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
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
