SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Season Of The Kitsch: Tacky And Tiki Are Back, Again In 2009, San Francisco's foremost Tiki bar looked about ready for a condo conversion. That was then, and this is now: Currently, the Tonga Room & Hurricane bar at the Fairmont Hotel expects
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Food Network Is Letting Yelpers Have A TV Show At this late date, Yelpers are finally going to get a nationally televised stage from which to deliver their amateur snark about restaurants they do not like or, to use a phrase popular
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two SF Chefs, Ravi Kapur And David Barzelay, Named <em>Food & Wine</em> Best New Chefs The prestigious annual honor of being named to Food & Wine's Best New Chefs issue will be going to not one but two local chefs this year, once again proving San Francisco is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chronicle Names Six Rising Star Chefs, Including Aatxe's Ryan Pollnow and Californios' Val Cantu See how The Chronicle’s 2016 Rising Star Chefs shape the Bay Area’s dining scene.https://t.co/SqGOBx13G2 pic.twitter.com/VyMPaojLdG— SFChronicle (@sfchronicle) March 31, 2016 It's time again for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 12 Best Soup Dumplings (Xiao Long Bao) In The Bay Area There is some mad competition among dim sum parlors on both coasts for the claim of "best soup dumpling," because these multifaceted Shanghainese delicacies known as xiao long bao (or XLB) are far
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink All About Tip-Pooling, Why It's Questionably Legal, And Why SF Restaurateurs Are Doing It Over the weekend the Chronicle's Jonathan Kauffman took a deep dive into the topic of tip-pooling, explaining how California is now one of seven states that have a universal minimum wage that applies
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Chicken Soup At Little Gem We're hitting a springtime pattern of warm, sunny days and cool, windy nights this week (though there might be a spot of rain this afternoon), and whether you're getting a bout of seasonal
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Revelry Bistro Debuts, Nostra Spaghetteria Is For Sale, and More This week around the Bay we had Asia SF getting some strangely big accolades from OpenTable, we heralded in the debut of Waxman's in Ghirardelli Square, said goodbye to Triptych in SoMa, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink OpenTable Believes SF's Hottest Restaurant Is... Asia SF Yesterday at SFist HQ we got an email from the OpenTable team letting us know that their hotly anticipated (JK) list of the nation's 100 "hottest" restaurants for 2016 had just been revealed.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Longtime SoMa Spot Triptych Closes After 11 Years On Folsom Triptych, the brunch and dinner spot that's spent over a decade at 1155 Folsom, is now closed for good after variously having for-lease and for-sale notices up over the past few years. Tablehopper
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink What SF Restaurant Owners Are Saying About The Current Restaurant 'Bubble' Valencia Street probably already hit "peak restaurant" last year, and if you believe chef and restaurateur Dennis Leary (The Sentinel, Golden West, House of Shields), so did the rest of the city. San
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Farina Owners Appear To Make Sketchy Move To Avoid Paying Debts To Employees Stories about sketchiness surrounding the owners of Farina, that fancy looking but many would say over-priced Italian spot on 18th Street, go back quite a few years now. Back in 2011, several employees
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Liholiho Yacht Club Tops SF Finalists For 2016 James Beard Awards The James Beard Award finalists were just announced yesterday following last month's announcements of the semi-finalists or "long list" and low and behold, Liholiho Yacht Club will be competing with four other restaurant
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Where To Eat The Best Irish Food In San Francisco As St. Patrick's Day approaches, we at SFist thought you needed a primer on the best of many places around San Francisco to indulge in traditional Irish pub grub (and baked goods) whilst
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Study: Prices For Signature Dishes At Bay Area Restaurants Went Up 52% Since 2005 Steamed barbecue pork buns at Yank Sing were $3.50 in 2005. Now they'll set you back $5.50. A Saturday night dinner at Chez Panisse was $75 back then — this coming weekend
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Someone Launches 'Impeach Michael Bauer' Campaign, Offers $2K For New Chronicle Critic 7. Hell ya @californiossf keep it posted and spread the word that #thisdudesucks #whostakinblameforthestormyweather A photo posted by I'd Pay $2000 For A New Critic (@impeach.michael.bauer) on Feb 8, 2016 at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Shhh! House Of Prime Rib Has A Secret Menu (Including A Vegetarian Plate) Somehow, we've made it to 2016 without knowing that House of Prime Rib had anything on offer besides four cuts of rib roast, baked or mashed potato, and creamed spinach and the house
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Liholiho Yacht Club, Cala Among Best New Restaurant Semi-Finalists For 2016 James Beard Awards The James Beard Foundation Awards long-list arrived today, which is the list of semi-finalist restaurants, bars, and chefs which will ultimately be whittled down to a list of finalist nominees next month. And
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 15 Best Ramen Spots In The Bay Area "Ramen," says Japanese celebrity chef Masaharu Morimoto, "is a dish that's very high in calories and sodium." Respectfully, chef, that's bullshit. Ramen isn't a dish: It's a bowl. The rest of that statement,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Guy Fieri Tries To Dump Remaining Johnny Garlic's Restaurants, But The Restaurants Are Fighting To Stay Open Noted Warriors fan, former Lamborghini owner, Food Network punchline, and annoyer of his Santa Rosa neighbors Guy Fieri has also been, in the last two decades, a restaurateur. But he's looking to rid
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 17 Best New Restaurants Of 2015 Last week we brought you our picks for the best new bars to arrive in town this past year, and now we bring you their restaurant brethren. This has been a truly terrific
Arts & Entertainment SantaCon Disputes Death Reports, Ramps Up For December Revels Though the once-official Twitter account for San Francisco's SantaCon "celebration" has been declaring the event dead since last year, organizers say the bacchanal is good to go on December 12, even as area
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Joe's Crab Shack Becomes First National Chain To Forgo Tips National seafood chain Joe's Crab Shack late last week told investors that the Houston-based company would abandon tipping at all of its hundred plus locations. The move, announced by parent company Ignite Restaurant
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yelp Now Explicitly Warning You Off Restaurants With Poor Health Scores The restaurant review site Yelp unveiled a new feature this October — one that is sure to win friends among consumers and make (even more) enemies among restaurant owners. The new feature updates a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Updated] Zazie Owner Vents Frustration About Small Children In Restaurants The controversy over children in restaurants is not new and in a city with so few children as San Francisco, tension over the topic is pretty inevitable. But a kerfuffle has erupted via
