SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Brandon Jew's Long-Awaited Chinatown Restaurant Mister Jiu's Due In New Year It's been well over two years that we've known about the approach of chef Brandon Jew's ambitious Chinatown project, named for the more proper spelling of his ancestral name, Mister Jiu's. As Eater
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Souvla Coming To Divisadero Fans of popular Hayes Valley Greek-inspired wrap spot Souvla should be glad to know that it's getting a second location, this time on Divisadero, in just the latest of a string of new
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: St. Vincent And RickyBobby Up For Grabs, Masons Comes To The Castro, And More This week on the food beat we got the name of the upcoming Jonathan Waxman restaurant at Ghirardelli Square, which will be Brezza Emporio and Pizzeria, we learned about Tacolicious chef Telmo Feria's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Tacolicious Chef Telmo Faria To Open Portuguese 'Uma Casa' In Former Incanto Space “I had the itch to cook Portuguese," chef Telmo Faria told Inside Scoop recently, "and that’s when it clicked.” Born in the Bay Area but whisked away by his immigrant parents to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Jedi Chef Jonathan Waxman Will Open Brezza Emporio And Pizzeria In Ghirardelli Square Next Year We heard earlier this year about star chef Jonathan Waxman's plans to open his first San Francisco venture, originally slated for the fall, in Ghirardelli Square. As it goes with these things, it's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Heyday Expands Downtown, Bauer Applauds Cadillac Bar & Grill, and More This week saw the opening of Del Popolo pizzeria on Nob Hill, a menu revamp at Mission Chinese Food, and the announcement of Namu Claypot headed for Divisadero. Here's what else has been
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Jay's Cheesesteak Closing On Divis, Namu Gaji Spinoff On Its Way The latest development in the Valencia-fi-cation of Divisadero: A Namu Gaji spinoff called Namu Claypot is headed for the space currently occupied by a very non-gentrifier spot, Jay's Cheesesteak & Burgers (553 Divisadero)
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Black Bark BBQ Arrives On Fillmore December 3 In some excellent news for Fillmore district denizens and fans of barbecue, the fast-casual barbecue spinoff of 1300 on Fillmore, Black Bark BBQ, is just a few weeks from opening. This marks a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sushi Ran Spinoff In The Castro Will Be Called Nomica Though details are still few, the Sushi Ran team has picked a name for the new restaurant they're plotting for the former Pesce space at 2223 Market Street: Nomica. As Sushi Ran vice
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Spaghetti Bros. Opens, Bon Marché Reviewed, and More This week in the local food scene saw the reopening of The Orbit Room, the debut of Academy Bar & Kitchen on Fillmore, the opening of Sushi An (the replacement for Ino Sushi)
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Restaurant at Meadowood To Open Casual Alternative In St. Helena Want to taste the talents of chef Christopher Kostow but can't afford the mint that would take for an evening at Meadowood? Well, then you're in luck as the two-person team behind Napa's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: A Taker For The Bay Wolf Space, Barcha Debuts In SoMa, And More This week saw the opening of Iza Ramen in the Lower Haight, and brought news of former Poleng Lounge guy Tim Luym doing the food for a new bar in the Polk, Ho's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink High-End Sausalito Spot Sushi Ran Expands To The Castro Well, we now have word of who's taking the vacant Pesce space. As Inside Scoop reports, it's Sushi Ran, the acclaimed Sausalito Japanese spot, which will now be giving Castro neighborhood sushi places
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Poleng Lounge Chef Tim Luym Involved In New Spot In Russian Hill Fans of the long gone, pan-Asian-street-food spot Poleng Lounge perhaps some of whom have traveled down to San Mateo a few times to sample the ongoing work of chef Tim Luym at Attic
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wise Sons Bagel Due To Open In December As promised back in July when we last heard October as the timeframe for the debut of Wise Sons Bagel in the Fillmore, I've got an update for you. Tablehopper got a peek
Arts & Entertainment Hooray! Alamo Drafthouse Cinema To Open In December With <i>Star Wars: The Force Awakens</i> Excellent news, kids: Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is on target to be open on December 17 in the historic, totally refurbished New Mission Theater, right on schedule. And, as a release tells us, the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Finn Town Coming To Castro, Causwells Launches Burger Place On Mid-Market, and More You've hopefully heard the good news about The Orbit Room's return, and about WesBurger finding a permanent home in The Mission. Then there's the ridiculous Sinbad's saga that won't end, and St. Vincent
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink WesBurger Snags Permanent Spot In The Mission Popular burger pop-up WesBurger, from chef Wes Rowe, will now be getting its very own brick-and-mortar location at 2240 Mission Street (at 18th), in the former Palacio Latino space, to be called WesBurger
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Kin Khao And Central Kitchen Chef Michael Gaines Previews Taco Concept Glena's Chef Michael Gaines, who cut his teeth in the kitchen at Manresa in Los Gatos and was the opening chef at Kin Khao and chef de cuisine at Central Kitchen looks to be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Sam Wo Returns, Spats Reopens In Berkeley, and More We told you about In Situ, the new restaurant coming to the new SFMOMA from Benu chef Corey Lee, and about the rebirth of La Boulange as La Boulangerie de San Francisco (six
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 3-Michelin-Star Chef Corey Lee's SFMOMA Restaurant To Serve Copies Of Famous Dishes A new restaurant from highly decorated, three-Michelin-star chef Corey Lee —Benu, Monsieur Benjamin — will be situated on the ground floor of the new SFMOMA. So, with a nod to "what a museum does,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink LA-Based Healthy Buffet Chain Lemonade Taking Three More La Boulange Spaces, Including The Metreon As was rumored last week after they inked a deal for the former La Boulange location in West Portal, LA-based fast-casual chain Lemonade has snagged three more of the soon-to-be-revived bakery's former digs:
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Tartine Becomes Crescent Under Ownership of Co-Chefs Nick Balla And Cortney Burns As we heard back in April, Bar Tartine is in the process of being sold from under the Tartine Bakery moniker to its executive chefs of four years, Nick Balla and Cortney Burns.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Breaking: Sushi Burritos Are Coming To The Mission Coming to 22nd Street. attn @burritojustice pic.twitter.com/hb2zuu8eFY— Capp Street Crap (@cappstreetcrap) September 18, 2015 According to Capp Street Crap herself, "This is happening." So it would appear.... with details scant
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Marlowe/Park Tavern Team Opening Oyster Bar In Former Wexler's Space The growing Big Night Restaurant Group (Marlowe, Park Tavern, The Cavalier) led by Anna Weinberg and husband James Nicholas is growing once more with Leo's Luxury Oyster Bar, named for their young son.
