SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Flour + Water's New Pasta Restaurant Penny Roma Opens for Business The previously announced new incarnation of the Central Kitchen space from the Flour + Water Restaurant Group, a casual pasta restaurant called Penny Roma, makes its debut Monday after a brief remodel.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tyler Florence Opens High-End Steakhouse at Chase Center, Designed By Ken Fulk Celebrity chef Tyler Florence's ultra-swanky steakhouse at the Chase Center arena — with design inspiration from Chasen's in L.A. — has been in the works for over two years, and is now making its grand debut.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Instagram-Famous Pizza Operation Sunset Squares Opens SoMa Beer Hall, Slice Shop on Divisadero The team behind Namu Gaji and Namu Stonepot, who started making sourdough pizza and selling it through Instagram DMs under the name Sunset Squares during the pandemic, has just debuted a new pizza and beer hall in SoMa — and the former Namu Stonepot on Divis is becoming a slice shop.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Empress by Boon to Debut Next Week In the Storied Empress of China Space In SF's Chinatown The long-awaited new arrival in the Empress of China space in San Francisco's Chinatown is finally opening, just in time for mask rules and capacity restrictions to be lifted statewide.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lily's High-End Vietnamese Cuisine Delights in the Inner Richmond, Joins the Area's Culinary Rebirth Lily on Clement quietly opened its doors in the middle of San Francisco's coronavirus shut down, and it's a great new spot serving up creative iterations on Vietnamese cuisine.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mexican Spot Otra Opens In the Lower Haight; Korean Fried Chicken Chain Bonchon Debuts at the Metreon New restaurants are opening again! This week we have news about a new modern Mexican spot from the team behind Son's Addition opening in the Lower Haight, and the debut of some new KFC (Korean fried chicken) downtown.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Modern Italian Restaurant Itria Expected to Open In the Mission This Spring — Bringing With It Square Pizzas A pair of seasoned restaurateurs from notable Bay Area eateries — like AL’s Place and Rooster and Rice — is set to open a new “modern Italian” restaurant in the Mission District this spring. (Nonetheless: expect Hawaiian-style pies at the new establishment.)
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink All About the Six Restaurants Debuting at La Cocina's New Tenderloin Food Hall Next Week La Cocina's much anticipated Municipal Marketplace is debuting Monday on one of the rougher corners of the Tenderloin — in the former U.S. post office at the corner of Golden Gate and Hyde.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Prolific SF Restaurateur Opening Two New Restaurants In Pac Heights and Hayes Valley We have word of two new spots coming from his Back of the House Restaurant Group: The Tailor's Son on upper Fillmore, and a second location of The Bird in Hayes Valley.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Total Meltdown, a Pop-Up Specializing in Grilled Cheese and Mac and Cheese, Opens at Mission Picnic A new evening pop-up has arrived at the Mission Picnic space (983 Valencia Street) specializing in grilled cheese sandwiches, mac and cheese, and cheesy tots — all available for takeout or delivery.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink State Bird Spinoff The Anchovy Bar Opens In the Fillmore A much-anticipated restaurant opening for 2020 has made it open, sit-down dining and all.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Belinda Leong and Manresa Alum John Paul Carmona Open Pac Heights French Spot Routier — for Takeout One of the city's most celebrated pastry chefs, Belinda Leong, has teamed up with a former coworker and fellow alum of the Manresa kitchen to open Routier, a full-service French restaurant nearly two years in the making.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Vegan Spot Baia Opens In Jardiniere Space, Roma's Opens On Third Street While most of the restaurant news of the last four months has been about closings and pivots to takeout, there have been a few new restaurant projects proceeding hopefully through this pandemic storm, cautiously optimistic that they will emerge out the other side of it. And all of them are Italian.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Bay Area Food: SF Gets a German Bakery In NoPa Hong Kong Lounge II lives on in SoMa; Prairie is pivoting with more live-fire cooking and a new nightly, one-seating prix fixe; and SF is getting a German bakery in SoMa, Hahdough, which debuts on Sunday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dumpling Time to Open New Location at Chase Center on Monday The Omakase Restaurant Group is getting set to debut the third SF location of Dumpling Time at the Chase Center on Monday, February 3 — and it's the first restaurant to open in the still-developing, Kaiser-branded Thrive City on the arena grounds.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Shake Shack Opens Monday In Cow Hollow Shake Shack shouldn't be new to anyone at this point, really. But if you're an avid fan from New York or you've never tried it, you'll be able to get your regular Shake Shack fix in SF starting Monday, February 3.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bonita Taqueria Y Rotisserie Debuts in the Castro In the former Squat & Gobble space at 3600 16th Street (underneath Lookout), a new Castro food option debuted in the last week. It's the second location of Bonita Taqueria Y Rotisserie, a concept which debuted several years back in the Marina from the same owners as Squat & Gobble.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Celebrated Louisiana Fried Chicken Chain Krispy Krunchy Opens at Fisherman's Wharf A chain that's been lauded for serving America's best chain-restaurant fried chicken, Krispy Krunchy Chicken, has just opened its fourth SF outpost at Fisherman's Wharf, one year after opening a standalone location in the Tenderloin.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland Restaurant Openings: Magpie, Viridian, and Kitchen Story Make Debuts With the holidays behind us, new restaurants and bars are starting to emerge out from under their construction dust on both sides of the Bay. And in Oakland, there are three debuts to talk about this week.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mister Jiu's Casual Spinoff Mamahuhu Debuts Wednesday In the Inner Richmond Based on a 2018 pop-up of the same name, chef Brandon Jew's Mamahuhu is opening its doors to the public on Clement Street on Wednesday, January 15, and you can expect this will be quite popular.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Best New Restaurants In San Francisco, 2019 It's been a relatively quiet year for restaurant openings in San Francisco — and is it any wonder? Still, there are 11 brand new spots that are delightful and delicious additions to our local culinary scene.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bob's Donuts Opens Second Spot at Baker and Fulton on Thursday The much anticipated NoPa location of Bob's Donuts is finally set to open in the former Chili Pies space at the corner of Baker and Fulton, and opening day is Thursday, November 14.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink California Caviar Company Debuts 'The Bump Bar' in Former Sausalito Tasting Room The local sustainable caviar concern, the California Caviar Company, just re-debuted its Sausalito tasting room last week, rebranding it The Bump Bar. And yes, everyone gets a free "bump" when they walk in.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Zachary's Pizza Location Opens In Former Camino Space In Oakland Zachary's Chicago Pizza has just debuted its fifth location the East Bay, bringing another deep-dish contender to the Grand Avenue environs that are already home to the Little Star-affiliated The Star.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hina Yakitori, the Bay Area's First Omakase-Style Yakitori Spot, Debuts On Divisadero Yakitori, the Japanese cuisine sub-genre that stars grilled chicken parts, has emerged in multiple locales around the Bay Area in the last decade. But Hina Yakitori offers an elevated version, with a prix fixe.
