SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Agricole Reopens Wednesday In New SoMa Location With Bar Tartine Chef Nick Balla On Board Much lauded bar-restaurant Bar Agricole is reopening this week, after some pandemic-related delays, in the base of the tower at 1550 Mission Street — and the place has recruited a talented chef in Nick Balla, who's been largely away from the SF scene for several years.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cyrus, the Once Michelin Two-Star Dining Destination, Returns In a New Sonoma Location After 10-Year Hiatus It's been ten long years since Cyrus was forced to close in Healdsburg, bringing to an abrupt end a world-class dining offering from chef Douglas Keane that garnered two Michelin stars and plenty of accolades. And in September, it returns.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Frances Reopens In the Castro at Long Last, With New Family-Style Menu It's been an extra-long pandemic hiatus for Frances, chef Melissa Perello's twelve-year-old Castro restaurant that has remained a perennial favorite for many. And that ends tonight.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Maybeck's Set to Reopen In the Marina With New Menu, New Partners From Baker & Banker Maybeck's, the cozy Marina restaurant that first opened its doors in 2015, largely flew under the radar of the city at large up until the pandemic began while becoming a solid neighborhood favorite.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Marlowe Reopens In SoMa, Burger and All It's been two years since anyone has had a Marlowe burger, at least inside Marlowe itself, and the well loved SoMa restaurant is finally back open and serving inside and out.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chez Panisse Reopens For First Time In Two Years; Small Protest Greets Them From Next Door César Tuesday night marked the first night of service in almost exactly two years for Chez Panisse and Chez Panisse Cafe, but the occasion was slightly marred by a demonstration next door from staff and customers of tapas bar César, which is being forced out of its lease by Chez Panisse.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Counter at St. Francis Fountain Is Back Open For Dining Beloved Mission diner and ice cream parlor St. Francis Fountain has just reopened its counter for dining after 21 months of keeping it empty out of pandemic caution.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Slanted Door's Charles Phan Signs New Lease at Ferry Building, Confirms Summer 2022 Reopening Plan The Slanted Door has been one of those landmark SF businesses whose lengthy pandemic closure led to rumors about its possible demise. But we have confirmation that there's been a lease extension to 2034.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 14 Best Michelin-Starred Restaurants That Have Reopened In San Francisco The new Michelin Guide for California comes out in a few days, but assuming all of these SF restaurants get to hold on to their stars, you might be glad to learn that they are back open — having, in some cases, quietly reopened this summer for indoor dining after over a year completely dark.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chez Panisse Is Delaying Reopening Until Next Year Berkeley's landmark restaurant Chez Panisse has decided not to reopen its dining room next month as planned, but is putting off a full reopening until next year.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Frances Announces Pop-Up Dinner Series With Chef Melissa Perello Ahead of Full Reopening While beloved Castro restaurant Frances still has not announced its official reopening date, chef Melissa Perello over the weekend announced a series of prix-fixe dinners at the restaurant with no set menu that she will be curating and cooking herself.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Park Tavern Closes for Renovations as Co-Owner Anna Weinberg Buys Out Partner; Marlowe Reopening Soon Ten-year-old North Beach brasserie Park Tavern was quietly back open in recent weeks, but co-owner Anna Weinberg says the restaurant will be closing again next week for a planned renovation, and she is buying one of her two partners out.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Octavia Reopens For the First Time Since the Pandemic With New Chef de Cuisine, More Pasta At long last, Melissa Perello's Michelin-starred Pac Heights hot spot Octavia is reopening tonight, serving dinner for the first time since the pandemic hit last March.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Leo's Oyster Bar Reopens This Week; Marlowe Aims For Early July Prolific SF restaurateur Anna Weinberg says she's "ready for the roaring 20s," but her restaurants won't all be reopening at once due to much-cited staffing challenges that are impacting the whole industry.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Concord Restaurant Tells Customers 'Don't Pull a Karen' Over Slow Service Due to Labor Shortage The manager of a Korean BBQ spot in the East Bay was under fire on social media for a posted sign in the restaurant asking customers to be patient with the level of service which has been impacted by hiring trouble — and it's something being felt all over the Bay Area.
SF News Eight of Nine Bay Area Counties Now In 'Orange' Tier The future is looking cautiously brighter as of Tuesday in the Bay Area, now that Sonoma, Napa, and Contra Costa counties have all graduated to "Orange" tier status, and people can go back to drinking at outdoor bars without ordering food in eight out of nine Bay Area counties.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Liholiho Yacht Club Moves Temporarily to Dear Inga Space In the Mission Popular TenderNob Hawaiian restaurant Liholiho Yacht Club is undergoing a renovation, and the owners are relocating the operation temporarily this month to their other restaurant space at 3560 18th Street — which is home to Dear Inga.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Californios Softly Reopens In SoMa; New Bar Coming to Former Californios Space The much anticipated, 2.0 version of Californios, newly relocated to the former Bar Agricole space at 355 11th Street, has quietly reopened and is taking reservations for outdoor seating.
SF News San Francisco, Marin, and Santa Clara Counties Move to 'Orange' Tier Allowing Gyms, Restaurants, and Bars to More Fully Reopen As expected, three more Bay Area counties, including San Francisco, advanced to the "Orange" tier in California's Blueprint for a Safer Economy rating system on Tuesday as new COVID cases reach levels not seen since October.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland and Berkeley Restaurants Prepare to Have Indoor Dining Again as Alameda County Turns 'Red' After only having limited-capacity indoor dining for three short weeks since the pandemic began, restaurants in Alameda County are preparing to once again allow patrons indoors starting on Wednesday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Of Course House of Prime Rib Is Booked Up Three Months Out Again With the return of indoor dining, House of Prime Rib is making good on reservations it had to cancel when the city shut down all indoor dining back in November, and it's already booked up until mid-June.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Indoor Dining in SF Will Be Limited to Single-Household Tables of Four As discussed earlier this week, the timing for the restart of indoor dining in San Francisco is looking to be next week, and Mayor London Breed confirmed on Wednesday that it will start again as soon as SF is moved into the "Red" tier.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco Restaurants Remain Impatient to Return to Indoor Dining While 99% of the state remains in the "Purple" tier this week, restaurant owners in the Bay Area are looking for signs that they should be prepping their dining rooms again for low-capacity indoor service.
SF News San Francisco Remains In State's 'Purple' Tier for Reopening, But 'Red' Tier Is In Sight In the week since the Bay Area began reopening businesses again, we can see the SF data skewing further downward, both in daily new cases and the percent-positivity rate, which means the city could reach a new tier in a matter of a week or two.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Outdoor Dining, Personal Services To Resume In San Francisco Outdoor dining can resume in San Francisco starting Thursday, now that COVID case numbers are decreasing the state has lifted the regional stay-at-home orders that began over a month ago.
