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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Opening Wednesday: The Saratoga, A New Tavern And Supper Club From The Spruce Team Flying under the radar so far this year has been news about Bacchus Management Group (Spruce, Village Pub, Mayfield Bakery & Cafe, the former Cafe Des Amis) and their entrance into the Tendernob,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Lao Table Contends For Prettiest Restaurant, August 1 Five Opens Next Week, And More This week, SFist had news of changes to Nopa's late night hours, Safeway's move to buy up Andronico's, and a primer on the tiniest new bar in the Mission. It was a big
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Coppola Responds To Backlash Over 'American Native' Restaurant Opening In Sonoma This Weekend Werowocomoco is the name of the new restaurant at Francis Ford Coppola's one-year-old Geyserville winery Virginia Dare, and as foreshadowed a month ago, the fictionalized origin-story of the winery, as well as the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sajj Brings Falafel, Wraps, And Fast-Casual Mediterranean Bowls To SoMa The taker for the recently vacated Merigan Sub Shop space has just been revealed by Eater, and it's called Sajj a previously truck-based Mediterranean concept that's opening its first SF location in the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tiny New Mission Bar Is Tucked Inside A Liquor Store Even fans of the Royal Cuckoo Organ Lounge, an at once divey and swanky spot known for great music, may not realize there's a second Royal Cuckoo: The bar expanded from its Bernal
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Tartine Manufactory Does Dinner, Bauer Revisits The Fly Trap, And More A lot of big news hit this week in the Bay Area food scene. Perhaps most notably, we learned that Bar Tartine will essentially close at the end of the year. We also
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bernal's Pinkie’s Bakery To Close This Week Cortland Ave just is about to get a little less sweet as the Bernal Heights neighborhood spot Pinkie's Bakery announced it will close by the end of this week. Bernalwood reports that adding
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: An Ice Cream Cone At Tartine's Cookies And Cream When Tartine Manufactory opened two months back as a larger offshoot of 18th Street's original Tartine, something was missing. That something was ice cream. I mean, we were told there would be ice
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: The Morris Opens For Real, Kane Reviews Tartine Manufactory, And More This week around the Bay Area food and drink sphere we had news of the Lone Star getting sold in SoMa, 4505 Burgers & BBQ expanding to Oakland, and the mid-week opening of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now Open Downtown: The Bird, Serving Fried Chicken Sandwiches The latest fast-food operation from Super Super / Beretta / Starbelly / Uno Dos Tacos owner Adriano Paganini, The Bird, keeps things even simpler than at any of his other restaurants. Using a recipe from consulting
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Coastal Italian Takes Over Mina Test Kitchen, Sweetgreen Arrives, And More This week we saw the debut of Rambler in the Hotel Zeppelin, the shuttering of iconic 48-year-old former gay spot The Lion Pub, and the death of longtime North Beach bar owner Richard
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Introducing Rambler, Now Open At The Hotel Zeppelin We first brought you news of Rambler last month, and now as of last night the restaurant at the new Hotel Zeppelin near Union Square is open to the public. The restaurant is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Mission Street Food Back For One Night Only As always around these foodie parts, a lot happened in the world of food this week. We highlighted the best destination doughnut spots, learned that Soylent Food Bars are making some customers violently
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
