SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Charles Phan Shutters Fifth Restaurant In Three Years As The Coachman Calls It Quits Chef-restaurateur Charles Phan, whose restaurant The Slanted Door is one of the highest grossing in the city and the country, is pulling the plug on his British pub-inspired concept The Coachman in SoMa
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Brace Yourselves For More $40 Main Courses At SF Restaurants While some restaurants are throwing in the towel due to the combination of high rents, mediocre business, and the hike in the minimum wage, others are going to have to suck it up
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Kanpachi Crudo at Californios Brand new Mission restaurant Californios is a truly tucked-away, romantic little spot that could end up being a runaway hit. After opening just after the new year, former Sons & Daughters line cook
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ask the Foodinista: Best Spots For Dinner For Two Under $50 For this week's Ask the Foodinista, we're responding to a great question from commentor Miles Long. Got any burning food-related questions? Send your questions to [email protected], with "Foodinista" in the subject
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Did Valencia Street Already Hit Peak Restaurant Density? Two years ago, when the Valencia corridor saw a spate of new restaurant openings several in spaces that had not previously been home to restaurants retail merchants in the neighborhood started crying foul
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Updated] Where To Get Foie Gras Now In San Francisco Prohibition is over!! The days of settling for mere duck liver are through! Yes, foodinistas and chefs statewide are dancing a figurative jig and tweeting up a storm today about the lifting of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Breaking: California Foie Gras Ban Struck Down! California's two-and-a-half-year-old ban on the delicious fatty liver known as foie gras has come to a sudden end, as Eater SF is reporting. Napa chef Ken Frank, who along with a few other
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tacolicious Regular Is A Tipper For Jesus, Drops $2000 On $50 Check Big thanks to Manny, Jared & the crew at Tacolicious in the Mission... :) #tipsforjesus #godbless #thumbsup #boomboom #happynewyear #2015 A photo posted by tipsforjesus (@tipsforjesus) on Jan 1, 2015 at 8:47am PST
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 13 Most Exciting Restaurants Arriving In 2015 The restaurant economy, like the rest of the Bay Area's economy, has been booming these past couple of years, and 2015 is showing no slowdown in the openings department. We've got a trio
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Calls Lazy Bear A 'Millennial’s Version Of Chez Panisse' In Sunday's Chronicle, resident food critic Michael Bauer lavished some hefty praise on the new Mission restaurant Lazy Bear which also happened to figure on our Best New Restaurants list last week. He
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 15 Best New Restaurants In The Bay Area Another year in SF means another couple dozen new places to eat. It's pretty astounding, actually, how the economy, combined with our voracious appetite for new food, has supported a dining boom in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ask The Foodinista: Do You Have To Tip For Takeout? photo credit: allie™ Dear Foodinista, Here's the thing. I consider myself a pretty respectable tipper — 20% is my go-to when I'm eating out, sometimes more if I've had a particularly great experience. But
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Would You Rather Tip, Or Pay A Flat Fee? Tipping is one of those topics that everyone has an opinion about — as Chron restaurant critic Michael Bauer has said on more than one occasion, all he needs to do to make sure
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: Animal Activist Storms Downtown Restaurant, Demand Justice For Chickens Either Bluestem Brasserie is in trouble, or an animal activist who recently staged a demonstration at the restaurant chose a terrible time to try to spread her message. As you can see in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Documentary Profiles S.F. Chinese Restaurant Pioneer Cecilia Chiang Those new to S.F. and its food lore may not have heard of Cecilia Chiang, and that's a shame. The 94-year-old retired restaurateur, whose flagship Ghirardelli Square restaurant The Mandarin closed in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wise Sons Deli Finally Launches Dinner Two Years Later One of the main reasons I never get over to Wise Sons Deli is their hours: They've only been doing breakfast and lunch service, five days a week (Wednesday to Sunday, but Tuesday's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SO Chef Posts Another Passive Aggressive Note I guess you could say that the note posted outside SO restaurant in SoMa last Thursday was just flat-out aggressive. But, not content just let things go after a string of unhappy customers,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Restaurant Begs Loyal Customers To Post Bad Reviews In F-You To Yelp Botto Bistro, an Italian spot across the Bay in Richmond, has been using Yelp's own notoriously aggressive (some say extortionist) sales tactics as an excuse to discredit the site completely. As the Richmond
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Foreign Cinema Rings In Fifteen Years With Big Quinceañera Party Thursday It's hard to believe that Mission mainstay Foreign Cinema (2534 Mission Street) is already fifteen years old, having debuted at the height of the last big tech boom and survived the slumps that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bandidos Mulling Name Change Amid Controversy From Mexican-American Community New Castro Mexican spot Bandidos, which just finished its first week in business, is facing some San Francisco-style backlash from the Mexican-American community who say that the name "bandido" is a historically derogatory
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Second Chef Shuffle In Six Months Happens at Outerlands What is going on at the Outer Sunset's premiere destination restaurant? Less than six months after Outerlands parted ways with Brett Cooper the chef who arguably put the restaurant on the foodinista map
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Did A Few Angry Yelpers Get Kicked Out Of A Presidio Restaurant For Threatening To Yelp? An amused restaurant customer recently wrote in to Leah Garchik at the Chronicle to describe a scene she witnessed at an unnamed restaurant in the Presidio (it's got to be either Presidio Social
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chefs Respond To Minimum Wage Hike: 'Get Ready For the $25 Burger' Remember that awful billboard? Well, Zagat went around asking San Francisco chefs and restaurant owners how they're planning to deal with the all-but-inevitable minimum wage hike that's going on the November ballot, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Still Thinks Restaurants Need To Listen To Old People And Quiet It Down This week Michael Bauer returned to one of his most favorite pet peeves (and therefore favorite blog topics): noisy restaurants. Regular readers of his columns will know that in recent years, Mr. Bauer's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Bay Area's Best Pizzerias (Depending On What You're After) A Forbes contributor who claims to know pizza has just declared that Tony's Pizza Napoletana in North Beach is the best pizzeria in the nation, because of its impressive array of pizza styles.
