SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Shouldn't No-Shows And People Who Cancel Reservations Last-Minute Get Charged? A new debate is being sparked this week following a piece in the Chronicle about a perennial problem for small restaurants that is an especially acute one right now as the local restaurant
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Airbnb Moves Into Restaurant Reservation Game With Resy Investment Airbnb just dropped some serious cash in the lap of restaurant-reservation app Resy, marking Airbnb's first official foray into restaurant booking tied with travel and lodging. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Another Restaurant Reservation/Concierge App Enters The SF Market Called Reserve Reserve, a new app that has recently launched in New York, Boston, and LA, launches today in SF offering the chance of last-minute reservations at places like Foreign Cinema and flour + water for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Do Younger People Just Not Care About Making Reservations? Michael Bauer is back on the peeve beat in today's Between Meals blog post, and the topic: restaurants that only take reservations for parties of six or more. (The topic of no-reservation restaurants,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink French Laundry To Close For Several Months, Will Reopen With New Ticket System [Updated] The iconic French Laundry in Yountville has confirmed dates for a planned closure and major renovation, and the plans are a fair bit more ambitious than originally hinted at. As chef-owner Thomas Keller
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Did A Few Angry Yelpers Get Kicked Out Of A Presidio Restaurant For Threatening To Yelp? An amused restaurant customer recently wrote in to Leah Garchik at the Chronicle to describe a scene she witnessed at an unnamed restaurant in the Presidio (it's got to be either Presidio Social
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ask The Foodinista: Big Group Outing With No Reservation Introducing "Ask The Foodinista," in which you pepper our wily food contributor Lauren Sloss with questions regarding all things San Francisco food, and she answers them (without a hint of snark...okay, maybe
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Restaurateur Reacts To Reservation-Sale Apps, Selling Tickets For Restaurants We told you about ReservationHop, the highly questionable startup that wants to buy and sell hard-to-get reservations from people, and profit from this enterprise, as some misguided favor to restaurants. Also, last week
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Big Food News: Coi To Be First S.F. Restaurant To Launch Ticketing System Daniel Patterson's North Beach fine-dining flagship, Coi, will be among the first U.S. restaurants, and the first in San Francisco, to begin using a dining-ticketing system pioneered by Chicago restaurants Next and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Taste An Array Of Great Rosé Wines On Nico's New Rosé Tasting Menu A decidedly sophisticated new neighborhood restaurant cropped up in Laurel Heights last winter from an ambitious young French chef, Nicolas Delaroque and his wife Andrea, after he had stints at Manresa and Luce.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now You Can Buy And Sell S.F. Restaurant Reservations Too The increasingly distasteful "sharing economy," which is becoming more of an "a**hole economy" with every new greed-driven app, takes another step in a distasteful direction with ReservationHop, a site that lets people
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink There Is Now Another, Even Fancier Way To Eat At Saison Today Saison announced the launch of a chef's Test Kitchen series, utilizing a new, undisclosed space for exclusive, 8-person dinners on Saturdays, starting August 2. The test-kitchen/think-tank experience will feature an exclusive
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Priceline Buys OpenTable for $2.6 Billion San Francisco-based OpenTable is becoming part of the Priceline Group in a deal announced Friday, sending the share price of OpenTable stock up 50% in morning trading, to $104. Priceline agreed to pay