Arts & Entertainment Vacant to Vibrant Program Hosts Community Market Today; Eight New Pop-Ups Announced Downtown SF's Vacant to Vibrant program, which puts pop-up businesses into vacant spaces rent-free around SoMa and the Financial District, is hosting a community market on this sunny Thursday afternoon on Market Street.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Automat Returns In Pop-Up Form In the Outer Sunset The NoPa neighborhood's well-loved but short-lived new bakery-restaurant of the pandemic era, Automat, closed its doors last summer having not quite made it two years in business. But it's back, in pop-up form.
Arts & Entertainment Downtown Night Market and Friday Parties Help to Launch 'Vacant to Vibrant' Program A night market on Thursday night hosted by Sucka Flea, and a bunch of individual parties at the pop-up businesses in the program, are celebrating the launch of SF's Vacant to Vibrant program, with the hope of breathing some new life into downtown.
SF News 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.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Petit Crenn Reopens For Prix Fixe 'Pop-Up' In Hayes Valley The reservations went fast, but the good news is that Dominique Crenn's cozy Hayes Valley restaurant, Petit Crenn, is coming back alive for the first time in three years.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pop-Up Bars, Restaurants, and Market Street Dance Parties Envisioned In New Downtown Revival Program It's the third summer in a row that a new initiative or program is seeking to breathe some life into SF's struggling, sparsely populated downtown. But this time it sounds like money is actually being thrown at filling vacant storefronts.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bay Area's Latest Pizza Pop-Up, From a Chez Panisse Alum, Makes Appearances at Berkeley Wineries The newest wood-fired pizzas to be had in the East Bay are being cooked in an oven mounted on the bed of a pickup truck, and they can only be found on select dates outside of a couple of Berkeley wineries.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink There Is Now Some Sort of Taylor Swift 'Bad Blood' Pop-Up Bar In the Marina For all those of you who need a themed "experience" for an excuse to drink, there's a "Taylor-themed heartbreak bar" pop-up now in the Marina which has absolutely no affiliation with Taylor Swift, her record label, or her music.
Arts & Entertainment Op-Ed: Why You Should Be Giving Your Money To Local Bars and Theater and Not These Fly-By-Night Theme Bar 'Experiences' The carnival's come to town, only it's doing so practically every other month with a new "immersive" themed "experience" that involves a couple of weak, overpriced drinks, selfie traps, and some performers trying to make a buck in something that's not exactly theater.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin-Starred Marlena to Pop Up at Hotel Zeppelin; Hotel's Restaurant Rambler Remains Closed A temporary hotel restaurant hiatus in Union Square just came to our attention via an announcement of a pop-up happening there — which will feature Michelin newcomer of last year Marlena, the Bernal Heights home of which is undergoing a remodel.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pizza Pop-Up Hit Outta Sight to Go Brick and Mortar In Civic Center A former sous chef at Mister Jiu's who famously came back from the dead after a sudden and random heart attack in the kitchen while prepping for New Year's Eve in 2017 is turning his successful pandemic pizza pop-up into a full-fledged business.
Arts & Entertainment Instagram Trap Off-Brand Lego 'Brick Bar' Pop-Up Coming to SF This Fall The Brick Bar, billed as "the most talked about pop-up bar," is heading to an undisclosed location in San Francisco this October.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Popular Barbecue Chef Matt Horn Announces Pop-Up Preview of Burger Concept 'Matty's Old-Fashioned' Just six months after opening his highly anticipated, much-delayed West Oakland barbecue restaurant Horn Barbecue, chef Matt Horn is teasing a second restaurant concept focused on burgers.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Total Meltdown, a Pop-Up Specializing in Grilled Cheese and Mac and Cheese, Opens at Mission Picnic A new evening pop-up has arrived at the Mission Picnic space (983 Valencia Street) specializing in grilled cheese sandwiches, mac and cheese, and cheesy tots — all available for takeout or delivery.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tosca Pivots To Outdoor Dining Pop-up In SoMa In lieu of putting some tables out on the sidewalk, the Tosca 3.0 team has opted to do an al fresco family-style pop-up in the parking lot of the former St. Joseph's Church, now the St. Joseph's Art Society, at 10th and Howard.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chef Ryan Shelton Creates Ambitious Menu That Evokes Thackeray's 'Vanity Fair' In Food At the Fillmore District restaurant called The Table at Merchant Roots, chef Ryan Shelton launched an intimate dinner series earlier this year that has everything to do with narrative and experimentation, and nothing to do with the hyper-seasonality of most Northern California cuisine.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Bisou Chef Now Cooking For Instagram-Centric Mid-Market Pop-up Called F.E.A.S.T. F.E.A.S.T., which stands for Fine (Dining), Entertainment, Art, Story and Technology, involves a five-course meal served on a "digitally interactive table" that changes color a lot, and guests can take selfies afterward in 14 interactive "art rooms."
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Locanda Chef Anthony Strong Readies New Restaurant, Hosts Weekend Pop-Up Dinner Series Kyoto-style Spaghetti w/ duck, ginger, parmigiano & sansho pepper pop-up tickets on sale now, link in bio! . . #italianfood #soyum #eeeeeats #tastespotting #buzzfeast #infatuation #foodporn #foodgawker #feedfeed A post shared by Cibicotti (@cibicottisf) on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Salt & Straw Ice Cream Pops Up In SF With $1 Scoops Friday and Saturday Hello, San Francisco! We're heading to YOU this weekend (12/9 & 12/10) for a series of ice cream pop-ups to celebrate our upcoming Bay Area scoop shops in 2017. Join us
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Find Luke's Diner-Styled 'Gilmore Girls' Pop-Ups This Wednesday In SF, SJ, And Oakland While a legion of die-hard Gilmore Girls fans are going to tell you emphatically that Luke is the worst, the Gilmore Girls marketing team at Netflix are using his fictional Stars Hollow diner
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bon Marché Gets Its First Pop-Up, Minnie Bell's Soul Movement As SFist reported last week, this week marks the transformation perhaps temporary of the former Bon Marché space on mid-Market into a multi-vendor food hall, banking on the daytime success of next-door neighbor
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Journeymen, A New Oakland Pop-Up, Finds Monthly Home Like many young, creatively ambitious chefs these days, Jonathan Tu, 32, and Chris Wolff, 29, have already roamed the world's culinary capitals and honed their skills, like journeymen craftsmen of yore, in multiply
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink (Semi-)New Bagel Alert: Shegetz Bagel Pops Up Occasional Weekends In La Lengua On the Mission/Bernal border, within PizzaHacker's space at 3299 Mission Street, there is now a new bagel pop-up making occasional weekend appearances: Shegetz Bagel. Eater noted them briefly back in December, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Kin Khao And Central Kitchen Chef Michael Gaines Previews Taco Concept Glena's Chef Michael Gaines, who cut his teeth in the kitchen at Manresa in Los Gatos and was the opening chef at Kin Khao and chef de cuisine at Central Kitchen looks to be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hapa Ramen Roars Back To Life At A Late-Night Pop-Up This Sunday At Alta CA Returning to his pop-up roots, chef Richie Nakano, now with his Hapa Ramen name back, will be back to making broth this weekend at a late supper on Sunday at Daniel Patterson's Alta