SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Opening Nears For Mourad, Gussie's Chicken and Waffles Closes, and More Despite it being a holiday week in a half-empty town, a few things are still happening in the food scene, right down to the wire of New Year's Eve (see also our quick-and-dirty
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Burma Superstar Arrives On Valencia, Loco'l Finds A T-Loin Spot, And More December is a season of celebration for most restaurants, and 'tis the season of lists, like our roundup of the best new restaurants of the year. But it's also a season when we
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 15 Best New Restaurants In The Bay Area Another year in SF means another couple dozen new places to eat. It's pretty astounding, actually, how the economy, combined with our voracious appetite for new food, has supported a dining boom in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Manresa Returns To Ring In New Year With our list of The 12 Best New Bars Of 2014 out and a respite from rain, who knows what could happen this weekend. The big news is that Manresa, which suffered a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Step Inside The Progress, The State Bird Spinoff That Opens Tuesday Earlier in the week I alerted you to the opening of The Progress, the long-awaited, larger sister restaurant from the team that brought you State Bird Provisions which is right next door. Today
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink State Bird Spinoff The Progress Opens This Week Much like they did to incredible success on New Year's Eve 2011, married chef-partners Stuart Brioza and Nicole Krasinski have chosen the end of the year to debut their second restaurant, The Progress,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Remembering Judy Rodgers, Troya Closes Its Original Location, And More Did our sandwich roundup make you hungry? Because I'm pretty full. Anyhow, in addition to the openings of Cockscomb and Indochine this week, here's what else has been going on about town, food-and-beverage-wise.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Indochine, A New Vegan Spot From Sunflower Team, Opens On Valencia; Also, What's Up With Sunflower? Though popular Vietnamese spot Sunflower remains closed in their prime corner location at Valencia and 16th the team, who still has another restaurant on Potrero Hill, remains cagey about why it abruptly closed
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Opening Tonight: Cockscomb, Chris Cosentino's New SoMa Spot Right on schedule, chef Chris Cosentino's newest restaurant, Cockscomb, is opening at 4th and Brannan tonight, bringing the Top Chef Master's non-Italian talents to life in a newly renovated space. The concrete building
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Jackalope Debuts On Polk, An Update on Aveline, and More There's probably already a line forming at the new Hapa Ramen, even though it doesn't open to the public until Sunday, but there's actually plenty else that's been happening in the local food
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hapa Ramen Finally Gets Brick-And-Mortar Location This Weekend Chef Richie Nakano has been promising the city a permanent home for his Hapa Ramen pop-up and farmers' market stand since the first Obama Administration, and it is finally, finally happening on Sunday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Massive New Chinese Restaurant Crystal Jade Debuts At Embarcadero Center A huge new restaurant from the Singapore-based restaurant conglomerate Crystal Jade opens today at Embarcadero Center 4, and just to reiterate, this place is enormous. As we noted last month, this is the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Goodbye to Chenery Park, Hello to Truffles, Rotisserie, and Ramen This week we had the word on Game, which debuted in the former Masa's space on Nob Hill on Thursday, and we also told you about S.F. legend Jeremiah Tower's surprise turn
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Game Opens This Week In The Former Masa's Space Coming to replace the former, longtime Nob Hill fine-dining mainstay Masa's this week is Game. As discussed a couple months back, Game is a new wild-game-focused restaurant from the chef-owner behind the Michelin-starred
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Brenda's Meat & Three Debuts, Ferry Building Adds Outdoor Stalls, and More We saw the debut of small but anticipated Tenderloin bistro Huxley this week, and we got word of the closures of Luna Park, Brandy Ho's (in the Castro), Burmese Kitchen, and Pasta Pomodoro
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photos: Cat Town Café, The Country's First Cat-Play Coffeeshop As we mentioned the other day, Oakland's Cat Town Café just debuted over the weekend, becoming the first-of-its-kind cat cafe, where coffee drinking mingles with cat cuddling. Today, on National Cat Day, when
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Opening Tonight: Huxley, a Tiny New Tenderloin Spot With Gourmet Cred Tonight, a small but foodinista-anticipated opening is happening at 848 Geary (between Hyde and Larkin), and it's called Huxley. The place is a collaboration between executive chef Sara Hauman (formerly on the line
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: The Oasis Returns To SoMa, Crystal Jade Coming Soon, And More The biggest food news of the week was the Michelin Guide release, with San Francisco finally (finally!) getting its first three-star restaurants in the city proper: Saison and Benu. This is very good
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Week In S.F. Food: Arguello Opens, A Manresa Spinoff In The Works, And More In case you missed it, one of the biggest headlines of the week was the announcement that Baker & Banker is closing later this month, after being in business for five years. Then
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Les Clos Opens Its Doors, Zella's Opens In Oakland, and More Apart from the big debut of The Hall, and the ongoing, completely baffling bracket thing they're doing at the Business Times a baldfaced bid for traffic following on the success of The Five
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Noodle Spot Slurp Opens In The Castro Fork Cafe in the Castro quietly closed last week, and today they are softly reopen as Slurp (469 Castro Street), a non-denominational noodle bar. It appears to be a quick concept shuffle by
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Step Inside The Hall, Opening Today On Mid-Market The latest in a steady of stream of projects that are transforming the mid-Market corridor has arrived, and it's called The Hall. It's a multi-faceted food hall with its own beer-and-wine bar that's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: American Grilled Cheese Kitchen Expands, TBD Switches Things Up Again, and More I know. You're still upset about Sunflower (maybe) being closed for good. Well, buck up and let's get on with the rest of the stuff making food headlines this week. First off, as
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Cafe Du Nord Will Be More Restaurant Than Venue, Lazy Bear Sets a Date, and More Topping this week's food-scene headlines is the impending opening of Lazy Bear, the brick-and-mortar restaurant from underground-dining chef David Barzelay the name is an anagram of his last name. Barzelay will be doing
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bandidos In The Castro Changes Name To Hecho Amid Controversy The owners of one-week-old Castro restaurant Bandidos have bent to criticism that their choice of name has ethnically offensive connotations. Today they announced that they're going with the name Hecho, which is Spanish
