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This Week In SF Food: Hazel Debuts On Mid-Market, Biig Opening Slowly In the TL, and More

The big news for the local food scene this week has to be the release of the new Top 100 from the Chronicle, which is notably a bit more diverse, both in terms

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Preeti Mistry's Navi Kitchen Debuts In Emeryville, Indian Pizza Coming Soon

The second East Bay restaurant from Juhu Beach Club chef Preeti Mistry, Navi Kitchen, opened its doors this morning for limited breakfast service — including an awesome looking chai-spiced bacon and egg sandwich dubbed

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This Week In SF Food: AG Ferrari Closes All Stores, Castro Fountain Opens & A 'La La Land' Pop-Up Takes Shape

This week at SFist, we covered news that the Hall on Market Street would close in September, had word of Laundré, a café and laundromat in the works for the Mission, and discovered

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Another Poke Place Just Opened, This One On Russian Hill

The poke trend shows no signs of slowing, and yet another raw-fish emporium has just debuted called Ahipoki, on Polk Street between Broadway and Vallejo. As Hoodline reports via a tipster, Ahipoki takes

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This Week In SF Food: Navi Kitchen Nears, Commis To Get A Next-Door Bar, And More

It's a challenge to round up the food news this week, as we're still all in carb comas after compiling our best San Francisco bakeries and are suffering from hangovers after our final

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Salt & Straw Ice Cream Opens For Business On Upper Fillmore

Bursting onto the SF ice cream scene with such audacious flavors as Cinnamon Ancho & Cajeta and Roasted Strawberry Tres Leches, Portland's own Salt & Straw opens its doors in Pacific Heights today

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This Week In SF Food: Salt & Straw Nears, Bauer And Sens Disagree On The Wolf, And More

This week we brought you pics from the new downtown watering hole Tequila Mockingbird, and news of the city's first EDM bubble tea shop. Local chef Dominique Crenn continues to put sexist haters

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22-Year-Old Fulfills Dream Of Opening EDM Bubble Tea Shop

Fulfilling a childhood dream he had last year, a young entrepreneur has successfully opened Gosu, an "EDM Themed Tea Bar with Asian American Snack and Dessert Fusion Specialties." Just in case my mom

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This Week In SF Food: Craftsman And Wolves Opening Bayview Doughnut Shop, Bauer Still Digs Outerlands, And More

This week, the SFist food bureau broke news of Black Jet Baking Co.'s soft opening in Bernal Heights, had the word on Mersea, a restaurant bound for Treasure Island, and news of

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Black Jet Baking Co. Now Softly Open In Bernal Heights

A post shared by Ritual Coffee Roasters (@ritualcoffee) on Mar 29, 2017 at 3:49pm PDT The ovens are back on at 833 Cortland Avenue in Bernal Heights. Black Jet Baking Co., who

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Healthy Fast-Food Chain Locol Opening West Oakland Bakery On Friday

A post shared by LocoL (@welocol) on Mar 25, 2017 at 4:58pm PDT California chef celebs Daniel Patterson and Roy Choi are adding a new direction to their nascent fast-food chain Locol

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Mission Sushi Spot V16 Opens SF's Millionth Fast-Casual Poke Bar

Everyone is pretty much required to have a side-hustle these days, and V16, the latest sushi restaurant to occupy the northeast corner of 16th and Valencia, is no exception. With four stars on

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This Week In SF Food: Bauer Blesses SingleThread With Four Stars, Mezes Shutters In The Marina, And More

This week we chose our favorite wine bars in the city, followed the case of some toxic Chinatown tea, and were relieved to see that the end of Pauline's Pizza is not yet

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This Week In SF Food: Meatball Bar Arrives, Charter Oak Plans May Opening, And More

Happy St. Patrick's Day, everybody! If you didn't already get your fill of Guinness and sloppy twentysomethings during last weekend's downtown festivities, you've still got a nice-weather Friday here in which to do

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Andytown Opens New Roastery, Second Outer Sunset Cafe With Free Coffee Saturday

Business and life partners Lauren Crabbe and Michael McCrory of the Outer Sunset cafe and roastery Andytown have at least three things, by my count, to celebrate this month. First, it's the third

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Tartine Manufactory And In Situ Among Finalists For 2017 James Beard Awards

The short list is in, and among the finalists — i.e. the actual nominees — for this years James Beard Foundation Awards are a number of San Francisco players, once again doing the local

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This Week In SF Food: Dumpling Time Approaches, Shorty Goldstein's Closes, And More

This week at the SFist food desk we checked out Media Noche, a new cuban counter service spot in the Mission, had word of a $900,000 class action settlement between Tacolicious and

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Media Noche, Serving Tropical Vibes And Cuban-Inspired Cuisine, Is Now Open In The Mission

Media Noche is so named for Miami's favorite late-night Cuban snack, and the new counter-service restaurant open today at 19th and Lexington hopes to make a name for itself with their own take

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This Week In SF Food: Loló Cevicheria Shutters, Bauer Revisits Zarzuela, And More

The biggest news this week is arguably the long-awaited opening of Chinatown food and retail megaplex China Live, right? Also opening was Old Kan & Beer Co and, next week, a Grocery Outlet

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Now Open In West Oakland: Old Kan Beer & Co.

The brewpub project announced last month in the former Dock at Linden Street space, Old Kan Beer & Co., is now officially open as of today, and partners James Syhabout (Hawker Fare, Commis)

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All About China Live, Debuting Its Main Floor Food And Retail Complex On Wednesday

The long-awaited, much-anticipated, biggest-thing-to-happen-to-Chinatown-in-decades project from restaurateur George Chen (Shanghai 1930) is finally opening its doors this week, and it's called China Live (644 Broadway). The opening was initially set for last week,

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This Week In SF Food: L'Olivier To Shutter After 38 Years, Old Bus Tavern Shifting Gears, And More

This week, SFist covered the Mill's expanding pizza night, the debut of Shiba Ramen in Oakland, and a cool delivery robot spotted "studying" the sidewalks of the Mission District. We also rounded up

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Shiba Ramen Debuts In Downtown Oakland Complete With Camino-Trained Chef

A new ramen option comes to downtown Oakland this via Shiba Ramen, which has already staked its claim in the East Bay scene via a stall at the Emeryville Public Market. As Inside

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Bartenders Behind Benjamin Cooper, Big, Open The Douglas Room On Friday

Renown for tiny Tenderloin cocktail bar Big has outlived it by several years, but it remains a byword in the cocktail world and lives on in two bartenders who made it what it

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'Brown Sugar Factory' Takes On 16th And Valencia Space, Formerly Valencia & Kebab

Brown paper has covered the windows at Valencia & Kebab's former digs (525 Valencia) since that mediterranean counter service joint closed in September after just 10 months in business. The paper's still there,