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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.

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Chef Tyler Florence Will Be Reviving Those Two Cafes On Either Side of Union Square

The cafe spaces on either side of Union Square will almost surely be seeing some new life soon, and celebrity chef Tyler Florence is behind the project.

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New Cocktail Bar With Food From Nopalito Vets, Stoa, Debuts In Lower Haight

A new cocktail and snack spot from a team of industry vets has just debuted in the corner space that was formerly home to Black Sands Brewery, and, briefly, Fort Point's Lower Haight outpost.

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Splashy New Bar and Restaurant Holbrook House Opens In Downtown SF Next Week With Martini and Champagne Call Buttons

It always helps to have a gimmick when you're opening something new in this town, and the minds behind Holbrook House — the grand new restaurant opening September 6 in the old bank building at One Sansome — have come up with a clever one.

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Filipino Grocer Island Pacific Market Wants to Move in on Vacant Outer Mission Space

Can Alemany Boulevard handle two specialty Asian grocery stores within a mile of each other? The Filipino grocery chain Island Pacific Market thinks so, and has submitted applications to move into a vacant spot not far from the wildly popular H Mart.

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Croissant Maker Arsicault Bakery Heads to Cool New Building In Mission Rock

One of SF's main, acclaimed, go-to croissant bakeries, Arsicault, is set to open a third location in San Francisco next year in one of the new developments on the former ballpark parking lot property in Mission Bay/Mission Rock.

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Mission District Vegan Mexican Restaurant Gracias Madre Closes After 14 Years

Declaring it another victim of the pandemic's aftermath and the economic conditions in the Mission, the owners of Gracias Madre have shut the restaurant down for good.

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Meet the First 17 Pop-Ups That the City Will Pay to Live Rent-Free Downtown In Revitalization Effort

We learned in April that the city was offering to pay pop-ups as much as $8,000 to occupy vacant retail spaces downtown. We now know the first batch will include Devil’s Teeth Bakery, KALW, and a flea market called Sucka Flea.

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SF Police Union Calls Out Reem's In the Mission for Refusing to Serve Uniformed Cops

We've got another one of these controversies in which a Bay Area restaurant has made it a policy not to serve armed and uniformed police officers, and the SF Police Union is again up in arms.

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Michelin-Starred Chef of Empress By Boon to Open New Restaurant In the Marina Next Month

The acclaimed chef behind Empress By Boon, Ho Chee Boon, is opening a new, casual restaurant in the Marina District, and it's opening soon.

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Boom! Bissap Baobab Gets Their Liquor License After Year-Long Fight With NIMBY Neighbors

The new Mission Street location of Bissap Baobab opened nearly a year ago, and the neighbors were battling its alcohol licenses before it even opened. But the state just granted Bissap Baobab a full liquor license.

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New Badlands Manager Claims the 49-Year-Old Castro Nightclub Will Reopen By Halloween

We must, given the players involved, take this with a massive grain of salt. But the latest word from the man who is ostensibly going to be the new manager of Badlands in the Castro is that it will remain Badlands, and it's reopening in two months.

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NoPa's Automat Closing After Less Than Two Years

A well-received cafe, bakery, and restaurant in the NoPa neighborhood with Michelin pedigreed talent behind it, which had received a ton of advance press prior to its delayed 2021 opening, is closing its doors after just 21 months.

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OG Celebrity Chef Martin Yan to Revive M.Y. China in Chinatown

One of the Bay Area's original food celebrities, chef Martin Yan of Yan Can Cook fame, says he is on the hunt for a new space in Chinatown where he plans to revive his dormant M.Y. China restaurant concept.

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Yes, There Will Be Meatballs (and Plant Balls) When IKEA Opens Next Week

Never fear, ye fans of IKEA's Swedish meatballs: The new downtown SF IKEA store will be serving them immediately upon opening next Wednesday.

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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.

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Corzetti, a New Italian Spot From Adriano Paganini, Comes to Hotel G In Union Square

A new Italian restaurant from the restaurant group behind hit spots like Beretta, A Mano, and The Tailor's Son, called Corzetti, has taken over the space at the corner of Geary and Mason, in the rebranded Hotel G.

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After Two Years as Rotating Pop-Up Venue, Lord Stanley Returns In October In Slightly New Form

The formerly Michelin-starred Lord Stanley on upper Polk Street will be reborn this fall with a new chef in the kitchen, and a slightly different concept from the one it had before shuttering during the pandemic two years ago.

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Off the Grid Fort Mason Returns With Theme Nights, Starting With 'I Heart SF' Event Featuring Classic SF Fare

After taking a summer hiatus, Off the Grid returns to the Fort Mason Center on eight Friday nights in September and October — and there's a new VIP-esque option that lets you reserve tables and get table service.

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The Stud May Find New Life a Few Blocks Away From Its Former Home In SoMa

It looks as though the Stud Collective has landed on a potential new space for the legendary bar and nightclub that tragically closed at the start of the pandemic. And it's just a few blocks away, on Folsom Street.

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Duc Loi Supermarket, the Go-To Banh Mi Spot In the Mission, Is Closing Next Week

It's your last weekend to grab a banh mi from Duc Loi at 18th and Mission, as the 36-year-old Vietnamese grocer and sandwich counter is closing up shop — though the store will continue on under new ownership.

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Eight Must-Try Food and Drink Items to Track Down at Outside Lands

As you should know by now, 15 years in, Outside Lands is known as much for its food and beverage experiences as it is for the music. And this year's festival will be no exception, with delicious bites — some of them pretty high-end for the price — and tons of great beer, wine, and cocktails too.

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La Taqueria, Arguably the Creator of the ‘Mission Burrito,’ Celebrates 50 Years in Business

50 years after opening, La Taqueria is still getting lines down the block on Mission Street, and has both James Beard honors and “Burrito Bracket” awards to show for its five decades of greasy goodness.

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Splashy New Japanese-Peruvian Rooftop Restaurant, Chotto Matte, Set to Open Next Month In Union Square

It's been two years since we first learned that high-end Japanese-Peruvian restaurant Chotto Matte, which boasts other locations in Doha, London, and Miami, was coming to a new rooftop space in Union Square.

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Dogpatch's Harmonic Brewing to Shut Down This Fall, Stop Brewing Beer

The craft beer shakeout continues as eight-year-old Dogpatch brewery Harmonic Brewing is closing its doors this fall due to a lease issue.