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
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
