SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Employees Cite Multiple Reasons for the Quick Collapse of the Much-Ballyhooed Hi Felicia The opprobrium and dirt-slingings continue in the story of Oakland "vulgar fine dining restaurant" Hi Felicia, which garnered widespread, entirely positive media attention in 2022 before abruptly closing last month.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin-Starred Marlena Chefs Expanding to Japantown It looks as though a well-loved, eight-year-old neighborhood restaurant plans to either close or relocate, and a liquor license app points to some new Michelin-star tenants.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hi Felicia Closing After One Year In Oakland, Owner Blames Break-In After loads of media coverage for "vulgar fine dining" concept Hi Felicia, and just three weeks after chef-owner Imana announced a switch to an à la carte format, the Oakland restaurant is now closed for good.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved Mexican Restaurant Don Ramon's Closing After 41 Years In SoMa Ugh. Two and a half years after we learned that longtime 11th Street stalwart Don Ramon's was in some financial trouble, the family that owns the restaurant announced that it is closing as of Friday, March 31.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chezchez, Valencia Street's Aperitivo Spot, Is Closed After 16 Months What had been a pretty popular pandemic-era spot for Negronis, spritzes, and tinned fish, Chezchez, is now closed, and it remains to be seen if the Bon Vivants/Trick Dog team will be having another go with another concept in the space.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Closure of Hawker Fare Adds to Darkened Restaurant Storefronts in the Mission Hawker Fare, chef James Syhabout's often bustling, casual Northern Thai and Lao restaurant at Valencia and 18th, served its last meals on Sunday, adding to a string of closures across the Mission.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nick’s Crispy Tacos Is Closing Tuesday After 20 Years, But Vows To Reopen Elsewhere Russian Hill mainstay Nick’s Crispy Tacos just abruptly announced its closure with less than a week’s notice, but they say “We are in the process of finding a new home.”
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Zero Zero to Close In SoMa After 12 Years of Wood-Fired Pizza Glory The pandemic and the extra-slow recovery of downtown have taken out another well-loved, established restaurant.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mikkeller Bar Closes For Good (Again) After Nine Years In the Tenderloin Popular SF brewpub Mikkeller Bar, one of two U.S. outposts of cult-famous Danish brewery Mikkeller, is shutting its doors at 34 Mason Street in the next week after nine years at the edge of the Tenderloin — two years after it appeared to close the first time.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yet Again, A Celebrated Bay Area Chef Is Closing His Last Restaurant and Leaving the Industry The Kebabery, the latest business from chef Russell Moore and wife Allison Hopelain, is shutting down after five years and two pretty rough ones.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Noooo! Arinell Pizza Has Closed After 33 Years on Valencia Street One of SF's closest simulacra of New York-style pizza, Arinell Pizza on Valencia, closed its doors for good on Saturday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin Three-Star Restaurant Manresa For Sale, and Chef David Kinch Is Bowing Out One of the Bay Area's six Michelin three-star restaurants, Manresa in Los Gatos, may be going away at the end of this year as executive chef and owner David Kinch has decided to step away and tend to his more casual businesses.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Acclaimed, Michelin-Starred Mission Restaurant AL's Place to Close Next Week After Seven Years Chef Aaron London is pulling the plug on his much lauded, vegetable-focused restaurant AL's Place in order to focus more on his young family, despite the restaurant still being packed every night. The last night of service will be Sunday, August 28.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rudy’s Can’t Fail Cafe Abruptly Closes Its Doors In Emeryville After 20 Years A 20-year East Bay favorite known for their all-day breakfast and sticker-covered bathrooms, retro diner Rudy’s Can't Fail Cafe suddenly announced Monday that they’re closing for good, without citing a reason.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink One of San Francisco's Oldest Restaurants, Alioto's, Is Closing After a Century at Fisherman's Wharf Alioto's, the quintessential Fisherman's Wharf seafood spot with a giant number 8 on its facade commemorating the fish stall that Sicilian immigrant Nunzio Alioto Sr. once ran nearby, is giving up the ghost after temporarily closing two years ago.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin-Starred Coi, Daniel Patterson's Flagship, Shutters After 16 Years In North Beach Chef Daniel Patterson, one of the Bay Area food world's most celebrated innovators, has seen his restaurant footprint shrink considerably in recent years. And now, sadly, his longtime fine-dining flagship, Coi, has permanently closed.
SF News Universal Cafe Closes After 27 Years In the Mission Two beloved SF brunch spots that date back to the 1990s have taken their leave in the last week, and this one will hurt for longtime residents of a neighborhood that was once briefly called Multimedia Gulch.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Delfina and Pizzeria Delfina Closing 'Til March for Major Remodel, Takeout and Delivery Still Available Delfina and Pizzeria Delfina are going to be combining into a single restaurant on 18th Street in 2022, and both restaurants are closing for sit-down eating for the next three to four months while construction occurs.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Influential Oakland Restaurant Oliveto Plans New Year's Closing After 35 Years Oliveto, one of the most lauded and influential Italian restaurants in the United States — and one credited with extending Chez Panisse's local-and-sustainable ethos to Italian cuisine — has announced it will close at the end of the year, after 35 years in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Kin Khao Dogpatch Has Permanently Closed The Dogpatch offshoot of Michelin-starred Thai restaurant Kin Khao, which opened last summer in the middle of the pandemic as a replacement for the still temporarily shuttered original Kin Khao in Union Square's Parc 55 hotel, is closed for good.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Food News: Lord Stanley Pivots Into a Rotating Pop-Up Venue; Berkeley's Rivoli Closes Indefinitely Michelin-starred SF restaurant Lord Stanley has decided to close next month and its owners are pivoting the space to be a home for rotating pop-ups by visiting chefs. And over in Berkeley, beloved 27-year-old Rivoli has mysteriously gone dark.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Charles Phan Puts Pac Heights Loft on Market and Announces Permanent Closure of Out the Door Location The building that houses Slanted Door spinoff restaurant Out the Door on Bush Street in Pacific Heights is now on the market, and it also houses a live-work loft where chef Charles Phan has previously lived.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Maven Is Closing After Nine Good Years In the Lower Haight Chalk up another pandemic casualty in the bar and restaurant scene, and this one is going to hurt for denizens of the Lower Haight — Maven is closing on March 29.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Longtime Cliff House Operators Say Restaurant Is Closing, Park Service Contract Negotiation to Blame The longtime operators of the iconic Cliff House have made a dramatic announcement to the press that the restaurant is closing "permanently" — however it seems more likely that there will be a changing of the guard with the restaurant's management once it manages to be revived, post-pandemic.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Millbrae's Iconic Pancake House Closes Temporarily Due to COVID-19 The pandemic continues to serve one gut-punch after the other — with today's closing of the over 61-year-old Millbrae Pancake House being one of the more recent blows.
