SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Arrivederci, Ragazza Draymond Green's new Civic Center Ethiopian-Dominican restaurant is getting close, Vietnamese spot Ben Tre is opening in San Francisco, and 15-year-old Ragazza is closing on Divis, all in This Week in Food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Once Michelin-Starred Lord Stanley Set to Close This Spring Lord Stanley, the Upper Polk restaurant that returned to form two years ago after a pandemic spent doing takeout and hosting pop-ups, has announced its closure — in part because its latest chef is leaving town.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission-Bernal Pinball Joint Outer Orbit Announces Closing Date, But Crowdfunding to Possibly Survive The Mission Street pinball bar and restaurant Outer Orbit just announced it’s closing after this weekend, but there’s a crowdfunding campaign afoot to make sure it’s not Game Over for the popular burger bar.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Union Square’s 52-Year-Old Extremely French Restaurant Jeanne D’Arc Has Permanently Closed The filet mignon, escargot, and live violin music are no longer a fixture at the Jeanne D’Arc restaurant beneath Union Square’s Cornell Hotel de France, as the restaurant has permanently shuttered, and will serve exclusively as an event space.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Behold Piccino Presidio Piccino Presidio debuts, Outer Orbit's future looks uncertain, and The Morris team branches out with a French-inspired spot in Oakland's Grand Lake, all in This Week in Food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: New Mediterranean In the Mission Anatolian Table arrives in the Mission, Berliner Berliner bids adieu, and The Farmacy takes shape on South Park, all in This Week in Food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Modern Cantonese Cuisine Comes to Hayes Valley The Happy Crane graduates from pop-up to permanent in Hayes Valley, modern Afghan restaurant Jaji readies to debut next week, and Mission sandwich spot Turner's Kitchen announces it's closing, all in This Week in Food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: A Fond Farewell to Sam Wo Bar Brucato takes shape in the Mission District, Sam Wo says goodbye for probably the last time in Chinatown, and Papa Noodle brings some new quick-service noodle bowls to downtown.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Barcelona Bar Star Pops Up In SF Horn Barbecue is headed to Sacramento now as well, the Castro is getting a women's sports bar, and Oakland's Bombera wins an East Bay honor, all in This Week in Food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: End-of-Year Goodbyes Hard Knox Cafe closes its original location in Dogpatch, Lobby Bar is changing owners in the Castro, and The Forge is moving from Oakland's Jack London Square to Rockridge, all in This Week in Food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Five-Year-Old Bagel Business Daily Driver Is Closing Its Doors Daily Driver, the wood-fired bagel bakery and creamery that launched in San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood in 2019, just announced it is closing down its two remaining locations.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yellow Moto Pizzeria Calls It Quits on Valencia Street When even a once-popular pizzeria can't make a go of it on Valencia Street, you know things must be slumping on the once-buzzy corridor, as we hear of yet another end-of-year closure.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Post Thanksgiving Edition A new Palestinian restaurant is coming soon to Noe Valley, Thomas Keller is closing his Yountville Mexican spot after this weekend, and downtown Oakland has a new cocktail bar — with pickles! — all in This Week In Food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Acclaimed Oakland Restaurant Daytrip Is Calling It Quits, Owners Say Costs Are Too High In another disappointing end-of-year closure announcement in the local restaurant world, a restaurant that won national accolades is shutting its doors in Oakland after three years in business.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mourad Owner's Dispute With City Reportedly Had to Do With Unpaid Tax Bill Chef Mourad Lahlou mentioned a "bitter dispute" with San Francisco city officials when he announced the closure of his acclaimed restaurant Mourad on Saturday. Now we have some insight into that.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mourad Abruptly Announces Closure, Cites 'Bitter Dispute' With City Officials as One Cause Mourad, the acclaimed, modern Moroccan-inspired restaurant from chef Mourad Lahlou, has closed after ten years in downtown San Francisco. Its last night of service was Saturday, October 26.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: El Faro Owner, Humphry Slocombe Bid Farewell to the Mission Humphry Slocombe is closing its original Mission District scoop shop, the owner of El Faro is selling the business after a series of break-ins, Bun Mee opens in the Marina, and Alice Waters gets a special honor in DC, all in This Week in Food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Zanze's Cheesecakes Hit Grocery Store Shelves We've got some new pizza happening around Mission Bay, Zanze's Cheesecakes are now available at a Bay Area grocery store, and the Chronicle reviews Bernal Heights duck and pork belly specialists Go Duck Yourself.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Agricole, Planned Offshoot Restaurant Project, Both Dead For Good, Owner Says Bar Agricole, which reopened this spring in a new location, as a companion bar to Osito, quietly closed its doors in July and won't be reopening, apparently ever, anywhere.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chef at SoMa Restaurant Aphotic Announces Closure, Cites 'Desolate Convention Center Suck Hole' Michelin-starred downtown fine dining spot Aphotic is shutting its doors in December after about 20 months in business, and chef-owner Peter Helmsley sounds pretty down about the Moscone Center-adjacent neighborhood he's been operating in.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Le Colonial Calls It Quits Le Colonial says "au revoir" after 26 years, a tiny Thai-Lao restaurant debuts in Parkside, and Four Kings gets a new national accolade, all in This Week in Food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 46-Year-Old Sushi Restaurant, Other Longtime Businesses Getting Evicted By Upper Fillmore Real Estate Investor Welp, hopes that a real estate investor who has been quietly assembling multiple properties on Fillmore Street in Pacific Heights has only good intentions to revitalize the area appear to be dashed.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Denny’s at Fourth and Mission Streets Has Closed Permanently There will be no more moons over your hammy in San Francisco, as the city’s last remaining Denny’s restaurant at Fourth and Mission streets closed up shop permanently on August 1.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: New Japanese Sandwiches In the Mission A new breakfast spot is coming to Noe Valley, a longtime French bistro shutters in Russian Hill, and the Mission gets a new Japanese sandwich spot, all in this week's food news.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco's Food Scene Has Changed Wildly, Mostly for the Better, In the Last 20 Years It's SFist's 20th anniversary week this week, and it seemed like a good time to look back on how we've covered food and the local restaurant scene going back to the site's early days, spanning an era in which SF restaurants became some of the most buzzed-about places in the country.
