SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New American Restaurant Lark Coming To 18th Street In The Castro We finally have news on what's moving into the former Brandy Ho's space on 18th Street in the Castro, which has been empty since Halloween. It's called Lark, and as Hoodline is reporting,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Union Street's Cafe Des Amis Will Go Belgian, With a New Name "Belgian brasserie" is the newly announced concept for the Cafe Des Amis space (2000 Union Street at Buchanan), which we learned in January was coming under the ownership of Adriano Paganini. Paganini is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Dragon Beaux Debuts, Cadence Coming to Mid-Market, And More Earlier today, SFist learned that Sinbad's would be departing from Pier 2, taking with it memories, those stunning views of the Bay Bridge, and their kitschy wax statue of Sinbad, hairy chest and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: The Return of Big (The Bar), Marlowe Burger Coming To SoMa, and More In addition to the big news about Craftsman & Wolves' expansion to Russian Hill, and Hopscotch's new ramen spot in Oakland, here's what else has been percolating in the food-news realm this week.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New York's Beloved Halal Guys Coming to SF If you haven't heard of the The Halal Guys, then you haven't been out street-food hunting in New York, where halal carts are a longstanding tradition, and where a couple of guys turned
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hopscotch Expands With New Ramen Spot In Oakland The popular Uptown Oakland restaurant Hopscotch (1915 San Pablo Avenue), and its chef Kyle Itani, are getting a spinoff in the form of Itani Ramen (1738 Telegraph Avenue). As Inside Scoop reports, Itani
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink All About Octavia, The Frances Spinoff Coming To The Old Baker And Banker Spot How do you follow up a five-year-old, critically beloved neighborhood restaurant that remains one of the hottest tickets in town, and just as fresh and well loved as it was the month after
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Ginto Izakaya Debuts Downtown, B-Side BBQ Calls It Quits, And More As we SFist editors prepare our stomachs for the kickoff of Beer Week tonight, we've got some more of the week's food news to wrap up. The cool new openings keep stacking up
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink KitTea Cat Cafe Coming In April! Construction has begun at KitTea in Hayes Valley, with the delayed but now back-on-track cat cafe hoping to open in April according Eater. Though it won't be the first of it's kind in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Stelline Officially Closed In Hayes Valley, Will Become New Spot From Chef Kim Alter Chef Kim Alter, who's done a lot to impress Bay Area foodinistas the last couple years with her work at Haven and the former Plum in Oakland, is, as promised, getting a chance
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Restaurant Academy Bar & Kitchen Coming To Pizza Inferno Space On Fillmore Ever wondered what Pizza Inferno was still doing open in Lower Pac Heights? Me too! Well, it's on its way out next month as an email today informs us, and in its place
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Liholiho Yacht Club Very Close To Opening, Commonwealth Chef Plots Mint Plaza Spot, And More This week saw the opening of the huge Whole Foods simulacrum known as The Market on Market, as well as the opening of an Ike's in Emeryville and news that Ike is plotting
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ike's Place Owner Plotting Burger and Pizza Joint On Mission Street Ike's Place proprietor and namesake Ike Shehadeh is no longer satisfied putting mozzarella sticks on sandwiches. He wants to put them on pizza, too. Specifically, he'd like to do that on Mission St.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beretta/Starbelly/Super Duper Owner Adriano Paganini Snags Huge Cafe Des Amis Space In Cow Hollow In what will be his largest restaurant venture to date, local restaurateur Adriano Paganini has inked a deal to take on the 200-seat, recently vacated Cafe Des Amis (2000 Union Street at Buchanan)
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Manufactory Will Be The Name Of Tartine's New Bakery And Restaurant At Heath Ceramics Tartine Bakery, an OG in San Francisco's line-standing trend, will have many more wait-worthy treats at a new spinoff in the Heath Ceramics building to be called The Manufactory. As Chad Robinson tells
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Restaurant Trestle, From The Fat Angel/Stones Throw Team, Coming To Jackson Square Today we get news of a cozy new spot coming to a former Chinese restaurant in the Jackson Square/Chinatown vicinity from Hi Neighbor, the newly formed restaurant group that's behind Fat Angel
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Etoile Shutters In Napa, Cafe Des Amis Calls It Quits, and More Happy New Year, everyone. Though we've got a bunch of good stuff to look forward to, restaurant-wise, in 2015, the last week of the year brought with it its usual surprise closing announcements.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 13 Most Exciting Restaurants Arriving In 2015 The restaurant economy, like the rest of the Bay Area's economy, has been booming these past couple of years, and 2015 is showing no slowdown in the openings department. We've got a trio
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Opening Nears For Mourad, Gussie's Chicken and Waffles Closes, and More Despite it being a holiday week in a half-empty town, a few things are still happening in the food scene, right down to the wire of New Year's Eve (see also our quick-and-dirty
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Burma Superstar Arrives On Valencia, Loco'l Finds A T-Loin Spot, And More December is a season of celebration for most restaurants, and 'tis the season of lists, like our roundup of the best new restaurants of the year. But it's also a season when we
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Manresa Returns To Ring In New Year With our list of The 12 Best New Bars Of 2014 out and a respite from rain, who knows what could happen this weekend. The big news is that Manresa, which suffered a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink State Bird Spinoff The Progress Opens This Week Much like they did to incredible success on New Year's Eve 2011, married chef-partners Stuart Brioza and Nicole Krasinski have chosen the end of the year to debut their second restaurant, The Progress,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Remembering Judy Rodgers, Troya Closes Its Original Location, And More Did our sandwich roundup make you hungry? Because I'm pretty full. Anyhow, in addition to the openings of Cockscomb and Indochine this week, here's what else has been going on about town, food-and-beverage-wise.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dunkin' Donuts To Open 26 Bay Area Franchises Starting In 2016 As we told you earlier this year, third-wave Coolatta® purveyors Dunkin' Donuts will be dipping into the Bay Area. Now we know to expect them in 2016, and where. 26 Dunkin' "restaurants" will
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Jackalope Debuts On Polk, An Update on Aveline, and More There's probably already a line forming at the new Hapa Ramen, even though it doesn't open to the public until Sunday, but there's actually plenty else that's been happening in the local food