SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Kosher Israeli Bakery Opens, Ichi Sushi Moving Back To Original Location, And More This week at SFist, we informed ravenous food news readers of the coming transformation of Les Clos in SoMa, which will be closing and taken over by the Marlowe/Park Tavern Team after
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Marlowe/Park Tavern Team Takes Over Les Clos In SoMa, Will Transform It Into Petit Marlowe After two years in business at 234 Townsend, Les Clos is going to close in January and get a major makeover at the hands of Anna Weinberg and her Big Night Restaurant Group,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Kuleto's To Close After 30 Years, Opening Up Prime Powell Street Location Longtime Union Square tourist trap Kuleto's (221 Powell Street), which opened along with the Villa Florence Hotel in 1986 and was one of the first restaurants in prolific designer and restaurateur Pat Kuleto's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Berkeley's 20-Year-Old Cafe Rouge Calls It Quits The next in the annual series of end-of-year surprise closures is 20-year-old butchery haven Cafe Rouge, opened by Zuni alum Marsha McBride in 1996. McBride tells the Mercury News, in a familiar refrain
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ugh: Pauline's Pizza Is For Sale At this point, Sidney Weinstein, who turns 70 next October, is basically the "Pauline" of Pauline's Pizza. Her restaurant on Valencia near 14th, which she opened with her husband and his business partner
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink After 11 Years, Range Is Closing On Valencia It's the end of an era for one of the defining restaurants of Valencia's restaurant boom of the last two decades, as Range will be closing its doors after New Year's Eve. This
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Agricole / Trou Nourmand Team Plans 24th Street Rum Bar 'Obispo' Thad Vogler, a spirits devotee whose love of craft distilleries and regional variation is on full display at his Bar Agricole and Trou Normand, is preparing a new shrine to rum on 24th
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Is SF's Golden Age Of Restaurants Seeing Its Sunset? As 2016 comes to a close, a few things are coming into focus about what the year taught the local restaurant industry. Fixed-price menus are on the rise at the same time as
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Babu Ji Opens Next Week, Ryan Scott's Finn Town To Launch Next Month, And More This week at the SFist food bureau: We had word that restaurateur George Chen's long-delayed China Live would open in January, we took a moment to weigh the pros and cons of a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink La Urbana, The Upscale Mexican Spot On Divis, Has Closed Get ready to pour one out — mezcal would be most appropriate, but tequila will do — for La Urbana, which appears to have closed suddenly and, according to Inside Scoop, perhaps permanently on the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bernal's Pinkie’s Bakery To Close This Week Cortland Ave just is about to get a little less sweet as the Bernal Heights neighborhood spot Pinkie's Bakery announced it will close by the end of this week. Bernalwood reports that adding
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nostra Officially Closes, Remodel Underway For NY Transplant Babu Ji It's time to give a big Italian chef's kiss goodbye to Nostra Spaghetteria and Bar Mia. That establishment, a choose-your-own-pasta adventure, was Alexander Alioto's more low-key reboot of the more ambitious Plin, but
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nob Hill Fly Bar Closing Sunday Fly Bar on Sutter Street had it all: Food, drinks, a bar, more drinks, and even food. As of Sunday, all that will be gone. Yes, Tablehopper reported in August that the establishment
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sadly, Merigan Sub Shop Is Saying Goodbye October 8 After three years in business on Second Street, near AT&T Park, Merigan Sub Shop is calling it quits on October 8, and this is a sad thing. As Tablehopper puts it,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Citizen's Band And Pinkie's Bakery Abruptly Close In SoMa The bakery Pinkie's and its co-tenant and sister restaurant Citizen's Band, a casual, diner-style operation serving contemporary comfort food, have both closed. A tip to SFist revealed that staff had been notified last
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Another New Downtown Restaurant Bites The Dust: Volta After just nine months in business, Volta has called it quits. Co-owner Umberto Gibin broke the news to Inside Scoop, saying Saturday was the restaurant's last day. Having just opened in December, this
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Buzzy NYC Indian Restaurant Babu Ji Expanding To SF Jessi and Jennifer Singh opened their East Village contemporary Indian restaurant Babu Ji after departing Australia, where the restaurateurs had three businesses they've since closed, one of which was, according to an article
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: RTB Fillmore Pops Up For Ramen, Duc Loi Expands, And More The food news from us this week: Mr. Bing's, the dingy-ass apple of our dive-bar eye, has been saved, essentially. Also, the former Betelnut space will be a thing along the lines of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Ninebark Shutters Permanently, Texas Tacos Coming To Oakland As always around these parts, this week was a busy one in the world of food. Importantly, we put together a list of some of the best pizza in the Bay Area. In
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bon Marché To Become Venue For Multiple Market Stalls, Possibly Starting Next Week The interim plan for the big restaurant space at Bon Marché Brasserie, closed since last month, is to become an extension of sorts to The Market next door, according to owner Matt Semmelhack.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Bellota Does Lunch, Casey's Pizza Truck Lands Brick And Mortar, And More This week, SFist's food department reported that the Outer Sunset oasis Riptide was roaring back to life, that the owners of the mini-chain Burma Superstar were named in a class action lawsuit filed
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Namu Stonepot Nears, Grub Closes, And More This week saw the possible permanent closure of Bon Marché on mid-Market, the opening of Mission/Bernal beer spot Old Devil Moon, and news of the renaming of Marina restaurant Spaghetti Bros. to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bon Marché May Be Officially Kaput On Mid-Market We heard in July that Bon Marché was likely not long for this world, having been put up for sale after only a year in business at the Twitter building. Now, as Inside
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 19-Year-Old Herbivore Closes Last And Final Location On Valencia Herbivore, the 19-year-old vegan restaurant that at one point had two locations in SF and one in Berkeley, is now officially dunzo as Mission Local reports that Monday was the last day for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] Saha Restaurant Reopens In Original SF Location After Move To Berkeley 2019 Update: Saha Restaurant is back open in the Hotel Carlton at 1075 Sutter Street after a hiatus and three-year relocation to Berkeley. Original post below: A Mediterranean spot especially popular with vegans