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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cafe Du Nord Is Becoming A Music Venue Again The brief era of Cafe du Nord as a swank cocktail lounge with delicious bar food from the Flour + Water folks is officially over, one year after the opening menu was pared down
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Study Links Yelp Ratings With SF Restaurant Closures A new study by a pair of Harvard Business School researchers, focusing on Bay Area restaurants between 2008 and 2016, found that minimum wage hikes do indeed impact restaurants' ability to stay in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: AG Ferrari Closes All Stores, Castro Fountain Opens & A 'La La Land' Pop-Up Takes Shape This week at SFist, we covered news that the Hall on Market Street would close in September, had word of Laundré, a café and laundromat in the works for the Mission, and discovered
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Hall On Mid-Market Will Close In September One of several food halls that sprang up around the city in the last several years, The Hall on Market Street between 6th and 7th, has announced that its official closing will happen
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Navi Kitchen Nears, Commis To Get A Next-Door Bar, And More It's a challenge to round up the food news this week, as we're still all in carb comas after compiling our best San Francisco bakeries and are suffering from hangovers after our final
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hecho To Close In The Castro After Being Sold To Andale Chain After just two years and change at the corner of Market and Sanchez, Hecho Cantina, née Hecho (and before that Bandidos), will be closing its doors soon to make way for new owners.
