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.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Palm House Opens Tonight In The Former Nettie's In Cow Hollow Taking over the former Nettie's Crab Shack space at 2032 Union Street is a new island-themed concept, Palm House, which debuts tonight after some considerable renovations. The team behind it includes Gayle Pirie,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New BBQ: 4505 Burgers & BBQ and Smokestack Both Now Open Up on Divisadero, 4505 Meats has debuted their little burger-and-barbecue joint in the former Brothers/Da'Pitt BBQ space on Grove Street. It's technically takeout only for now, but there is some temporary patio
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Brace Yourselves For A Flood Of New Restaurants & Bars Spring is usually a season for new stuff in the San Francisco food scene, and this year is no exception. As our local economy continues to boom, 2014 is shaping up to be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Agricole Spinoff Trou Normand Opens Next Week The long-awaited sister restaurant to Bar Agricole is finally going to have its debut next Monday, and it's called Trou Normand (140 New Montgomery Street). The name refers to a traditional northern-French palate
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Charles Phan's Heaven's Dog Replacement, The Coachman, Sounds An Awful Lot Like The Cavalier Chef and restaurateur Charles Phan (Slanted Door, Hard Water) has been playing it pretty close to the vest with his revamp plans at Heaven's Dog (1148 Mission Street bet. 7th and 8th), which
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Loló Relocates In The Mission, To Valencia Street Popular, whimsical, Mexi-fusion spot Loló closed the doors on their existing 22nd Street space after service Saturday night and they're set to reopen this Monday, February 3, in a new, bigger space at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New In The FiDi: Bun Mee And Super Duper Open New Spots Tomorrow is opening day for the second location of popular Pac Heights sandwich spot Bun Mee, as Eater tells us. Like the first location, opened in 2011 at 2015 Fillmore Street, the new
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Verbena, A Spinoff Of Berkeley's Gather, Now Open On Polk As of last night, Verbena, the spinoff of popular Berkeley spot Gather, has opened at 2323 Polk Street. The space was the longtime home of Rex Cafe, and then briefly Marbella, and it's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink La Nebbia, A Casual Spinoff of La Ciccia, Now Open The couple behind Noe Valley's beloved Sardinian spot La Ciccia, chef Massimiliano Conti and Lorella Degan have just softly opened La Nebbia (translation: "the fog") nearby at 1781 Church Street. As Tablehopper reports,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Cafe Arrives In Western SOMA: Gaslamp The burgeoning area of western SOMA, which until recently was a wasteland of industrial spaces, nightclubs, Costco, and a few offices with bits of housing scattered around, is coming up in the world.
