SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Bambino To Close By Year's End Cherished but troubled Italian restaurant Bar Bambino announced that it will close its doors on December 31st. A bit of a surprise that, since it opened in 2006, it was much-loved by fans
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Grandviews at the Grand Hyatt Closes to Make Way for New Restaurant Off Lobby All over town, hotel restaurants are turning over. Seasons at the Four Seasons closed this week and will be reborn as something else next summer. Silks at the Mandarin Oriental closed earlier this
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink French Laundry Kitchen Inspired By Jack Dorsey Tweet Much-revered Yountville restaurant the French Laundry posts a new quote in the kitchen every day, one meant to inspire and move the staff. Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey had one of his tweets honored
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Saison Moving To SOMA Near Ballpark Joining such neighboring businesses as Happy Donut, McDonald's, Zeke's, and SFist headquarters, exemplary two-star Michelin joint Saison will pack up its belongings in the Mission and move to eastern SOMA by mid-December of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Prospect's Giants-Inspired Uni And Black Risotto Ah yes, this is precisely what we want to see and eat, folks. Food—good food—rendered orange and black in honor of the San Francisco Giants. And what better way to dine
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SPQR Scores 1 Michelin Star, Atelier Crenn Wins 2! [Updates] Phone calls are going out today to restaurants who received coveted Michelin Guide 2013 stars. We'll update as the winners trickle in. But, as of right now, we can tell you that SPQR
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink AQ Will Give Birth To Two New Restaurants Sublime seasonal-fetish restaurant AQ will have two new restaurants opening next year. Mr. Barmann has the exclusive: "AQ owner Matt Semmelhack reveals the news to Grub Street today that he's got two new
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This Tonight: David Bazirgan's 7-Course Tomato Feast Tomato season is almost over. Ugh. But, why not enjoy it now in the comfort of one of downtown's most electric restaurants, Fifth Floor. Tonight they offer a prix-fixe Early Girl 7-course tomato
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink One-Star Yelp Reviews Of Four-Star Restaurants Let's all take a minute to laugh at these awesome, uncouth monsters, as well as their pedestrian palates, for writing one-star reviews of four-star restaurants. Inspired by the Gurgling Cod's peek at a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Digestive Issues: Removing Plates Too Soon, Difficult Dinner Dates In these our Edison-bulb-lit gastronomic times, proper service has all but been stabbed in the neck repeatedly, chopped up into bits, and left in the freezer for dead. But you know exactly what?
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gary Danko Tops, Says Urgently Recalled Zagat Guide 2013 The Google-owned Zagat Guide 2013 landed in bookstores this week, which were then quickly pulled (more on that in a bit). For the umpteenth year in a row, Gary Danko's eponymous restaurant took
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wine and Mexican Food Pair Harmoniously at Maverick this Week Maverick first brought you their now famous junk food and wine pairing dinners (which SFist told you about in May). Now they're taking a not so controversial, yet just as sublime, route by
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Better Late Than Never: Oliveto's Tomato Dinners Kick Off Tomorrow This week marks the 22nd annual Festival of the Tomato at Oakland's long-running Italian spot Oliveto, and as usual, the menu looks pretty killer. If you ever wondered how you could create a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Memphis Minnie's Celebrates 12 Years Making Lower Haight More Hickory Bold "Never has barbecue been so popular in San Francisco — and never has there been so little of it," explained Memphis Minnie's founder Bob Kantor in a recent interview with Haighteration. And he's right.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Jardinière Changes Menu, Prices; Is Bauer to Blame? As Jardinière comes up on its 15th anniversary next week, the swanky Hayes Valley spot has announced some big changes: namely, a wholesale revision of its food menu, complete with drastically reduced prices.
SF News Half a Star Can Make a Big Difference on Yelp In a study that gives new meaning to the term "dismal science," a pair of economists have found that a restaurant whose Yelp rating goes up by just half a star is more
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gitane Named A Finalist For Nation's Best Restroom Lots of restaurants offer dinner and drinks, but as we've learned today, few are willing to provide Gitane's level of service as they make their eventual exit. The Chronicle three-star spot on Claude
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hopscotch Happy Hour Boasts $2 Drinks, Jam-packed Menu If you're heading to Oakland for Labor Day Weekend -- and why shouldn't you? -- get lit right and good at Hopscotch. One of the East Bay's newest restaurants, it opened in June
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alice Waters To Open Museum Restaurant? In an interview with Elle Decor—which we recommend for it is filled with revoltingly pretty homes and perfect lifestyles—Alice Waters says she might very well be involved with an impending restaurant
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Top 10 S.F. Spots for Drinkers with Kids No need to bring your kid into Bender's or Tradition to prove you and your kid are cool. Neither of you are—especially you. You have a child. You cannot be cool. You
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photo: Woody Allen Eats With Soon Yi (But, Sadly, Not With Dianne Wiest) While we fret (and we do) over whether or not Woody Allen will ever cast Dianne Wiest in another movie, take a look at this photo (care of the fine folks at Eater)
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Saison Creators More Than Welcome To Invade SOMA SOMA/South Beach is in need of another gastronomic spark. And how. Chef Joshua Skenes and sommelier Mark Bright -- the men behind Michelin two-star Saison -- have signed some sort of legal-y
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink State Bird Provisions Named Best Restaurant (According To Bon Appétit) And just like that, Stuart Brioza and Nicole Krasinski's State Bird Provisions (the city's most whimsically named eatery) has been named by Bon Appétit as the best new restaurant. They describe themselves as
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Play Hooky With Boxing Room's $1 Oysters [Update] [UPDATE: Dollar oyster special not effect just now. See below.] Whilst lollygagging in Hayes Valley during a warm-ish afternoon in August, grab some oysters on the cheap. See, Boxing Room's Chef Justin Simoneaux
