SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nostra Officially Closes, Remodel Underway For NY Transplant Babu Ji It's time to give a big Italian chef's kiss goodbye to Nostra Spaghetteria and Bar Mia. That establishment, a choose-your-own-pasta adventure, was Alexander Alioto's more low-key reboot of the more ambitious Plin, but
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Finn Town, Single Thread, And Other New Restaurants To Look Forward To This Fall The refrains about our current restaurant scene are getting a bit repetitive from diners, it's "too expensive" and there seems to be some ongoing fatigue with fine dining; and from restaurant owners it's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rich Table Expanding With RT Rotisserie For Casual, Take-Out Chicken And More Opened in 2012, Hayes Valley's Rich Table, named for its married chef-owner duo Sarah and Evan Rich, has been a steady hit. That's meant a busy lifestyle for the Riches, who are often
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: The Morris Delayed, Bauer Revisits AsiaSF, And More This week saw the surprising and abrupt closings of Volta and Citizen's Band, brought news of The Mill aiming to do nightly dinner, and we found out that popular New York Indian spot
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Buzzy NYC Indian Restaurant Babu Ji Expanding To SF Jessi and Jennifer Singh opened their East Village contemporary Indian restaurant Babu Ji after departing Australia, where the restaurateurs had three businesses they've since closed, one of which was, according to an article
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: RTB Fillmore Pops Up For Ramen, Duc Loi Expands, And More The food news from us this week: Mr. Bing's, the dingy-ass apple of our dive-bar eye, has been saved, essentially. Also, the former Betelnut space will be a thing along the lines of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bon Marché Gets Its First Pop-Up, Minnie Bell's Soul Movement As SFist reported last week, this week marks the transformation perhaps temporary of the former Bon Marché space on mid-Market into a multi-vendor food hall, banking on the daytime success of next-door neighbor
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Powder, A Taiwanese-Style Shaved Snow Shop, Opens Friday On Divis Shaved snow is in the forecast this week, with the Taiwanese-style treat — somewhere between shaved ice and ice cream — arriving at a permanent spot on the Divisadero corridor this Friday. So far, the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Ninebark Shutters Permanently, Texas Tacos Coming To Oakland As always around these parts, this week was a busy one in the world of food. Importantly, we put together a list of some of the best pizza in the Bay Area. In
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Inside Black Cat, A Stray Spot Of Swank In The Tenderloin Swaggering up to a Tenderloin corner where, by contrast, area denizens typically stagger and stumble, Black Cat (Eddy and Leavenworth), a new restaurant arrival, is an already lively — if unexpected — destination. Announced in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Bellota Does Lunch, Casey's Pizza Truck Lands Brick And Mortar, And More This week, SFist's food department reported that the Outer Sunset oasis Riptide was roaring back to life, that the owners of the mini-chain Burma Superstar were named in a class action lawsuit filed
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Namu Stonepot Nears, Grub Closes, And More This week saw the possible permanent closure of Bon Marché on mid-Market, the opening of Mission/Bernal beer spot Old Devil Moon, and news of the renaming of Marina restaurant Spaghetti Bros. to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Old Devil Moon Rises For Beer, Po' Boys, And Cocktails In Bernal Business partners Chris Cohen, Andrew Kelly, Ericka Shell, Will Marshall, and Carson Beker, are not, as you might guess from the slightly satanic atmosphere they've concocted at their new bar Old Devil Moon,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Bar Tartine Lowers Prices, Revenge Pops Up At The Residence, And More This week on the food beat we learned about synthetic milk made from yeast, we took a look at Nomica's opening menu, we checked out the menus at Nightbird (which just debuted last
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Check Out The Opening Menus For Nightbird And Its Companion Bar The Linden Room See inside Nightbird, which takes flight tonight https://t.co/xBx6HBQzyI pic.twitter.com/Ejce6IhbRv— Eater SF (@eatersf) August 25, 2016 Chef Kim Alter's much anticipated solo project in Hayes Valley, Nightbird, has
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Exclusive: Check Out The Menu For Nomica, Possibly Softly Open New Castro spot Nomica (2223 Market Street), which I gathered last week was getting very close to opening, has been open for private test dinners the last couple of nights, and could possibly
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Marianne's, Chic Private Techie Bar, Now Open To The Hoi Polloi It was in 2013 that Marianne's, the semi-secret bar within the Cavalier at the Hotel Zetta, was dubbed "The secret S.F. room where tech deals get made" by the Business Times. The
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Limewood Debuts In Berkeley, Bauer Adores In Situ, And More This week saw a couple of exciting openings, including the debut of Tartine Manufactory, the opening of the St. Vincent replacement Barzotto but it did not see the opening of Nightbird, Kim Alter's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Classy-Casual Barzotto Opens On Valencia For Fresh Pasta, Gelato, And More In atmosphere, the difference between the former St. Vincent and the new occupant of its former Valencia Street home is night and day. Like, quite literally, St. Vincent, which was dark and masculine,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photos: Tartine's Massive Second Location, Tartine Manufactory, Open And Packed The typical lines for Tartine have migrated deeper down 18th Street, from Guerrero to, now, Alabama Street. There, inside the Heath Ceramics building, Tartine Manufactory is now open, and the much-anticipated all-day spinoff
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nomica To Open Shortly In The Castro; Chef Ryan Scott's Finn Town Opening Late October The Castro is about to get two new restaurant options in spaces that have lain dormant for the last year along Market Street: Nomica, a new, modern Japanese spot from the team behind
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] Much Awaited Hayes Valley Restaurant Nightbird Set To Open Shortly It's been a year and a half since we first heard that the talents of chef Kim Alter would finally be getting a solo stage from which to cook here in San Francisco,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Half Moon Bay Rolls Out The Pink Carpet For Dunkin' Donuts The second Dunkin Donuts in the entire Bay Area opened in the cozy beach town of Half Moon Bay on Monday and for East Coast and Midwest transplants, renewed proximity to their favorite
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Rich Table Reopens, Sweetgreen Heads To SoMa, Iza Ramen Expanding, And More This week we covered a lot of food world happenings at SFist. There was, for starters, a mouth-watering recap of some over-the-top good festival food at Outside Lands. We had big news that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Craft Beer Bar Buffalo Theory Joins The Herd On Polk Street Over on Polk Street, the new cool kid bar on the block is Buffalo Theory, which opened its doors and poured its first craft beers yesterday. The spot comes from owner Ted Kim