SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lily's High-End Vietnamese Cuisine Delights in the Inner Richmond, Joins the Area's Culinary Rebirth Lily on Clement quietly opened its doors in the middle of San Francisco's coronavirus shut down, and it's a great new spot serving up creative iterations on Vietnamese cuisine.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Bay Area Food & Booze: RIP, Gold Dust Lounge Brown Sugar Kitchen departs the Ferry Building, Trick Dog debuts its latest menu, Cafe X stops slinging robot coffee downtown, and Soleil Ho brings us her top 25 dishes to try.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Smoked Game Hen at Dear Inga Dear Inga is a heartfelt love letter to Eastern Europe, and specifically to chef David Golovin's grandmother, and the three-week-old restaurant has already proven itself a welcome addition to the already food-destination-worthy 18th Street corridor.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chronicle Critic Rips Into Le Colonial, Asks 'Why Does This Place Exist?' As new critic Soleil Ho moves into her eighth month on the job, she's continuing to reevaluate some of the longstanding curios of the local scene with fresh eyes. The latest target is Le Colonial, the 22-year-old 'Indochine'-themed, sort-of-Vietnamese restaurant in the Tenderloin.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chef Ryan Shelton Creates Ambitious Menu That Evokes Thackeray's 'Vanity Fair' In Food At the Fillmore District restaurant called The Table at Merchant Roots, chef Ryan Shelton launched an intimate dinner series earlier this year that has everything to do with narrative and experimentation, and nothing to do with the hyper-seasonality of most Northern California cuisine.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Now Has More Michelin Three-Star Restaurants Than New York As Coi Earns Its Third The SF Bay Area Michelin Guide for 2018, though not technically released until December 15, has unveiled their new star rating updates today, as it was announced they would yesterday, following a two-week
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin Bay Area Guide, Delayed By Wildfires, To Be Revealed Wednesday The 2018 Michelin Guide to SF Bay Area restaurants, which had been set for its annual big reveal two weeks ago, on October 12 including a scheduled release event at The Charter Oak
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Son's Addition Arrives, Anchor Opens New Taproom, And More Something is coming to the former La Urbana space at Grove and Divis, and the Back of the House team (Beretta, Starbelly, Flores, Super Duper, Belga, Lolinda, etc.) is only say that it
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Guy Fieri Feeds Wildfire Survivors, Foxsister Opens On 24th The impact of the wildfires making their way across Northern California can be felt across multiple industries, not the least of which being food. As we mentioned earlier this week, the Michelin Guide
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Barnzu Brings Korean To The 'Loin, Papi Rico Comes To The Castro Fall is typically a time for openings, and we have a couple to tell you about this week, as well some closures. Earlier we heard about the debut of chef Robin Song's new
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Brown Sugar Kitchen, Royal Feast Added To Michelin's Bib Gourmand List We're closing in on the big update announcement for the 2018 Bay Area Michelin Guide, and that means first we get the teaser of this year's Bib Gourmand honorees. Last year the list
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mister Jiu's Named One Of The Best Restaurants In The Country By Bon Appetit It's official: The SF entry on Bon Appetit's Hot Ten this year is Mister Jiu's, despite the place being nearly a year and a half old that's just how things go in the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Still Good: AL's Place Today we're kicking off a new feature called "Still Good," focusing on Bay Area restaurants that have been open a few years, or a few decades, and therefore may not have been garnering
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: $180 Kobe Beef Sandwich Coming To SoMa The big food-and-drink news in town this week was the purchase of SF's signature brewery Anchor Brewing by Japan's Sapporo Holdings, which follows a trend of such deals but still feels kind of,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mister Jiu's, Tartine Manufactory, and SingleThread All Vie For Bon Appetit's Best New Restaurants List As Bon Appétit prepares to release their annual list of the ten best new restaurants in the country, which they call the "Hot 10," they've released a list of 50 finalists for the
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 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 This Week In SF Food: Hazel Debuts On Mid-Market, Biig Opening Slowly In the TL, and More The big news for the local food scene this week has to be the release of the new Top 100 from the Chronicle, which is notably a bit more diverse, both in terms
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bauer Adds La Taqueria, Ju-Ni, And 20 More Restaurants To Chronicle Top 100 It's the big announcement day for the Chronicle Top 100 Restaurants something that the paper, in previous years, took great pains to keep under wraps until the physical Sunday paper arrived in early
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Craftsman And Wolves Opening Bayview Doughnut Shop, Bauer Still Digs Outerlands, And More This week, the SFist food bureau broke news of Black Jet Baking Co.'s soft opening in Bernal Heights, had the word on Mersea, a restaurant bound for Treasure Island, and news of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Bauer Blesses SingleThread With Four Stars, Mezes Shutters In The Marina, And More This week we chose our favorite wine bars in the city, followed the case of some toxic Chinatown tea, and were relieved to see that the end of Pauline's Pizza is not yet
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Rose Pistola Closes, Wise Sons Bagel Expands To Marin, And More It's SF Beer Week, as you know, but there's more to life than hops. For example, there's Iza Ramen, scheduled to open today; Verve Coffee, plotted for the Castro next week; and for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Khai Vietnamese Nouveau Debuts, Curry Up Now In Oakland, And More In case you had the impression this might be a normal week in at least some sphere, sorry, but no: Chronicle food critic Michael Bauer wrote a love letter review to a Taco
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Uma Casa Opens For Portuguese Food, Vancouver's Bao Down Comes To SF, And More This week at the SF Food desk there was word of two SoMa restaurant closures, the first in the well-loved, five-year old AQ, which will be seeing the shutter soon and the second
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Was Pete Wells Doing A Service, Or Just Being An Elitist Dick, In Panning Oakland's Locol? The biggest food-world story of the week has turned out to be New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells's unexpected and unexpectedly terrible review of Locol in Oakland, the ostensibly revolutionary new model
