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.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dat Spot Opens Monday In Former Chez Maman Space In Potrero Back in December we learned of the closure of 12-year-old Chez Papa Bistrot, only to have the space become the larger home of the original Chez Maman in March. Now, as the Scoop
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Mathilde Debuts, Oro Arrives, Sliderbar Rebrands, And More Tablehopper reports on the debut of Mathilde, the replacement for Le Charm that we mentioned was coming a couple months back. Only there was some misinformation it turns out that new owner Mathilde
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Barbarossa (In The Old Bubble Lounge) Opening In October by Betty Wang Barbarossa, the new concept from former Bubble Lounge owner Eric Benn and his new business partner Arash Ghanadan, who is also the co-owner of Novela, is planning for a mid-October
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: The Keystone Debuts, The Alembic Gets A New Chef, And More In addition to the big news this week that AL's Place got named the number one best new restaurant in the country by Bon Appetit, Bon App also named ABV the country's best
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Slow Club Closing To Make Room For The Morris, From Frances Wine Guy Paul Einbund After 24 years at what was once an under-populated, pre-Web 1.0, media-saturated corner of the Mission/Potrero border, The Slow Club is calling it quits this fall to make way for a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: The Advocate Debuts In Berkeley, Coco Frio Arrives In The Mission This week brought us our first peek at Petit Crenn in Hayes Valley, which makes its debut next week, and some new details about Volta, the new French-ish brasserie on its way to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Westfield-Adjacent Brasserie From Perbacco Team Gets A Name: Volta The much anticipated spinoff project from the Perbacco/Barbacco team of Staffan Terje and Umberto Gibin finally has a name and an opening timeframe. We first learned about their brasserie plans for the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Peek At The Menu At Petit Crenn, Opening Next Week Last night there was one of the first preview events for Dominique Crenn's Petit Crenn in Hayes Valley, for industry friends and media, and I can tell you right now that this thing
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: David Kinch's The Bywater Arrives In Los Gatos, Alamo Drafthouse Gets A Bar Guy, And More This week's food news was pretty rich, between the closing announcement from Urchin Bistrot, the important update on Wise Sons Bagel, the taker for the Abbot's Cellar space, and our discovery of ShakeDown
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wise Sons Bagel Will Finally Become A Reality At Fillmore And Geary This Fall Today we get both an in-depth look at the state of the Bay Area bagel in the New York Times Magazine, which features Wise Sons Bagel, and a feature story in the Chronicle
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Luna Park Officially Closed; Notices On Door Suggest Foreclosure As of last month we knew that Valencia Street mainstay Luna Park had been sold to the owner of Mission Beach Cafe and a closure was probably imminent and this followed on an
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Petit Crenn Aims For Early August Debut In Former Bar Jules Digs Ever since we learned in April that the replacement for longtime Hayes Valley neighborhood favorite Bar Jules would be a new casual spot from chef Dominique Crenn, called Petit Crenn, I've been eager
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: The Hilton Reopens Its Top-Story Restaurant, Crafty Fox Debuts, and More Over the last few days we've had news of Black Bark BBQ coming to the Fillmore, more Sonic Drive-Ins on the way to the East Bay, Hapa Ramen doing a late-night pop-up, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sonic Drive-Ins Coming To Oakland, Pleasanton, And Elsewhere The Oklahoma-based Sonic Drive-In, which you probably have seen many commercials for but have not necessarily sampled yourself if you've only lived in the inner Bay Area most of your life (or Manhattan
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Acclaimed New York Chef Matthew Lightner Taking Over Iconic Fagiani's In Napa Big news for downtown Napa's food scene today: The Thomas, the restaurant concept that New York design and hospitality firm AvroKO opened three years ago in the iconic Fagiani's bar space, will be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Black Bark BBQ Headed To Fillmore In September A new barbecue spinoff of the upscale 1300 on Fillmore, dubbed Black Bark BBQ, is set to open across the street this fall, possibly as early as September, as Eater is reporting. The
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: The Spice Jar Opens, Mina Pop-Up Begins, And More This short holiday week we learned of the closing of Giordano Bros. in North Beach, and of the closing of 4505 Meats butcher shop on Mission, which is becoming a new outpost of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Smitten Ice Cream Opens On California Street, KitTea's Cat Cafe Purrs To Life Next Week Though the San Francisco Chronicle's Restaurant Critic and Executive Food and Wine Editor Michael Bauer insists that he takes great pains to maintain his anonymity and hide his face, could it be possible
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Starboard SF, A New-Style Hofbrau, Headed To 16th Street Is everybody familiar with the concept of a "hofbrau"? No? Well let's start there. A hofbrau, as we know them in California, is a bar that serves food, usually cafeteria-style. Unlike some other
