SF News Day Around the Bay: Castro Seafood Restaurant Catch To Close Permanently Next Month A new report on police car chases emerges right before SF will vote on police car chases; the luxury pet-care facility Wag Hotels is facing a lawsuit over animal mistreatment; and 22-year-old Castro District seafood restaurant Catch will close next month.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink It Now Looks Like North Beach's Park Tavern Is Gone For Good It opened with fanfare, a fancy remodel, and a mosaic threshold that presaged a long life: "Est. 2011." But just over a decade and a pandemic later, Park Tavern looks to have gone dark for good.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Four Hobbits Walk Into Atelier Crenn The close of November brought the much anticipated reopening of Quince, a couple of sad closing announcements, a celebrity sighting at Atelier Crenn, and more.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Original Little Star Pizza Location On Divisadero Closing After 19 Years One of San Francisco's best pizza spots, Little Star on Divisadero, is shutting its doors at the end of the year. And the owner blames delivery apps.
Business & Tech FiDi 24-Hour Fitness and McDonald’s Both Announce Closures Amidst Record Office Vacancy Two Financial District chain retail businesses less than 500 feet from one another — both of which opened in 1994 — have announced their closures: a McDonald's and a 24-Hour Fitness, both shutting down due to the district’s offices being emptied out.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Pizza Burger, Burger Pizza A longtime Italian stalwart in North Beach is calling it quits, a legendary Japanese yakitori shop is coming to Japantown, and more news from this week in the Bay Area food scene.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Valencia Street Tex-Mex Restaurant West of Pecos to Close After 11 Years The popular 11-year-old Tex-Mex restaurant and bar West of Pecos has apparently suffered a drop in business since the pandemic, as so many restaurants have, and has announced its final day in business will be Saturday, October 28.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Chow Space In Castro Comes Alive Again as The Rustic A couple of significant reopenings happened across town this week, and a replacement restaurant for shuttered, Michelin-starred Marlena has made its debut in Bernal Heights.
Business & Tech Starbucks Is Closing Seven Downtown San Francisco Locations on October 22 The 59 Starbucks locations in San Francisco will be trimmed down later this month, with Starbucks telling managers that they are permanently closing seven SF stores on October 22, adding to the city's vacancy woes.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fisherman’s Wharf Restaurants Fishermen’s Grotto and Tarantino’s Both Face Eviction Over Unpaid Rent Two more historic Fisherman's Wharf seafood restaurants may be biting the dust, as the 88-year-old Fishermen’s Grotto No. 9 and the 77-year-old Tarantino’s have both received eviction notices for unpaid back rent.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 38-Year-Old Oakland Vietnamese Restaurant Le Cheval Closing Permanently, Citing Crime Concerns Oakland Vietnamese restaurant Le Cheval has been doing business at Clay and Tenth streets since 1985, but will shutter permanently on September 30, with the owner blaming crime for the shutdown.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Dorian Is Closing In the Marina After Eight Years, Following Halloween Bash Marina brunch and martini spot The Dorian will be flipping into a new concept next year under a new owner, but it will still be a cocktail-heavy Marina restaurant-bar where people get day-drunk on weekends.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission District Vegan Mexican Restaurant Gracias Madre Closes After 14 Years Declaring it another victim of the pandemic's aftermath and the economic conditions in the Mission, the owners of Gracias Madre have shut the restaurant down for good.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink NoPa's Automat Closing After Less Than Two Years A well-received cafe, bakery, and restaurant in the NoPa neighborhood with Michelin pedigreed talent behind it, which had received a ton of advance press prior to its delayed 2021 opening, is closing its doors after just 21 months.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fisherman’s Wharf Restaurants Pompei’s Grotto and Lou’s Fish Shack Both Close Permanently Both Lou’s Fish Shack and Pompei’s Grotto have been closed the whole the pandemic, and they won’t reopen, as they’re both taking exit deals to relinquish their properties to the Port of San Francisco.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink La Cocina's Two-Year-Old Tenderloin Food Hall Is Closing In September The food hall that opened in the spring of 2021 on a beleaguered corner of the Tenderloin, the La Cocina Municipal Marketplace, never succeeded in drawing in enough customers to justify the expense for private security and other costs. And now it is set to close on September 1.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pacific Heights Bistro Curbside Café Has Closed Permanently After A 34-Year Run The authentic French bistro Curbside Café quietly closed last week after 34 years at California and Fillmore Streets, saying simply that they were “not able to renew” their lease.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Another Downtown Business Goes Down: Farewell, HRD Coffee Shop A longtime SFist favorite and a stalwart on Third Street that's been there since the 1950s, HRD Coffee Shop, is closing up shop, and the owner says it's because he didn't get enough help from his landlord or the city.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 48-Year-Old Russian Hill Vietnamese Restaurant Aux Delices Is Closing Permanently June 30 Friday will be the last day for pho, imperial rolls, and lemongrass steak at the long standing family-owned Vietnamese restaurant Aux Delices, as the husband-and-wife team who’ve run the place for decades has decided to retire.
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.
