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
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 Paradise Lounge Replacement Calle 11 To Open Within Weeks, Along With Rooftop Restaurant A year and a half after we saw Paradise Lounge's interior get the wrecking ball treatment at the corner of 11th and Folsom, it's time for the debut of new salsa club and
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 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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: 55-Hour Pastrami At Duchess In Rockridge A photo posted by Duchess Oakland (@duchessoakland) on Dec 1, 2016 at 2:24pm PST A new all-day cafe and pub with low-key gourmet food, Duchess opened in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood this month.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Kosher Israeli Bakery Opens, Ichi Sushi Moving Back To Original Location, And More This week at SFist, we informed ravenous food news readers of the coming transformation of Les Clos in SoMa, which will be closing and taken over by the Marlowe/Park Tavern Team after
