SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Black Bark BBQ Gets New Opening Date: January 13 Following a couple of fairly predictable delays, Black Bark BBQ (1325 Fillmore Street) is finally ready for its opening next week, on January 13. The fast-casual barbecue spinoff of 1300 on Fillmore from
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Volta Softly Opens, Kava Lounge Comes To Divis, and More This shortened, travel-heavy week is often a time for under-the-radar openings and end-of-year closing announcements. We are, sadly, saying goodbye to old-timey greasy spoon The Lucky Penny on Christmas Eve, and we learned
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Little Gem Debuts In Hayes Valley, Dance Club Love + Propaganda Opens, and More This past week on the local food scene we said goodbye to Local Mission Eatery (tomorrow's its last night), and hello to the upcoming Mister Jiu's in Chinatown, due early next year. And,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Brandon Jew's Long-Awaited Chinatown Restaurant Mister Jiu's Due In New Year It's been well over two years that we've known about the approach of chef Brandon Jew's ambitious Chinatown project, named for the more proper spelling of his ancestral name, Mister Jiu's. As Eater
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Brass Tacks Takes Over Flipper's, Alamo Drafthouse Menu Revealed, And More This week at the SFist food and drink desk we selected the 11 best new bars, and with that my main recommendation is to not peruse it too far before cocktail hour. We
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Smitten Expands Fresh-Made Ice Cream Empire To Valencia Valencia Street wants for little in terms of tasty treats, but who can say no to Smitten's flash-frozen ice cream? It's actually churned with liquid nitrogen before your eager eyes, creating unrivaled (in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: St. Vincent And RickyBobby Up For Grabs, Masons Comes To The Castro, And More This week on the food beat we got the name of the upcoming Jonathan Waxman restaurant at Ghirardelli Square, which will be Brezza Emporio and Pizzeria, we learned about Tacolicious chef Telmo Feria's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Tacolicious Chef Telmo Faria To Open Portuguese 'Uma Casa' In Former Incanto Space “I had the itch to cook Portuguese," chef Telmo Faria told Inside Scoop recently, "and that’s when it clicked.” Born in the Bay Area but whisked away by his immigrant parents to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Original U.S. Restaurant Returns, Homage Comes To The FiDi, and More In this shortened week at our food desk, we learned that Sinbad's was finally a goner, ending their drawn-out fight with the Port of San Francisco. We also heard about the fast closure
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Heyday Expands Downtown, Bauer Applauds Cadillac Bar & Grill, and More This week saw the opening of Del Popolo pizzeria on Nob Hill, a menu revamp at Mission Chinese Food, and the announcement of Namu Claypot headed for Divisadero. Here's what else has been
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Tacos Cala Opens, Off The Grid Strikes Google Deal, And Bauer Butters Up Chef Jason Fox This week, first up, SFist broke the news of Chino's closure. We also wrote up a new 24-hour pizza joint and club called Codeword. In other pizza news: Del Popolo. Nob Hill. Next
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Del Popolo Pizza Opens On Nob Hill Next Week, And Here's The Menu Very important pizza news, everyone: Jon Darsky's first brick-and-mortar pizza restaurant, modeled after his hugely successful mobile operation of the same name, Del Popolo, will open to the public on Tuesday, November 17
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Codeword, A New 24-Hour Pizza Shop And Club, Opens Tomorrow In SoMa Late-night slice fans have cause to rejoice, as a new 24-hour pizza shop and dance club is set to open tomorrow in SoMa. Codeword is located on the corner of 5th and Folsom
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Spaghetti Bros. Opens, Bon Marché Reviewed, and More This week in the local food scene saw the reopening of The Orbit Room, the debut of Academy Bar & Kitchen on Fillmore, the opening of Sushi An (the replacement for Ino Sushi)
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Academy Bar & Kitchen Debuts On Fillmore In the former Pizza Inferno space at the edge of Japantown, already open, is Academy Bar & Kitchen (1800 Fillmore Street at Sutter), which SFist first learned about back in February. The restaurant
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now Open At Former Ino Sushi Space In Japantown: Sushi An When famously fastidious and, yes, sometimes fascistic Ino Sushi closed in the Japantown Mall after 37 years, it left a small physical void to fill and a large emotional one. Tying to fill
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Orbit Room Reopens Thursday Night! After the death of owner Jay Johnson, the Orbit Room abruptly closed this spring, marking the end of 20 years in business and causing a lot of sadness around the neighborhood. But just
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: A Taker For The Bay Wolf Space, Barcha Debuts In SoMa, And More This week saw the opening of Iza Ramen in the Lower Haight, and brought news of former Poleng Lounge guy Tim Luym doing the food for a new bar in the Polk, Ho's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Iza Ramen Opens Thursday In The Lower Haight We learned a couple months back that Iza Ramen had closed a deal to take over the former Squat & Gobble at 237 Fillmore Street, which shut its doors over the summer after
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Enter Whitechapel, A Very Steampunk Gin Bar Spin-Off From Smuggler's Cove Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Whitechapel has got to be among the best. With 350 varieties of the botanical spirit including vintage and rare selections
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lers Ros Plots Northwestern Thai Spinoff Less Than A Block From OG Spot No, the local thai mini-empire owned by Bangkok-born chef Tom Silargorn and his wife Oah Budsabagorn won't be opening a fourth Lers Ros location. After all, they've got the Mission, Hayes Valley, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Finn Town Coming To Castro, Causwells Launches Burger Place On Mid-Market, and More You've hopefully heard the good news about The Orbit Room's return, and about WesBurger finding a permanent home in The Mission. Then there's the ridiculous Sinbad's saga that won't end, and St. Vincent
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Asha Tea House And Kit Fox Arrive, And Our Three 'Best Bars In The World' This week's biggest food news, at least in terms of financial impact, came from the coffee industry when we learned that Peet's Coffee & Tea would buy Portland's much-smaller Stumptown. Let that sink
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Matthew Lightner's Ninebark Opens In Napa On October 13 Acclaimed chef Matthew Lightner, who's moved to the Bay Area from Portland via a Michelin-two-star stint in New York, will be debuting his latest venture Ninebark next Tuesday, October 13, in downtown Napa.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Sam Wo Returns, Spats Reopens In Berkeley, and More We told you about In Situ, the new restaurant coming to the new SFMOMA from Benu chef Corey Lee, and about the rebirth of La Boulange as La Boulangerie de San Francisco (six
