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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dominique Crenn Expands With Bar Crenn In Cow Hollow “I love beautiful, loungey wine bars,” Dominique Crenn tells the Chronicle, “I don't think there are many in San Francisco.” As some of the city's wine shops, many with their own bars, are
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Duchess Comes to Rockridge, Sens Pans Black Cat, And More The end of the year typically brings some surprise closures as well as a rush of last-minute openings typically places that wanted to be open in the fall but were somehow delayed and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nobu, Nobu, Nobu! Famed High-End Sushi Chain Officially Headed To Palo Alto As Future rhapsodizes on his track "Jumpman" with Drake, "Nobu, Nobu, Nobu, Nobu, Nobu, Nobu." A status byword in hip-hop and popular culture generally, the New York-founded sushi chain from chef Nobu Matsuhisa
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Portland's Salt & Straw Ice Cream Arrives In SF For Pop-Ups Next Week, Opening Two SF Shops In 2017 Recent transplants from Portland and ice cream fiends who've traveled there in the last few years are likely familiar with Salt & Straw, the Pok Pok-adjacent ice creamery that consistently draws long lines
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Blue Bottle Opens New 'Cold Bar' And Split Arrives In Russian Hill While you were traveling or preparing for your turkey binge, some things went down in the world of SF food this week. We revisited Mary Risley's best turkey-roasting advice, noted the opening of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Pescatarian-Friendly Ramen Spot Hinodeya Coming Straight From Japan to SF's Japantown Another ramen import from Japan, Hinodeya Ramen, is opening an American outpost here in San Francisco, and that is good news for ramen connoisseurs. As Hoodline tells us, the man behind the restaurant,
