SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Boogaloos To Come Back From The Dead This Winter Good old Valencia Street brunch stalwart Boogaloos, which got hit with a massive rent hike two years ago and then a minor fire that shut the place down, seemingly for good, a year
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Locanda Chef Anthony Strong Readies New Restaurant, Hosts Weekend Pop-Up Dinner Series Kyoto-style Spaghetti w/ duck, ginger, parmigiano & sansho pepper pop-up tickets on sale now, link in bio! . . #italianfood #soyum #eeeeeats #tastespotting #buzzfeast #infatuation #foodporn #foodgawker #feedfeed A post shared by Cibicotti (@cibicottisf) on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Healdsburg Fine-Dining Destination Cyrus, Closed Since 2012, Confirms 2019 Rebirth Thanks @peoplemag for the feature! http://greatideas.people.com/2013/09/26/the-new-top-chef-masters-winner-sounds-off-on-skydiving-and-more/ A post shared by Douglas Keane (@douglaskeane) on Oct 1, 2013 at 10:23am PDT Five years after Michelin two-star
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Waxman's Unpaid Bills, Saison Sues Former Employees, And More This week around the Bay we learned of a new Austrian-style wine bar in North Beach called The Salsburg, saw a bit of controversy over the Museum of Ice Cream and its ice
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland To Get New All-Day Deli-Bakery Thing Inspired By Venice Beach's Gjusta, Via Charlie Hallowell One of Oakland's most successful chef-restaurateurs, Charlie Hallowell (Pizzaiolo, Boot & Shoe Service, Penrose) is taking over the former Grand Fare space, which is in the same Grand Avenue building that he co-owns
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: AltoVino Comes To Nob Hill, Brown Sugar Kitchen Comes To The Ferry Building In a week with so much happening in the world, it feels almost frivolous to mull restaurant gossip. But, hey, we all gotta eat! That's why we told you about Jardinere's DACA benefit,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: State Bird Gets A New Menu, Eight Tables Close To Opening, And More In a week that began with temperatures so high I'm sure no one wanted to eat, food news still managed to break. Chief among it: Thelonious Monk's estate is suing North Coast Brewing
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Aziza Will Not Reopen, Will Be Replaced By Moorish-Mexican Spot Called Amara At last we have word on local star chef Mourad Lahlou's plans for his Outer Richmond onetime flagship restaurant, Aziza which has now been closed for fifteen months. The Michelin-starred chef-owner of Mourad,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: A Chicken Nugget Tasting Room, Caffe Trieste To Possibly Close, And More This week, as with all other headlines, local food news headlines were dominated with Charlottesville after it was revealed that an employee at Berkeley-based hot dog chain Top Dog was at the white
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Top Round Roast Beef Heads Into Former Discolandia Space; Residents Freak When Iconic Sign Gets Repainted Some 24th Street denizens were freaking out last week when they saw that the new tenants of the former Pig & Pie / Discolandia space at 2964 24th Street were painting over the beloved
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: $180 Kobe Beef Sandwich Coming To SoMa The big food-and-drink news in town this week was the purchase of SF's signature brewery Anchor Brewing by Japan's Sapporo Holdings, which follows a trend of such deals but still feels kind of,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trick Dog Team Takes Over Former Wo Hing/Urchin Bistrot Space On Valencia There's some movement finally on the vacant space at 584 Valencia Street that once housed the original Slanted Door location, and in recent years was home to Wo Hing General Store and, briefly,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Nico Moving Downtown, Bauer Adores Acacia House, And More The business of mastication had some bright spots this week, with more details about Stonestown's depressing Macy's becoming a food/cinema destination, more news about the Mid-Market hotel with a rooftop bar and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ippudo Ramen Debuts In Berkeley Friday Ramen lovers, I need your attention. Ippudo Ramen, which has two locations in New York and two more on the way, in addition to dozens in Japan and other countries, is set to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Mid-Market Rooftop Bar To Be Called Charmaine's; Ground-Floor Restaurant Named Villon The much anticipated rooftop bar and lounge at the soon-to-open Proper Hotel at Market and Seventh now officially has a name: Charmaine's. We just learned a few weeks ago that they had hired
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Bar Tartine Space Becoming A Matcha Shop, Barcino Opens In Hayes Valley, And More This week on the food scene we learned that Wise Sons is expanding to Hayes Valley, likely with a bagel shop, and we learned some behind-the-scenes secrets from an In-N-Out employee. Also, Namu
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hamburger Mary's *Might* Finally Open In The Castro, Maybe News flew around the local blogosphere late Wednesday that, following an Entertainment Commission hearing on Tuesday, the extraordinarily delayed revival of Hamburger Mary's might, three and a half years after we first heard
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wise Sons Expands To Hayes Valley, To Artis Space The Wise Sons empire is in growth mode, and pretty soon, Hayes Valley denizens will not have to hoof it to Fillmore Street to get their bagels. Hoodline reports that they've taken over
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Mission Cheese Expands To Berkeley, Bauer Raves About A Mano, And More The Bay Area's food scene began this week with a bang, when a truck packed with cheese had a freeway melt-down. Then there was Zeitgeist's plan to expand, Young Fava's success-based (temporary) closure,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland's Haven To Pivot, Become Third Location Of Alta Followers of food news were scratching their heads in May when a press release revealed that Daniel Patterson's growing restaurant group had plans for a third location of his Alta CA concept in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Il Casaro To Bring Neapolitan Pizza To Church Street In The Castro Good news for pizza fans in the Castro environs: North Beach's Il Casaro Pizzeria & Mozzarella Bar is expanding with a second location, into the former Chilango space on Church Street, three doors
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Nobu Debuts In Palo Alto, Almanac Beer Co. Comes To Alameda, And More Over the last holiday week things were somewhat quiet in the food world, but not entirely silent. We just heard the good news that Julius' Castle will be coming to life again, Mister
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hoorah! Julius' Castle Approved To Reopen On Telegraph Hill Despite a reported "litany" of complaints and letters of objection from the always cantankerous dwellers of Telegraph Hill, the Planning Commission unanimously approved a developer's plans to revive 93-year-old Julius' Castle for a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mister Jiu's Phase Two, In Historic Upstairs Banquet Hall Space, To Open By Year-End If you haven't been to Mister Jiu's yet, you're missing out on one of the best new restaurants to hit SF in the last two years. (Read some more about it here.) Chef
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Mid-Market Hotel Lands James Beard-Nominated Chef Jason Franey The Proper Hotel, which will be making its debut at Seventh and Market this August, has just announced the hiring of chef Jason Franey to oversee the four restaurants at the property including
