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Michelin-Starred Marlena Chefs Expanding to Japantown

It looks as though a well-loved, eight-year-old neighborhood restaurant plans to either close or relocate, and a liquor license app points to some new Michelin-star tenants.

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Lori’s Diner Has Finally Reopened Its Flagship Union Square Restaurant On Sutter Street

It’s been more than three years since the one remaining Lori's Diner has served its all-day breakfast and club sandwiches, but the retro tourist trap reopened this week, and yes there is still a 1959 Ford Edsel in the dining room.

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New Chinatown Hot Pot Spot Offers a 'Ferris Wheel' of Meat

A newly open restaurant in San Francisco's Chinatown, Hotpot Champ, is offering a bunch of Instagram- and TikTok-worthy presentations, including a spinning mini-Ferris wheel of raw meat.

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New Restaurant Kuba Has Opened In the Former Cha Cha Cha Space on Mission Street

The new restaurant Kuba has taken the reins at the former Cha Cha Cha at Mission and 19th Streets, and they’re keeping it Cuban with the jerk chicken and famed sangria pitchers.

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City View Dim Sum Has Reopened at New Chinatown Location

After a landlord dispute cost them their longtime home on Commercial Street, Chinatown dim sum favorite City View restaurant has reopened at a new location just a few blocks away.

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Muffuletta Specialists Sandy's to Open Haight Street Shop Next Week

If you don't know the glories of a proper, New Orleans-style muffuletta, you will be able to experience this distinct pleasure soon, as Sandy's gets set to open at 1457 Haight Street on April 20.

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SPQR Chef Opens Mattina, a Pac Heights Breakfast Cafe and Aperitivo Bar That Will Offer Dinner Soon

There's some exciting news up in Pac Heights, where chef Matthew Accarrino has just opened a second restaurant around the corner from the stellar SPQR, and it's called Mattina.

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Copra, a Southern Indian Food Destination From a Michelin-Star Chef, About to Make Its Debut on Lower Fillmore

A much anticipated new Indian restaurant is getting ready to open in the splashy former Dosa space at the corner of Fillmore and Post streets, and it's just gotten a full makeover.

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New Night Market-Inspired Restaurant From Former Aina Chef Debuts In the Mission

Fans of chef Chris Yang and his popular former Hawaiian spot Aina (RIP), and/or pop-up projects like El Chino Grande, will be excited to hear (if they haven't already) that he's opened a new brick-and-mortar spot on Mission Street.

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New Northern Italian Spot Ciccino, From Former Rich Table/Italian Homemade Co. Chef, Now Open for Dinner On Nob Hill

A new Northern Italian restaurant that was initially only open for lunch this fall has debuted its full dinner menu, and early reviews are coming in.

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New Upscale, Italian-Inspired Cocktail Spot Opens Today In FiDi

A swanky new cocktail and snack bar is opening today in a new spot that was never home to a bar or restaurant before, just above Clay Street in the Financial District.

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Esquire Names Three SF Spots (and One In Sonoma) As Best New Restaurants In the Country

San Francisco got short shrift the last couple years when it's come to the James Beard Foundation Awards and Bon Appetit's Best New Restaurants lists, but Esquire is still paying attention to our food scene.

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Go Eat This: Fall Tasting Menu at Nisei

Chef David Yoshimura's thoughtful, soulful spins on Japanese home cooking, elevated as a series of finely composed and richly flavored dishes at his one-year-old Russian Hill restaurant Nisei, make for a memorable dining experience.

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Stoa, a New Cocktail Bar From the Nopalito Team, Is Coming to the Lower Haight

The Lower Haight has continued to be a pretty bustling neighborhood during the pandemic, and while a couple of key vacancies remain, one corner spot is set to have a new business by early next year.

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Iron Chef Morimoto Is Opening a Mostly Chinese Restaurant Near His Napa Flagship

Japanese celebrity chef Masaharu Morimoto is getting set to open a second restaurant in downtown Napa called Morimoto Asia, which will focus primarily on Chinese cuisine.

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Tacos El Último Baile, Born as a Stand Outside an Oakland Bar, Opens Its First Brick and Mortar on Saturday

A taco success story in Oakland begins a new chapter this weekend as taco chef Dominic Prado opens a brick-and-mortar version of Tacos El Último Baile in the Fruitvale District, in the space formerly occupied by Nyum Bai.

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Trio of New Restaurants Open Thursday at Cavallo Point, Including the Mediterranean-Inspired Sula

Over on the other side of the Golden Gate Bridge, in the Before Times, Cavallo Point was known as a semi-secret spa, date, and special-occasion spot — with its restaurant Murray Circle enjoying a number of years of critical acclaim.

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Trendy New STK Steakhouse Hit With Wage Theft Suit, Employees Say They Were Forced to Work With COVID

Just one month after opening, buzzy nightclub-restaurant STK Steakhouse is already dogged by a class-action lawsuit over wage and tip theft, plus employees claiming they were forced to work while testing positive for COVID-19.

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Wagyu Beef Aficionados Will Love Afici, Opening Saturday In the Former ALX Gastropub Space In SoMa

The Alexander's Steakhouse group’s newest concept Afici swears it’s “not an offshoot of Alexander’s Steakhouse,” but instead a fine dining destination for pasta, housemade charcuterie, and “whole-animal utilization.”

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San Ho Won and Abacá Recognized on NYT Best Restaurants List

Fast on the heels of Bon Appetit's 50 Best New Restaurants list, we have another national best-of that picked out two SF restaurants that Bon Appetit's editors passed over.

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Outta Sight Pizza Preps Slice Shop Opening, Will Remain at Fig & Thistle Wine Bar as Evening Pop-Up

A big update for pizza fans in general and fans of Outta Sight Pizza in particular: The promised slice shop on Larkin Street near Civic Center is set to open any day now, but the Hayes Valley wine bar pop-up you've come to love isn't shutting down.

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This Week In SF Food: Bar Piccino Debuts, an NFT Restaurant Breaks Ground, and More

It's about time we revived this weekly roundup of food and restaurant news from SF and around the Bay — now that there's a real, steady flow of restaurant news coming down the pike once again.

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Longtime Bay Area Chef and Food TV Personality Joey Altman Joins the Brixton Team In Opening Hazie's In Hayes Valley

The restaurant space at the corner of Hayes and Octavia formerly occupied by brunch spot Stacks, at 501 Hayes Street, will come to life again this week as Hazie's, a new bar and restaurant from the team behind The Brixton.

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Fancy Flavored Popcorn Shop Debuts In Hayes Valley With Toppings Like Chorizo, Thai Curry, and Brisket

A new snack stand called Fluff Nugget opens today at Proxy in Hayes Valley, taking over the space formerly occupied by Smitten Ice Cream, and serving all manner of tricked-out cones of flavored popcorn.

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Oakland Museum to Get New Patio Restaurant From Gussie's Chicken & Waffles Chef

Town Fare Cafe, the restaurant at the Oakland Museum of California, isn't exactly new. But it's been remade twice now under different chefs, and the latest iteration debuts today with a menu of Southern classics and new-school cocktails, and a brand new patio.