SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Splashy New Bar and Restaurant Holbrook House Opens In Downtown SF Next Week With Martini and Champagne Call Buttons It always helps to have a gimmick when you're opening something new in this town, and the minds behind Holbrook House — the grand new restaurant opening September 6 in the old bank building at One Sansome — have come up with a clever one.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Croissant Maker Arsicault Bakery Heads to Cool New Building In Mission Rock One of SF's main, acclaimed, go-to croissant bakeries, Arsicault, is set to open a third location in San Francisco next year in one of the new developments on the former ballpark parking lot property in Mission Bay/Mission Rock.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin-Starred Chef of Empress By Boon to Open New Restaurant In the Marina Next Month The acclaimed chef behind Empress By Boon, Ho Chee Boon, is opening a new, casual restaurant in the Marina District, and it's opening soon.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink OG Celebrity Chef Martin Yan to Revive M.Y. China in Chinatown One of the Bay Area's original food celebrities, chef Martin Yan of Yan Can Cook fame, says he is on the hunt for a new space in Chinatown where he plans to revive his dormant M.Y. China restaurant concept.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Splashy New Japanese-Peruvian Rooftop Restaurant, Chotto Matte, Set to Open Next Month In Union Square It's been two years since we first learned that high-end Japanese-Peruvian restaurant Chotto Matte, which boasts other locations in Doha, London, and Miami, was coming to a new rooftop space in Union Square.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Acclaimed Fried Chicken Spot Minnie Bell's Is Coming to the Fillmore Minnie Bell's Soul Movement, the five-year-old soul-food stall at Emeryville's Public Market, is expanding to San Francisco, and it's a homecoming for chef-owner Fernay McPherson, who's a third-generation resident of the Fillmore District.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Snug Team's New Raw Bar, Little Shucker, Debuts On Fillmore Next Week Cocktail and snack spot The Snug in Pacific Heights is getting a sister seafood restaurant, Little Shucker, which opens to the public next week, on August 3.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dalida, a New Eastern Mediterranean Restaurant From Noosh Chefs, Debuts Friday In the Presidio Coming this weekend to the Presidio is a brand new Eastern Mediterranean restaurant from the talented opening chefs behind Noosh and the Mission District pop-up Istanbul Modern, and it's called Dalida.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin-Starred Marlena Chefs Expanding to Japantown It looks as though a well-loved, eight-year-old neighborhood restaurant plans to either close or relocate, and a liquor license app points to some new Michelin-star tenants.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Locanda Space Gets a New Italian Restaurant, Barberio Osteria A new Italian restaurant from the team behind Nob Hill's AltoVino is heading into the Locanda space on Valencia Street, just a few months after the closure of short-lived fancy seafood spot Ancora.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two Historic SF Oceanfront Restaurants, The Cliff House and Louis' Diner, Set to Come Alive Again... Sometime We still can't say what they will become or what they will serve, but the wheels of the federal government and National Park Service are turning ever so slowly to get new restaurant tenants into The Cliff House and Louis' Diner spaces, both closed since 2020.
SF News Day Around the Bay: That NFT-Backed Restaurant In Salesforce Park Appears Delayed There are tornadoes being forecast as possible along Highway 1 Tuesday and Wednesday; First Republic Bank shares rebounded a bit; and that proposed, NFT-backed sushi restaurant atop the Transit Center appears to be stalled.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved Yountville Restaurant Ciccio to Be Reborn Under Ownership of Meadowood Chef Chef Christopher Kostow was sad to see his favorite, go-to Napa Valley restaurant go under last year, and while he thought about reviving the space as a new concept, he's decided instead to let it live on, much the way it was.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Burma Superstar Team's New Hayes Valley Spot, Teakwood, Readies For Opening The team behind Burma Superstar and Burma Love is expanding once more, this time in Hayes Valley, in the Grove and Gough corner space formerly occupied by Anka, and before that Barcino, Boxing Room, and Citizen Cake.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fine-Dining Destination Ditas Takes Over Upstairs Trident Space on Sausalito's Waterfront A space above the storied Trident restaurant and bar, which played host to Janis Joplin, Bill Graham, and the Rolling Stones in the 1960s, has transformed into a new fine-dining spot that opens this spring, from a pair of Delhi-based restaurateurs.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Sons & Daughters Chef to Open Kiln In Former Cala Space In Hayes Valley One more prominent restaurant space that has lain dormant since the pandemic is getting a new tenant, and it's the sleek space that Mexico City chef Gabriela Camara renovated in 2015 to house her restaurant Cala.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Copra, a Southern Indian Food Destination From a Michelin-Star Chef, About to Make Its Debut on Lower Fillmore A much anticipated new Indian restaurant is getting ready to open in the splashy former Dosa space at the corner of Fillmore and Post streets, and it's just gotten a full makeover.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin-Recognized Sonoma Spot Valley Expanding With Second Location Next Year A charming natural wine bar and restaurant on Sonoma's town square is in expansion mode and will be taking over the space occupied by Delicious Dish about two and a half miles away.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Chef at Locanda and Prairie to Open Pasta Spot In the Inner Richmond Chef Anthony Strong, who might have had a hit on his hands with Prairie in the Mission District if it weren't for a certain pandemic, has never been one to stay idle for too long.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Iron Chef Morimoto Is Opening a Mostly Chinese Restaurant Near His Napa Flagship Japanese celebrity chef Masaharu Morimoto is getting set to open a second restaurant in downtown Napa called Morimoto Asia, which will focus primarily on Chinese cuisine.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Restaurant Group Behind Spruce and Village Pub to Open Three Side-by-Side Restaurants In Potrero Hill Bacchus Management Group, which has a history of attracting loyal followings to its restaurants as well as Michelin stars, has plans for three new businesses in Potrero Hill, including an Italian trattoria and a new burger joint.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Restaurants, Including Rooftop Venue, Announced for Mid-Market's LINE Hotel There's finally some movement over at The LINE hotel, in the condo-hotel building known also as Serif, and 950-974 Market Street — and we have some vague details about the rooftop bar/restaurant going in about a block away from Charmaine's.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Burma Love Is Expanding to Gough Street In Hayes Valley Burma Love, the offshoot of Burma Superstar with a lively location on Valencia Street, will be adding another location soon in the former Boxing Room/Barcino space in Hayes Valley.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Popular Oakland Food Truck Tacos El Último Baile to Set Up Shop In Former Nyum Bai Space This Fall A highly sought-after taco truck is becoming a brick-and-mortar over in Oakland, with Tacos El Último Baile set to take over the cozy Fruitvale restaurant space that was recently vacated by another popular establishment, Nyum Bai.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ittoryu Gozu Chef to Open Japanese-Style Hi-Fi Bar In SoMa With Grilled Meats, Cocktails Wagyu steak specialist Marc Zimmerman and his Ittoryu Gozu chef de cuisine are set to open a casual offshoot restaurant called Yokai, in the former Salt House space in SoMa.