SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 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.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [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.
SF News 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.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 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.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 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.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 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.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 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.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 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.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 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.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 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.
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.
