SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Outer Richmond's Pizzetta 211 Expanding Next Door With Seafood Spot Tiny, always crowded Pizzetta 211 (211 23rd Avenue) has been a neighborhood favorite in the Outer Richmond for 17 years now, never expanding beyond its handful of seats and closet-sized kitchen. But now,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lord Stanley Lands On <i>Bon Appétit</i>'s Best New Restaurants At #3 Coming off a year of local accolades and a fresh-out-of-the-gate Michelin star, Polk Street's Lord Stanley has just garnered some new national attention that is sure to make it a tough reservation to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink <i>Bon Appétit</i> Names Leo's Oyster Bar The Best Designed New Restaurant In The Country Leading up to the big unveiling of their annual Best New Restaurants issue, Bon Appétit did what they did last year and first gave us a Top 50 last week, just so that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Regarding The SF Restaurant Economy, Where $500 Dinners Proliferate And Mid-Range Spots Struggle A national restaurant consultant, in the last decade, once said that "San Francisco gives great middle," referring to the fact that the city had not, for many years, been much of a fine
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 18 Must-Have Classic San Francisco Dishes San Francisco has been a good food town as long as anyone can remember. Starting with the Italian and Chinese immigrants who fed Gold Rush prospectors and Barbary Coast revelers, SF restaurants have
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Braised Lamb At Mason Pacific Nob Hill bistro Mason Pacific just reopened last week after a four-month closure following an unfortunate fire in March, and now the kitchen is being run by James Beard Award-nominated Max Mackinnon, who
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Mag Raises New Questions About Chronicle Food Critic Michael Bauer's Boyfriend Great night (last nite)at the @FlavorNapa 'Young Guns' dinner - paired with beautiful wines of @inglenook1879 with my pal @angela_jackson84 + MB A photo posted by Michael Murphy (@curiousmikie) on Mar 19,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Here's The New Menu For Smokestack In Dogpatch, From New Chef Brandon Korf Smokestack, the fast-casual barbecue operation within Magnolia Brewing's Dogpatch taproom and bar that opened two years ago, recently had a chef shuffle following the departure of Namu Gaji guy Dennis Lee. Now the
SF News SF's Minimum Wage Goes Up To $13 An Hour Today Thanks to voters' passage of Proposition J in 2014, San Francisco's minimum wage increased 75 cents today from $12.25 to $13. ABC 7 reports that this increase is one step in the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cala and Locol Land On <i>Food & Wine</i> Best New Restaurant List Every magazine gets their annual turn to declare their favorites among the nation's crop of new eateries, and this week we get Food & Wine's 2016 Restaurants Of the Year list, which features
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Petit Crenn And The Perennial Land On <i>GQ</i>'s Best New Restaurants GQ, whose longtime restaurant critic Alan Richman was not always well liked by chefs but who won many James Beard Awards for his work, has a new "Eater-in-Chief," and that's Brett Martin. Martin
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Here's Why Restaurants Change Their Names After Health Department Shutdowns Castro residents should be plenty familiar with this tale by now: A restaurant gets temporarily shut down by inspectors with the city's health department, maybe more than once, due to vermin infestations and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Here's The Food Lineup For Outside Lands 2016, Including 'Outside Clams' Every year I'm pretty impressed with the food and beverage array at Outside Lands, which for all its crowds is still a far more civilized and foodie experience than any other music festival
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Aziza Is Closing For Two Months For A Renovation As he promised back when his new downtown restaurant Mourad opened in early 2015, chef Mourad Lahlou is closing the Outer Richmond restaurant where he made his name, Aziza, for a long overdue
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Etiquette Week: How To Split A Check It's Etiquette Week at SFist, in which SFist's editors dole out some prescriptive advice for how to behave in this city we all share in order not to overly annoy, offend, or otherwise
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mateo's Taqueria Expanding To Mid-Market Fans of eight-month-old Mateo's Taqueria (2471 Mission Street) which is probably many of you, given that after eight months, and amongst stiff competition in the Mission, enjoys a four-and-a-half-star average rating on Yelp,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Gets Fully Snubbed At 2016 James Beard Awards The "Oscars of the Food World" happened last night as the chef and restaurant portion of the annual James Beard Foundation Awards took place in Chicago on the traditional night off for chefs,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink <i>Bon Appetit</i> Shows Some More Love For SF Much like Bon Appetit restaurant critic Andrew Knowlton did last summer when he called SF the best food city in the country and named two SF restaurants to his annual list of the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Drops Gialina, AQ From Top 100, Adds Petit Crenn, Trestle, And 17 More A couple of weeks earlier than usual, Chronicle restaurant critic Michael Bauer has unveiled his Top 100 Restaurants in the Bay Area a longstanding Chron tradition that serves as a kind of locally
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chinatown's Sam Wo To Start Serving 'Til 3 AM Again, Like In The Good Old Days Legendary, longtime Chinatown greasy spoon Sam Wo which earned a scene in Tales of the City and mentions in many guidebooks by way of its famous "rude" waiter Edsel Ford Fung returned to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Confirmed: Cafe Du Nord To Pivot More Into Event Space And Venue, But With Food As SFist reported exclusively last week, the Viking Room at Cafe du Nord, which opened last year with the promise of offering a full dinner menu in a sort of supper club environment
Arts & Entertainment Seven Easy Date-Night Ideas Around SF, Oakland, And Berkeley Last year, SFist brought you a list of nine easy ideas for nights out on the town, with a friend or a date, organized by neighborhood so you don't have to be ordering
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Grubstake Diner To Close In 2017, But Retain 'Railcar-Themed' Location In New Condo Building Last we heard, back in September, some new owners of the property that houses the beloved Grubstake, off Polk Street on Pine, were being a bit vague about the future of the 40+
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Halal Guys In SF: An Admittedly Early Review A lot of people, but especially recent New York transplants, are pretty psyched about the arrival of The Halal Guys in San Francisco something we've known about for a year now, but which
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cafe Du Nord Temporarily Closes Viking Room, Switches To Lounge Menu Ten months in, the team at Ne Timeas Restaurant Group (Aatxe, Flour + Water, Central Kitchen, Salumeria) has decided to pivot a bit with the menu offerings and format at the downstairs Cafe du
