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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mel's Drive-In Near Metreon Reopens After Cockroach Situation Today in health-department closures you might want to take note of: The downtown location of Mel's Drive-In (801 Mission, in the 5th and Mission garage building, near the Metreon and Bloomingdale's) reopened Wednesday
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SoMa Chinese-Food Chef Storms Out Of Restaurant, Posts Angry Note To Gluten-Averse Customers A chef at popular Asian wings spot SO (1010 Bryant Street at 8th) apparently stormed out and forced the closure of the restaurant after getting one too many whiny customers Thursday night. Somebody
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink What's Happening To Popeye's On Divis? [Updated] This just in: Popeye's on Divisadero is either in danger of closing, already closed, or getting a weird facelift, as Hoodline reports. One thing is for certain: That corner property on New Valencia
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 22-Year-Old Woodward's Garden Closing Due To Expired Lease Veteran restaurant-goers are already lamenting the end of an era with the announcement late last week that overpass-adjacent Woodward's Garden was calling it quits. As many other longtime businesses have, the 22-year-old restaurant
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Game To Open In Former Masa's, CREAM Opens On 16th, and More Once again, we bring you all the notable food news we missed from the past week, starting with... Tonight marks the real kickoff of Eat Drink SF, the food fest formerly known as
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Beer Hall/Arcade Headed To SoMa, Namu Gaji Ramen To Open In Dogpatch, and More This marks the beginning of a weekly column rounding up some of the week's more notable restaurant and bar news that we didn't get to cover. Always feel free to send us tips,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ex-Outerlands Chef Brett Cooper Taking Over Beast & The Hare Location On Guerrero Ever since Outerlands decided to part ways with the chef who put them on the map, Brett Cooper, everyone's been curious where he might pop up. In May, Cooper signed on to work
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Amber Dhara Closes After Two Years, Several Rat Problems In some unsurprising restaurant news, perpetually empty, enormous Indian restaurant Amber Dhara (680 Valencia Street) has given up the ghost just a month after its brief, rat-related, Health Department shutdown. The restaurant, which
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Acclaimed Restaurant Manresa Suffers Major Fire In Los Gatos The Michelin two-starred restaurant Manresa, arguably one of the most influential and renowned restaurants in the Bay Area, suffered a two-alarm fire last night in its kitchen that is sure to shutter the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Marlowe Relocating To Coco500 Space In SoMa You may the earlier reported news that the popular, Caltrain-adjacent bistro Marlowe was facing a developer's wrecking ball in the coming year or so. Well, restaurateur Anna Weinberg, who's gone on to expand
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hubert Keller's Fleur de Lys Closing This Month After 44 Years Chef Hubert Keller, whose romantic French restaurant Fleur de Lys has been serving escargot on Nob Hill for 44 years 28 of those with him in the kitchen has decided to close his
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yoshi's S.F. Sold, Will Get New Name, New Restaurant Yoshi's San Francisco, which unlike its Oakland mothership strayed quickly from the jazz genre after it opened in 2007, has been sold to a group called Fillmore Live Entertainment, which will be transitioning
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Grand Café To Close After Two Decades, Transform Into Something More Casual Going the way of almost every hotel restaurant in San Francisco, Union Square's Grand Café is closing its doors July 31 for a renovation and casual-ization. It will reopen later this year under
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Scenes From A Final Meal At Incanto, Which Closed For Good Last Night Local chef Chris Cosentino and business partner Mark Pastore closed the book on their 12-year-old Noe Valley restaurant Incanto Monday night, marking the end of an era both for the neighborhood dining scene
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chris Cosentino Closing Incanto, Reopening It As Something More Family-Friendly Some pretty big news out of Noe Valley this week: Top Chef Master Chris Cosentino is shuttering his 12-year-old restaurant Incanto this month, and he and partner Mark Pastore will transform it into
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pearl's Deluxe Burgers to Close Sixth Street Location One of the many harbingers of Mid-Market's ongoing transformation, and one that got a boost via a big loan from the City, Pearl's Deluxe Burgers, is calling it quits on their 6th and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fifth Floor To Shut Its Doors In January After 14 Years Fifth Floor, the hushed and sophisticated fine dining venue at the Palomar Hotel that's earned many accolades over the past decade and a half, is shuttering after the new year to make way
