SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pete's Tavern and Pedro's Cantina Shutter Near Ballpark; Papi Rico Closes In the Castro There are a few more end-of-summer restaurant closures to chalk up, and these include yet another for the closure-prone Castro, whose residents are going to be staring at a lot of darkened storefronts for many months to come.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Farmerbrown Owner Jay Foster: 'Success Merely Means Surviving' The owner of two recently shuttered San Francisco restaurants, Farmerbrown and Isla Vida, has written an essay for Bon Appetit about his experience of owning a popular soul food restaurant, and getting squeezed by impossible rents.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Union Street's Belga To Pivot To Plant-Based Cuisine, Rebrand as Wildseed Four-year-old Belgian beer-and-sausage spot Belga quietly shut its doors over the holiday weekend, and come September 17 it will reopen as something new from prolific local restaurateur Adriano Paganini.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chow Replacement Cook Shoppe Is Closing On Church Street; Owner Jailed For Being A Fugitive Three-month-old Castro area restaurant Cook Shoppe is already dunzo, and the unfolding story behind it is totally nuts. The owner of record, Mark White, has apparently been using an alias, and someone he opened the restaurant with is in jail now.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Finn Town To Close In the Castro This Weekend, Transition To Event Space A little over a week after telling the Bay Area Reporter that the end might be close if customers didn't come in full force, the owner of Finn Town in the Castro, Rick Hamer, has announced plans to close at the end of this weekend.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tosca Restaurant Closes In North Beach After Six Years Once a shining example of combining modern cuisine with preservation of a beloved, historic space, Tosca Cafe has served its last delicious meatballs as of Saturday night. The bar remains open, but possibly not for long.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Commonwealth To Close After Nine Years on August 26 Commonwealth, the sophisticated tasting-menu spot will be calling it quits at the end of next month after a failed lease negotiation with the building's landlord — who wants double what Commonwealth has been paying.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eureka Restaurant Closes In the Castro After 12 Years Longtime Castro comfort-food staple Eureka Restaurant & Lounge has just announced that it's closed, marking the fourth significant restaurant closure in the neighborhood in as many months.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Izakaya Sushi Ran Closes, Promises Something New 'Brewing' Izakaya Sushi Ran, the second-try restaurant from the Sushi Ran team in the 2223 Market Street space in the Castro which just launched in December, has shuttered for good after just seven months.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ali Baba's Cave Closing After Two Decades On Valencia Go-to falafel and shawarma spot Ali Baba's Cave at 19th and Valencia is shutting doors, and the owner says it's because he's decided to retire.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission Beach Cafe Shutters After 12 Years A double whammy of an eviction proceeding and a health department shutdown has brought an end to Mission Beach Cafe. Owner Bill Clarke posted a note to customers Friday night saying, "Small restaurants have challenges to make everything work in San Francisco."
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Blowfish Sushi Shuts Down After 23 Years In The Mission RIP. Blowfish Sushi has been a go-to for many a Missionite going back to the pre-dot-com-boom days, and it remained a fun and casual place to down some sake and a few maki rolls.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Elite Cafe Is Calling It Quits On Fillmore After 38 Years Another spring closure to rack up, this time in Pac Heights: Elite Cafe is shutting its doors in two weeks after 38 years of boozy brunches and New Orleans-style fare.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Another Castro Neighborhood Stalwart, Firewood, Is Closing After Two Decades Rack up yet another closure of a longtime neighborhood haunt for the Castro: Firewood Cafe is shutting its doors on 18th Street at the end of this week.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Black Restaurant Week Continues, Californios Gets Four Stars, Scotch Bonnet Launches Brick And Mortar Assuming you weren't sickened by a massive vegetable recall, you had plenty of food news to chew over this week: The (delayed) SF Michelin guide revealed that we now have more three-star joints
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Quinoa And Noodle-Centric Automat Eatsa Shutters Locations In Berkeley, New York, And D.C. Eatsa, the automat-style eatery which saw rapid expansion after landing in San Francisco in 2015, has abruptly closed its shops in Berkeley, New York, and Washington, D.C. The reason for the closure
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Guy Fieri Feeds Wildfire Survivors, Foxsister Opens On 24th The impact of the wildfires making their way across Northern California can be felt across multiple industries, not the least of which being food. As we mentioned earlier this week, the Michelin Guide
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Barnzu Brings Korean To The 'Loin, Papi Rico Comes To The Castro Fall is typically a time for openings, and we have a couple to tell you about this week, as well some closures. Earlier we heard about the debut of chef Robin Song's new
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink RN74 To Shutter Forever In Ten Days, Offers Deep Discounts On Pricey Wine Fans of RN74, you've got T-minus 10 days to enjoy a last hurrah there. As we first learned back in May, Michael Mina's RN74, in the base of Millennium Tower, is closing down
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: AltoVino Comes To Nob Hill, Brown Sugar Kitchen Comes To The Ferry Building In a week with so much happening in the world, it feels almost frivolous to mull restaurant gossip. But, hey, we all gotta eat! That's why we told you about Jardinere's DACA benefit,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Well Loved Juhu Beach Club Set To Close In Oakland, Reopen Later, Somewhere Chef Preeti Mistry's five-year-old Temescal spot Juhu Beach Club will be sunsetting at its current strip-mall location in the near-ish future, as Mistry has just announced. A number of recent developments including her
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Aziza Will Not Reopen, Will Be Replaced By Moorish-Mexican Spot Called Amara At last we have word on local star chef Mourad Lahlou's plans for his Outer Richmond onetime flagship restaurant, Aziza which has now been closed for fifteen months. The Michelin-starred chef-owner of Mourad,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Loses Two Restaurants In One Week; Blueprint Tap Room Shutters In SoMa It seems that a midsummer wave of closures is upon us in the food scene, beginning with a pair of small Asian spots in the Castro one of which had sat quietly on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chaya Brasserie Closes After 17 Years; Buca Di Beppo Closes After 20 A couple of notable downtown closures to report after the weekend: 17-year-old Chaya Brasserie closed its doors after service on Friday, as Eater reports; and 20-year-old Italian chain restaurant Buca di Beppo has
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: A Chicken Nugget Tasting Room, Caffe Trieste To Possibly Close, And More This week, as with all other headlines, local food news headlines were dominated with Charlottesville after it was revealed that an employee at Berkeley-based hot dog chain Top Dog was at the white
