SF Restaurants, Food & Drink RN74 Closing, Will Be Replaced By Ayesha Curry's BBQ Restaurant International Smoke Pretty big news for downtown dining: Michael Mina's eight-year-old brasserie RN74, famous for its long and expense-account-shattering wine list, is going to be calling it quits later this year and "transitioning" into a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Acclaimed Former Ritz And Michael Mina Chef Ron Siegel Gets His Own Spot In Marin Chef Ron Siegel, who in his time as executive chef at the Dining Room at the Ritz-Carlton earned four stars from the Chronicle and many other accolades, and who later would take over
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cafe Du Nord Is Becoming A Music Venue Again The brief era of Cafe du Nord as a swank cocktail lounge with delicious bar food from the Flour + Water folks is officially over, one year after the opening menu was pared down
Arts & Entertainment Neighbor Objections Force Planned Pinball Lounge Out Of Bernal Spot Back in November we heard that a couple of pinball-loving entrepreneurs were hoping to open a pinball parlor/lounge in a former hair salon at 1000 Cortland in Bernal Heights, but that plan
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rich Table Spinoff RT Rotisserie Readies An April Debut The husband-and-wife team behind Hayes Valley's successful and acclaimed Rich Table, Evan and Sarah Rich, are almost ready to debut their first fast-casual concept, also in Hayes Valley, dubbed RT Rotisserie. Announced back
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Mano, A Pasta And Pizza Spot From Beretta/Starbelly Guy, Opening In May In Hayes Valley Prolific local restaurateur Adriano Paganini can not be stopped, and we now finally have word on the concept for the space we've known he had snagged at the new 450 Hayes building for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Theorita, A Counter-Style Pie And Sandwich Shop, Headed To Divis Downstairs from Che Fico, the big and ambitious Italian spot headed to 838 Divisadero that we first learned about a year and a half ago, there will be a second, casual to-go spot,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Treasure Island To Get A New Restaurant Called Mersea The clues are few, but a new restaurant is getting under construction over on Treasure Island, marking what may end up being the island's only full-time, full-service restaurant. It's called Mersea, and Inside
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ardiana, A New Restaurant From The Gialina/Ragazza Team, Coming Soon To Noe Valley When news broke a few weeks back that La Ciccia spinoff La Nebbia was shuttering, owners Massimiliano Conti and Lorella Degan hinted that they had a buyer for the space who was well
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Rose Pistola Closes, Wise Sons Bagel Expands To Marin, And More It's SF Beer Week, as you know, but there's more to life than hops. For example, there's Iza Ramen, scheduled to open today; Verve Coffee, plotted for the Castro next week; and for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink To Help Cope With The Weather, Iza Ramen Opens SoMa Location Friday When it rains, turn to ramen. Iza Ramen, which grew from a pop-up into a brick-and-mortar with their Fillmore and Haight location in October 2015, is set to open a second outpost just
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Wolf To Open Shortly In The Former Bay Wolf Space On Oakland's Piedmont Avenue It's been a year and a half since Oakland's Bay Wolf called it quits after 40 years on Piedmont Avenue, marking an end of an era for a beloved and influential East Bay
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink James Syhabout And Former Linden Street Brewer Announce Old Kan Beer & Co. In West Oakland Without much time to mourn the loss of the Oakland location of Hawker Fare, chef-restaurateur James Syhabout just announced the upcoming opening of a new brewery project with partner Adam Lamoreaux, the founder
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Salt & Straw Ice Cream's Hayes Street Location Revealed As we learned in November, Portland's celebrated Salt & Straw ice cream is set to open two locations in San Francisco this spring, its first in the Bay Area following an expansion to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Namu Noodle Pops Up In The Sunset, Deccan Spice Comes To The Castro, And More When we weren't drinking and stuffing pastry in our faces to deal with the horror show that is reality, we reveled in the price chop of a stupid juicer, detailed Super Duper Burger's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Korean Street Food Spot Called Saucy Asian Coming Soon To The Castro The space formerly occupied by H Café at the corner of Sanchez and 17th will soon be reborn as Saucy Asian, a Korean street food spot with fusion-y offerings like tacos, burritos, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: AQ Says Farewell, Alba Ray's Cajun Nears, And More This week we've seen the notable dustup over the fate of salty Union Square mainstay Lefty O'Doul's, which appears to be a tug-of-war between the landlord and the longtime manager, we learned that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Halal Guys Finally Opening Brick-and-Mortar Storefront Near Union Square It's been nine months since the Halal Guys arrived in SF and started doing lunch delivery via Caviar. My personal experience with that lunch delivery wasn't that awesome, but it was OK, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Sushi Ran Chef Brings $120 Omakase Menu To Polk Street The expensive Japanese trend continues with another early-in-the-year opener, Kinjo (2206 Polk Stret), which will be officially open on January 24 serving a $120 omakase menu designed nightly by former Sushi Ran head
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Paradise Lounge Replacement Calle 11 To Open Within Weeks, Along With Rooftop Restaurant A year and a half after we saw Paradise Lounge's interior get the wrecking ball treatment at the corner of 11th and Folsom, it's time for the debut of new salsa club and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Coin-Op Game Room, A New Arcade Bar, Debuts In Former Drake/Orson Space Next Week We heard about it back in April, and it has finally arrived: Coin-Op Game Room, an arcade bar mini-chain launched in San Diego that opened a second location in Sacramento in 2015, will
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Marlowe/Park Tavern Team Takes Over Les Clos In SoMa, Will Transform It Into Petit Marlowe After two years in business at 234 Townsend, Les Clos is going to close in January and get a major makeover at the hands of Anna Weinberg and her Big Night Restaurant Group,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Wahlburgers Hits Palo Alto, And Bauer Likes The Morris It's the end of the year, and, as to be expected, we learned this week of multiple announced restaurant closures or pending sales. Notably, Range is closing, Pauline's Pizza is for sale, Kuleto's
