SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chef Robin Song's Gibson Debuts Thursday In The Hotel Bijou Chef Robin Song, who earned accolades for some of his earlier work at Hog & Rocks several years back, now has a new stage from which to display his talents, and that's the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Waxman's Unpaid Bills, Saison Sues Former Employees, And More This week around the Bay we learned of a new Austrian-style wine bar in North Beach called The Salsburg, saw a bit of controversy over the Museum of Ice Cream and its ice
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Salzburg, A New Austrian-Style Wine Bar, Debuts In North Beach Debuting on Tuesday, October 3, is The Salzburg, a much anticipated new Austrian-themed wine bar project from the team behind nearby spots Union Larder and Little Vine. Hoodline first had word of the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: AltoVino Comes To Nob Hill, Brown Sugar Kitchen Comes To The Ferry Building In a week with so much happening in the world, it feels almost frivolous to mull restaurant gossip. But, hey, we all gotta eat! That's why we told you about Jardinere's DACA benefit,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Proper Hotel And Its Mid-Market Restaurant Villon Are Open For Business A new, long-awaited, high-end boutique hotel at Seventh and Market is officially open for guests, bringing another potential catalyst for change in the always colorful environs of Mid-Market. Proper Hotel, from the newish
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Casey's Pizza Opening First Brick-and-Mortar Location In Mission Bay Thursday It's been almost exactly six years since pizza man Casey Crynes launched the city's first mobile pizza operation out of a food truck, Casey's Pizza, having grown out of a sidewalk pizza oven
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: State Bird Gets A New Menu, Eight Tables Close To Opening, And More In a week that began with temperatures so high I'm sure no one wanted to eat, food news still managed to break. Chief among it: Thelonious Monk's estate is suing North Coast Brewing
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Esan Classic, A Lers Ros Spinoff With Food Influenced By Cambodia & Laos, Opens In The 'Loin Local Thai mini-chain Lers Ros, which has its roots on Larkin Street in the Tenderloin, is expanding once again, this time with a slightly different concept in a space across the street from
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mamanoko, The Japanese-Inspired Replacement For Mamacita, Has Opened After the surprise shuttering of Mamacita in March, we heard that because of an ownership split, partners Stryker Scales and chef Sam Josi were planning a new concept in the space as partner
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Aziza Will Not Reopen, Will Be Replaced By Moorish-Mexican Spot Called Amara At last we have word on local star chef Mourad Lahlou's plans for his Outer Richmond onetime flagship restaurant, Aziza which has now been closed for fifteen months. The Michelin-starred chef-owner of Mourad,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now Open In Noe: Ardiana, From Gialina/Ragazza Chef New neighborhood restaurant @ardiana_sf brought to us by #gialinapizzeria and #regazzasf A post shared by Michael Kelly (@moykiek) on Aug 8, 2017 at 6:30pm PDT Sharon Ardiana, the chef-restaurateur behind successful
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: $180 Kobe Beef Sandwich Coming To SoMa The big food-and-drink news in town this week was the purchase of SF's signature brewery Anchor Brewing by Japan's Sapporo Holdings, which follows a trend of such deals but still feels kind of,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mister Jiu's, Tartine Manufactory, and SingleThread All Vie For Bon Appetit's Best New Restaurants List As Bon Appétit prepares to release their annual list of the ten best new restaurants in the country, which they call the "Hot 10," they've released a list of 50 finalists for the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Nico Moving Downtown, Bauer Adores Acacia House, And More The business of mastication had some bright spots this week, with more details about Stonestown's depressing Macy's becoming a food/cinema destination, more news about the Mid-Market hotel with a rooftop bar and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ippudo Ramen Debuts In Berkeley Friday Ramen lovers, I need your attention. Ippudo Ramen, which has two locations in New York and two more on the way, in addition to dozens in Japan and other countries, is set to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Mid-Market Rooftop Bar To Be Called Charmaine's; Ground-Floor Restaurant Named Villon The much anticipated rooftop bar and lounge at the soon-to-open Proper Hotel at Market and Seventh now officially has a name: Charmaine's. We just learned a few weeks ago that they had hired
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Bar Tartine Space Becoming A Matcha Shop, Barcino Opens In Hayes Valley, And More This week on the food scene we learned that Wise Sons is expanding to Hayes Valley, likely with a bagel shop, and we learned some behind-the-scenes secrets from an In-N-Out employee. Also, Namu
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Namu Stonepot Debuts Next Week On Divisadero The time has come, everybody. The Namu Gaji team is officially expanding to Divisadero next week, and praise the lord they're bringing the Gamja Fries. As Tablehopper reports, Namu Stonepot (553 Divisadero at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Mission Cheese Expands To Berkeley, Bauer Raves About A Mano, And More The Bay Area's food scene began this week with a bang, when a truck packed with cheese had a freeway melt-down. Then there was Zeitgeist's plan to expand, Young Fava's success-based (temporary) closure,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Nobu Debuts In Palo Alto, Almanac Beer Co. Comes To Alameda, And More Over the last holiday week things were somewhat quiet in the food world, but not entirely silent. We just heard the good news that Julius' Castle will be coming to life again, Mister
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Francisca's Arrives In The Mission, Sababa Expands, And More Summer often means a slowdown in food news, but this steamy week proved to be an exception: Goat Hill Pizza shut down for the summer, Young Fava started delivering, Pliny the Elder was
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Sushi Spot Robin Close To Opening In Hayes Valley Adam Tortosa's previously announced Hayes Valley sushi spot Robin (whose original name was Starling before he got served with a cease and desist order by a bar with that name in Sonoma) is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Young Fava Debuts This Week Offering Weeknight Treats, High-End Delivery From Former Locanda Chef As SF enters the next phase of the food delivery app wars perhaps to be known as the post-Sprig era, RIP it may be important to mark the launch of Young Fava, the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Petit Marlowe Approaches, Locol Closes Uptown Location This week in the food scene we learned that Fenix is closed in SoMa, the Range space on Valencia is becoming a 60s-themed cocktail lounge called The Beehive from the same chef-owner as
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Menu-less Los Altos Restaurant Costs $400 Per Person And Only Serves 8 The more exclusive the experience, the more we really want to go there. At least that's the theory, right? Down south in the Silicon Valley suburban haven of Los Altos, Palo Alto Online
