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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sadly, Merigan Sub Shop Is Saying Goodbye October 8 After three years in business on Second Street, near AT&T Park, Merigan Sub Shop is calling it quits on October 8, and this is a sad thing. As Tablehopper puts it,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Citizen's Band And Pinkie's Bakery Abruptly Close In SoMa The bakery Pinkie's and its co-tenant and sister restaurant Citizen's Band, a casual, diner-style operation serving contemporary comfort food, have both closed. A tip to SFist revealed that staff had been notified last
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Another New Downtown Restaurant Bites The Dust: Volta After just nine months in business, Volta has called it quits. Co-owner Umberto Gibin broke the news to Inside Scoop, saying Saturday was the restaurant's last day. Having just opened in December, this
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Buzzy NYC Indian Restaurant Babu Ji Expanding To SF Jessi and Jennifer Singh opened their East Village contemporary Indian restaurant Babu Ji after departing Australia, where the restaurateurs had three businesses they've since closed, one of which was, according to an article
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: RTB Fillmore Pops Up For Ramen, Duc Loi Expands, And More The food news from us this week: Mr. Bing's, the dingy-ass apple of our dive-bar eye, has been saved, essentially. Also, the former Betelnut space will be a thing along the lines of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Ninebark Shutters Permanently, Texas Tacos Coming To Oakland As always around these parts, this week was a busy one in the world of food. Importantly, we put together a list of some of the best pizza in the Bay Area. In
