SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Charin Lands In Old Saison Space, The Market On Market Opens This Month, and More Following the BIG NEWS about the return of foie gras this week, it's been a somewhat quiet week in the local food world. We know that Luna Park is staying put for now,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Did Valencia Street Already Hit Peak Restaurant Density? Two years ago, when the Valencia corridor saw a spate of new restaurant openings several in spaces that had not previously been home to restaurants retail merchants in the neighborhood started crying foul
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Updated] Abbot's Cellar Closing After Two Years On Valencia, Owner Partly Blames Minimum Wage Hike The big beer-focused restaurant Abbot's Cellar (462 Valencia), from the team that opened the always-packed Monk's Kettle, has just made the surprise announcement that they're closing at the end of January after two
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Etoile Shutters In Napa, Cafe Des Amis Calls It Quits, and More Happy New Year, everyone. Though we've got a bunch of good stuff to look forward to, restaurant-wise, in 2015, the last week of the year brought with it its usual surprise closing announcements.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Opening Nears For Mourad, Gussie's Chicken and Waffles Closes, and More Despite it being a holiday week in a half-empty town, a few things are still happening in the food scene, right down to the wire of New Year's Eve (see also our quick-and-dirty
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two More Restaurants Closing: Chez Papa and Nombe The month of December typically brings a wave of restaurant closure news, with New Year's Eve always a popular night for saying goodbye, and this week we get news of longtime Potrero neighborhood
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink TBD Restaurant Closed For At Least A Week After Mysterious Fire The next-door sister restaurant to AQ, TBD suffered a weird, between-the-walls fire last night around 1 a.m. that led to the fire department punching holes in the ceiling and letting in a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Remembering Judy Rodgers, Troya Closes Its Original Location, And More Did our sandwich roundup make you hungry? Because I'm pretty full. Anyhow, in addition to the openings of Cockscomb and Indochine this week, here's what else has been going on about town, food-and-beverage-wise.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Casey Thompson Explains Her Aveline Departure, Atelier Crenn Finally Gets Bauer Love, and More This week at SFist we were nacho crazy, giving you a list of the city's top ten plates and piles of the crunchy standby. We also told you about embattled Local's Corner, who
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Popular Duboce Triangle Coffee Shop Jumpin' Java May Be Closing A beloved coffee-and-wi-fi spot for work-from-home types, students and the like is getting pushed out of the Duboce Triangle neighborhood due to a rent hike. As Hoodline reports, Jumpin' Java (139 Noe Street)
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tired Of Getting Vandalized, Local's Corner Is Closing “Maybe we should have made it clearer that our use of ‘local’ isn’t about being local,” is a thing owner Yaron Migrom said about his restaurant Local’s Corner to San Francisco
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Emmy's Spaghetti Shack Closes Tonight, Will Reopen Up The Street This Weekend Remember how Emmy's Spaghetti Shack is moving? Well, tonight will be its last night in its longtime home at Virginia and Mission, and it's set to reopen in its new digs at 3230
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Surprise! Guy Fieri Closes One Of His Sactown Restaurants Food world punchline Guy Fieri just abruptly decided to shutter one of the two Johnny Garlic's locations in Sacramento. His reps say the decision is all because the location "no longer fits the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Goodbye to Chenery Park, Hello to Truffles, Rotisserie, and Ramen This week we had the word on Game, which debuted in the former Masa's space on Nob Hill on Thursday, and we also told you about S.F. legend Jeremiah Tower's surprise turn
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Brenda's Meat & Three Debuts, Ferry Building Adds Outdoor Stalls, and More We saw the debut of small but anticipated Tenderloin bistro Huxley this week, and we got word of the closures of Luna Park, Brandy Ho's (in the Castro), Burmese Kitchen, and Pasta Pomodoro
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink More Restaurant Closures: Noe Valley Pasta Pomodoro, Burmese Kitchen Brandy Ho's isn't the only restaurant we're saying goodbye to: according to recent reports, Noe Valley's Pasta Pomodoro and the Tenderloin's Burmese Kitchen are also closing their doors. According to Noe Valley SF,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Brandy Ho's Castro Location Closes Tonight Perpetually empty 18th Street restaurant Brandy Ho's is giving up the ghost after service tonight, as a tipster tells Hoodline. The Chinese/Hunan restaurant expanded to this location seven years ago from North
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Luna Park Finally Closing; PlumpJack Team To Turn It Into A Bar I don't know about you, but Luna Park (694 Valencia Street) has been one of those longstanding, mediocre Mission restaurants that always makes me go "That's still there?" So suffice it to say
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sliderbar In The Castro Shut Down By Health Department [Updated] Another restaurant fails to heed the warnings of the Health Department, and suffers their wrath: Sliderbar, the just-ok, two-year-old slider restaurant in the old Bagdad Cafe space at Market and 16th, suddenly finds
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Frances Chef Melissa Perello Snaps Up Baker & Banker Space For Spinoff Melissa Perello, the much acclaimed chef at five-year-old Frances, looks to have finally landed on the perfect space where she can "replicate Frances on a larger scale" (as she told Hoodline last year)
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Week In S.F. Food: Arguello Opens, A Manresa Spinoff In The Works, And More In case you missed it, one of the biggest headlines of the week was the announcement that Baker & Banker is closing later this month, after being in business for five years. Then
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Weird Fish Is Closing At The End Of The Year Eight-year-old Mission vegan mainstay Weird Fish, beloved for years for its "Buffalo Girls" and seitan "fish and chips," is shutting its doors at year's end, and this is likely to upset people. The
SF News Day Around The Bay: Baker and Banker Calls It Quits Five-year-old Pacific Heights restaurant Baker & Banker, which debuted to raves in 2009, is closing on October 19 so its chef-owners can spend more time with their kids. This means that this beautiful
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Empress of China Is Closing Very sad news: Dusty old sixth-story date spot Empress of China is closing at the end of the year. The Chinatown view bar with its fishtanks, Naugahyde-upholstered stools, and mediocre drinks is being
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Popular Mission Restaurant Sunflower Closed For Unknown Reasons One of the last bastions of cheap eats in the Mission besides taquerias and Indian, Sunflower at 16th and Valencia, is mysteriously "closed until further notice," as Eater reports, and this is not
