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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Check Out The Menu At Fénix, Rising From The Ashes Of TBD In May As we first learned in January, short-lived AQ spinoff TBD, two doors down in SoMa, is going to be reborn as something else entirely, under the same management: a Mexican spot called Fénix
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Dairy Queen Coming To The Bay Area, I'a Poke Comes To Church Street, And More This week in the food-o-sphere, we got our first taste of The Halal Guys via delivery, both Mister Jiu's opened in Chinatown and Bar San Pancho debuted in the Mission (in the former
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Halal Guys In SF: An Admittedly Early Review A lot of people, but especially recent New York transplants, are pretty psyched about the arrival of The Halal Guys in San Francisco something we've known about for a year now, but which
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Halal Guys Arrive In SF, Begin Lunch Delivery Via Caviar April 12 The wait is over, all ye hungry New York expats. The Halal Guys' promised arrival in San Francisco is happening, and starting this week they're offering a sneak preview of their food via
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mister Jiu's Sets Opening Date In Chinatown: April 12 Though it once appeared on our list of the most anticipated new restaurants of 2015, Brandon Jew's modern-Chinese passion project Mister Jiu's is finally ready to open in Chinatown next week, April 12,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Is What's Happened Inside The Former Lexington Club, Now Known As Wildhawk When the news broke in late 2014 that arguably the city's only lesbian bar, the Lexington Club, would close, everyone was fairly bummed out. When we learned it was to be replaced by
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Hunted And The Arsenal, Two New Restaurants Focused On Game And Seafood, Headed To SoMa Back in November, Hoodline caught the news that "hunter-gatherer chef" Erik Sun, who's both a partner and occasionally a chef at popular downtown Los Angeles restaurant Bestia was heading to San Francisco to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Burma Superstar Apparently Expanding Again, To SoMa Though the restaurant isn't confirming the news just yet, Hoodline catches word that Burma Superstar appears to be expanding once again, this time to a space in SoMa on Mission between Fifth and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Revelry Bistro Debuts, Nostra Spaghetteria Is For Sale, and More This week around the Bay we had Asia SF getting some strangely big accolades from OpenTable, we heralded in the debut of Waxman's in Ghirardelli Square, said goodbye to Triptych in SoMa, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] Waxman's, The New Ghirardelli Square Spot From Celebrity Chef Jonathan Waxman, Debuts Tuesday We got early word this past weekend that the expected opening of chef Jonathan Waxman's first SF outpost, originally named Brezza Emporio and Pizzeria but rechristened as simply Waxman's, is due to happen
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rickybobby Gets Replacement In the Lower Haight: The Lodge The many fans of RickyBobby in the Lower Haight got some terrible news last month when the popular, three-year-old burgers-and-tots spot announced it was closing for good. But the bright side is that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Bagdad Cafe/SliderBar Space Becoming The Castro Republic, Under New Ownership Welp, the story we all knew would end this way has reached its end as Health-Department-closure-afflicted SliderBar (2295 Market Street), which was rechristened OVOK in September with basically the same menu, to not
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: The Company Opens, Bauer Cares Not For Cadence, And More SFist wrote this week of Off The Grid's return, Little Baobab's reincarnation, and the opening of a new food hall, The Myriad. Others had more, so let's dive in: If burgers are what
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Kava Comes To Divis, Alfred's Steakhouse Reopens, And More This week we alerted you to the best all-you-can-eat deals in the city, learned that Sparky's Diner had closed, advised you to go eat at Cadence, and found out that Alfred's steakhouse had
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Brasserie St. James Arriving on Valencia, Dat Spot Shutters, And More Earlier this week, Wise Sons Bagel sprang to life via delivery service Caviar, and now we learn via Tablehopper they've set a firm opening date of February 26. Also, Caleb went out and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meadowood's New Casual Spot Will Be Called The Charter Oak Back in November we learned that the very fancy, Michelin three-star Restaurant at Meadowood in St. Helena was preparing to open a casual spinoff in downtown St. Helena, in the space long occupied
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wise Sons Bagel Goes On Caviar, Sells Out In 40 Minutes; Shop Opening Soon Order now and get your bagels in 15 min this am with @fastbitesf A photo posted by Wise Sons Jewish Delicatessen (@wisesons) on Feb 10, 2016 at 8:36am PST San Francisco's bagel
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Journeymen, A New Oakland Pop-Up, Finds Monthly Home Like many young, creatively ambitious chefs these days, Jonathan Tu, 32, and Chris Wolff, 29, have already roamed the world's culinary capitals and honed their skills, like journeymen craftsmen of yore, in multiply
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Leo's Oyster Bar Debuts, Belcampo Closes In The Mission, And More This week we took a first look at Fiorella, the new Italian/pizza spot in the Richmond, and we heard the news that the Lexington Club is becoming, predictably enough, a high-end cocktail
