmark properties will be leading the project, with help from SF-based Hi Neighbor Hospitality Group.

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Fancy Food Hall In IKEA-Anchored Mall Gets Fancier With Help From Noma Chef

Saluhall, the food hall that's being planned for the IKEA shopping center on mid-Market, may be sort of amazing when it finally comes together. And today we're learning that the co-owner of hugely acclaimed Copenhagen restaurant Noma, Claus Meyer, is going to be opening a bakery there.

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Husband and Wife Team Behind Sleeper Sonoma Hit Animo to Open Casual Roadside Spot Golden Bear Station

The couple behind one of Sonoma's most lauded and talked-about restaurants of the last couple of years, Animo, is expanding with a second spot that promises to be bigger, busier, and cheaper.

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The Dorian Is Closing In the Marina After Eight Years, Following Halloween Bash

Marina brunch and martini spot The Dorian will be flipping into a new concept next year under a new owner, but it will still be a cocktail-heavy Marina restaurant-bar where people get day-drunk on weekends.

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California Fast-Food Workers Will Be Paid $20/Hour Next Year, Under New Deal

A super-size pay raise is coming to fast food workers in California next year, as labor groups just pressured fast food franchises into a deal that would establish a $20 hourly minimum wage for crew at fast food restaurants.

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Good Luck Gato, a Mexican-Japanese 'Izakaya Cantina,' Set to Take Over Former Hopscotch Space In Oakland This Week

A new culinary mashup concept is getting set to open in Oakland's Uptown, taking over the space from beloved Japanese-influenced diner Hopscotch, which shuttered in June after 10 years.

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Square Outage Cost Bay Area Businesses Thousands; Company Says It Will Publish Full Report on the Cause

Square and its parent company Block have apologized for a nationwide outage on Thursday that impacted businesses' ability to collect customer payments, but one can easily see how an outage like this is not the same as when Instagram goes down.

Arts & Entertainment

Berkeley Rapper Lyrics Born Now Has a Cooking Show, And He’ll Even Cook for You Next Week

Callin’ out to all area crew: Berkeley-based hip-hop legend Lyrics Born has started an online cooking show, and you can even sample his food at a pop-up next week at a Maui fire benefit in Oakland.

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Not a Shocker: NFT-Backed Restaurant In Salesforce Park Is Not Happening

It seemed like a stretch from the start, but now we have confirmation that the dual Japanese restaurants planned for one of the larger spaces atop the Transbay Transit Center, are joining the graveyard of dead SF restaurant projects.

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Anchor Brewing Employees Launch GoFundMe to Buy Brewery, Campaign Makes Half of Its Goal in Two Days

Community money is pouring in to the Anchor Brewing Company employees’ bid to buy the brewery after its August closure, as a GoFundMe campaign has hit more than half its goal in just two days.

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Cellarmaker Brewing Opens Its New Taproom and Pizza Restaurant In Oakland

Growing craft brewery Cellarmaker, which began life in a small space in SoMa a decade ago and has since expanded with a Berkeley-based brewing operation and some highly acclaimed Detroit-style pizzas in the Mission, has just debuted its much-anticipated Jack London Square brewpub.