SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Little Chihuahua On Divisadero Temporarily Closes After Three Employees Test Positive One of the four Little Chihuahua locations in San Francisco, on Divisadero near the Lower Haight, has temporarily closed after three staff members have turned up COVID-positive.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nopalito Closes Inner Sunset Location Permanently; Stacks In Hayes Valley Also Appears Closed Bad news: Nopalito is closing its second offshoot on Ninth Avenue. Good news: They're opening a taco window near Dolores Park.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dobbs Ferry Closes Permanently in Hayes Valley; Walzwerk Closes After 21 Years There are two more permanent restaurant closures to rack up in SF. One is the 21-year-old East German restaurant Walzwerk in the Mission, and the other is nine-year-old Dobbs Ferry in Hayes Valley.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Buh-Bye, Office Cookies: Specialty's Is Closing All 50 Locations Due to coronavirus lockdown and the disappearance of its staple catering business, Specialty's Cafe & Bakery is shutting down permanently as of Tuesday. So get your cookie fix now or never.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mikkeller Bar Closes Permanently in the Tenderloin; Inventory for Sale There's another addition to what will likely, sadly be an extensive list of bar and restaurant casualties from the pandemic: seven-year-old Mikkeller Bar.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Despite Seemingly Booming Takeout Business, Cole Valley's Zazie Is Temporarily Closing In a microcosm of what is going on at San Francisco restaurants that remain open for delivery and takeout, beloved brunch spot Zazie in Cole Valley finds itself losing too much money every week to stay open during the pandemic lockdown.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sadly, AL's Deli Has Closed After Just 8 Months After stopping dinner service in January, it seemed possible that chef Aaron London's casual counter-service spot AL's Deli was going to return with a new nighttime concept. But now it's gone for good.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ferry Building's MarketBar to Close After 17 Years It's a touristy, expense-account-heavy spot for lunches and early dinners, but MarketBar to be sure will be missed by many after establishing its place at one corner of the Ferry Building over two decades.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Katz Bagels Is Closing Its Doors Next Month On 16th Street After 27 years in the Mission District, Katz Bagels is calling it quits. Owner Michael Katz posted a note on the shop door saying that the last bagels will be shmeared and sold on March 24.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two More Castro Restaurants Shutter: Slurp and Dapper Dog The Castro really can't catch a break when it comes to the retail vacancy epidemic that is sweeping multiple SF neighborhoods. And now we learn that two more restaurants have permanently closed on the once hopping strip of Castro Street between Market and 18th.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Esteemed French Restaurant La Folie Closing After 32 Years In SF Beloved San Francisco chef and onetime James Beard winner Roland Passot has decided to close his 32-year-old Russian Hill restaurant La Folie on March 14 and go into semi-retirement.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Valencia Pizza & Pasta Closes After 25 Years Another 90s vestige on Valencia Street has said goodbye without much fanfare, and this time it's Valencia Pizza & Pasta (801 Valencia Street). The restaurant sits in the same building as the equally old Burger Joint, which closed two weeks ago, and both restaurant spaces are for rent.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Bay Area Food & Booze: RIP, Gold Dust Lounge Brown Sugar Kitchen departs the Ferry Building, Trick Dog debuts its latest menu, Cafe X stops slinging robot coffee downtown, and Soleil Ho brings us her top 25 dishes to try.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Restaurant Drama: Noosh Chefs Fired Amid Owner Dispute; Chubby Noodle Investors Aggrieved The acclaimed husband-and-wife chefs behind Noosh were abruptly fired on Thursday in a dispute with the restaurant's ownership, and the drama that's been unfolding there has echoes in several recent stories from the SF restaurant scene.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nooo! Kennedy's Irish Pub & Curry House Is Closing Tomorrow In North Beach 20+-year-old North Beach icon Kennedy's Irish Pub & Curry House is calling it quits on Thursday, and San Francisco can chalk up yet another loss of a quirky, multi-cultural mashup of a mainstay.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Flora to Close In Oakland's Uptown After 12 Years A restaurant that was a pioneer in Oakland's revitalized Uptown before the Fox Theater had reopened, Flora, is set to close in two weeks, and it will be replaced by a new concept from the owner of The Kon-Tiki.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF’s Oldest Black-Owned Bar Sam Jordan’s To Close After 60-Year Run in Bayview The Bayview bar and restaurant has legacy status and spawned a street name for the 1940s-era prizefighter, but his kids are hanging up the gloves.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink No More Rosamunde Sausages at Toronado As Lower Haight Shop Closes After 21 Years Popular Lower Haight sausage concern Rosamunde Sausage Grill has closed its original location due to flagging business and other concerns. The place slung its last sausage on Sunday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dosa to Close Valencia Street Location Next Week After almost 15 years on Valencia Street, Dosa is shutting its doors, with the restaurant owners citing a litany of difficulties that are now more than familiar to local restaurateurs.
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.
