SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Mina to Replace His Eponymous Downtown Restaurant With New Greek Seafood Spot Michael Mina, the Michelin-starred restaurant from SF chef Michael Mina that helped launch a national restaurant empire, is closed for good, and in its place on California Street will be a high-end Greek seafood spot, Estiatorio Ornos.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chef Traci Des Jardins Plans New Mexican-Inspired Restaurant on the Peninsula Chef Traci Des Jardins, whose local restaurant empire shrank significantly over the last two years, looks to be getting back in the game with a new venture coming to a planned food hall in Los Altos.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New York Bakery Destination Milk Bar Is Testing Bay Area Waters With SF Pop-Up, Peninsula Delivery Operation Pastry chef Christina Tosi's big hit bakery Milk Bar looks to be doing some more expansion, and it's arriving in the Bay Area in two ways, including a pop-up at San Francisco's Ferry Building.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Team Behind Four Barrel and The Mill Set to Open New Bakery Called Loquat In 20th Century Cafe Space The owners of Four Barrel Coffee are expanding once more, and they're reportedly taking over the space being abandoned by 20th Century Cafe at Gough and Oak.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Restaurant News: The Brixton Comes to Hayes Valley, Vico Cavone Takes Former Firewood Space In Castro The Brixton is taking over the former Stacks in Hayes Valley, The Sentinel is back slinging sandwiches downtown, and the Castro is getting a new Italian restaurant this fall from a longtime Poesia guy.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Flint’s Barbecue Set to Return As a Travis Kalanick Ghost Kitchen, Community Not Thrilled Legendary Oakland BBQ stop Flint’s Barbecue may finally have its brick-and-mortar reincarnation, but there’s community pushback against the ghost kitchen facility that would house it.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink All-Day Breakfast Restaurant Hilda and Jesse Coming to North Beach A new all-day breakfast restaurant from a pair of local restaurant vets, which began as a pop-up, has found a permanent, brick-and-mortar location in North Beach.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Prolific SF Restaurateur Opening Two New Restaurants In Pac Heights and Hayes Valley We have word of two new spots coming from his Back of the House Restaurant Group: The Tailor's Son on upper Fillmore, and a second location of The Bird in Hayes Valley.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Popular Barbecue Chef Matt Horn Announces Pop-Up Preview of Burger Concept 'Matty's Old-Fashioned' Just six months after opening his highly anticipated, much-delayed West Oakland barbecue restaurant Horn Barbecue, chef Matt Horn is teasing a second restaurant concept focused on burgers.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ten New and Upcoming SF Restaurants to Get You Excited To Eat Out In 2021 Just like birthdays in 2020 didn't count, planned restaurant debuts that were either put on hold or scaled back are all being given do-overs now that we're in a new year. Here are ten spots to be excited about that are either already open, or soon will be.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New 'Trash Pizza' Spot Headed for North Beach Focuses On Using Food Waste A new restaurant focused on the sustainable practice of cooking with foods that would otherwise be discarded is planning an opening in San Francisco's North Beach.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gott's Roadside Burgers Unveils New Chase Center Location We have new details about an upcoming food addition to Thrive City, in the plaza outside the Chase Center, and it's Gott's Roadside.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Famed Healdsburg Dining Destination Cyrus To Be Revived In Geyserville After multiple promises to reopen and some false starts, chef Douglas Keane has just inked a deal to reopen his acclaimed Cyrus restaurant in new digs near its original Healdsburg location.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Shake Shack Opening In Cow Hollow Seen As An Insult and a Threat to Local Restaurants The new Shake Shack location at Fillmore and Filbert, one block below Union Street in the former Real Food Co. grocery store space, is beginning to train employees and readying for an opening in the next few weeks. And not all the neighbors are happy about it.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink State Bird Provisions Team To Open 'The Anchovy Bar' In Former Fat Angel Space The recently shuttered Fat Angel (1740 O'Farrell Street off Fillmore) already has a taker, and it's the team of Stuart Brioza and Nicole Krasinski from State Bird Provisions and The Progress around the corner.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lazy Bear Spinoff Automat Coming to Green Chile Kitchen Digs In NoPa A much-anticipated new project from Lazy Bear chef-owner David Barzelay and former Lazy Bear sous chef Matthew Kirk has found a home, and it's the former Green Chile Kitchen space at McAllister and Baker.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Elite Cafe on Fillmore To Become New Restaurant From Adriano Paganini Prolific restaurateur Adriano Paganini and his Back of the House Restaurant Group — the team behind Beretta, Delarosa, Barvale, A Mano and others — is taking over the former Elite Cafe and opening a new Italian spot.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink State Bird Provisions Team To Open Lower Haight Vegetarian Spot The consistently successful husband-and-wife team behind State Bird Provisions and The Progress next door is expanding for the first time outside of their Fillmore environs.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Massive High-End Steakhouse From Landry's Opens In Union Square Friday It has 150 seats, it's upstairs from a CVS, and it will serve $240 cuts of Kobe beef imported from Japan. It's called Mastro's, and it's one of 17 locations of the highest end of steakhouses from the Texas-based Landry's empire.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Downtown Bistro Aquitaine Moving to Former Crepevine Space on Church Street Aquitaine, the six-year-old wine bar and bistro from chef Laurent Manrique in the Financial District, is closing Friday and will be quickly reborn in a new neighborhood uptown, the Castro.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former French Laundry Chef Timothy Hollingsworth Returns to SF, Snags Just-Shuttered Ayala Space at Union Square At long last, former French Laundry chef de cuisine Timothy Hollingsworth is opening his long-ago-promised solo restaurant in San Francisco, following a stint in L.A. and a spin on a Netflix cooking competition show.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sasaki Chef to Open Masabaga In Oakland Featuring Wagyu, Toro Burgers Noted Bay Area sushi chef Masa Sasaki is bringing his love of burgers and fried fatty tuna to downtown Oakland early next year, as he gets set to open Masabaga.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Kitchen Story Set to Open Korean-Themed Sequel In Oakland's Rockridge Restaurateur Hoyul Steven Choi is continuing on in building his Bay Area empire in the coming year, and the next addition to open will be a second location of Kitchen Story in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood — this time with more of a Korean focus rather than Thai.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission Pie Space to Become SF Outpost of Popular Oakland Bakery-Cafe Reem's Chef Reem Assil, who has courted both food-world accolades and political controversy in the last two years, is bringing her delicious Arab cuisine to the Mission.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Blowfish Sushi Is Making a Comeback at 18th and Mission Fans lamented the closure of 23-year-old Blowfish Sushi to Die For back in April, but the owners are bringing it back at one of their other locations, which has been a ramen spot for about eight months.
