SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cafe Du Nord Reopens Wednesday With New Menu, Cocktails, Nightly Music It wasn't totally clear if Cafe du Nord (2170 Market Street) was going to continue to be a music venue in any shape or form following a major renovation by the Ne Timeas
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Lord Stanley Opens On Russian Hill, Hubert Keller Pops Up, And More This week in the food scene we learned more about Jason Fox's Oro, headed to Mint Plaza, and caught the name of the bar replacing Truck, which will be called The Wooden Nickel.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Taco Bell Opening Upscale Concept In SoMa Serving Booze Goodbye Chevy's, but hello Taco Bell Bar & Grill, or whatever it's going to be called. Taco Bell has confirmed for Hoodline that, after testing a new "upscale" concept restaurant serving beer and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Exclusive: SoMa's Heyday Expands With Second Location All-organic breakfast and lunch spot Heyday, which opened its original location at 180 Spear Street in 2013, is set to branch out with a new, second location at 555 Mission Street (between First
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Luna Park Bought By Mission Beach Cafe Owner Big news over in the Mission, where we've known that longtime stalwart Luna Park (694 Valencia Street) has been up for grabs for months now: It's being sold to Mission Beach Cafe owner
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Mina To Open Pop-Up Style 'Test Kitchen' In The Marina Taking over the short-lived second location of Cafe Claude, which closed at 2120 Greenwich Street this past winter after just 18 months, will be the Michael Mina Restaurant Group, which will be quickly
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Saison's Josh Skenes To Open New Restaurant With Sushi Chef Jiro Lin In addition to the aforementioned Asian fast-casual project Fat Noodle, Saison chef Joshua Skenes has got another, as-yet-unnamed side project in the works. As Eater reports, Skenes is on the hunt for a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Jessica Largey Leaves Manresa, Vive La Tarte Opens In SoMa, And More There were two pesky issues in the Castro this week: Quickly following Mandu shutting down for health issues (and reopening as Janchi, their second rebranding in three months) we had news that Posh
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Restaurant Shut Down By Health Department Rebrands For Second Time In Three Months The Castro is getting another new restaurant, sort of, called Janchi, which is being billed as a "Korean gastropub." It's going into the space at 2251 Market Street and as Hoodline notes, this
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Super Duper Opening Ninth Location At Kearny And Pine Next Week The empire of Adriano Paganini grows yet again next week as his reps announce the opening of the Bay Area's ninth Super Duper location, this one coming to 346 Kearny Street, at Pine
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Forgery Debuts In SoMa, The Empire Room Opens in Civic Center, and More This week's big opening was Belga in the Marina, and there was the smaller, quieter opening of Acquolina over in North Beach as well. Other than that, the big headline this week was
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Goodbye, Paradise Lounge Demolition is underway at the corner of 11th and Folsom in the former Paradise Lounge space. It's been dormant for several years now, and almost became a new club and cabaret from Heklina
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Big New Bon Marché Brasserie May Open By June In Twitter Building AQ restaurateur Matt Semmelhack and chef-partner Mark Liberman have been a major expansion project at the Twitter building (a.k.a. Market Square at Market and 10th) for well over two years now,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Meadowood Welcomes New Chef De Cuisine, Tacorgasmico Opens, And More This past week was marked by a fire that has temporarily shuttered Liverpool Lil's in the Marina, and the announcement of the reopening of the famed, 100-plus-year-old Sam Wo in Chinatown. Also there
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 100-Year-Old Chinatown Restaurant Sam Wo To Return In New Spot After Three-Year Hiatus Way back in 2012, the city mourned the loss of grungy, late-night, iconic Chinatown mainstay Sam Wo, which was shuttered by the Health Department after multiple violations spanning years. There were glimmers of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Trestle Nears Opening, MOMA Dumps Blue Bottle For Sightglass, And More What a merger: Tartine Bakery and Blue Bottle Coffee have joined forces, or rather, Tartine has become a part of Blue Bottle. This way, Tartine will get to expand operations to Blue Bottle's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Del Popolo Pizza Truck Goes Brick And Mortar On Nob Hill Major pizza news today: Popular Neapolitan pizza truck (with on-board wood oven) Del Popolo is going to get its own permanent home on Nob Hill, at 855 Bush Street between Taylor and Mason.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Here's The Menu For Lark, Opening Monday In The Castro Last month we caught the news that Lark was headed for the former Brandy Ho's space at 4068 18th Street. Now, after a brief remodel, Lark will open with its "new American" menu
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Sinbad's Hangs On, Mijita Leaves AT&T Park, And More On top of the sad, sad news of the closures of Bar Jules, The Orbit Room and Capp's Corner, this week saw the opening of Aster in the Mission, as well as updates
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Belga Will Be The Name Of Cow Hollow's New Belgian Spot, In The Former Cafe Des Amis We learned in early March that the new concept for the Cafe Des Amis space from Beretta/Starbelly guy Adriano Paganini would be a "Belgian brasserie," and today we get word on the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Exclusive: Chef Melissa Perello Takes Us Inside The New Frances Spinoff, Octavia Coming in April to the former Baker & Banker space at Octavia and Bush a space that was notably also the original home of Quince, ca. 2009 is the second restaurant from chef
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: An Update On Cafe Du Nord, Ironside Closing, And More This week at SFist, we brought joyous news of BDK Restaurant & Bar's opening, accolade headlines from the James Beard shortlist, and an unfortunate update on the closure of Duboce Triangle's Jumpin Java.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Aster Opening Shortly, Horsefeather Headed To Divisadero This week saw the opening of the new, Proxy-esque beer garden and pre-game venue next to AT&T Park, The Yard, as well as the announcement of the closure of Cafe Claude
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Jersey Brings East Coast Pizza To SoMa, Tokyo's Menscho Comes To SF This week, we drank in news that the barmen behind the erstwhile Big have opened Benjamin Cooper, a cocktail den tucked inside the Hotel G. We also covered the expansion of San Mateo's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Millennium Heads To Rockridge, Game Flips Into All Spice, And More This week we learned that Cafe Des Amis in Cow Hollow will be becoming a Belgian-style brasserie, and we learned that Lark, a New American bistro is headed for the former Brandy Ho's
