SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Burger News: KronnerBurger Closing, Umami Burger Arrives in SoMa, and Smash Burger Comes to Potrero There's been a glut of burger joints around the Bay the last couple years. Whether we all collectively have just said "f@%k it" to our Paleo diets and training programs and embraced
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This Now: Fog City's Roast Chicken And Furikake Fries As reported earlier, the timeworn Fog City Diner closed earlier this year and just reopened last month as Fog City (1300 Battery at the Embarcadero). Taking over the kitchen is Bix and Picco
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: The Fried Duck Sandwich At 1760 One of the hottest new restaurant openings of the season is over on Polk Street, at the intersection of Nob Hill, Russian Hill, and Pacific Heights, and it's name is 1760. It's a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chef Ravi Kapur To Open New Sutter Street Restaurant With Two Nopa Partners Big news from the new-restaurant front: Long dormant S.F. chef Ravi Kapur (Boulevard, Prospect) has slowly put together his own project for a couple of years now. Today the Chron reports that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Straw Expands To Mid-Market With Proposition Chicken The owners of Straw, the two-year-old carnival-themed restaurant in Hayes Valley, are expanding with a small, quick-service chicken restaurant at 1750 Market near Octavia. It's called Proposition Chicken, and the theme is voting/
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Salumeria Expanding to the Hamm's Brewery Building Next Week Salumeria, the popular deli spinoff of Flour + Water that's attached to Central Kitchen (20th and Florida), is getting a second location next week at 1550 Bryant Street (between 16th and Alameda), in the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Restaurant From Traci Des Jardins Coming To The Presidio Top Chef Masters finalist, James Beard Award-winner, and well loved local chef Traci Des Jardins just won a bid with the Presidio Trust to open a new restaurant in one of the former
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fog City (No Diner) Returns With Big Party September 19 As you may have noticed or heard, the 28-year-old Fog City Diner on the Embarcadero decided to close for a major revamp this past spring. Once upon a time it was a shiny,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Mina To Open Huge New Japanese Restaurant Downtown Big food news today from the the Michael Mina Group: Chef Mina is teaming up with Rohnert Park-based Ken Tominaga, chef-owner of Hana Japanese Restaurant, to open a new S.F. location of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ubuntu Space In Napa Will Reopen As Torc This Fall A notable development in the local food world today: The vacant space formerly occupied by acclaimed vegetarian restaurant Ubuntu, in downtown Napa, finally has a taker a year and a half after going
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chez Spencer To Relocate In The Mission After May Fire The big food news of last week, besides the opening of The Cavalier and SF Chefs, is that much loved, 11-year-old French bistro Chez Spencer is going to reopen in a new location,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Benu's Corey Lee To Open Spinoff In Hayes Valley News this morning via the liquor license applications is that acclaimed Benu chef Corey Lee is working on a new project at 451 Gough Street (between Grove and Hayes). He won't divulge any
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Restaurant And Bar Coming To Old Purple Onion Space Legendary North Beach comedy venue The Purple Onion closed last fall after 60 years in business, and in its place, this fall, will be a new restaurant on the main level (above the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Top Chef' Alum Jen Biesty To Open Shakewell Bar & Kitchen In Oakland Local chef Jen Biesty and her partner in (pastry) crime Tim Nugent have nailed down a location near Oakland's Grand Lake district for a new Mediterranean-influenced, "Americlectic" spot they're called Shakewell Bar &
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Comal Owners Expanding With Second Berkeley Restaurant Comal, the upscaled Mexican concept in downtown Berkeley that's been wildly well received in its first year, is going to get a sister restaurant soon in Berkeley's Elmwood neighborhood. The team of John
