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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Long-Delayed, Multi-Level Chinatown Food Hall China Live Sets January Opening Date China Live, the ambitious, four-story food hall and restaurant project from restaurateur George Chen (he owned the former Shanghai 1930, and originally opened Betelnut in 1995), has finally got an opening timeframe
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Rooh Heads To SoMa, Single Thread Sets A Date, And More This week I could barely think about food much of the time, I don't know about you. We did get word about a new wine bar, Waystone, headed to the space
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Tartine Manufactory Does Dinner, Bauer Revisits The Fly Trap, And More A lot of big news hit this week in the Bay Area food scene. Perhaps most notably, we learned that Bar Tartine will essentially close at the end of the year. We also
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: The Morris Opens For Real, Kane Reviews Tartine Manufactory, And More This week around the Bay Area food and drink sphere we had news of the Lone Star getting sold in SoMa, 4505 Burgers & BBQ expanding to Oakland, and the mid-week opening
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Coastal Italian Takes Over Mina Test Kitchen, Sweetgreen Arrives, And More This week we saw the debut of Rambler in the Hotel Zeppelin, the shuttering of iconic 48-year-old former gay spot The Lion Pub, and the death of longtime North Beach bar
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Tartine Team Takes Over Former Valencia Herbivore To Open Motze, An 18-Month Pop-Up The chef-couple of Nick Balla and Cortney Burns who are still in the process of taking full ownership of the restaurant they've helmed for the past five years, Bar Tartine
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Mission Street Food Back For One Night Only As always around these foodie parts, a lot happened in the world of food this week. We highlighted the best destination doughnut spots, learned that Soylent Food Bars are making some customers violently
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Francis Ford Coppola Hints Of New Restaurant At His Virginia Dare Winery Francis Ford Coppola, who's become a food-and-wine impresario for the Bay Area in recent decades, hinted this week about his latest restaurant project, deciding to be mysterious about it
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Finn Town, Single Thread, And Other New Restaurants To Look Forward To This Fall The refrains about our current restaurant scene are getting a bit repetitive from diners, it's "too expensive" and there seems to be some ongoing fatigue with fine dining; and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: The Morris Delayed, Bauer Revisits AsiaSF, And More This week saw the surprising and abrupt closings of Volta and Citizen's Band, brought news of The Mill aiming to do nightly dinner, and we found out that popular New York
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Mill Looks To Add Beer, Wine, Nightly Dinner The success of The Mill's Monday and Wednesday pizza nights, launched over two years ago, has convinced owner Josie Baker to expand on that, and as Hoodline sees today, he'
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Buzzy NYC Indian Restaurant Babu Ji Expanding To SF Jessi and Jennifer Singh opened their East Village contemporary Indian restaurant Babu Ji after departing Australia, where the restaurateurs had three businesses they've since closed, one of which was, according to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Exciting Fall Opener, The Morris, Arriving Soon In Former Slow Club Space Just over a year ago we heard the first word about The Morris, the new elevated neighborhood spot from Frances/Octavia wine guy Paul Einbund and chef Gavin Schmidt (Coi) in the former
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lazy Bear Team To Open Cocktail-Centric Spot In Former Tradesman Space Highly successful, high-end communal dining spot Lazy Bear, now two and a half years into its mostly sold-out run in the Mission, is expanding with a new, casual cocktail-focused spot
