SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Jules, the Brick and Mortar Version of the Hot Pizza Pop-Up, Sets an Opening Date in the Lower Haight We finally have an opening date for Jules, after a bit of delay, in the former Iza Ramen space in the Lower Haight.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Hayes Valley Sees One Restaurant Open, Another on the Way The Rich Table team is expanding once more, there's a new restaurant in the former Petit Crenn space and it opened this week, and Daytrip Counter debuts next week in Oakland, all in This Week in Food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Jewish Deli-Inspired Restaurant (With Cocktails) Coming to the Marina The Causwells team is pivoting their second space, which opened last year as the low-ABV cocktail and snack bar Lilah, and opening a new Jewish deli-inspired concept with high-ABV drinks.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Husband-and-Wife Team Behind Presidio Restaurant Dalida Are Expanding Into Presidio Heights Laura and Sayat Ozyilmaz, the couple behind the almost two-year-old hit pan-Mediterranean restaurant Dalida, have inked a deal to open a second restaurant nearby.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Arquet Is the Name of the New Restaurant Coming to the Slanted Door Space, From the Sorrel Team The new, casual offshoot of Michelin-starred Sorrel that is getting ready to move into the prominent Ferry Building space that was formerly home to The Slanted Door now has a name and some further details.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Details Revealed About Che Fico's Mission Rock Expansion Project, Which Will Be Tuscan Che Fico chef-partner David Nayfeld is promising a "more dressed up version of a restaurant than we’ve ever done before" at his new, 8,000-square-foot restaurant in the base of Visa's new Mission Rock headquarters.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Mina Appears to Be Plotting a New Fine Dining Restaurant Where His Old One Used to Be In the Westin St. Francis There are few details and zero confirmations so far from the hotel or the MINA Group, but all signs point to an impending return of celebrity chef Michael Mina to the grand space off the lobby at the Westin St. Francis, after an ongoing renovation is complete.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Brucato, a New Restaurant and Distillery Tasting Room, Opening Next Month In the Mission A trendy new local maker of excellent amari — Italian-style, herbal digestif and aperitif liqueurs — Brucato Amaro, has set an opening date for their first tasting room, which is doubling as a full-service restaurant and cocktail bar.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Venerable Polk Street Vietnamese Spot Crustacean to Open In New Downtown Location Shortly It's happening probably within a few weeks: 34-year-old Vietnamese institution Crustacean is opening in the Financial District and getting a bit fancier — with the original Polk Street spot slated to close later this year.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Schlok's Bagels & Lox Announces New FiDi Location Local bagel purveyor Schlok's, which has won a cadre of fans who line up most mornings for their bagels at their Fell Street window, just announced a second location in downtown SF.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Draymond Green Is Partnering With Two East Bay Chefs to Open Caribbean-Ethiopian Restaurant In Lower Nob Hill Warriors bad boy Draymond Green is getting into the restaurant game for the first time, and he's partnered with two well-known East Bay chefs to create a restaurant that celebrates "Black culture in San Francisco."
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Pizza and Burger Favorites Head Downtown Outta Sight Pizza expands to Chinatown, Lazy Bear expands into French cuisine, and a wildly popular smashburger pop-up gets a brick-and-mortar outpost at IKEA's food hall, all in This Week In Food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lazy Bear Team to Open Big New French Restaurant In SF's Design District It's a new year and with it we get the first big restaurant opening announcement for San Francisco: Coming this summer, chef David Barzelay and the team behind Lazy Bear are planning to open a grand, old-school French restaurant.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dogpatch Stalwart Piccino Is Expanding to the Presidio, and Marin For 18 years, Piccino has been one of the reliably delicious favorites of the Dogpatch neighborhood, and now, after nearly two decades, the owners have decided to expand.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Celebrity Chef Stephanie Izard Opening New South Bay Restaurant, Valley Goat Could it be the beginning of more Bay Area empire building for chef and restaurateur Stephanie Izard?
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Very Large New Sports Bar From PCH Team Coming to Chase Center/Thrive City An enormous, two-level sports bar and entertainment complex is coming to Thrive City at the Chase Center early next year, and it will feature a beverage program from Pacific Cocktail Haven founder Kevin Diedrich.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Popular Pizza Pop-up Jules, From a Tartine and Roberta's Alum, Lands Permanent Spot In Lower Haight It's official: Buzzy pop-up Jules has secured a brick-and-mortar location, in the Lower Haight, and by mid-winter you should be seeing crowds gathering near Haight and Fillmore for their excellent New York-meets-California pies.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Korean Steakhouse From Globally Prolific Chef Coming to Union Square A Korean steakhouse with a location in Los Angeles, ABSteak, from acclaimed chef and Iron Chef America competitor Akira Back, is opening in Union Square's Hotel Fusion next month.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two New Restaurants From Chef Brad Kilgore Get Fleshed Out at the Transamerica Complex Things appear to be full steam ahead at the ongoing renovation of the Transameria Pyramid and an adjacent building that is being called Transamerica Three. And it's in that building that Miami-based chef Brad Kilgore is planning two new restaurants, with one being more of a daytime cafe.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Indian Restaurant Bombay Brasserie, With Locations In London and Dubai, Set to Open In SF's Union Square Bombay Brasserie, a high-end restaurant brand associated with Taj Hotels that has standalone locations in London, Cape Town, Singapore and Dubai, is readying to open a new location here in San Francisco's Union Square.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Saison's New Wine Bar Makes a Splash In SoMa Saison's new SoMa wine bar has opened, a new Greek spot lands in the TenderNob, and Napa is getting its first Kansas City-style smokehouse and barbecue.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco’s Best New Pizza Is Coming From a Pop-Up, But Maybe Not for Long The buzz around Jules, a pizza pop-up from a former Tartine baker and self-described "dough nerd," has been growing for months, and I can confirm it's not all hype.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Head to the 'Loin for Estrellita's Pupusas and Enchiladas An Outer Sunset wine bar expands to mid-Market, a popular pupusa maker lands a brick-and-mortar spot in the Tenderloin, and the Slanted Door space in the Ferry Building has a taker.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Huge New Food Hall From Momofuku Alum Coming to Presidio Tunnel Tops A large restaurant space in the Presidio Tunnel Tops park that has been sitting empty has found a taker, and it's an alum from the acclaimed Momofuku restaurant group.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Slanted Door Space In Ferry Building to Become Big New Destination Restaurant and Bakery From Sorrel Team There's a taker for the prominent anchor restaurant space at the Ferry Building that was officially vacated by The Slanted Door this spring, and it's a new concept from the Michelin-starred team behind Sorrel.
