SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gardenias To Pick Up The Woodward's Garden Party In Lower Pac Heights Chefs and co-owners Margie Conard and Dana Tommasino of the shuttered Woodward's Garden will be replanting their business as Gardenias in Lower Pacific Heights, Tablehopper informs us. Fans of the 1992 established white-tablecloth
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink All About Oro, The Upcoming Mint Plaza Restaurant From Commonwealth's Jason Fox Commonwealth chef/owner Jason Fox and partner Timothy Felkner, former general manager of Zero Zero, wanted a name for their new restaurant that would ring with the history of its surroundings. Oro, Spanish
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Globe Closes, Local Brewery Opens, And A Quinoa-Centric Lunch Spot Looms This week, SFist learned that Chef Michael Mina will be taking over the short-lived second location of Cafe Claude in the Marina to open a pop-up inspired "test kitchen" for those within his
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Millennium Reopens In Oakland On Thursday Vegans across the region can rejoice that Millennium is returning this week in the former Box & Bells space in Rockridge. The beloved, high-end, vegan eatery thrived for 21 years, first on McAllister
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Epic Roasthouse Becomes Epic Steak, New Bar The Treasury Debuts, and More Guess who's in town this week? The great Jeremiah Tower has been stopping in to see friends like chef Mark Franz at Farallon, resurfacing after parting ways with Tavern on the Green in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Bar House Rules Debuts In Former Pesce Spot In Russian Hill There's a new drinking and eating establishment to put on your radar in the Russian Hill environs: House Rules (2227 Polk Street), brought to you by the chef-owner of Hog & Rocks and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Jessica Largey Leaves Manresa, Vive La Tarte Opens In SoMa, And More There were two pesky issues in the Castro this week: Quickly following Mandu shutting down for health issues (and reopening as Janchi, their second rebranding in three months) we had news that Posh
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Poutine With Beef Cheek Gravy At KronnerBurger Open as of two weeks ago in Oakland is KronnerBurger, the long-awaited brick-and-mortar from chef Chris Kronner formerly of Bar Tartine, Serpentine, and Slow Club. Kronner launched KronnerBurger as a pop-up at Bruno's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Super Duper Opening Ninth Location At Kearny And Pine Next Week The empire of Adriano Paganini grows yet again next week as his reps announce the opening of the Bay Area's ninth Super Duper location, this one coming to 346 Kearny Street, at Pine
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Forgery Debuts In SoMa, The Empire Room Opens in Civic Center, and More This week's big opening was Belga in the Marina, and there was the smaller, quieter opening of Acquolina over in North Beach as well. Other than that, the big headline this week was
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Acquolina Opens In North Beach New Tuscan-inspired Italian spot Acquolina (which means "mouth-watering" in Italian) has just quietly swung open its doors in North Beach as SFist can exclusively report. The restaurant is an all-day cafe with a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Step Inside Belga, The New Belgian Brasserie In The Former Cafe Des Amis We've been hearing news for a couple months now about Belga, the new Belgian concept coming to the grand former Cafe Des Amis space on Union Street, and now it's finally going to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Meadowood Welcomes New Chef De Cuisine, Tacorgasmico Opens, And More This past week was marked by a fire that has temporarily shuttered Liverpool Lil's in the Marina, and the announcement of the reopening of the famed, 100-plus-year-old Sam Wo in Chinatown. Also there
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
