SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mourad Owner's Dispute With City Reportedly Had to Do With Unpaid Tax Bill Chef Mourad Lahlou mentioned a "bitter dispute" with San Francisco city officials when he announced the closure of his acclaimed restaurant Mourad on Saturday. Now we have some insight into that.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mourad Abruptly Announces Closure, Cites 'Bitter Dispute' With City Officials as One Cause Mourad, the acclaimed, modern Moroccan-inspired restaurant from chef Mourad Lahlou, has closed after ten years in downtown San Francisco. Its last night of service was Saturday, October 26.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: El Faro Owner, Humphry Slocombe Bid Farewell to the Mission Humphry Slocombe is closing its original Mission District scoop shop, the owner of El Faro is selling the business after a series of break-ins, Bun Mee opens in the Marina, and Alice Waters gets a special honor in DC, all in This Week in Food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Zanze's Cheesecakes Hit Grocery Store Shelves We've got some new pizza happening around Mission Bay, Zanze's Cheesecakes are now available at a Bay Area grocery store, and the Chronicle reviews Bernal Heights duck and pork belly specialists Go Duck Yourself.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Agricole, Planned Offshoot Restaurant Project, Both Dead For Good, Owner Says Bar Agricole, which reopened this spring in a new location, as a companion bar to Osito, quietly closed its doors in July and won't be reopening, apparently ever, anywhere.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chef at SoMa Restaurant Aphotic Announces Closure, Cites 'Desolate Convention Center Suck Hole' Michelin-starred downtown fine dining spot Aphotic is shutting its doors in December after about 20 months in business, and chef-owner Peter Helmsley sounds pretty down about the Moscone Center-adjacent neighborhood he's been operating in.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Le Colonial Calls It Quits Le Colonial says "au revoir" after 26 years, a tiny Thai-Lao restaurant debuts in Parkside, and Four Kings gets a new national accolade, all in This Week in Food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 46-Year-Old Sushi Restaurant, Other Longtime Businesses Getting Evicted By Upper Fillmore Real Estate Investor Welp, hopes that a real estate investor who has been quietly assembling multiple properties on Fillmore Street in Pacific Heights has only good intentions to revitalize the area appear to be dashed.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Denny’s at Fourth and Mission Streets Has Closed Permanently There will be no more moons over your hammy in San Francisco, as the city’s last remaining Denny’s restaurant at Fourth and Mission streets closed up shop permanently on August 1.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: New Japanese Sandwiches In the Mission A new breakfast spot is coming to Noe Valley, a longtime French bistro shutters in Russian Hill, and the Mission gets a new Japanese sandwich spot, all in this week's food news.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco's Food Scene Has Changed Wildly, Mostly for the Better, In the Last 20 Years It's SFist's 20th anniversary week this week, and it seemed like a good time to look back on how we've covered food and the local restaurant scene going back to the site's early days, spanning an era in which SF restaurants became some of the most buzzed-about places in the country.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hayes Valley's Monsieur Benjamin Is Saying Adieu After 10 Years The French brasserie from Benu chef Corey Lee that opened a decade ago in Hayes Valley, Monsieur Benjamin, is set to close at the end of June, for undisclosed reasons.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Owner of Two Shuttered Fisherman's Wharf Restaurants Sues City The owner of two historic Fisherman's Wharf restaurants that closed in recent years, Tarantino's and No. 9 Fisherman’s Grotto, is suing the city of San Francisco for millions of dollars, blaming multiple factors including pandemic closure orders for the restaurants' closures.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Merchant Roots Spreads Its Wings Merchant Roots is making a big move this summer, upscale Indian spot TIYA has opened in the Marina, and we get a Chronicle review of the hot new Chinatown spot Four Kings.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Slanted Door, a Longtime Anchor of the Ferry Building, Is Not Reopening While some restaurateurs are still making big bets on downtown, Charles Phan has, after several years of foot-dragging, made it official that he is not reopening The Slanted Door at its longtime Ferry Building space.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Che Fico Is Closing Its Downstairs Alimentari, Replacing It With To-Go Counter It's a third pivot for the space downstairs from Che Fico, where Che Fico Alimentari will be calling it quits on May 9 to make way for a more high-volume to-go operation and more private dining space.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Petit Crenn Announces Final Summer Stint Petit Crenn will close in September after a final few months of dinners, Portola gets a new cocktail bar and pizza spot, and Alora gets a Chronicle review.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: New Restaurant Openings Start to Tick Up A new speakeasy bar has opened on Polk Street, Go Duck Yourself is coming soon to Bernal Heights, and Little Star Divisadero is staying open until September now.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Boichik Bagels Land In SF Saturday Wayfare Tavern confirms they are relocating a few blocks away, Boichik Bagels opens their first SF location Saturday in Laurel Heights/Presidio Heights, and Bar Jabroni makes a splash in the Lower Haight.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink High-End Vegan Spot Baia, Which Took Over the Storied Former Jardiniere Space, Is Closing After Three and a Half Years A major piece of San Francisco restaurant real estate will be back in play again this year, as upscale vegan Italian spot Baia is closing its doors at the end of the month.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink That Waterfront Chevys In Emeryville Is Closing Permanently on April 16 The rather unique waterfront Chevys Fresh Mex along the Emeryville Marina has announced its permanent closure, so if you’re a Chevys fan, you’ve got just six more weeks to go enjoy its fajitas and Bay views.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lee’s Deli Has Closed Its Last Two SF Locations in the Financial District Some will see this as worse than the closure of Macy’s, as the wildly affordable Financial District lunch and breakfast go-to Lee’s Deli has closed its last two remaining locations.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Castro Seafood Restaurant Catch To Close Permanently Next Month A new report on police car chases emerges right before SF will vote on police car chases; the luxury pet-care facility Wag Hotels is facing a lawsuit over animal mistreatment; and 22-year-old Castro District seafood restaurant Catch will close next month.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink It Now Looks Like North Beach's Park Tavern Is Gone For Good It opened with fanfare, a fancy remodel, and a mosaic threshold that presaged a long life: "Est. 2011." But just over a decade and a pandemic later, Park Tavern looks to have gone dark for good.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Four Hobbits Walk Into Atelier Crenn The close of November brought the much anticipated reopening of Quince, a couple of sad closing announcements, a celebrity sighting at Atelier Crenn, and more.
