SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland’s Famed Everett & Jones BBQ Taking Over Vacant Lou’s Fish Shack Space in Fisherman’s Wharf Nearly five years since the closure of Fisherman’s Wharf seafood spot Lou’s Fish Shack, the space is finally getting new life, with a lease just awarded to 51-year-old Oakland barbecue institution Everett & Jones BBQ.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Halfway Club Opens Today in Crocker-Amazon’s Former Broken Record Space The former Broken Record bar at Geneva Avenue and Edinburgh Street will be officially reborn as the Halfway Club when it opens Wednesday night, with a kitchen, full bar, and a “70’s dad’s basement bar” vibe.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Matt Horn’s Burger Joint ‘Matty’s Old Fashioned’ Is Now Taking Reservations, Starting Wednesday Night You can finally sink your teeth into the long-awaited burger concept from celebrated Oakland chef Matt Horn, as Matty’s Old Fashioned is taking reservations for Wednesday night and beyond at their new brick-and-mortar Downtown Oakland location.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lori’s Diner Has Finally Reopened Its Flagship Union Square Restaurant On Sutter Street It’s been more than three years since the one remaining Lori's Diner has served its all-day breakfast and club sandwiches, but the retro tourist trap reopened this week, and yes there is still a 1959 Ford Edsel in the dining room.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Restaurant Kuba Has Opened In the Former Cha Cha Cha Space on Mission Street The new restaurant Kuba has taken the reins at the former Cha Cha Cha at Mission and 19th Streets, and they’re keeping it Cuban with the jerk chicken and famed sangria pitchers.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink City View Dim Sum Has Reopened at New Chinatown Location After a landlord dispute cost them their longtime home on Commercial Street, Chinatown dim sum favorite City View restaurant has reopened at a new location just a few blocks away.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sabrosa Opens Tonight In The Marina, And It Is 'Upscale Mexican' Downscale Mexican is so last century, ladies and gentlemen. And the upscale Mexican trend continues unabated this week with the opening of Sabrosa (3200 Fillmore Street at Greenwich) in the former City Tavern
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Opening Tonight: TBD, The Casual Spinoff Of AQ Make no mistake, that is the name. TBD. It's kind of a joke, you see, and a play on sister restaurant AQ two doors away AQ being the abbreviation you sometimes see on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink State Bird Provisions Reopens This Weekend; Reservations Already Gone Through December So, in the pantheon of incessantly popular and trendy restaurants, the almost two-year-old State Bird Provisions may remain at the top of the S.F. food chain. The restaurant returns from a two-month
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Take A Look At The New Tosca, Its New Chef, And New Food We've all been waiting the last five months to see what New Yorkers Ken Friedman and April Bloomfield have done to the inside of the well loved, and elegantly decayed Tosca Café in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Opening Tonight In The Mission: The Vestry The restaurant attached to The Chapel music venue (777 Valencia Street), dubbed The Vestry, debuts tonight after some lengthy delays. The Chapel, as you may recall, opened last fall around this time in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hog's Apothecary, A Big New Beer Hall, Opens In Oakland Beer has been like the thing over in the East Bay in the last couple of years, with a veritable explosion of beer gardens and beer bars just in the last six months.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fog City (No Diner) Returns With Big Party September 19 As you may have noticed or heard, the 28-year-old Fog City Diner on the Embarcadero decided to close for a major revamp this past spring. Once upon a time it was a shiny,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Cavalier Opens Friday At the Hotel Zetta The much anticipated spinoff off Park Tavern and Marlowe, The Cavalier (360 Jessie Street), has set an opening date for Friday, August 2. The British-inspired brasserie at the newly launched Hotel Zetta (5th
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Huge New Bar And Arcade Opens By Union Square We've been curious what was going on in the second floor of the former Press Club building just above Union Square (across Powell from the Sir Francis Drake), and now this week we
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Kasa Indian Eatery Opens New Location On Polk Popular Castro Indian spot Kasa, which also runs a food truck you may have seen around town, just opened a second location in the former Polk Street Station space (1356 Polk Street, at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink World's Best-Named Chain Restaurant Coming To Embarcadero In pressing chain restaurant news, the world's best-named restaurant is coming to the Embarcadero. (We're rooting for you, Embarcadero. We're all rooting for you.). And it's none other than Crystal Jade! "Nope, it’