SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tartine Manufactory And In Situ Among Finalists For 2017 James Beard Awards The short list is in, and among the finalists i.e. the actual nominees for this years James Beard Foundation Awards are a number of San Francisco players, once again doing the local
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 Now Open In West Oakland: Old Kan Beer & Co. The brewpub project announced last month in the former Dock at Linden Street space, Old Kan Beer & Co., is now officially open as of today, and partners James Syhabout (Hawker Fare, Commis)
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink All About China Live, Debuting Its Main Floor Food And Retail Complex On Wednesday The long-awaited, much-anticipated, biggest-thing-to-happen-to-Chinatown-in-decades project from restaurateur George Chen (Shanghai 1930) is finally opening its doors this week, and it's called China Live (644 Broadway). The opening was initially set for last week,
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 Restaurants, Food & Drink Shiba Ramen Debuts In Downtown Oakland Complete With Camino-Trained Chef A new ramen option comes to downtown Oakland this via Shiba Ramen, which has already staked its claim in the East Bay scene via a stall at the Emeryville Public Market. As Inside
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 'Brown Sugar Factory' Takes On 16th And Valencia Space, Formerly Valencia & Kebab Brown paper has covered the windows at Valencia & Kebab's former digs (525 Valencia) since that mediterranean counter service joint closed in September after just 10 months in business. The paper's still there,
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 Roadside Caboose Restaurant From Former Saison Chef To Open Thursday New parents Alexis Liu, a co-owner of Beacon Coffee and Pantry in North Beach, and Scott Clark, a former chef at San Francisco fine dining spots like Benu and Saison, are taking an
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 Castro Gets Another Coffeeshop: SF's First Verve Coffee Arrives Next Week at Church & Market The crazy glut of coffee options in the Castro shows little signs of abating as we get word that Verve Coffee Roasters is set to arrive in the flatiron-shaped space that was most
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 Go Eat This: Alba Ray's Jambalaya Trading the Mission District for the Garden District, NoLa-inspired Alba Ray's is now open in the space built out for Hapa Ramen and most recently occupied by Citizen Fox at 2293 Mission Street.
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 Coletta Gelato, Fresh Outta Milan, Now Open In SoMa It's obviously too chilly out for ice cream — but that doesn't shorten the lines at Bi-Rite Creamery ever, and, technically, gelato is served warmer than ice cream, making for creamier scoops and providing
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 Halal Guys Finally Opening Brick-and-Mortar Storefront Near Union Square It's been nine months since the Halal Guys arrived in SF and started doing lunch delivery via Caviar. My personal experience with that lunch delivery wasn't that awesome, but it was OK, and
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 Reopening Tonight: Hecho Cantina, AKA The New Hecho We're excited to report that we will reopen tomorrow (Friday) at 6pm! Come by and see what we've done to the place; stay for our delicious cocktails and a more laid-back take on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Duck Sausage Sandwich At Almanac Taproom Save for their signature barrel-aged beers, everything is brand new at Almanac Taproom, which opened just in time for New Year's Eve. The beer label, well known locally and beyond for its "farm
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
