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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Forbes Island Is Closed, For Good The always odd floating restaurant with a lighthouse next to Pier 39, Forbes Island, has officially shuttered for good as longtime owner Forbes Thor Kiddoo has decided to retire. Eater broke the news
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Nico Moving Downtown, Bauer Adores Acacia House, And More The business of mastication had some bright spots this week, with more details about Stonestown's depressing Macy's becoming a food/cinema destination, more news about the Mid-Market hotel with a rooftop bar and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Bar Tartine Space Becoming A Matcha Shop, Barcino Opens In Hayes Valley, And More This week on the food scene we learned that Wise Sons is expanding to Hayes Valley, likely with a bagel shop, and we learned some behind-the-scenes secrets from an In-N-Out employee. Also, Namu
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink ... And Now Farina Has Lost Its Liquor License The still mysterious saga of Farina (3560 18th Street), which has sat dark for the better part of two months with ominous postings from debt collectors on its front door, has a new
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Delivery Startup Young Fava Halts Service To Seek Larger Kitchen Former Locanda chef Anthony Strong's upscale delivery-only concept Young Fava, which just debuted less than a month ago serving things like a "90s-Style Crudo" and a full caviar service with house-made potato chips,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Say Arrivederci To The illy Caffe In The Castro Another one bites the dust, my friends. It's been widely acknowledged that too many cafés and coffee venues had opened in the Castro in the last few years, and the great shakeout continues
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Francisca's Arrives In The Mission, Sababa Expands, And More Summer often means a slowdown in food news, but this steamy week proved to be an exception: Goat Hill Pizza shut down for the summer, Young Fava started delivering, Pliny the Elder was
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Is Farina Finally Closed? A certain exorbitantly priced, marginally well liked Italian spot on 18th Street has been mysteriously closed for about a month, and this could signal the final demise of a polarizing restaurant that has
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Goat Hill Pizza Shuts Down Its Potrero Flagship For A Summer Renovation If you were thinking of heading to Goat Hill Pizza on Potrero Hill tonight for their weekly all-you-can eat pizza deal, you are out of luck. The 42-year-old neighborhood pizza spot is closed
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fenix Quietly Shutters In SoMa Marking what seems to be the end of the Mercer Restaurant Group at least for now Fenix shuttered without any advance notice or fanfare about a month ago, and the food blogs are
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: RTB Fillmore Takes Shape, The Future Of Aziza, And More This week, which happens to be Negroni Week, brought some news of the former Big team's project at 98 Turk Street, as well as news of the closure of Oakland's Pican this weekend,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pican Closing In Oakland, May Reopen As Smaller Restaurant A pair of large restaurant spaces that helped transform the Uptown neighborhood in Oakland in the last decade are about to get split into four smaller spaces, with the latest closure being Southern
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Dumpling Time Debuts, Bauer Kind Of Likes Contrada This week's SF food news gave and took away: On the plus column, Anthony Strong opened a delivery-only restaurant, Outside Lands announced their food lineup, RT Rotisserie's opening approached. and Motze's transition to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Iconic Castro Restaurant The Sausage Factory Likely Closing As Building Goes Up For Sale The Sausage Factory, a charmingly dive-y institution in the Castro serving up red-sauce Italian dishes and over-flowing iceberg lettuce salads for nearly 50 years now, is under threat of closure as the building
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Boxing Room Turns Spanish, Speakeasy Brewing Lives On, And More This week on the restaurant scene we saw the openings of The Meatball Bar in the Financial District, and Kahnfections bakery in the Mission, and we brought you some last-minute ideas for taking
Arts & Entertainment Cafe Du Nord Officially Relaunches With June 1 Party And Rogue Wave Show Today we got some more details of the previously announced rebirth of Cafe du Nord as a full-time music venue, and among the new details we learn that the space is going to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Week In SF Food: Cultivar Opens, La PanotiQ Closes, And More This week we saw Showdown shutter, Ginger's Trois return, A Mano prepare to open, and Dolores Outpost do whatever it is that they do. Tartine Manufactory won an award, Aatxe closed, Lucky 13
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Aatxe Also Axed In Swedish American Hall Following Cafe Du Nord Changes The other shoe in the Swedish American Hall space on Market Street is about ready to drop. In past weeks, we learned that Cafe du Nord's run as a swanky cocktail lounge was
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink RN74 Closing, Will Be Replaced By Ayesha Curry's BBQ Restaurant International Smoke Pretty big news for downtown dining: Michael Mina's eight-year-old brasserie RN74, famous for its long and expense-account-shattering wine list, is going to be calling it quits later this year and "transitioning" into a
