SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Petit Crenn Coming To Former Bar Jules Space This is an exciting turn of events. With Bar Jules chef-owner Jessica Boncutter about to have a child, last month she announced that her Hayes Valley hit would close after eight years. She
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Trestle Nears Opening, MOMA Dumps Blue Bottle For Sightglass, And More What a merger: Tartine Bakery and Blue Bottle Coffee have joined forces, or rather, Tartine has become a part of Blue Bottle. This way, Tartine will get to expand operations to Blue Bottle's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Marlowe Burger Now Open In Former Marlowe Space Offering a good new to-go option coming from or heading to AT&T Park, Marlowe Burger has just opened in what had been Marlowe at Townsend and Fourth. As you probably recall,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Empire Room Arrives This Month, <em>Top Chef</em> Is Coming, And More Besides this week's big openings of Aatxe and Octavia, and the big news that Del Popolo is getting a brick-and-mortar spot on Nob Hill, here's what else has been going on, food-wise, around
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Spanish Spot Aatxe Opens Upstairs From Cafe Du Nord Friday The next project from the Ne Timeas Restaurant Group (Flour + Water, Central Kitchen) is Aatxe (2174 Market Street, pronounced aah-CHAY), a Basque restaurant on the street level of the Swedish American Hall building
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Octavia, The New Spinoff Of Frances In Pacific Heights, Opens Thursday Tomorrow will mark the opening of chef Melissa Perello's second San Francisco restaurant, Octavia (1701 Octavia Street at Bush), which she told SFist a few details about a couple weeks back. After a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Here's The Menu For Lark, Opening Monday In The Castro Last month we caught the news that Lark was headed for the former Brandy Ho's space at 4068 18th Street. Now, after a brief remodel, Lark will open with its "new American" menu
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Southern Food Spot, Rusty's Southern, Arrives In The Tenderloin A brand new Southern-style restaurant that has the added bonus of now serving Biergarten's much-drooled-over Wednesday night burger, is now open in the former 750 Cafe space at 750 Ellis, and it's called
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Sinbad's Hangs On, Mijita Leaves AT&T Park, And More On top of the sad, sad news of the closures of Bar Jules, The Orbit Room and Capp's Corner, this week saw the opening of Aster in the Mission, as well as updates
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Aster Opens Tuesday In The Mission As hinted at earlier, the time has come for the debut of Aster (1001 Guerrero Street), the newest restaurant in the Daniel Patterson Group. This one comes to us via former Outerlands chef
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: An Update On Cafe Du Nord, Ironside Closing, And More This week at SFist, we brought joyous news of BDK Restaurant & Bar's opening, accolade headlines from the James Beard shortlist, and an unfortunate update on the closure of Duboce Triangle's Jumpin Java.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Aster Opening Shortly, Horsefeather Headed To Divisadero This week saw the opening of the new, Proxy-esque beer garden and pre-game venue next to AT&T Park, The Yard, as well as the announcement of the closure of Cafe Claude
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Jersey Brings East Coast Pizza To SoMa, Tokyo's Menscho Comes To SF This week, we drank in news that the barmen behind the erstwhile Big have opened Benjamin Cooper, a cocktail den tucked inside the Hotel G. We also covered the expansion of San Mateo's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink All Spice Opens In Game Space With Benefit Event Tonight As mentioned last week, the owner of Game (in the former Masa's on Nob Hill), Sachin Chopra, decided to abandon the game-meat-focused (there was only ever elk and some goat on the menu)
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Dragon Beaux Debuts, Cadence Coming to Mid-Market, And More Earlier today, SFist learned that Sinbad's would be departing from Pier 2, taking with it memories, those stunning views of the Bay Bridge, and their kitschy wax statue of Sinbad, hairy chest and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: The Return of Big (The Bar), Marlowe Burger Coming To SoMa, and More In addition to the big news about Craftsman & Wolves' expansion to Russian Hill, and Hopscotch's new ramen spot in Oakland, here's what else has been percolating in the food-news realm this week.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Ginto Izakaya Debuts Downtown, B-Side BBQ Calls It Quits, And More As we SFist editors prepare our stomachs for the kickoff of Beer Week tonight, we've got some more of the week's food news to wrap up. The cool new openings keep stacking up
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink AL's Place, Chef Aaron London's New Mission Spot, Opens Friday A new restaurant that's been three years in the making is finally making its debut in the Mission this week, and that's former Ubuntu chef Aaron London's solo effort, AL's Place (1499 Valencia
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Sous Beurre Kitchen Debuts, Chef Shuffle At Game, And More The news around the local food scene has been picking up lately, with openings and closings aplenty this past week. The three big openings, previously mentioned: Hawker Fare, Liholiho Yacht Club, and Mourad.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Step Inside Liholiho Yacht Club, Opening Wednesday On Sutter Street As we noted in last weekend's Week in Food, our most anticipated restaurant of the new year, Liholiho Yacht Club, is very close to its debut, and we now have confirmation that opening
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Check Out The Menu At Mourad, Now Open Downtown Just before the new year we had hints that Mourad Lahlou's new restaurant at 140 New Montgomery, named Mourad, was getting close to opening, and a few weeks later it has happened. Last
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hawker Fare Opens On Valencia James Shyabout of Oakland's Commis, The Dock at Linden Street, and Thai street-food-inspired Hawker Fare has quietly opened the doors to his new branch of Hawker Fare at 680 Valencia Street, in the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Liholiho Yacht Club Very Close To Opening, Commonwealth Chef Plots Mint Plaza Spot, And More This week saw the opening of the huge Whole Foods simulacrum known as The Market on Market, as well as the opening of an Ike's in Emeryville and news that Ike is plotting
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Tara Reid Touches Down At Zero Zero, Box And Bells Packs Up Apart from the ever expanding list of restaurants serving foie gras and consequent death threats to chefs and the sudden closures of Supperclub and The Addition, here's what else has been happening on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Charin Lands In Old Saison Space, The Market On Market Opens This Month, and More Following the BIG NEWS about the return of foie gras this week, it's been a somewhat quiet week in the local food world. We know that Luna Park is staying put for now,