SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Restaurants Face Grim Winter With No Indoor Seats; Some Say City Should Make Exceptions For Those Being Extra-Safe Tuesday's announcement shutting down indoor dining in San Francisco did not come as a complete surprise to some chefs — and it confirmed fears that many had about jumping on the bandwagon and rehiring staff when indoor dining first began at limited capacity six weeks ago.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco Shuts Down Indoor Dining as Cases Spike; Contra Costa County Returns to Red Tier SF Mayor London Breed and Public Health Director Dr. Grant Colfax did what they said multiple times this year that they didn't want to have to do, which is roll back the reopening of businesses after already opening them.
SF News Contra Costa Becomes First Bay Area County to Roll Back Reopening Rules As It Faces Backward Slide to 'Red' Tier Contra Costa County public health officials announced Wednesday that the county would be ratcheting back its rules on some higher risk business activities, decreasing capacity for restaurants and movie theaters as it faces a possible move back to "Red" tier status next week.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Noting Very Small Growth In COVID Cases, San Francisco Hits Pause On Further Reopenings Any hopes that restaurants had of increasing indoor capacity to 50 percent next week are now dashed, but it may still happen in a few weeks if cases go down.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Landmark Restaurant Tadich Grill and Noted Hofbrau Tommy's Joynt Plan Reopenings The oldest restaurant in San Francisco, Tadich Grill, which dates its establishment to 1849, is re-emerging from a pandemic closure next month, cioppino, steaks and all. And Tommy's is reopening before Halloween.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco to Allow 50% Capacity In Restaurants, Outdoor Bars Without Food As It Becomes First Bay Area County to Enter 'Yellow' Tier On Tuesday, Mayor London Breed announced that the city and county of San Francisco had moved into the least restrictive "yellow" tier in the state's reopening framework, and if numbers stay low more businesses will get to reopen in two weeks.
SF News Alameda County Moves to 'Orange' Tier But Will Not Open Indoor Dining Yet; Santa Clara County to Allow 25% Capacity Both Alameda and Santa Clara County moved into the state's "orange" tier status for pandemic reopening, joining San Francisco in the second-least severe group of counties with only "moderate" virus spread.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin-Starred Mission Spot Californios Relocates to Former Bar Agricole Space The airy SoMa space occupied by Bar Agricole for much of the last decade will be the new home of Californios — giving the Michelin-starred, Mexican-influenced restaurant from chef Val Cantu more space to breathe (in a pandemic) both indoors and out.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink As SF Enters 'Orange' Tier, Indoor Dining and Places of Worship Reopen Wednesday at Limited Capacity, Movie Theaters Next Week As has been anticipated for two weeks now, San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced Tuesday that the city will resume allowing indoor dining effective Wednesday, September 30, at 25-percent capacity.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Mayor and Health Director Say Indoor Dining May Be Allowed Within Two Weeks Restaurant owners have been waiting on pins and needles — and a pile of debt — to be told when San Francisco would allow indoor dining spaces to reopen to the public again. And it sounds like end of September/early October is it.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Will the SF Restaurant Industry Threaten Legal Action to Reopen Like Gyms Did? It's certainly a dicey subject across the nation, and there's still far too little data to say for certain whether indoor restaurant dining is a recipe for disaster in this pandemic, or a mitigated risk.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trick Dog Pivots To Become Quik Dog, With To-Go Food and a Pared-Down Cocktail Menu Knowing that the pandemic will likely keep the bar itself from reopening indoors anytime soon and crafting its cocktail artistry in keeping with its established brand, Trick Dog is reopening for now under a slightly different guise and concept: Quik Dog.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Won't Restart Indoor Dining Next Week; No Future Date Set Sources from City Hall and the local restaurant lobby say that San Francisco will not be reopening restaurants for indoor dining on July 13 as previously planned.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Restaurants Get Ready for New Al Fresco Era — Here's a Running List Of Who Will Be Open At least two dozen SF restaurants have announced plans to reopen, with a few ready to start taking guests as soon as Friday, June 12. We are keeping a list that will be updated in the coming days.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink As Outdoor Dining Resumes In SF Friday, Bars Ask City to OK July Reopenings Mayor London Breed gave the green light Tuesday for San Francisco restaurants to begin outdoor, sit-down dining on Friday, three days ahead of the previously announced date of June 15. And a petition by local bar owners is seeking an accelerated schedule for their reopening as well.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cafe Flore To Rise From the Dead Again, Offer Outdoor Dining in the Castro Seeing that outdoor dining will be the name of the game in the local restaurant world for months to come, the owner of Cafe Flore has decided to reopen six months after shutting the place down.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Breed Says SF Restaurants Can Resume Outdoor Dining June 15; Bars, Nail Salons and Gyms Can Reopen Mid-August Mayor London Breed laid out specific timeframes for the next phases of San Francisco's reopening of businesses on Thursday, and for the first time restaurants, bars, hair salons, and gyms have some target dates to resume semi-regular business.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Zeitgeist To Reopen For Takeout Bloodies and Margaritas, Will Remove Picnic Tables The Mission's 43-year-old beer garden Zeitgeist is about to reemerge from its pandemic slumber, and as many drinkers around SF are starting to realize, it's venues like this with big outdoor spaces that are going to luck out, business-wise, in the coming months.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink High-End Steakhouse Ittoryu Gozu To Reopen In April Following New Year's Fire Ittoryu Gozu (201 Spear Street) is taking a bit longer than expected to reemerge following a New Year's Eve fire that damaged its all-important hearth.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tosca 3.0 Opening Delayed Until March, Space Used For Private Events For Now The legendary and beloved Tosca Cafe in North Beach won't be making it open by year's end, as the team continues to wait for the liquor license to officially transfer from the previous ownership.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Vegan-Friendly Middle Eastern Restaurant Saha Reopens In the Tenderloin After Three-Year Stint In Berkeley A well-loved, semi-secret spot for Middle Eastern tapas, lamb curry, and plenty of vegan options, Saha Restaurant, has returned to San Francisco to the same spot in the Hotel Carlton where it had been for 12 years before closing in 2016.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved Outer Richmond Restaurant Aziza To Reopen October 14 After a three-year hiatus and some staffing shuffles, local chef Mourad Lahlou is reopening his original flagship in the Outer Richmond (named for his mother), Aziza.
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 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 Reopening Tonight: Hecho Cantina, AKA The New Hecho We're excited to report that we will reopen tomorrow (Friday) at 6pm! Come by and see what we've done to the place; stay for our delicious cocktails and a more laid-back take on
