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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 22-Year-Old Opening EDM-Themed Bubble Tea Bar In The Richmond In a concept that sounds more like an improv sketch than an honest-to-god business plan, the Richmond District is, we gather, getting an EDM-themed tea bar which we are going to just go
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Wahlburgers Hits Palo Alto, And Bauer Likes The Morris It's the end of the year, and, as to be expected, we learned this week of multiple announced restaurant closures or pending sales. Notably, Range is closing, Pauline's Pizza is for sale, Kuleto's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ugh: Pauline's Pizza Is For Sale At this point, Sidney Weinstein, who turns 70 next October, is basically the "Pauline" of Pauline's Pizza. Her restaurant on Valencia near 14th, which she opened with her husband and his business partner
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Duchess Comes to Rockridge, Sens Pans Black Cat, And More The end of the year typically brings some surprise closures as well as a rush of last-minute openings typically places that wanted to be open in the fall but were somehow delayed and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Long-Awaiting Healdsburg Destination Restaurant Single Thread Opens Its Doors Tonight Single Thread, which the blogs have talking about since about a year ago and which we first talked about here in June, is opening at last tonight, December 2, in Healdsburg. The restaurant,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now Open In Cow Hollow: Flores, From The Belga And Uno Dos Tacos Team We first learned in September of prolific local restaurateur Adriano Paganini's plan to bring an upscale Mexican concept to the former Betelnut space on Union Street which he snapped up following that restaurant's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Agricole / Trou Nourmand Team Plans 24th Street Rum Bar 'Obispo' Thad Vogler, a spirits devotee whose love of craft distilleries and regional variation is on full display at his Bar Agricole and Trou Normand, is preparing a new shrine to rum on 24th
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nobu, Nobu, Nobu! Famed High-End Sushi Chain Officially Headed To Palo Alto As Future rhapsodizes on his track "Jumpman" with Drake, "Nobu, Nobu, Nobu, Nobu, Nobu, Nobu." A status byword in hip-hop and popular culture generally, the New York-founded sushi chain from chef Nobu Matsuhisa
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Blue Bottle Opens New 'Cold Bar' And Split Arrives In Russian Hill While you were traveling or preparing for your turkey binge, some things went down in the world of SF food this week. We revisited Mary Risley's best turkey-roasting advice, noted the opening of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Tea Shop, Katea, Heads To 16th And Valencia For Boba, Snacks, And More A storefront next to Stanza coffee and across from Monk's Kettle on a typically busy strip of 16th Street between Valencia and Guerrero Streets is showing signs of life. In the last few
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Babu Ji Opens Next Week, Ryan Scott's Finn Town To Launch Next Month, And More This week at the SFist food bureau: We had word that restaurateur George Chen's long-delayed China Live would open in January, we took a moment to weigh the pros and cons of a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink La Urbana, The Upscale Mexican Spot On Divis, Has Closed Get ready to pour one out — mezcal would be most appropriate, but tequila will do — for La Urbana, which appears to have closed suddenly and, according to Inside Scoop, perhaps permanently on the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Jane's Third Location, A Retail Bakery At Geary and Steiner, To Open Later This Month Sweet, sweet Jane. The cafe that opened on Fillmore Street in 2011 and has since expanded to Larkin in 2014 will open its third location, a retail store and bakery operation at 1881
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Rooh Heads To SoMa, Single Thread Sets A Date, And More This week I could barely think about food much of the time, I don't know about you. We did get word about a new wine bar, Waystone, headed to the space next door
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Wine Bar Waystone Debuts On Mid-Market, Next To The Warfield Another addition to the new array of Mid-Market eating and drinking options is Waystone, a new wine bar from one of the partners behind Causwells in the Marina, wherefrom came the burger that
