SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland Soul Food Destination Brown Sugar Kitchen Has Permanently Closed A nearly 15-year ride that made chef Tanya Holland a soul food celebrity has come to an end, as Brown Sugar Kitchen announces it will not be reopening its doors after its holiday hiatus.
SF News Universal Cafe Closes After 27 Years In the Mission Two beloved SF brunch spots that date back to the 1990s have taken their leave in the last week, and this one will hurt for longtime residents of a neighborhood that was once briefly called Multimedia Gulch.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 100-Year-Old Chinatown Spot With Curtained Booths, Far East Cafe, In Danger of Closing We're sad to learn that one of the longest-lived and largest banquet restaurants in the neighborhood, Far East Cafe, is giving up the ghost after 100 years in business.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Half Of SF Restaurants Are Non-Operational, Restaurant Receipts Down 84 Percent, According to Credit Card Data Outdoor dining and takeout still only amount to a fraction of the number of meals these restaurants would have been serving nightly during normal times.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tiny, Iconic It's Tops Diner Closes on Market Street, Apparently For Good The old-timey Coca-Cola sign was removed and carted away on Wednesday, and it looks like It's Tops on Market Street has served its last 2 a.m. hot cakes.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 28-Year-Old SoMa Mainstay Fringale Closes Citing Central Subway Construction Woes One of SoMa's longest continually running restaurants, Fourth Street Basque-French bistro Fringale, is set to close on January 25 after nearly three decades in business.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Generational Shifts Take Out Chinese Food Restaurants in SF and Beyond San Francisco has seen a higher percentage of Chinese food restaurant closures, as family-owned restaurants watch their next generations duck out of the food business.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Doughnut Dolly Abruptly Shuts Down Operations, Closing SF And Oakland Locations After seven years in business in Oakland and just a few months in San Francisco, popular filled-doughnut enterprise Doughnut Dolly is calling it quits. Founder and pastry chef Hannah Hoffman made the surprising
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink At Least 60 Bay Area Restaurants Have Closed Since September It's been a rough, rough year for restaurateurs around the country and the local region, and as January draws to a close we have a somewhat shocking estimated tally of how many Bay
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink LuLu Closes Suddenly After 24 Years Just days after learning that decorated SoMa restaurant AQ would shutter this month there's more bad dining news from the neighborhood: 24-year-old LuLu has closed, its wood-fired ovens put out for good after
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Second Act Marketplace Shutting Down In The Haight The Upper Haight's experiment in pop-up food halls is coming to an abrupt end as Second Act Marketplace (1727 Haight Street), in part of what was formerly the Red Vic movie house, is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oro Shutters After Nine Months On Mint Plaza In yet another abrupt and fairly high-profile closure, Oro, the second restaurant project of Commonwealth chef-partner Jason Fox, served its last dinner Saturday night. As Fox tells Inside Scoop, "We thought we had
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Bauer Loves Ju-ni, Fisherman's Grotto Gets A New Owner, And More This was a busy week in the world of food. Dunkin' Donuts opened a shop in Walnut Creek, we learned of an upcoming chance to drink beer on a Treasure Island beach, the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mid-Market Restaurant Cadence To Close After Only Six Months Ambitious new restaurant Cadence (1446 Market Street), with chef Joey Elenterio at the helm, is already closing after just six months in business. Eater brings word that co-owner Jay Bordeleau (Maven) issued a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink After Sudden Closure, Oakland's Grand Fare Market Will Reopen Open for just six short weeks before closing suddenly last November, Oakland's sprawling, lofty Grand Fare Market will reopen its doors according to Eater. Operating costs were blamed for the initial closure of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: The Perennial Opens, Buckshot Closing, And More Another week with much to eat, drink, and discuss. First it brought the semi-annual menu change from modern cocktail trailblazers Trick Dog, and then, in further menu news, we scoped the food and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Cadence Softly Opens, Lark Creek Steak Closes, And More Last week was pretty quiet, all told, as everyone got into the New Year's Eve spirit, and this week brought news of the opening of Black Bark BBQ, coming next week in the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Volta Softly Opens, Kava Lounge Comes To Divis, and More This shortened, travel-heavy week is often a time for under-the-radar openings and end-of-year closing announcements. We are, sadly, saying goodbye to old-timey greasy spoon The Lucky Penny on Christmas Eve, and we learned
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lucky Penny To Close For Good On Christmas Eve — Then This The hour draws nigh for Lucky Penny. Yes, at the intersection of Geary and Masonic, the old-school, late-night, sometimes iffy diner's time has unfortunately run out, which Hoodline reports and recent Yelpers corroborate.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Mainstay Harvey's Closed For Holiday Week Remodel, Menu Update Longtime Castro nachos-and-burger spot Harvey's named, of course, for Harvey Milk is closed this week for a remodel, but don't be alarmed. Even though "remodel" is sometimes code for "closed indefinitely," they are
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Little Gem Debuts In Hayes Valley, Dance Club Love + Propaganda Opens, and More This past week on the local food scene we said goodbye to Local Mission Eatery (tomorrow's its last night), and hello to the upcoming Mister Jiu's in Chinatown, due early next year. And,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink After Six Years, Local Mission Eatery Will Call It Quits On Saturday Back in early 2010, Local Mission Eatery debuted as a new sort of idealistic, hybrid, business a high-end sandwich shop with well sourced, local ingredients, with a bakery in back, and with cooking
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Original U.S. Restaurant Returns, Homage Comes To The FiDi, and More In this shortened week at our food desk, we learned that Sinbad's was finally a goner, ending their drawn-out fight with the Port of San Francisco. We also heard about the fast closure
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sinbad's Closes After 40 Years And 1,001 Attempts To Stay Open, Will Be Torn Down The latest — and apparently last — last-ditch effort to remain open from Sinbad's, who surprise-filed for bankruptcy last month while sheriff's deputies knocked on their door, has been foiled according to the Chronicle (note
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland's Ambitious Grand Fare Market Closes After Just Six Weeks After less than two months in business, Grand Fare Market on Grand Avenue in Oakland has closed. It was a pet project of Town Hall/Salt House partner Doug Washington and his wife
