SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yet Again, A Celebrated Bay Area Chef Is Closing His Last Restaurant and Leaving the Industry The Kebabery, the latest business from chef Russell Moore and wife Allison Hopelain, is shutting down after five years and two pretty rough ones.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Noooo! Arinell Pizza Has Closed After 33 Years on Valencia Street One of SF's closest simulacra of New York-style pizza, Arinell Pizza on Valencia, closed its doors for good on Saturday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin Three-Star Restaurant Manresa For Sale, and Chef David Kinch Is Bowing Out One of the Bay Area's six Michelin three-star restaurants, Manresa in Los Gatos, may be going away at the end of this year as executive chef and owner David Kinch has decided to step away and tend to his more casual businesses.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Acclaimed, Michelin-Starred Mission Restaurant AL's Place to Close Next Week After Seven Years Chef Aaron London is pulling the plug on his much lauded, vegetable-focused restaurant AL's Place in order to focus more on his young family, despite the restaurant still being packed every night. The last night of service will be Sunday, August 28.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rudy’s Can’t Fail Cafe Abruptly Closes Its Doors In Emeryville After 20 Years A 20-year East Bay favorite known for their all-day breakfast and sticker-covered bathrooms, retro diner Rudy’s Can't Fail Cafe suddenly announced Monday that they’re closing for good, without citing a reason.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink One of San Francisco's Oldest Restaurants, Alioto's, Is Closing After a Century at Fisherman's Wharf Alioto's, the quintessential Fisherman's Wharf seafood spot with a giant number 8 on its facade commemorating the fish stall that Sicilian immigrant Nunzio Alioto Sr. once ran nearby, is giving up the ghost after temporarily closing two years ago.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin-Starred Coi, Daniel Patterson's Flagship, Shutters After 16 Years In North Beach Chef Daniel Patterson, one of the Bay Area food world's most celebrated innovators, has seen his restaurant footprint shrink considerably in recent years. And now, sadly, his longtime fine-dining flagship, Coi, has permanently closed.
SF News Universal Cafe Closes After 27 Years In the Mission Two beloved SF brunch spots that date back to the 1990s have taken their leave in the last week, and this one will hurt for longtime residents of a neighborhood that was once briefly called Multimedia Gulch.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Delfina and Pizzeria Delfina Closing 'Til March for Major Remodel, Takeout and Delivery Still Available Delfina and Pizzeria Delfina are going to be combining into a single restaurant on 18th Street in 2022, and both restaurants are closing for sit-down eating for the next three to four months while construction occurs.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Influential Oakland Restaurant Oliveto Plans New Year's Closing After 35 Years Oliveto, one of the most lauded and influential Italian restaurants in the United States — and one credited with extending Chez Panisse's local-and-sustainable ethos to Italian cuisine — has announced it will close at the end of the year, after 35 years in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Kin Khao Dogpatch Has Permanently Closed The Dogpatch offshoot of Michelin-starred Thai restaurant Kin Khao, which opened last summer in the middle of the pandemic as a replacement for the still temporarily shuttered original Kin Khao in Union Square's Parc 55 hotel, is closed for good.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Food News: Lord Stanley Pivots Into a Rotating Pop-Up Venue; Berkeley's Rivoli Closes Indefinitely Michelin-starred SF restaurant Lord Stanley has decided to close next month and its owners are pivoting the space to be a home for rotating pop-ups by visiting chefs. And over in Berkeley, beloved 27-year-old Rivoli has mysteriously gone dark.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Charles Phan Puts Pac Heights Loft on Market and Announces Permanent Closure of Out the Door Location The building that houses Slanted Door spinoff restaurant Out the Door on Bush Street in Pacific Heights is now on the market, and it also houses a live-work loft where chef Charles Phan has previously lived.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Maven Is Closing After Nine Good Years In the Lower Haight Chalk up another pandemic casualty in the bar and restaurant scene, and this one is going to hurt for denizens of the Lower Haight — Maven is closing on March 29.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Longtime Cliff House Operators Say Restaurant Is Closing, Park Service Contract Negotiation to Blame The longtime operators of the iconic Cliff House have made a dramatic announcement to the press that the restaurant is closing "permanently" — however it seems more likely that there will be a changing of the guard with the restaurant's management once it manages to be revived, post-pandemic.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Millbrae's Iconic Pancake House Closes Temporarily Due to COVID-19 The pandemic continues to serve one gut-punch after the other — with today's closing of the over 61-year-old Millbrae Pancake House being one of the more recent blows.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Deaf-Owned Pizzeria Mozzeria Closes After Nine Years It's a particularly sad closure for the Bay Area Deaf community, given that this was one of the only Deaf-owned and operated restaurants in the country.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tacolicious Announces Closure of North Beach, San Jose Locations Growing local taco restaurant empire Tacolicious has permanently closed two of its locations, the owners say, due to the pandemic and the economic climate. The seven-year-old North Beach location and the Tacolicious at Santana Row in San Jose are no more.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lefty O'Doul's Files For Bankruptcy Amid Owner's Legal Troubles Nick Bovis, the local restaurateur named in a federal indictment earlier this year stemming from an FBI probe of corruption in SF City Hall, has now filed for bankruptcy for one of this businesses, longtime hofbrau Lefty O'Doul's.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 17-Year-Old Oakland Restaurant Dopo Closes; Owners Say Government Failed Them Beloved Piedmont Avenue Italian spot Dopo will serve its last lasagna on Saturday, and the owners say that not enough has been done by federal, state, and local governments to prevent a mass die-off of restaurants.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The List of SF Restaurants That Have Closed Since the Pandemic Begin Nearly 70 restaurants have permanently closed in San Francisco, by our count, since March. And this doesn't count the small ones that may have shuttered without fanfare or blog notices. Here's the list.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Adored Hayes Valley Champagne Bar The Riddler Closes Over Financial Hardships Another day, another shuttered Bay Area restaurant. The Riddler, the esteemed SF champagne bar that matched bubbly with tater tot waffles, announced on Instagram this week they're waving goodbye to their Hayes Valley watering hole — and are now selling their wine selections at half price.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink After 23 Years, SF's Farallon Restaurant Permanently Closes Farallon, the 23-year-old seafood staple near Union Square, has officially closed its doors due to the pandemic — adding its name to the still-growing tally of over 370 restaurants in the San Francisco metro area that have shuttered since March.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved Richmond District Dim Sum Spot Ton Kiang Closes For Good After 42 Years Another longtime SF institution isn't waiting around to see what happens when people are allowed to dine indoors again. Ton Kiang, which has been serving excellent dim sum and fried chicken wings for four decades on Geary Boulevard, is calling it quits on August 30.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Prairie Closes In the Mission; Across the Street, Lazy Bear Faces Big Changes As Well Both Prairie and Lazy Bear made quick pivots to selling groceries, booze, and pantry provisions during the pandemic. Prairie closes this week, and Lazy Bear owner David Barzelay is giving it until October, for now.
