SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Horribly Named Tacorgasmico Is Coming To The Castro The former Blue restaurant space at 2337 Market Street, vacant for over two years, is finally getting a new tenant with a terrible, terrible name. It's called Tacorgasmico, and Hoodline notes that the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hapa Ramen Finally Gets Brick-And-Mortar Location This Weekend Chef Richie Nakano has been promising the city a permanent home for his Hapa Ramen pop-up and farmers' market stand since the first Obama Administration, and it is finally, finally happening on Sunday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland's Hawker Fare Taking Over Amber Dhara Space For Mission Off-Shoot Good news for all rice-bowl lovers: Oakland's popular Thai-influenced Hawker Fare, from chef-owner James Syhabout (Commis, Box & Bells, The Dock at Linden Street), is taking over the massive space at 18th and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Old Devil Moon Will Bring Craft Beer To La Lengua A new beer bar and restaurant is headed for the Mission/Bernal border next year, and it's called Old Devil Moon. The folks at La Terraza on Mission and Cortland are retiring from
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Ubuntu Chef Aaron London To Open New Vegetable-Centric Restaurant In The Mission After almost three years on the sidelines, former Ubuntu chef and James Beard Award semi-finalist Aaron London has finally inked a deal for a restaurant of his own. London, who left the acclaimed
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Game Opens This Week In The Former Masa's Space Coming to replace the former, longtime Nob Hill fine-dining mainstay Masa's this week is Game. As discussed a couple months back, Game is a new wild-game-focused restaurant from the chef-owner behind the Michelin-starred
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: The Oasis Returns To SoMa, Crystal Jade Coming Soon, And More The biggest food news of the week was the Michelin Guide release, with San Francisco finally (finally!) getting its first three-star restaurants in the city proper: Saison and Benu. This is very good
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Hamburger Mary's Will Go To Planning Vote In December The literally decade-long saga surrounding a single empty property in the Castro will enter its next and most certainly not final chapter later this fall when the Planning Commission will decide whether the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Spanish Restaurant Aatxe To Open Upstairs From Cafe Du Nord Another piece of the Cafe du Nord revamp puzzle has come into focus with the announcement of Aatxe, a new Basque/Spanish spot that will be opening by year's end in the street-facing
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Lena Dunham Noshed At Tosca, An Update On Cosentino's New Project, And More You hopefully heard the big news about the Frances spinoff, and the item about the upcoming Mission Chinese/Commonwealth spinoff with lots of environmentally progressive bells and whistles called The Perennial. Well, here's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission Chinese Food / Commonwealth Team Launching The Perennial In SoMa Idealist restaurateur couple Anthony Myint and Karen Leibowitz, who from their beginnings with Mission Street Food and Mission Chinese Food sought to give back to the community by donating proceeds from every meal
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Frances Chef Melissa Perello Snaps Up Baker & Banker Space For Spinoff Melissa Perello, the much acclaimed chef at five-year-old Frances, looks to have finally landed on the perfect space where she can "replicate Frances on a larger scale" (as she told Hoodline last year)
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Marlowe Has Closed In Preparation For Move One Block Away You will find the popular SoMa spot Marlowe closed this week as the restaurant prepares for its previously announced move to the former Coco500 space at Brannan and Fourth. Yes, the restaurant is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Saison Chef and Umami Burger Guy Opening Fast-Casual Chinese Place Whoa. Big, and surprising, news from the food scene today: Acclaimed Saison chef Joshua Skenes is teaming with Umami Burger's Adam Fleischman to open a fast-casual Chinese spot at 2nd & Mission called
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Les Clos, A Wine Bar From Saison's Mark Bright, Opens September 20 Mark Bright, partner and wine director at Saison (178 Townsend), is just about ready to unveil his new, down-the-street wine bar spinoff Les Clos (234 Townsend), which we previously talked about back in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Exclusive: Here's the Menu For Bandidos, Opening In the Castro September 2 The new sit-down Mexican spot coming to the Castro from the Hi Tops team, Bandidos, is now set to open next week, on September 2, right after Labor Day. Owners Dana Gleim and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chefs Daniel Patterson and Roy Choi To Launch Fast-Food Concept Called Loco'l A cool concept with an odd name from a pair of California chefs was announced today at the MAD food symposium in Copenhagen, and it's called Loco'l. S.F. chef and restaurateur Daniel
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Jack's Oyster Bar Debuts, Huxley Opens In September, and More The big opening of the week is across the Bay at Jack London Square, and that would be Jack's Oyster Bar. It's a fish shack/raw bar concept from Bocanova owners Rick Hackett
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Guerneville Restaurateur Crista Luedtke Opening New Cocktail Bar El Barrio Frequent weekenders to Guerneville will tell you that the only game in town, until very recently, when it comes to a delicious dinner worthy of S.F. palates is Boon Eat + Drink. Chef-owner
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chris Cosentino's Cockscomb Is Due To Open In SoMa By Year's End There's an update today in the next chapter for local/national celebrity chef Chris Cosentino, whose flagship restaurant Incanto closed earlier this year and transitioned into something more neighborhood-y. As we'd gathered earlier,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: New Details on Mister Jiu and China Live, TwoFish Baking Co. Opens, and More Probably the biggest food-news item that we haven't yet touched on this week is an update on chef Brandon Jew's long-awaited solo project in Chinatown. Formerly the opening chef at Bar Agricole, Jew
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink KronnerBurger Takes Over Longtime Piedmont Avenue Mainstay This October Chef Chris Kronner's burger venture, KronnerBurger, which began life as a pop-up at Bruno's in 2012 and has since high-tailed to Oakland, will finally be getting a permanent home this fall, as Inside
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Huge New Food Hall Headed To Hollywood Billiards Building In Mid-Market You've heard about the food-hall trend, right? There's the Second Act Marketplace in the old Red Vic, which followed on 331 Cortland in Bernal, and just recently we've heard about The Market Hall
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Game To Open In Former Masa's, CREAM Opens On 16th, and More Once again, we bring you all the notable food news we missed from the past week, starting with... Tonight marks the real kickoff of Eat Drink SF, the food fest formerly known as
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Ravi Kapur Restaurant Will Indeed Be Called LihoLiho Yacht Club The much anticipated new Lower Nob Hill project from chef Ravi Kapur (Boulevard, Prospect) and two of the partners behind Nopa (Allyson Jossel and Jeff Hanak), which we first learned about last fall,
