SF News From Tokyo To The Tenderloin: Mensho Ramen Opens First US Location This Weekend What an era to be alive! San Francisco's Ramenaissance continues this weekend with the grand opening of Mensho Ramen, the seventh location of the mini-chain from chef-owner Tomoharu Shono and the first shop
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Treasury Brings High-Style Cocktails To The Financial District Way downtown amongst the banks, a handsome new cocktail spot opens tonight in a space that was once home to Cable Car Clothiers at Sansome and Bush. It's called The Treasury, and it's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Leo's Oyster Bar Debuts, Belcampo Closes In The Mission, And More This week we took a first look at Fiorella, the new Italian/pizza spot in the Richmond, and we heard the news that the Lexington Club is becoming, predictably enough, a high-end cocktail
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Ame Is Closing, Okane Debuts, And More It's the slow season in restaurant land, which is why they have Restaurant Week with all those (sometimes worthwhile) discounts. It's also the kickoff of Beer Week starting with tonight's gala at Fort
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: The Perennial Opens, Buckshot Closing, And More Another week with much to eat, drink, and discuss. First it brought the semi-annual menu change from modern cocktail trailblazers Trick Dog, and then, in further menu news, we scoped the food and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Here Are The Food & Beer Menus For Black Bark BBQ Black Bark BBQ opens for real today, and the spinoff of 1300 on Fillmore seems destined to make a splash in what was once the most BBQ-centric 'hood in town. In recent years,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Cadence Softly Opens, Lark Creek Steak Closes, And More Last week was pretty quiet, all told, as everyone got into the New Year's Eve spirit, and this week brought news of the opening of Black Bark BBQ, coming next week in the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink After 23 Years, SF's Only Colombian Restaurant Closing On Valencia Street Most customers don't ask to see the menu at El Majahual. They already know what they want by the time co-owner Regina Ledesma comes around — be that empanadas, tamales, or Regina's favorite dish,
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
