SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved Eight-Year-Old Restaurant Canteen To Close Next Month Oh no! One of our favorite restaurants in town that we constantly recommend to people, Canteen (817 Sutter Street), is closing at the end of August, or by early September. The reason is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink World's Best-Named Chain Restaurant Coming To Embarcadero In pressing chain restaurant news, the world's best-named restaurant is coming to the Embarcadero. (We're rooting for you, Embarcadero. We're all rooting for you.). And it's none other than Crystal Jade! "Nope, it’
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Biergarten, Ritual, Entire Proxy Project Gets 8-Year Extension As you may know, the popular Proxy project on Octavia Street in Hayes Valley was built as a temporary placeholder on vacant lots owned by the city. Well, Supervisor London Breed just announced
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Best BBQ In S.F. There's no good 'que in the Bay Area, you bemoan? Ha! We have some choice spots where you can find the best barbecue in town that will make you feel like you're back
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Suite Foods Waffle Shop Opens Saturday On Bernal Whatever you're doing Saturday morning, cancel it. Yes, even morning cartoons. Suite Foods will open its very first waffle house on Cortland, featuring made-to-order sweet and savory Liege (AKA Belgian) waffles. They'll use
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dozens Of Restaurants Settle On Healthy S.F. Surcharge Issue In case you haven't been keeping up, the local restaurant world has been embroiled in a bit of a legal mess over the last year at the hands of City Attorney Dennis Herrera.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Menus: Barbacco's Regional Italian and Bluestem's Regional American A pair of downtown restaurants are offering special menus and menu items this spring and summer, each focusing on specific regional cuisines. First off, to supplement what is already a broad selection of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Food Writer Jason Kessler Receives Rude Treatment, Writes About It Jason Kessler, who writes The Nitpicker for Bon Appetit, warmed our heart after he was rudely dismissed by the host and manager of a "20-year-old spot" across from the Ferry Building that "had
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chez Panisse Reopening Delayed Again; Opening Night Starts At $1,000 A Plate Local foodinistas have been eagerly awaiting the rebirth of Chez Panisse from the ashes of the small but destructive electrical fire the restaurant suffered on March 8. It was initially announced that the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Supes To Ease Limits On Beer And Wine Sales In Mission You may recall back in March how we learned of Supervisor David Campos's push to loosen Planning guidelines and the 17-year-old moratorium on certain types of liquor licenses in the Mission. One reason
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This Tonight: Whole Goat Dinner At Boxing Room If all you ate was pizza and all you drank was Tecate all weekend, between the sunny Sunday and extra-sunny Bay to Breakers, you might be in the mood for something a little
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Health Inspector Allegedly Slapped By Russian Hill Restauranteur The proprietor of Russian Hill restaurant Allegro Romano was none too happy with a health inspector dropping by on Friday, and expressed his displeasure in a way that most of us could only
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Suppenküche Staff To Dress As Gnomes Because Why Not Almost 20 years ago, Suppenküche came to Hayes Valley and changed the neighborhood for good. This Thursday, the noted German restaurant and biergarten will celebrate the big 2-0 by a) having a party
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 5 Brunches To Take Mom To For Mother's Day The woman who pushed you through her vagina or signed your adoption papers deserves more than a Hallmark card sent via snail mail. [Ed. note: Sorry, mom!] Your mother deserves a boozy brunch
SF News Little Baobab, Forbes Island Both Catch Fire! Little Baobab, the Senegalese restaurants on 19th and Capp, caught fire today. According to Twitter chatter, the fire started in the kitchen. Luckily, no one was injured and the fire was swiftly extinguished.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco To Get Very First Applebee's San Francisco -- at last! -- is getting its very first Applebee's. What is an Applebee's? We personally have no idea. A Denny's with a bar, according to mythical lore. But Inside Scoop's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Rising Star' Danny Bowien Planning New S.F. Restaurant Hot off the heels of his James Beard Award for 'Rising Star Chef', Mission Chinese Food's Danny Bowien is planning another restaurant in San Francisco. Bowien has spent much of the last year
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Agricole, Bistro Aix, Incanto Pruned From 'Top 100' On Sunday, Michael Bauer unleashed his annual Top 100. A total of 21 restaurants were dismissed this year, either due to closure (Cyrus, Masa's) or because the noted food critic fell out of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Best Vegetarian Restaurants In San Francisco San Francisco is not only home to some of the best restaurants in the country, but also some of the best vegetarian/vegan spots as well. For your consideration, here are our favorites.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Saison Is The Greatest Restaurant, Ever New York Times food critic Pete Wells, who describes his time at Saison as [o]ne of the most compelling" and "one of the most maddening" meals he's ever had, penned an interesting
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco Thai Joint Calls For Yelp Boycott In Hayes Valley, a local San Francisco restaurant Bai Thong Thai is calling on neighbors and diners to "Stop the Bully" by boycotting Yelp, alleging the user reviews site is engaged in some
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Infamous Medjool Rooftop Deck Reopening In May Remember the Medjool rooftop deck? The one you loved to hate? The one you hated to love? Well, it's reopening. But not as Medjool, of course. Lolinda will reopen the open-air bar/restaurant
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Brace Yourselves: State Bird Provisions Opening New Restaurant The gastronomical stars behind Bon Appétit's "Best New Restaurant" of the Year, State Bird Provisions, has apparently had a new project brewing for a while. But Grub Street brings news that the project,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rick Bayless Bored By S.F. Food Scene [Update] Top Chef Master winner and noted chef Rick Bayless paid San Francisco a visit recently. But Mr. Bayless was not tickled by the food found here -- specifically, at several noted restaurants (e.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Marnee Thai Shut Down for Abysmal Health Score Of 58 Marnee Thai in the Inner Sunset is generally accepted as one of the city's favorite spots to score above-par pad thai, with over 1,000 Yelp reviews and a 4-star average (not easy
