SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Steak 'n Shake, the 'In-N-Out of the Midwest', Arrives In the Bay Area I'm not sure that the Bay Area really needs another burger chain, but we're getting one! And it's one that Midwestern and Southern transplants are probably going to be excited about. Steak 'n
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Namu Stonepot Nears, Grub Closes, And More This week saw the possible permanent closure of Bon Marché on mid-Market, the opening of Mission/Bernal beer spot Old Devil Moon, and news of the renaming of Marina restaurant Spaghetti Bros. to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Bar Tartine Lowers Prices, Revenge Pops Up At The Residence, And More This week on the food beat we learned about synthetic milk made from yeast, we took a look at Nomica's opening menu, we checked out the menus at Nightbird (which just debuted last
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Exclusive: Check Out The Menu For Nomica, Possibly Softly Open New Castro spot Nomica (2223 Market Street), which I gathered last week was getting very close to opening, has been open for private test dinners the last couple of nights, and could possibly
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Limewood Debuts In Berkeley, Bauer Adores In Situ, And More This week saw a couple of exciting openings, including the debut of Tartine Manufactory, the opening of the St. Vincent replacement Barzotto but it did not see the opening of Nightbird, Kim Alter's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nomica To Open Shortly In The Castro; Chef Ryan Scott's Finn Town Opening Late October The Castro is about to get two new restaurant options in spaces that have lain dormant for the last year along Market Street: Nomica, a new, modern Japanese spot from the team behind
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
