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
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
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
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
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
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
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&
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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&
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
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 "
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
