SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Mina Backs Out of Big Food Hall Project at Chase Center Over at Thrive City, the Kaiser-named collection of shops and restaurants adjacent to the Chase Center, one big-name tenant is canceling their plans to move in.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Soleil Ho Asks 'Who Is Michael Mina and Why Is His Name Treated Like Gold In This Town'? It's got to be hard when you move to a new town and get tasked with critiquing its sacred cows. And this week finds Chronicle food critic Soleil Ho getting back to that business with a review of Michael Mina's whole local empire.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Mina's First-Ever Marin Restaurant Debuts Tonight In Tiburon A Tiburon restaurant that's been four years in the making, The Bungalow Kitchen, debuts Wednesday night, with a swanky house-party vibe and several of chef Michael Mina's greatest hits on the menu.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Mina to Replace His Eponymous Downtown Restaurant With New Greek Seafood Spot Michael Mina, the Michelin-starred restaurant from SF chef Michael Mina that helped launch a national restaurant empire, is closed for good, and in its place on California Street will be a high-end Greek seafood spot, Estiatorio Ornos.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ferry Building’s Members-Only Techie Club Stumbles in Attempt at Liquor License A Board of Supervisors committee delays consideration of the Michael Mina-backed Shack15’s liquor license request, yet the private club is already advertising “multiple full-service bars.”
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Mina Is Opening a Private Club In the Ferry Building The Mina Group is expanding once more in San Francisco with a members-only club and event space in the Ferry Building called Shack 15.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Barack Obama, John Legend, and Steph Curry Ate Dinner At Michael Mina and Ayesha Curry's International Smoke Monday Night Former President Barack Obama was in San Francisco last night, and where did he choose to dine in a city full of world-class dining options? Ayesha Curry and Michael Mina's downtown barbecue restaurant
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink RN74 Closing, Will Be Replaced By Ayesha Curry's BBQ Restaurant International Smoke Pretty big news for downtown dining: Michael Mina's eight-year-old brasserie RN74, famous for its long and expense-account-shattering wine list, is going to be calling it quits later this year and "transitioning" into a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ayesha Curry's Barbecue Pop-Up Opening Attended By Husband Steph And Manchild Drake A photo posted by jgtradition (@jgtradition) on Jun 3, 2016 at 11:58pm PDT "Golden State running practice at my house" boasts Drake on his track "Summer 16," and lo, for once the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: The Spice Jar Opens, Mina Pop-Up Begins, And More This short holiday week we learned of the closing of Giordano Bros. in North Beach, and of the closing of 4505 Meats butcher shop on Mission, which is becoming a new outpost of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Mina To Open Pop-Up Style 'Test Kitchen' In The Marina Taking over the short-lived second location of Cafe Claude, which closed at 2120 Greenwich Street this past winter after just 18 months, will be the Michael Mina Restaurant Group, which will be quickly
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink State Bird/Progress Chefs, A16, And Manresa Win Big At James Beard Awards Though San Francisco got shut out of the Outstanding Restaurant and Outstanding Chef categories this year, we still ended up with a pretty decent showing at this years "Oscars of the food world,
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 Michael Mina's Pabu Opens In The Financial District As we alerted you last year, chef and restaurateur Michael Mina was looking to expand his local empire further, and he'll be doing it with acclaimed sushi chef Ken Tominaga, who owns Rohnert
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Mina To Open Two Joints In Infamous 101 California Building Though the name lost some luster after Michael Bauer eviscerated its questionable price point — later pulling the titular restaurant from this year's Top 100 — Michael Mina plans on opening two additional downtown locations.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Mina To Open Huge New Japanese Restaurant Downtown Big food news today from the the Michael Mina Group: Chef Mina is teaming up with Rohnert Park-based Ken Tominaga, chef-owner of Hana Japanese Restaurant, to open a new S.F. location of
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 News Local Restaurants Called Out For Pocketing Healthy S.F. Funds That $1 "Healthy S.F. Surcharge" you occasionally see screwing up the math on your tab at dinner bill was intended as a way for local restaurants to cover the cost of healthcare
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Do You Hate iPad Wine Lists? Local chef and entrepreneur Michael Mina doesn't want to pore over a wine list via iPad. Can you blame him? It is a bit much. When asked by Refinery29 if he considers himself
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Get Fishy With $10 Michael Mina Tuna Tartare Ugh. Yes, we messed up yesterday's food suggestion -- Boxing Room's $1 oyster deal actually starts on August 20! -- but starting today, you can saddle up to the bar at Michael Mina
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Mina Is Restaurant of the Year, Says Esquire Continuing the parade of national print media praise for our local food scene, Esquire magazine has released their Best New Restaurants list for 2011 which, among other things, includes food writer John Mariani's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Prix Fixe Madness at 25 Lusk and Bourbon Steak After a long day at work, you know what's nice? Alcohol. You know what else is nice? Not having to decide what to eat. Which is why we love a comparatively easier prix
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Magazine Compares Michael Mina to Horrifying Spider-Man Musical Noted food critic Josh Sens of San Francisco Magazine recently compared noted chef Michael Mina to Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, one of the worst-reviewed musicals of all time. Sens writes: A meal
misc This Week in Willie Brown Big Red, the intimidating crane looming over the Transbay Terminal, started swinging it's wrecking ball this morning, which probably ruined the dustless process that so delighted Da Mayor last week. Likewise, Willie himself
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (at Michael Mina) Michael Mina, the eponymous restaurant from chef Michael Mina that was formerly at the Westin St. Francis (that space has now become Mina's steakhouse concept Bourbon Steak) has relocated to the former Aqua
