SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hawker Fare Closing Its Original Oakland Location After almost six years in business near Oakland's Uptown district, Hawker Fare is closing up shop in a few short weeks, on February 18. Owner James Syhabout, whose Laotian mother has been in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Namu Noodle Pops Up In The Sunset, Deccan Spice Comes To The Castro, And More When we weren't drinking and stuffing pastry in our faces to deal with the horror show that is reality, we reveled in the price chop of a stupid juicer, detailed Super Duper Burger's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: AQ Says Farewell, Alba Ray's Cajun Nears, And More This week we've seen the notable dustup over the fate of salty Union Square mainstay Lefty O'Doul's, which appears to be a tug-of-war between the landlord and the longtime manager, we learned that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lefty O'Doul's May Be Closing And Relocating In Union Square After 59 Years Union Square dive bar and hofbrau Lefty O'Doul's beloved by many service industry workers, cops, Tenderloin denizens, and San Francisco Chronicle reporters, not to mention a steady stream of tourists seeking a bargain
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Uma Casa Opens For Portuguese Food, Vancouver's Bao Down Comes To SF, And More This week at the SF Food desk there was word of two SoMa restaurant closures, the first in the well-loved, five-year old AQ, which will be seeing the shutter soon and the second
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink AQ Closing After Five Years In SoMa One more New Year's surprise in restaurant closing news: AQ is shutting down this month after five years in business and many accolades, both local and national. Thrillist broke the news in this
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Champagne Bar The Riddler Nears Opening, Sushi Boat Sinks, And More The San Francisco food and drink world was abuzz this week with news of the abrupt shuttering of Pasta Pomodoro's 15 Bay Area locations, and the transformation of Mr. Bing's into something a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Historic Castro Cafe Flore Sold To LGBT Buyers Who Plan To Keep It The Same The 43-year-old Cafe Flore has been purchased by new owners, who like the present ones are LGBT and who tell the Bay Area Reporter that they plan to keep the classic Castro watering
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pasta Pomodoro Suddenly Shutters All 15 Bay Area Locations The last-week-of-the-year surprise restaurant shutterings are here, and this one, while not a huge surprise, is definitely surprisingly abrupt. Pasta Pomodoro, the once ubiquitous local Italian chain, ceased operations over the Christmas weekend
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Show's Over For Show Dogs, Foreign Cinema Sibling Business The curtain's come down at Show Dogs and next-door sibling business Machine Coffee: A call to the restaurant confirms that their last day of operation was the 23rd and that a remodel is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Original Lori's Diner (On Mason) Is Closing After 32 Years Fans of Lori's Diner (are there any who actually live here?) will be sad to learn of the closing of the mini-chain's OG location at 336 Mason Street after 32 long years in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Contrada Debuts Next Week, Chef Khai Duong Returns To SF, and More Most important in our food world this week, SFist brought you our carefully considered Best New Restaurants of 2016. But we also learned of a Sumo Stew pop-up, and a fight by Zeitgeist
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Kosher Israeli Bakery Opens, Ichi Sushi Moving Back To Original Location, And More This week at SFist, we informed ravenous food news readers of the coming transformation of Les Clos in SoMa, which will be closing and taken over by the Marlowe/Park Tavern Team after
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Marlowe/Park Tavern Team Takes Over Les Clos In SoMa, Will Transform It Into Petit Marlowe After two years in business at 234 Townsend, Les Clos is going to close in January and get a major makeover at the hands of Anna Weinberg and her Big Night Restaurant Group,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Kuleto's To Close After 30 Years, Opening Up Prime Powell Street Location Longtime Union Square tourist trap Kuleto's (221 Powell Street), which opened along with the Villa Florence Hotel in 1986 and was one of the first restaurants in prolific designer and restaurateur Pat Kuleto's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Berkeley's 20-Year-Old Cafe Rouge Calls It Quits The next in the annual series of end-of-year surprise closures is 20-year-old butchery haven Cafe Rouge, opened by Zuni alum Marsha McBride in 1996. McBride tells the Mercury News, in a familiar refrain
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ugh: Pauline's Pizza Is For Sale At this point, Sidney Weinstein, who turns 70 next October, is basically the "Pauline" of Pauline's Pizza. Her restaurant on Valencia near 14th, which she opened with her husband and his business partner
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink After 11 Years, Range Is Closing On Valencia It's the end of an era for one of the defining restaurants of Valencia's restaurant boom of the last two decades, as Range will be closing its doors after New Year's Eve. This
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Agricole / Trou Nourmand Team Plans 24th Street Rum Bar 'Obispo' Thad Vogler, a spirits devotee whose love of craft distilleries and regional variation is on full display at his Bar Agricole and Trou Normand, is preparing a new shrine to rum on 24th
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Is SF's Golden Age Of Restaurants Seeing Its Sunset? As 2016 comes to a close, a few things are coming into focus about what the year taught the local restaurant industry. Fixed-price menus are on the rise at the same time as
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Babu Ji Opens Next Week, Ryan Scott's Finn Town To Launch Next Month, And More This week at the SFist food bureau: We had word that restaurateur George Chen's long-delayed China Live would open in January, we took a moment to weigh the pros and cons of a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink La Urbana, The Upscale Mexican Spot On Divis, Has Closed Get ready to pour one out — mezcal would be most appropriate, but tequila will do — for La Urbana, which appears to have closed suddenly and, according to Inside Scoop, perhaps permanently on the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bernal's Pinkie’s Bakery To Close This Week Cortland Ave just is about to get a little less sweet as the Bernal Heights neighborhood spot Pinkie's Bakery announced it will close by the end of this week. Bernalwood reports that adding
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nostra Officially Closes, Remodel Underway For NY Transplant Babu Ji It's time to give a big Italian chef's kiss goodbye to Nostra Spaghetteria and Bar Mia. That establishment, a choose-your-own-pasta adventure, was Alexander Alioto's more low-key reboot of the more ambitious Plin, but
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nob Hill Fly Bar Closing Sunday Fly Bar on Sutter Street had it all: Food, drinks, a bar, more drinks, and even food. As of Sunday, all that will be gone. Yes, Tablehopper reported in August that the establishment
