SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: The Company Opens, Bauer Cares Not For Cadence, And More SFist wrote this week of Off The Grid's return, Little Baobab's reincarnation, and the opening of a new food hall, The Myriad. Others had more, so let's dive in: If burgers are what
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Brasserie Saint James Debuts, Poke Bar Comes To Church Street, And More This week we brought you the sad news that Liverpool Lil's is gone and never coming back, we learned there's a campaign to "Impeach Michael Bauer" that may or may not go anywhere,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Unable To Recover From Fire, Liverpool Lil's Has Closed For Good Liverpool Lil's: 1973 - 2015, when the Marina pub well known for spirited food, drinks, and atmosphere suffered fire damage from which management now reports Lil's won't be able to recover. The landlord
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lower Haight Loses Beloved Bean There Cafe After 21 Years In yet another sign of the times, a very well loved and financially stable neighborhood coffeeshop, Bean There at the corner of Waller and Steiner, is now gone for good. As owners Susi
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Owner Of Sparky's Diner Late On Rent, May Have Abandoned Property While a few possible reasons for the closure of Sparky's 24-hour diner were posited — among them, a Health Department shut down which seemed perfectly logical given the food they served — it seems according
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sparky's Diner On Church Closed, Apparently After Health Inspection One of the city's only 24-hour diners, Sparky's on Church Street, was suddenly closed last week and remains closed as of this morning. BrokeAss Stuart got the news via a tipster, and SFist
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bidding Farewell To Quirky, 20-Year-Old Market Street Diner L&M Cafe I was once terrified of L&M Cafe (1081 Market Street). I had moved to mid-Market in the last decade, long before Nema and Twitter got there, and a friend convinced me
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Brasserie St. James Arriving on Valencia, Dat Spot Shutters, And More Earlier this week, Wise Sons Bagel sprang to life via delivery service Caviar, and now we learn via Tablehopper they've set a firm opening date of February 26. Also, Caleb went out and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Alexander's Steakhouse Plots Multi-Story Food Temple, Bauer Loves Little Gem, And More This week, SFist's food vertical called attention to new Oakland popup Journeyman, said goodbye to burger and tater tot hotspot RickyBobby, and poured one out for Amsterdam Café, a Tenderloin beer bar hit
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sorry, Everyone: Rickybobby Is Dunzo Tonight is the official last night of Rickybobby. Gonna miss their burger - one of the best I've ever had! #burger #rickybobby #dinner #thebest #americanfood #sogood #food #foodporn #foodie #foodstagram #foodshare #instafood #nomnom
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Leo's Oyster Bar Debuts, Belcampo Closes In The Mission, And More This week we took a first look at Fiorella, the new Italian/pizza spot in the Richmond, and we heard the news that the Lexington Club is becoming, predictably enough, a high-end cocktail
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink One Of SF's Best Burgers Under Threat As Bourbon Steak Prepares To Close Indefinitely Listen up, burger fans: If you haven't plunked down the $24 for the Bourbon Steak burger, available only on the bar menu, you may want to get over there in the next two
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Ame Is Closing, Okane Debuts, And More It's the slow season in restaurant land, which is why they have Restaurant Week with all those (sometimes worthwhile) discounts. It's also the kickoff of Beer Week starting with tonight's gala at Fort
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink After 23 Years, SF's Only Colombian Restaurant Closing On Valencia Street Most customers don't ask to see the menu at El Majahual. They already know what they want by the time co-owner Regina Ledesma comes around — be that empanadas, tamales, or Regina's favorite dish,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Brass Tacks Takes Over Flipper's, Alamo Drafthouse Menu Revealed, And More This week at the SFist food and drink desk we selected the 11 best new bars, and with that my main recommendation is to not peruse it too far before cocktail hour. We
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: A Taker For The Bay Wolf Space, Barcha Debuts In SoMa, And More This week saw the opening of Iza Ramen in the Lower Haight, and brought news of former Poleng Lounge guy Tim Luym doing the food for a new bar in the Polk, Ho's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Herbivore, Now Closed On Divis, Remembered In One-Star Yelp Reviews The bell has tolled for Herbivore Divisadero, whose best years, most agree, were well behind it. And in 16 of those years, there were definitely some better ones — or so I've heard. Nonetheless,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Asha Tea House And Kit Fox Arrive, And Our Three 'Best Bars In The World' This week's biggest food news, at least in terms of financial impact, came from the coffee industry when we learned that Peet's Coffee & Tea would buy Portland's much-smaller Stumptown. Let that sink
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Half Orange Opens Beer Garden, Mission Pie Bakes Off, And More This week there's been plenty of goings on in the food news department. For starters, the team behind the Financial District's Sens have announced that Market Street sequel Barcha will open on the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pesce To Close In The Castro On September 13 After just two years in its new location in the Castro, and after more than a decade in smaller digs on Polk Street, Pesce (2223 Market Street) is calling it quits. The restaurant
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: The Chron's Best Food Trucks, Mission Bay HQ Brewing For Réveille Coffee Co., And More This week over at the SFist food desk, we took a tour of the new Bon Marché which opened for realz today, did a little rumor-mongering re: La Boulange re-opening/rebranding, and shed
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink British Gastropub The Growlers' Arms Closing After Under A Year In Oakland It's disappointing news for a restaurant still finding its footing in Oakland's Glenview neighborhood, writes Inside Scoop. The Growlers' Arms, a British gastropub pouring english ales and churning out smoked pork bangers and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland's La Borinqueña Mex-icatessen Closing This Week After 71 Years As the Oakland Tribune and the Chronicle report, 71-year-old stone-ground masa operation La Borinqueña Mex-icatessen is grinding to a halt at the end of this month. It's a sad goodbye to tamales “made
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: The Spice Jar Opens, Mina Pop-Up Begins, And More This short holiday week we learned of the closing of Giordano Bros. in North Beach, and of the closing of 4505 Meats butcher shop on Mission, which is becoming a new outpost of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Smitten Ice Cream Opens On California Street, KitTea's Cat Cafe Purrs To Life Next Week Though the San Francisco Chronicle's Restaurant Critic and Executive Food and Wine Editor Michael Bauer insists that he takes great pains to maintain his anonymity and hide his face, could it be possible
