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Ittoryu Gozu, a Prix Fixe Wagyu Joint, Begins Taking Reservations For November

Hear ye, all fans of gloriously marbled Japanese beef. A restaurant featuring five- and ten-course prix fixe experiences centering on different preparations of Wagyu beef is set to open downtown on November 12.

Whoa! El Rio Almost Closed This Summer, but Was Saved by a Housing Nonprofit

The nightlife scene dodged a bullet as El Rio was at serious risk of shutting down in recent months, but thanks to a city program, Carmen Miranda’s huge head is not going anywhere.

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Former Cooke Shoppe Team Allegedly Has History Of Quickly Shut Businesses In Los Angeles

You may have thought that the story that came out of the closure of Cook Shoppe — in the former Chow space on Church Street in the Castro — was already nutty, but there's more!

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Vegan Mob Opens Permanent Resturant In Grand Lake, Sells Out Of Food After First Day

Vegan Mob, the Oakland-based vegan food pop-up — which garnered a cult-like following this past spring — now has less-temporary roots in the Bay Area, taking over the Grand Lake staple Kwik Way Drive-In, with long lines in tow.

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Beloved Outer Richmond Restaurant Aziza To Reopen October 14

After a three-year hiatus and some staffing shuffles, local chef Mourad Lahlou is reopening his original flagship in the Outer Richmond (named for his mother), Aziza.

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Civic Center Burger King Permanently Closed After History Of Health Violations

The Market Street Burger King abruptly closes following another recent health complaint, ending a 32-year run of giving San Francisco the runs.

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Hina Yakitori, the Bay Area's First Omakase-Style Yakitori Spot, Debuts On Divisadero

Yakitori, the Japanese cuisine sub-genre that stars grilled chicken parts, has emerged in multiple locales around the Bay Area in the last decade. But Hina Yakitori offers an elevated version, with a prix fixe.

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Rosamunde's Haight Street Space To Become a Different Sausage Shop Called Berliner Berliner

Fear not, sausage fans and Toronado regulars! The shuttered Rosamunde in the Lower Haight is being taken over by a longtime Rosamunde employee and getting turned into a German sausage place.

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Check Out the Menu At Dear Inga, the New Eastern European Spot Now Open In the Former Farina

The hotly anticipated new Mission restaurant from the team behind Liholiho Yacht Club and Nopa, called Dear Inga, is now open in the former Farina space on 18th Street between Guerrero and Valencia.

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No More Rosamunde Sausages at Toronado As Lower Haight Shop Closes After 21 Years

Popular Lower Haight sausage concern Rosamunde Sausage Grill has closed its original location due to flagging business and other concerns. The place slung its last sausage on Sunday.

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Chronicle's 2019 Rising Star Chefs Include A BBQ Pitmaster, a Thai-Food Acolyte, and Berkeley Pop-Up Chefs

The last year and change in the Bay Area food scene has felt like something of a recession — or at least a course correction. But the release today of the Chronicle's Rising Star Chefs is a testament to all that's good about our current food culture and local dining options.

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Dosa to Close Valencia Street Location Next Week

After almost 15 years on Valencia Street, Dosa is shutting its doors, with the restaurant owners citing a litany of difficulties that are now more than familiar to local restaurateurs.

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The 13 Best Patio and Rooftop Bars in San Francisco

For those rare days when the temperature climbs above 75 in SF and your AC-free apartment is feeling too oppressive, we have some recommendations for chilling with a frosty beverage al fresco.

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Fort Point Opening New Valencia Taproom and Brewpub, As Well As One In Oakland

Fort Point Beer Co. continues its rapid expansion with the announcement of the October 7 opening of its new flagship brewpub and taproom on Valencia Street, and the takeover of The Trappist Provisions space in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood.

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Redwood Room Closes For Remodel, Will Reopen With Clift Hotel In January

The iconic Redwood Room has closed for a three-month remodel, marking the first time that the space has gotten a refresh since its high-profile makeover by designer Philippe Starck in 2001.

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Wildseed, Adriano Paganini's New Vegan Spot In Cow Hollow, Opens Its Doors

The new plant-based restaurant concept from Adriano Paganini's Back of the House restaurant group opened on Friday evening in the former Belga space, on the prominent corner of Union and Buchanan Streets.

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Apizza, a New Fast-Food Pizza Concept From La Boulagerie's Pascal Rigo, Debuts Tuesday On Fillmore Street

Serial food entrepreneur Pascal Rigo and business partner Nicolas Bernadi are set to debut the first location of a low-cost pizza restaurant they've been developing over the past three years.

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Chronicle Critic Rips Into Le Colonial, Asks 'Why Does This Place Exist?'

As new critic Soleil Ho moves into her eighth month on the job, she's continuing to reevaluate some of the longstanding curios of the local scene with fresh eyes. The latest target is Le Colonial, the 22-year-old 'Indochine'-themed, sort-of-Vietnamese restaurant in the Tenderloin.

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East Bay Brewery Gets Cease-and-Desist Letter From 'Great British Bake Off' Star Mary Berry

Esteemed British baker and former judge on the Great British Bake Off, Mary Berry, has had her lawyers issue a cease-and-desist letter to Richmond, California-based Armistice Brewing Company.

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Mid-Market Nightclub Mr. Smith's Quietly Closes As Neighborhood Struggles With Rampant Drug Use

Mr. Smith's, the small, two-level nightclub that debuted on Seventh Street just off Market back in the days when the new Federal Building was under construction, has called it quits after 15 years in the neighborhood where it was once one of the first signals of gentrification to come.

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Alice Waters Says 'Gourmet Ghetto' Name Ought to Go

Finally joining the fray in a debate about whether the North Shattuck neighborhood of Berkeley — longtime home of Chez Panisse and the Cheese Board Collective — should continue to be nicknamed the "Gourmet Ghetto," Alice Waters agrees with the young folk: the name needs to go.

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Bon Appetit Snubs San Francisco For The First Time This Decade On Best New Restaurants List

You can take it as another symptom of a restaurant culture in crisis in the ever-more expensive environs of San Francisco, or you can see it as indicative of SF's recent decline in the national imagination. But any way you slice it, Bon Appetit just released its Hot 10 for 2019 and we're not on it.

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Pete's Tavern and Pedro's Cantina Shutter Near Ballpark; Papi Rico Closes In the Castro

There are a few more end-of-summer restaurant closures to chalk up, and these include yet another for the closure-prone Castro, whose residents are going to be staring at a lot of darkened storefronts for many months to come.

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Tartine Opens Its First East Bay Location In Berkeley's Graduate Hotel

San Francisco's beloved Tartine Bakery just opened its tenth outpost Monday morning in Berkeley — the first East Bay expansion for the Tartine brand.

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Say Fondue! Matterhorn Restaurant Set To Reopen This Month Under New Owners

Van Ness stalwart Matterhorn is getting ready for a reopening, a full year after it bid adieu, complete with a careful remodel and under a pair of new owners.

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