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.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland Salumi Spot Adesso Set To Close Popular Dopo spinoff, the eight-year-old salumi-and-cocktails bar Adesso at the end of Piedmont Avenue in Oakland, is calling it quits as Inside Scoop is reporting. They get the news via an email to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Salt & Straw Nears, Bauer And Sens Disagree On The Wolf, And More This week we brought you pics from the new downtown watering hole Tequila Mockingbird, and news of the city's first EDM bubble tea shop. Local chef Dominique Crenn continues to put sexist haters
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Craftsman And Wolves Opening Bayview Doughnut Shop, Bauer Still Digs Outerlands, And More This week, the SFist food bureau broke news of Black Jet Baking Co.'s soft opening in Bernal Heights, had the word on Mersea, a restaurant bound for Treasure Island, and news of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two Sisters Bar & Books Is Closing, You Guys Sad news for Hayes Valley! Well loved six-year-old cafe/bar Two Sisters Bar & Books is calling it quits sometime in the near future, and as Tablehopper tells us, it's because owners Mikha
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission Sushi Spot V16 Opens SF's Millionth Fast-Casual Poke Bar Everyone is pretty much required to have a side-hustle these days, and V16, the latest sushi restaurant to occupy the northeast corner of 16th and Valencia, is no exception. With four stars on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Bauer Blesses SingleThread With Four Stars, Mezes Shutters In The Marina, And More This week we chose our favorite wine bars in the city, followed the case of some toxic Chinatown tea, and were relieved to see that the end of Pauline's Pizza is not yet
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mamacita Abruptly Shutters After 12 Years Perennial Marina fave and recipient of some rave reviews from Michael Bauer, Mamacita (2317 Chestnut Street) suddenly closed down on Friday night in a move that Inside Scoop calls "an abrupt and surprising
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Meatball Bar Arrives, Charter Oak Plans May Opening, And More Happy St. Patrick's Day, everybody! If you didn't already get your fill of Guinness and sloppy twentysomethings during last weekend's downtown festivities, you've still got a nice-weather Friday here in which to do
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Corner Store Shuts Down After Five Years At Geary And Masonic It's an odd location, though not necessarily a bad one, and for five years restaurateurs Ezra Berman and Miles Palliser have been feeding the people of Anza Vista / USF / Laurel Heights at their
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Dumpling Time Approaches, Shorty Goldstein's Closes, And More This week at the SFist food desk we checked out Media Noche, a new cuban counter service spot in the Mission, had word of a $900,000 class action settlement between Tacolicious and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Media Noche, Serving Tropical Vibes And Cuban-Inspired Cuisine, Is Now Open In The Mission Media Noche is so named for Miami's favorite late-night Cuban snack, and the new counter-service restaurant open today at 19th and Lexington hopes to make a name for itself with their own take
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Loló Cevicheria Shutters, Bauer Revisits Zarzuela, And More The biggest news this week is arguably the long-awaited opening of Chinatown food and retail megaplex China Live, right? Also opening was Old Kan & Beer Co and, next week, a Grocery Outlet
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: L'Olivier To Shutter After 38 Years, Old Bus Tavern Shifting Gears, And More This week, SFist covered the Mill's expanding pizza night, the debut of Shiba Ramen in Oakland, and a cool delivery robot spotted "studying" the sidewalks of the Mission District. We also rounded up
SF News Bartenders Behind Benjamin Cooper, Big, Open The Douglas Room On Friday Renown for tiny Tenderloin cocktail bar Big has outlived it by several years, but it remains a byword in the cocktail world and lives on in two bartenders who made it what it
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Rusted Mule Debuts On Polk, Glena's Tacos Appears In The Dogpatch, And More This week in the food scene brought a glowing, but sexist, profile of Dominique Crenn in the New York Times, and then just a day later a fire at her Hayes Valley restaurant
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Rose Pistola Closes, Wise Sons Bagel Expands To Marin, And More It's SF Beer Week, as you know, but there's more to life than hops. For example, there's Iza Ramen, scheduled to open today; Verve Coffee, plotted for the Castro next week; and for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Motze Goes Fast-Casual, La Nebbia Closes, And More It's been a week, hasn't it!? In the food and drink realm, we said goodbye (for now?) to Lefty O'Doul's, we learned of Salt & Straw's upcoming address in Hayes Valley, we recommended
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lefty O'Doul's To Have Closing Party Wednesday Amid Legal Battles Over Name And Memorabilia The legal battle over who owns Lefty O'Doul's basically the business and its brand, as opposed to the premises in which it has resided for nearly 60 years at 333 Geary, which is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Khai Vietnamese Nouveau Debuts, Curry Up Now In Oakland, And More In case you had the impression this might be a normal week in at least some sphere, sorry, but no: Chronicle food critic Michael Bauer wrote a love letter review to a Taco
