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Midnite Bagel Opens to Moderately Long Lines In the Inner Sunset

After months of anticipation, Midnite Bagel quietly opened its first brick-and-mortar shop this week in the Inner Sunset, and by Saturday word had gotten around.

Former Hotel Vitale Reopens Wednesday as 1 Hotel San Francisco, Following Major Remodel and Restaurant Makeover

The SF hotel business is starting to boom again, and as the summer travel season kicks off, a new luxury hotel is making its debut on the Embarcadero, in the property that had been the Hotel Vitale since 2005.

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Massive New Furniture Showroom and Restaurant From RH (Restoration Hardware) Opens In Dogpatch

After a majorly ambitious, six-year renovation project, the company formerly known as Restoration Hardware is ready to unveil perhaps its grandest showroom-restaurant combo to date in San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood, at Pier 70.

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The Mission's Former Revolution Cafe Reborn as New Piano Bar, Ivory & Vine

The Mission District's Revolution Cafe closed a year ago, but the 22nd and Bartlett Street fixture has a new incarnation that tries to hit similar musical notes.

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Handroll Project, the Hotly Anticipated New Casual Sushi Spot From a Ju-Ni Chef, Opens In the Mission

A new sushi restaurant devoted entirely to handrolls — sort of like the open-faced-sandwich version of a maki roll — has opened in the prominent former AL's Deli/Yuzuki space at 18th and Guerrero, and it's bound to be a big hit.

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Shuggie's Trash Pie & Natural Wine Makes Colorful Debut in the Old Velvet Cantina

Combining the trends of upcycling food waste and natural wine, along with pizza which never goes out of style, Shuggie's Trash Pie & Natural Wine has opened its doors in the Mission District.

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Go Eat This: Animo Brings Basque-Style Meat and Fish to Sonoma (With Korean Touches)

Tucked away next to a McDonald's on Route 12 at the edge of the town of Sonoma, a short drive from the town square, is a new restaurant focused on Basque-style, wood-fired meat and fish, from a former New York City ramen chef.

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Schlok's Bagels Set to Open Next Week Off Divisadero

Schlok's, a much-awaited new brick-and-mortar bagel shop for a popular pandemic pop-up, is finally opening next week after a number of delays.

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Square Pie Guys to Open Third Location, Their Biggest Yet, at Ghirardelli Square

Three years after launching as a pop-up in San Francisco and then opening their first location in SoMa, Square Pie Guys have inked a lease at Ghirardelli Square for what will be their flagship location.

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Seven New Restaurants to Try Around San Francisco In Early 2022

The days of going out to new restaurants are back, even if you yourself haven't been out to eat in a while. And there's a bunch of new spots to check out in San Francisco if and when you have the inclination or want to celebrate the city dropping the indoor mask rule.

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Two New Bagel Shops That Began as Pop-Ups Arrive Shortly In SF

Two new bagel purveyors — Schlok's Bagels and Midnite Bagel — are opening brick-and-mortar shops at long last in San Francisco, adding to the growing and increasingly well respected West Coast bagel pantheon.

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Huge Lines Mark Opening Weekend at Chef Matt Horn’s New Chicken Spot Kowbird

People lined up as early as 7 a.m. on opening day and the lines continued through the weekend at chef Matt Horn’s ballyhooed new chicken sandwich spot Kowbird.

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Chef Matt Horn’s New Fried Chicken Joint Kowbird Opens Friday in West Oakland

Barbecue superstar chef Matt Horn adds a fried chicken-focused addition to his emerging Oakland comfort food kingdom, with Friday’s opening of Kowbird at the former Pretty Lady diner space.

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Key Klub, a New Wine and Beer Bar, Softly Opens in Lower Nob Hill

Once upon a time, the space at 856 Bush Street was a bar called the Key Klub. It lived in that space from the 1940s or 50s until 1987, when it closed. The place was revived in 2014 as beer spot Hopwater Distribution, and now, the Key Klub returns in a new incarnation.

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Sweet Maple/Kitchen Story Owner Looks to Expand Nationwide, Plans Five New Bay Area Locations

The allure of brunch knows no bounds, and popular SF brunch spots Sweet Maple and Kitchen Story — with their deep-fried French toast and Millionaire's Bacon — are spinning off more new locations in the coming year.

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Liholiho Yacht Club's 18th Street Pop-Up Becomes Good Good Culture Club; Liholiho Returns to Sutter Street in 2022

The menu at Liholiho Yacht Club in its 18th Street "pop-up" iteration has evolved and changed a bit since the original Liholiho in the TenderNob, and it's evolving some more and morphing into a new restaurant as of today, with a new name.

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[Update] Automat Quietly Opens For Daytime Service In NoPa, Will Open Fully Next Week

One of the most anticipated restaurant openings of this year has finally made it open, as former Lazy Bear chef Matthew Kirk's Automat has quietly debuted in the NoPa neighborhood.

Thieves Throw Party In Nearly Open Downtown SF Ramen Restaurant, Leave Behind Bottles, Vomit

Some burglars decided to throw a party in a soon-to-open restaurant in downtown San Francisco, and it appears they invited friends and hung around for a few hours, drinking whatever they could find and smoking weed.

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Le Fantastique, a New Wine-Focused Restaurant With a Vinyl Soundtrack, Debuts In Hayes Valley

A new wine- and sashimi-driven restaurant from the folks behind Palo Alto's Bird Dog has just opened its doors at the foot of Franklin Street in Hayes Valley, and it's called Le Fantastique.

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Former 1760 on Polk Pivoting to Sorella, a New Cocktail Bar and Restaurant From Acquerello Team

The Michelin two-starred Acquerello has just announced that its more casual sister space at 1760 Polk Street is going to become a new cocktail-focused bar serving Venetian-style cocktail snacks as well as bigger Italian plates.

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DJ Khaled-Fronted Ghost Kitchen Restaurant Another Wing Appears Ready to Open SF Location

DJ Khaled has lent his name to a delivery-only wings enterprise that is "making history" today with a simultaneous launch on three continents with 150 locations, and one of them appears to be in San Francisco.

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Upscale Fish Taco Place Cholita Linda has Opened in the Ferry Building

Traci Des Jardins' fast-casual Ferry Building Mexican spot Mijita has been closed since before the pandemic, but a worthy replacement has arrived in artisan taco purveyor Cholita Linda.

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Michael Mina's First-Ever Marin Restaurant Debuts Tonight In Tiburon

A Tiburon restaurant that's been four years in the making, The Bungalow Kitchen, debuts Wednesday night, with a swanky house-party vibe and several of chef Michael Mina's greatest hits on the menu.

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Much Awaited Korean BBQ Spot San Ho Won, From Benu Chef Corey Lee, Opens Tonight

The long-delayed and eagerly awaited casual Korean project from Michelin three-star chef Corey Lee (Benu, In Situ, Monsieur Benjamin) is making its debut Monday night in the Mission, and it's booking up very fast.

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Former Coin-Op Game Bar/Orson Space Reopens As Thriller Social Club

The former Orson space in SoMa, more recently Coin-Op Game Bar, reopens Friday as a new but similar arcade-bar concept called Thriller Social Club, with a new food and cocktail menu and some throwback games inspired by Playland at the Beach.