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.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beit Rima Readies Cole Valley Location, Will Open Third Spot In Daly City Arabic comfort food hit Beit Rima is getting set to open a second location in the former Burgermeister space in Cole Valley next month, and now we learn that another Burgermeister location in Daly City will become Beit Rima as well.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Señor Sisig Opens First Brick-and-Mortar Spot at Valencia and 21st Next Month Popular Filipino-Mexican fusion truck Señor Sisig is opening its first brick-and-mortar outpost in the Mission in just over two weeks, nine years after the business began.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved Empress of China Space in Chinatown To Be Revived As Empress By Boon A former chef at upscale Chinese spot Hakkasan is slated to open a new upscale venture in the iconic Empress of China space on the sixth floor of 838 Grant Avenue, which has sat empty for five years.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tsuta Offers An Authentic, Michelin-Starred Ramen Experience Some 5,000 Miles From Tokyo Ramen aficionados, ready your chopsticks — because the Metreon is now home to the West Coast outpost for the world's first-ever Michelin-starred ramen emporium, Tsuta.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ittoryu Gozu, a Prix Fixe Wagyu Joint, Begins Taking Reservations For November Hear ye, all fans of gloriously marbled Japanese beef. A restaurant featuring five- and ten-course prix fixe experiences centering on different preparations of Wagyu beef is set to open downtown on November 12.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rosamunde's Haight Street Space To Become a Different Sausage Shop Called Berliner Berliner Fear not, sausage fans and Toronado regulars! The shuttered Rosamunde in the Lower Haight is being taken over by a longtime Rosamunde employee and getting turned into a German sausage place.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Say Fondue! Matterhorn Restaurant Set To Reopen This Month Under New Owners Van Ness stalwart Matterhorn is getting ready for a reopening, a full year after it bid adieu, complete with a careful remodel and under a pair of new owners.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Upscale Japanese Spot From Iyasare Chef Headed For Transit Center Roof A prominent, currently unfinished restaurant space in the middle of Salesforce Park, on the roof of the Transbay Transit Center, finally has a taker.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Celeb Chef Tyler Florence To Open Steakhouse Called Miller & Lux Next To Chase Center Tyler Florence, the TV-famous chef who opened Wayfare Tavern in San Francisco nine years ago, is set to open a second project in the city after several other Bay Area projects have proven to be false starts.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Union Street's Belga To Pivot To Plant-Based Cuisine, Rebrand as Wildseed Four-year-old Belgian beer-and-sausage spot Belga quietly shut its doors over the holiday weekend, and come September 17 it will reopen as something new from prolific local restaurateur Adriano Paganini.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Belden Place to Get New Mexican Spot Called Tin Cactus Belden Place, the quaint and charming alley adjacent to the Financial District, is getting a new restaurant tenant this fall, and it's a full-service Mexican restaurant called Tin Cactus.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink RT Rotisserie Opens Second Location In Faletti/Nopalito Complex At Oak and Broderick Popular fast-casual Rich Table spinoff RT Rotisserie is getting set to debut a second location in the former DeLessio Market and Bakery space next door to Faletti Foods at 306 Broderick Street — exactly 12 blocks from the original location.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Original Joe's Owners Are Opening A Pizza and Pasta Spot In West Portal The family that owns North Beach's Original Joe's and its Daly City sister location have snapped up the former Paradise Pizza space in West Portal with plans to open Little Joe's Pizza, Pasta, Parmigiana.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Liholiho's Eastern European Spot In the Old Farina Will Be Called Dear Inga We finally have some updates about the Liholiho Yacht Club team's plans for the old Farina space on 18th Street, which is planning for a September opening.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 4505's Long-Delayed Oakland Expansion Opens Soon; Brenda's Due In Temescal By Late Summer Two San Francisco institutions with southern flair are opening new locations across the Bay, the first being 4505 Burgers & BBQ which is finally opening in the former Glenn's Hot Dogs space in Oakland's Laurel District.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Jardiniere Space To Become Vegan Italian Restaurant It's called Baia, it will feature vegan Italian comfort food, and yeah, not what I expected either!
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Flour + Water Pizzeria Set To Open By Late May We have an update today on the impending opening of Flour + Water's much anticipated pizza spinoff in the former Farina Pizzeria space at 18th and Valencia.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mister Jiu's Counter-Service/Delivery Spinoff Mamahuhu Heads For Inner Richmond A fast-casual spinoff of Michelin-starred Mister Jiu's is in the works and headed possibly by year-end to a former Asian market location at 517 Clement Street.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Restaurant Opens This Week Inside Former Bank of America Vault at 555 California A new restaurant from the team behind Trestle and the recently shuttered Stones Throw is set to open on Wednesday, April 24, and it's called The Vault.
