SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Francisca's Arrives In The Mission, Sababa Expands, And More Summer often means a slowdown in food news, but this steamy week proved to be an exception: Goat Hill Pizza shut down for the summer, Young Fava started delivering, Pliny the Elder was
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Is Farina Finally Closed? A certain exorbitantly priced, marginally well liked Italian spot on 18th Street has been mysteriously closed for about a month, and this could signal the final demise of a polarizing restaurant that has
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Goat Hill Pizza Shuts Down Its Potrero Flagship For A Summer Renovation If you were thinking of heading to Goat Hill Pizza on Potrero Hill tonight for their weekly all-you-can eat pizza deal, you are out of luck. The 42-year-old neighborhood pizza spot is closed
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fenix Quietly Shutters In SoMa Marking what seems to be the end of the Mercer Restaurant Group at least for now Fenix shuttered without any advance notice or fanfare about a month ago, and the food blogs are
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: RTB Fillmore Takes Shape, The Future Of Aziza, And More This week, which happens to be Negroni Week, brought some news of the former Big team's project at 98 Turk Street, as well as news of the closure of Oakland's Pican this weekend,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pican Closing In Oakland, May Reopen As Smaller Restaurant A pair of large restaurant spaces that helped transform the Uptown neighborhood in Oakland in the last decade are about to get split into four smaller spaces, with the latest closure being Southern
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Dumpling Time Debuts, Bauer Kind Of Likes Contrada This week's SF food news gave and took away: On the plus column, Anthony Strong opened a delivery-only restaurant, Outside Lands announced their food lineup, RT Rotisserie's opening approached. and Motze's transition to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Iconic Castro Restaurant The Sausage Factory Likely Closing As Building Goes Up For Sale The Sausage Factory, a charmingly dive-y institution in the Castro serving up red-sauce Italian dishes and over-flowing iceberg lettuce salads for nearly 50 years now, is under threat of closure as the building
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Boxing Room Turns Spanish, Speakeasy Brewing Lives On, And More This week on the restaurant scene we saw the openings of The Meatball Bar in the Financial District, and Kahnfections bakery in the Mission, and we brought you some last-minute ideas for taking
Arts & Entertainment Cafe Du Nord Officially Relaunches With June 1 Party And Rogue Wave Show Today we got some more details of the previously announced rebirth of Cafe du Nord as a full-time music venue, and among the new details we learn that the space is going to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Week In SF Food: Cultivar Opens, La PanotiQ Closes, And More This week we saw Showdown shutter, Ginger's Trois return, A Mano prepare to open, and Dolores Outpost do whatever it is that they do. Tartine Manufactory won an award, Aatxe closed, Lucky 13
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Aatxe Also Axed In Swedish American Hall Following Cafe Du Nord Changes The other shoe in the Swedish American Hall space on Market Street is about ready to drop. In past weeks, we learned that Cafe du Nord's run as a swanky cocktail lounge was
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink RN74 Closing, Will Be Replaced By Ayesha Curry's BBQ Restaurant International Smoke Pretty big news for downtown dining: Michael Mina's eight-year-old brasserie RN74, famous for its long and expense-account-shattering wine list, is going to be calling it quits later this year and "transitioning" into a
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
