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
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-
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
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
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,
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
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,
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,
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-
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
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
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.
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-
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
