SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Flour + Water Pizzeria Not Gone For Good, Will Open 'Flagship' Location In North Beach, and Multiple To-Go Spots The original Flour + Water Pizzeria on Valencia has rebranded as Yellow Moto Pizzeria following an ownership split, but that doesn't mean that Flour + Water Pizzeria as a concept is dead.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Plans Move Ahead for Two-Story, NFT-Backed Japanese Restaurant on Transit Center Roof, From Iyasare and Maruya Chefs The chef at acclaimed Berkeley Japanese restaurant Iyasare, Shotaro "Sho" Kamio next year plans to open the first w space on the roof of Transbay Transit Center.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Señor Sisig Headed to Ferry Building With Expanded Menu and Cocktails Food truck star Señor Sisig is planning a third brick-and-mortar location, and it promises to be the swankiest location to date for the brand in San Francisco's Ferry Building.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink First Bay Area Eataly Location Gets an Opening Date, and Here Are Some Food Pics We have a June 16 Grand Opening now officially scheduled for Santa Clara’s Westfield Valley Fair location of the Italian food emporium Eataly, which will be a staggering three stories, 45,000 square feet, and have two dedicated restaurants.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Flour + Water Pizzeria to Rebrand as Yellow Moto Pizzeria, Add Full Bar Flour + Water Pizzeria, under one of the original owners of Flour + Water, is about to spin off as its own thing. And while the menu will stay largely the same, with some additions, the big change will be a full cocktail bar, and owner David White says the place will be "more come-as-you-are."
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SoMa's Park Central Hotel Has Become a Second Hyatt Regency, and It's Getting a French Brasserie From Mina Group Spinoff Confusingly, downtown San Francisco now has two Hyatt Regency hotels, and this summer, the new one at 50 Third Street will be home to a French-inspired brasserie from Mina's spinoff group called La Société Bar and Café.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Owners of The Grove Snap Up Former Pizzeria Delfina Spot Downtown to Open Empire Pizza The owners of The Grove, the chain of comfort-food restaurants around SF that went from four locations to two during the pandemic, are expanding with a second restaurant concept, a NY-style pizzeria called Empire Pizza.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Union Square Mexican Spot Colibri Reopens In New Digs In the Presidio Next Weekend Colibri Mexican Bistro, the high-end Mexican restaurant on Geary near Union Square that opened around 2004 and closed in 2020, has found new life in the former Arguello space at the Presidio Officers' Club.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pizza Pop-Up Hit Outta Sight to Go Brick and Mortar In Civic Center A former sous chef at Mister Jiu's who famously came back from the dead after a sudden and random heart attack in the kitchen while prepping for New Year's Eve in 2017 is turning his successful pandemic pizza pop-up into a full-fledged business.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Update: SF is Indeed Getting Another Shake Shack at Stonestown A job posting for a Restaurant General Manager on the official Shake Shack website says “Stonestown Galleria - NEW SHACK OPENING!,” which leads us to believe there is a new Shake Shack opening at Stonestown Galleria.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Charles Phan Snags Former Belcampo Space at Marin County Mart for New Noodle Shop Charles Phan and the Slanted Door team are opening a new Vietnamese noodle soup spot in Larkspur, in the former Belcampo Meat Co. digs at the Marin County Mart complex.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Institution Perry's Coming to Novato Perry's, the 52-year-old Union Street institution that went on to expand its Bay Area footprint, is expanding once more with a new location in Novato.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New High-End Indian Restaurant to Take Over Former Dosa Space on Fillmore A different high-end Indian restaurant will take up where Dosa left off in the former bank space it called home for over a decade on Lower Fillmore, at the edge of Japantown.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink El Farolito Is Coming to North Beach After All The North Beach El Farolito is suddenly expected to open “any day now,” as after an eight-month battle over SF formula retail rules, a compromise deal has greased the skids for the taqueria to open near Grant Avenue and Broadway.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Souvla Is Taking Over Magnolia Brewery Space In Dogpatch, Will Open Largest Restaurant Yet In June Souvla, the popular Mediterranean-inspired salad and wrap operation, is opening a fifth SF location in Dogpatch — with a sixth in Marin not far behind — and it will be their largest restaurant to date.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Restaurant In Scala's Bistro Space at Union Square Will Be French, Led By Roland Passot's Left Bank Team The longtime home of Scala's Bistro at the hotel formerly known as the Sir Francis Drake will be reborn shortly as a French brasserie from the Left Bank Brasserie team, possibly called Left Bank.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Square Pie Guys to Open Third Location, Their Biggest Yet, at Ghirardelli Square Three years after launching as a pop-up in San Francisco and then opening their first location in SoMa, Square Pie Guys have inked a lease at Ghirardelli Square for what will be their flagship location.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The First of Two New Rooftop Japanese-Peruvian Restaurants Arrives Downtown Next Week Kaiyo Rooftop is opening Wednesday, February 16 at the new Hyatt Place Hotel near Oracle Park, and it's a swanky new rooftop dining and drinking option in slowly reviving SoMa.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink In Hopeful Sign for Downtown SF, Upscale Steakhouse STK (With In-House DJs) Signs Lease at One Market Plaza Splashy, upscale steakhouse chain STK, which for over a decade has had a pair of "high-energy" locations in New York City as well as others in LA, Chicago, Denver, Atlanta, Las Vegas, and more, is headed for a big restaurant space in downtown SF.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF's Cellarmaker Brewing to Take Over Former Blue Bottle Warehouse In Oakland for New Pizza and Beer Spot The San Francisco craft beer stars behind Cellarmaker Brewing Co., who three years ago surprised us with a shockingly good pizzeria to go with their always good and often hoppy beers, are now expanding to Oakland.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chez Panisse Reportedly Has Plans to Expand Into Next-Door César Space, Forcing César to Close News is arriving out of Berkeley that in addition to its own eventual reopening, Chez Panisse is planning another opening later this year in the next-door bar space that for over two decades has been a beloved tapas restaurant and cocktail spot.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Banh Mi Shop From Slanted Door Chef Charles Phan, Chuck's Takeaway, Opens Next Month In the Mission Charles Phan has been up to something in the last year of The Slanted Door's closure that none of us knew about it — and now he drops the news that he's about to open his first banh mi shop in the heart of the Mission District.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cliff House Building Ready to Put New Restaurant in Place by End of 2022 Lands End could have its Cliff House replacement restaurant by year’s end, as the applications are now available for any restaurateur interested in taking over the historic spot.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Arguello Space In Presidio to Become New Mexican Restaurant From Colibri Restaurateur The restaurateur behind the former Colibri Mexican Bistro near Union Square, as well as Zazil Cocina Mexicana and El Jardin at San Jose's Santana Row, has signed a deal to take over two spaces at the Presidio, including the former Arguello space at the Presidio Officers' Club.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Scott's Chowder House to Open New SF Location In the Fillmore A restaurant space on Fillmore Street that has seen a fair bit of turnover in the last few years is coming alive again soon as the fourth Bay Area location of Scott's Chowder House.
