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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Francisca's Arrives In The Mission, Sababa Expands, And More Summer often means a slowdown in food news, but this steamy week proved to be an exception: Goat Hill Pizza shut down for the summer, Young Fava started delivering, Pliny the Elder was
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Sushi Spot Robin Close To Opening In Hayes Valley Adam Tortosa's previously announced Hayes Valley sushi spot Robin (whose original name was Starling before he got served with a cease and desist order by a bar with that name in Sonoma) is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dosa To Bring Upscale Indian To Oakland's Uptown The latest of several announcements about new restaurant projects headed for Oakland's Uptown neighborhood comes from SF's Dosa, which is planning to open their third location there this fall. As Inside Scoop explains,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Petit Marlowe Approaches, Locol Closes Uptown Location This week in the food scene we learned that Fenix is closed in SoMa, the Range space on Valencia is becoming a 60s-themed cocktail lounge called The Beehive from the same chef-owner as
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tacolicious Launching Delivery-Only Rotisserie Chicken Tacolicious is expanding once again this month, only this time it's not with a new location but with a new delivery-only business through Caviar that they're calling MF Chicken. Beginning June 19, during
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Coin-Op Goes 'Tron,' Duna Debuts, And More A short week means fewer moves in SF's food scene, but that didn't mean nothing happened: A Mano's Asparagus pizza got raves, Tartine And Belcampo Meat Co. announced plans to open in Oakland's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Julius' Castle May Finally Reopen On Telegraph Hill, Despite NIMBY Objections The historic restaurant on the cliffs of Telegraph Hill, Julius' Castle, in operation from 1924 until a decade ago, may finally be reborn as a restaurant with the help of a development team
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink AQ Space Gets A Taker: Former Saison/Atelier Crenn Chef To Open Birdsong There This Winter Chris Bleidorn, a former chef in the kitchens of three of San Francisco's most acclaimed restaurants with a combined total of eight Michelin stars, Saison, Benu and Atelier Crenn, is breaking out on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tartine And Belcampo Meat Co. Both Opening Locations In Oakland's Jack London Square The long stagnant and/or transitioning food scene around Oakland's Jack London Square where a the 434,000-square-foot waterfront development was built almost a decade ago with a vision of Ferry Building grandeur
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: RT Rotisserie Opens, Le Marais Debuts In Castro, And More The business of food has been heating up, so to speak, as the unofficial/official start to summer arrives on Memorial Day. This week we learned of Ritual Coffee opening in the Castro,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Slanted Door Expands To Vegas In addition to a previously announced (but delayed) expansion to Downtown Los Angeles, The Slanted Door will also be opening a new location in Las Vegas next year. Eater gets word on the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Unfazed By The Castro's Coffee Glut, Ritual Will Take Over The Wildcraft Space Though it's been widely noted that the Castro needs another coffee shop like a hole in the head, Ritual Coffee still seems to think there's room for them to grow there, and they've
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Dumpling Time Debuts, Bauer Kind Of Likes Contrada This week's SF food news gave and took away: On the plus column, Anthony Strong opened a delivery-only restaurant, Outside Lands announced their food lineup, RT Rotisserie's opening approached. and Motze's transition to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Bar Tartine Chefs Pivot From Japan Back To Eastern Europe With Duna The inventive and talented pair behind the acclaimed last incarnation of Bar Tartine, Nick Balla and Cortney Burns, are changing things up once again, and taking their semi-permanent Mission pop-up Motze in a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Berber, A North African Supper Club With Cirque Du Soleil-Inspired Entertainment, Coming To Russian Hill Russian Hill better brace itself, because an ambitious sounding new restaurant/supperclub is headed that way this fall, and it's not like anything we have in the city right now. Not since Supperclub
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink RT Rotisserie Aims For Memorial Day Week A quick update on the much anticipated, fast-casual spinoff of Rich Table, RT Rotisserie: The team is readying for some preview events in anticipation of an official public opening around Memorial Day, with
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Delfina And Locanda Chef Anthony Strong Launches Delivery-Only Restaurant, Young Fava One local chef's answer to the growing difficulty and arguable unsustainability of the economics of running a restaurant: a chef-driven, delivery-only restaurant where dishes are made to order, just like in a restaurant.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Boxing Room Turns Spanish, Speakeasy Brewing Lives On, And More This week on the restaurant scene we saw the openings of The Meatball Bar in the Financial District, and Kahnfections bakery in the Mission, and we brought you some last-minute ideas for taking
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Week In SF Food: Cultivar Opens, La PanotiQ Closes, And More This week we saw Showdown shutter, Ginger's Trois return, A Mano prepare to open, and Dolores Outpost do whatever it is that they do. Tartine Manufactory won an award, Aatxe closed, Lucky 13
