SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fried Chicken Sandwich Shop From Super Duper Team Headed For Downtown The ever-growing empire of Adriano Paganini, a.k.a. Back of the House restaurant group, will be adding to its empire a fast-casual fried chicken sandwich operation at 115 New Montgomery Street (formerly
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] Much Awaited Hayes Valley Restaurant Nightbird Set To Open Shortly It's been a year and a half since we first heard that the talents of chef Kim Alter would finally be getting a solo stage from which to cook here in San Francisco,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Tartine Chefs Nick Balla And Cortney Burns Plot Japanese-Inspired Spinoff Called Motze The talented couple behind the soon-to-be-renamed Bar Tartine are already plotting a second project, even though the deal to buy Bar Tartine from the Tartine Bakery folks still hasn't been fully finalized. As
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: The Mission Gets A New Brewery And Bauer Visits Tawla As always, a lot happened this week in San Francisco's food scene: Blue Bottle made moves to take over the Bean There space in the Lower Haight, we tried a full meal at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Ninebark Closes (Temporarily), Black Cat Makes Its Debut, And More The big news on the local food scene this week was of course the takedown of Michael Bauer's longtime partner Michael Murphy in San Francisco Magazine, which industry folks will likely be murmuring
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tartine Manufactory Set To Open In Early August At 18th And Alabama Big news! There's finally an opening timeframe for Tartine's major new expansion in the Mission, Tartine Manufactory, which will be sharing part of the same building that's home to Heath Ceramics and Blue
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Champagne Bar Coming To Hayes Valley; Momi Toby's Closing Yet another of the "first generation" Hayes Valley businesses those that have been around since the neighborhood first began its current gentrification, after the double-decker section of the Central Freeway that went over
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Ike's Closing In The Castro, Bauer Disses High Sushi Prices, And More This week we told you where to find the best non-dairy frozen desserts, hipped you to Smokestack's new menu, and talked about restaurant owners getting down with Pokemon Go. But of course a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Zazie Gets A Spinoff, Dabba Debuts Downtown, And More This week we got the news that Adriano Paganini, the prolific restaurateur behind Starbelly, Beretta, Super Duper, and Belga, among others, is taking over the Betelnut space on Union Street. We also learned
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Belga/Starbelly/Beretta Owner Snags Former Betelnut Space On Union Street The 20-year home to Betelnut in Cow Hollow, which helped usher in the era of Asian fusion and which finally closed in September 2015 after a couple of attempts to rebrand and relaunch,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Jane Coming To Fillmore, Camino Expands With Kebabs, and More This week on the food scene we heard about Single Thread, the high-profile new fine dining spot coming to Healdsburg from chef Kyle Connaughton; we told you about the crowd-funding campaign to revive
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink All About Single Thread, A New Fine Dining Spot From A Euro- and Japan-Trained Chef Headed To Healdsburg Chef Kyle Connaughton, who contributed to the tome Modernist Cuisine and has trained and worked with two of the food world's biggest names, Michel Bras and Heston Blumenthal, is along with his wife
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink In Situ, Corey Lee's Food-As-Art Reproduction Restaurant, Opens At SFMOMA Next Week Ambitious chef-restaurateur Corey Lee (Benu, Monsieur Benjamin) has had an enviable career already at a young age, having earned three Michelin stars at Benu, helmed the kitchens at The French Laundry and Per
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tratto, A Modern Italian Trattoria, Is Coming To Former BDK Spot At Geary And Taylor We first heard word about the upcoming arrival of Tratto a few weeks ago, and today the team shared a full release with all the details about what's going to be "a spirited,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Forbes Island Reopens, Bauer Loves Rancho Nicasio, And More A lot happened this week in the world of San Francisco food — some good, and some definitely not so good. We told you about what looks to be the permanent closure of Powell
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Rafael's Popular Johnny Doughnuts Headed To Hayes Valley And in more National Doughnut Day news, fans of the Johnny Doughnuts trucks will be happy to learn that the place is about to get a brick-and-mortar shop in the center of San
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Bellota Debuts In SoMa, FDR Brewery Comes to Portola, And More This week on the food beat we heard some cries of dessert forgery from a Blue Bottle pastry chef pointed at SFMOMA's new cafe, we saw Petit Crenn and The Perennial land on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Black Cat, A New Restaurant And Lounge, Will Jazz Up The Tenderloin This Summer The Tenderloin, already purring with swanky bar and restaurant openings, will receive another place to carouse this summer in Black Cat, a restaurant and lounge with a touch of jazz. The bill at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Hapa Ramen/Citizen Fox Spot To Become Cajun Restaurant From Causwell's Team The Mission Street space that was built out for Hapa Ramen in 2014 and was briefly the temporary home for Citizen Fox is getting snatched up by the team behind Causwells and new
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Mediterranean Spot Tawla Coming To Lower Valencia A delicious looking new Eastern Mediterranean spot think more Turkish and Lebanese than Greek or Italian is set to debut in the next couple of weeks from former Delfina chef Joseph Magidow, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink <i>Top Chef</i> Alum Ryan Scott Is Behind Finn Town, Taking Over Former Barracuda In The Castro News has just arrived that the chef behind the replacement for Barracuda (and more recently Mandu) in the Castro, which we learned last fall would be called Finn Town, is none other than
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mateo's Taqueria Expanding To Mid-Market Fans of eight-month-old Mateo's Taqueria (2471 Mission Street) which is probably many of you, given that after eight months, and amongst stiff competition in the Mission, enjoys a four-and-a-half-star average rating on Yelp,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Caputo Closes Quickly, Bauer Adores Original Joe's Westlake, And More This week we heard about a new beer bar called Buffalo Theory headed to Polk Street, found out that Mission Beach Cafe's new spot will be called Mission Beach Valencia, and explored SF's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Buffalo Theory, A New Craft Beer Spot With 'Creative Comfort Food,' Coming To Polk Last year we had word of a beer bar dubbed Crafthaus headed for the former Quickly space at 1735 Polk Street and owners Quinn Wong, Gil Hoh, and Ted Kim promised Hoodline a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission Beach Cafe Spinoff In Former Luna Park To Be Called Mission Beach Valencia There's still no opening date for the Mission Beach Cafe takeover of the space formerly known as Luna Park (694 Valencia Street at 17th). But, as Tablehopper now reports, via a letter that
