SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Restaurants Complain That APEC Has Basically Ruined Their Business for the Week Even restaurants far from the Moscone Center and the “security zone” say they're losing a ton of business because of APEC, with all of its unexpected parking-space removals, worsened traffic, and customers just not wanting to deal with the APEC disruptions.
restaurants New Law Could Ban Service Fees at Bay Area Restaurants, Restaurateurs Worried SF restaurant owners are freaking out over a new state law banning service fees for many hospitality businesses, saying that it could drive prices up and keep consumers away.
SF News SF Tourism Honchos Celebrate a Banner Week, With Dreamforce, Folsom, and Portola Festival Packing Hotels Local tourism industry officials are crowing over the most lucrative week they’ve had in a couple years, and while every weekend won’t have this many events, there is optimism for a booming holiday season.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved SoMa Restaurant Don Ramon's In Financial Trouble After 'Ghost Ship'-Like Tenants Cause Major Damage 38-year-old 12th Street Mexican restaurant Don Ramon's is facing possible foreclosure following a three-year ordeal involving upstairs tenants, major damage to the building, and a $5 million loan that the owners are now having trouble making payments on.
SF News Study: Restaurant Outbreak In China Suggests Limits To Airborne Transmission of COVID-19 A recently released study by researchers in China, examining an outbreak of COVID-19 that occurred among some related and unrelated diners in a restaurant in Guangzhou in January, suggests that air conditioning in an enclosed space can help spread the coronavirus — but not to everyone in a room.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Class Action Complaint Filed Against Over A Dozen SF And NY Restaurateurs Over No-Tipping Policies Bay Area restaurants Bar Agricole, Trou Normand, Comal, Camino, as well as New York restaurant groups and chefs including David Chang and the Momofuku group, Daniel Humm of Eleven Madison Park, and famed
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin Postpones Bay Area Announcement As Restaurants Gather Donations For Fire Victims Given the ongoing wildfire emergency gripping large swaths of the Bay Area's wine country which is certain to deeply impact the winemaking industry, for years to come in the case of some wineries
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 The 13 Best Local Food Chains In The Bay Area San Francisco is well known for its fantastic restaurants, but also for its relative hostility to chains. Nonetheless, a number of homegrown chain restaurants and mini-empires have proliferated here, especially in the last
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chez Panisse To Lose Longtime Chef Cal Peternell In July After 22 years in the kitchen at Berkeley's landmark of California cuisine, Chez Panisse, chef Cal Peternell is leaving his post in the downstairs restaurant kitchen effective July 5. Peternell tells Inside Scoop
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 Babu Ji Closes NYC Flagship Location Amid Wage Theft Lawsuit The owners of hit New York City Indian restaurant Babu Ji, which expanded in November to San Francisco, are closing their East Coast location amid a wage theft lawsuit, the second being faced
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF's Dirtiest Restaurants Might Be Paying To Improve Their Health Scores Pop quiz, hotshot: There's a bunch of rat turds in your kitchen. Once a city inspector sees them, your health score drops. If it drops to SF's bottom 5 percent, Yelp places a
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 New York Times Critic Pete Wells Savages Locol In Oakland New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells has given us another surprise Bay Area review in his intermittent mission to survey the national food scene, and it's a review of Daniel Patterson and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Champagne Bar The Riddler Nears Opening, Sushi Boat Sinks, And More The San Francisco food and drink world was abuzz this week with news of the abrupt shuttering of Pasta Pomodoro's 15 Bay Area locations, and the transformation of Mr. Bing's into something a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 50 Best SF Restaurants Open Or Delivering On Christmas Day Eating on Christmas means stuffing yourself stupid, regardless of your religion, lack thereof, or place on the socioeconomic hierarchy. So we here at SFist broke down San Francisco/Bay Area restaurants open on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Contrada Debuts Next Week, Chef Khai Duong Returns To SF, and More Most important in our food world this week, SFist brought you our carefully considered Best New Restaurants of 2016. But we also learned of a Sumo Stew pop-up, and a fight by Zeitgeist
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 15 Best New SF Restaurants Of 2016 The last couple of years have been heady ones for San Francisco's dining scene, with 2010 kicking off a wave of new ingenuity, talent, and luxury that had yet to crash through the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 12 Unhealthiest Dishes In San Francisco As the holidays are upon us, you're probably saying eff it to your healthy-ish lifestyle and eating and drinking whatever's put in front of you. For those of you who are exercising self-care
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ahead Of Michelin Guide Update, 11 New Bay Area Restaurants Receive 'Bib Gourmand' Nod As we wait on local picks for the Michelin Guide 2017, which will be announced next Tuesday and aren't likely to top last year in terms of excitement, today we've got a list
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Tartine Team Takes Over Former Valencia Herbivore To Open Motze, An 18-Month Pop-Up The chef-couple of Nick Balla and Cortney Burns who are still in the process of taking full ownership of the restaurant they've helmed for the past five years, Bar Tartine are already in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco To Get First New Liquor Licenses Issued By State In 77 Years Thanks to a bill sponsored by state senator Mark Leno, San Francisco is about to get its first new liquor licenses in almost 80 years but only five of them. They're earmarked for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Betelnut Spot To Become Something Mexican The word is finally in about what restaurateur Adriano Paganini is doing with the former Betelnut space at 2030 Union Street, next door to his restaurant Belga: It will be a second Mexican
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] Saha Restaurant Reopens In Original SF Location After Move To Berkeley 2019 Update: Saha Restaurant is back open in the Hotel Carlton at 1075 Sutter Street after a hiatus and three-year relocation to Berkeley. Original post below: A Mediterranean spot especially popular with vegans
