SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Jay's Cheesesteak Closing On Divis, Namu Gaji Spinoff On Its Way The latest development in the Valencia-fi-cation of Divisadero: A Namu Gaji spinoff called Namu Claypot is headed for the space currently occupied by a very non-gentrifier spot, Jay's Cheesesteak & Burgers (553 Divisadero)
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Tacos Cala Opens, Off The Grid Strikes Google Deal, And Bauer Butters Up Chef Jason Fox This week, first up, SFist broke the news of Chino's closure. We also wrote up a new 24-hour pizza joint and club called Codeword. In other pizza news: Del Popolo. Nob Hill. Next
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cafe Gratitude Closing Its Last Bay Area Location In Berkeley After years of simultaneously serving organic vegan dinners and allegedly indoctrinating staff into a creepy cult, Cafe Gratitude is closing its Berkeley location marking a final exit from the Bay Area where they
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chino, Tacolicious's Dumpling Spinoff, Has Closed After just a year and a half, Tacolicious's dumpling-centric spinoff Chino is throwing in the towel. "As of today, we will be ceasing operations at Chino," Tacolicious founder Joe Hargrave tells SFist. The
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Finn Town Coming To Castro, Causwells Launches Burger Place On Mid-Market, and More You've hopefully heard the good news about The Orbit Room's return, and about WesBurger finding a permanent home in The Mission. Then there's the ridiculous Sinbad's saga that won't end, and St. Vincent
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] Sinbad's Thwarts Eviction AGAIN By Seeking Bankruptcy Protection The lengthy, frustrating saga of Sinbad's may finally come to an end today though it may not, if the stubbornness of its owners holds true. But today, the authorities will come knocking at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Herbivore, Now Closed On Divis, Remembered In One-Star Yelp Reviews The bell has tolled for Herbivore Divisadero, whose best years, most agree, were well behind it. And in 16 of those years, there were definitely some better ones — or so I've heard. Nonetheless,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Expanded Alembic Unveiled, Chefs Leave Keystone and Hog & Rocks, And More This week was full of food development, from the upcoming opening of Dat Spot on Potrero Hill, the rebranding of SliderBar as Ovok, and news about the new pastry chef at cruffin-famous Mr.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Three More Castro Restaurants Shutter: Zapata, Chile Pies, And Janchi In the case of one Castro neighborhood restaurant that announced it would close soon, it was a landlord squabble that did them in. In the case of another, it was probably poor business
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved Tiny Sushi Bar, Ino Sushi, Closing Next Week After 37 Years Japantown mainstay Ino Sushi, famous in part for its fantastically fresh fish and in part for the gruff temperament of chef-owner Noboru Inoue, is closing its doors forever next week as Ino-san and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Marlowe Burger Shuts Down After Four Months Marlowe Burger, the temporary fast-casual burger spot from the Marlowe team (in the former Marlowe digs), turns out to have been even more temporary than originally intended. While the building is slated for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Slow Club Closing To Make Room For The Morris, From Frances Wine Guy Paul Einbund After 24 years at what was once an under-populated, pre-Web 1.0, media-saturated corner of the Mission/Potrero border, The Slow Club is calling it quits this fall to make way for a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: The Advocate Debuts In Berkeley, Coco Frio Arrives In The Mission This week brought us our first peek at Petit Crenn in Hayes Valley, which makes its debut next week, and some new details about Volta, the new French-ish brasserie on its way to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Valencia Restaurant Shakeout Continues As Urchin Bistrot Calls It Quits After just under a year in business, Urchin Bistrot is closing on July 31, having never quite drawn the crowds it hoped to on the busy restaurant corridor of Valencia. As Inside Scoop
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Berkeley's Pyramid Alehouse Shuts Down After 18 Years Fans of the big, indoor-outdoor Pyramid Alehouse brewpub in deepest Berkeley will be sad this week to learn that the place has abruptly shut down. As the East Bay Express reports, the brewery
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Luna Park Officially Closed; Notices On Door Suggest Foreclosure As of last month we knew that Valencia Street mainstay Luna Park had been sold to the owner of Mission Beach Cafe and a closure was probably imminent and this followed on an
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: The Hilton Reopens Its Top-Story Restaurant, Crafty Fox Debuts, and More Over the last few days we've had news of Black Bark BBQ coming to the Fillmore, more Sonic Drive-Ins on the way to the East Bay, Hapa Ramen doing a late-night pop-up, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Castro Is Teeming With Vermin It may just be the fourth Castro restaurant to be shut down by the health department in recent months, but Slider's Diner (449 Castro, not to be confused with Slider Bar) has been
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved SoMa Bistro Le Charm Closing, Will Reopen As Something Very Similar Called Mathilde 20-plus-year-old French bistro Le Charm, which was serving fish quenelles in lobster sauce and onion soup to the tech geeks of the dot-com boom back when SoMa was still scrappy, is changing hands
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Giordano Bros. Closes Their North Beach Bar After Over A Decade Sports bar/sandwich spot Giordano Bros., which first opened on Columbus Avenue in North Beach in 2004 serving up their signature, Pittsburgh-style "all-in-one" sandwiches and catering especially to Steelers fans, is calling it
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 40-Year-Old Oakland Restaurant Bay Wolf Closing In August An iconic fixture of Oakland's Piedmont Avenue since 1975, Bay Wolf is now set to close right after celebrating its 40th Anniversary this summer, as Inside Scoop is reporting. The restaurant is of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Little Gem Coming To Hayes Valley, Omakase Arrives In SoMa This week was a little light on big food news, apart from the opening of Dirty Water and Anthony Bourdain popping up in town and chowing down on some oysters and prime rib.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Six-Year-Old Wexler's Closing In The FiDi High-end California barbecue spot Wexler's, which opened to pretty immediate acclaim with its rad sculptural ceiling on Sacramento Street in 2009, is calling it quits on June 26, as Inside Scoop reports. Owner
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Luna Park Bought By Mission Beach Cafe Owner Big news over in the Mission, where we've known that longtime stalwart Luna Park (694 Valencia Street) has been up for grabs for months now: It's being sold to Mission Beach Cafe owner
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission & 16th McDonald's Closes With the Van Ness McDonald's already gone and the Third and Townsend McDonald's highly likely to to disappear soon, Egg McMuffin and Big Mac aficionados are going to be even sadder about the
