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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: The Return of Cyrus, Tartine Goes to Tokyo, and More This past week brought the opening of Bandidos and Doc Ricketts, as well as some big news about an upcoming development in Sonoma: Cyrus, which closed two years ago after a lengthy battle
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Exclusive: Here's the Menu For Bandidos, Opening In the Castro September 2 The new sit-down Mexican spot coming to the Castro from the Hi Tops team, Bandidos, is now set to open next week, on September 2, right after Labor Day. Owners Dana Gleim and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Jack's Oyster Bar Debuts, Huxley Opens In September, and More The big opening of the week is across the Bay at Jack London Square, and that would be Jack's Oyster Bar. It's a fish shack/raw bar concept from Bocanova owners Rick Hackett
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink With Shakewell, Onetime 'Top Chef' Contestants Jen Biesty and Tim Nugent May Be Starting A Mini Oakland Empire With the announcement today of the Season 12 cast of Bravo's long-running Top Chef, it seems appropriate to take a moment to look in on a pair of former cheftestants from the Bay
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Spanish Spot Beso Opens In the Castro Tonight The Castro is gaining one more food option in a spot where there was none before this evening, and that would be Beso (4058 18th Street), the new Spanish spinoff of four-year-old Bisou
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Urchin, A Casual Bistro From Michelin-Starred Ame Chefs, Opens On Valencia Street After a year lying empty, the former Wo Hing General Store space at 584 Valencia Street (which was also the original home of The Slanted Door in the 90s) has been rechristened as
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Game To Open In Former Masa's, CREAM Opens On 16th, and More Once again, we bring you all the notable food news we missed from the past week, starting with... Tonight marks the real kickoff of Eat Drink SF, the food fest formerly known as
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Plin, a New Italian Restaurant From Alexander Alioto, Opens Friday In the Mission Gone are all the conduit pipes that made the former Conduit restaurant space a little chilly and odd, as restaurant spaces go. For the opening of Plin (280 Valencia Street, more recently Brass
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Beer Hall/Arcade Headed To SoMa, Namu Gaji Ramen To Open In Dogpatch, and More This marks the beginning of a weekly column rounding up some of the week's more notable restaurant and bar news that we didn't get to cover. Always feel free to send us tips,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Hayes Valley Brasserie Monsieur Benjamin Opens Tonight Chef Corey Lee of the acclaimed, Michelin two-star Benu is opening his second restaurant venture today in Hayes Valley, and it's called Monsieur Benjamin . As we learned last year after Lee first announced
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Mina's Pabu Opens In The Financial District As we alerted you last year, chef and restaurateur Michael Mina was looking to expand his local empire further, and he'll be doing it with acclaimed sushi chef Ken Tominaga, who owns Rohnert
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Huge New Food Hall Headed For Mission Bay Late This Summer Inspired by the massive, multi-vendor food halls of Europe, and along the lines of Mario Batali's Eataly in New York, Los Angeles restaurateur Tony Riviera is bringing something called The Market Hall to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Red Dog, An Il Cane Rosso Spinoff, Opens In SoMa Chef Lauren Kiino, who departed the Daniel Patterson Group a couple years ago and took their Ferry Building takeout venture, Il Cane Rosso (which she was a partner in) with her, has been
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chino, The New Dumpling Spot In The Former Andalu, Opens Tonight The much anticipated pan-Asian spinoff of Tacolicious, Chino, in the former Andalu space at the busy corner of 16th and Guerrero, opens today at 4 p.m. for cocktails, and 5:30 p.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now Open: Gaspar Brasserie Downtown in the space once occupied by Perry's and Midi on Sutter and Kearny (more recently by the short-lived tequila-and-sushi concept Hecho), Gaspar Brasserie just made its public debut before the holiday weekend.
