SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: A Fond Farewell to Sam Wo Bar Brucato takes shape in the Mission District, Sam Wo says goodbye for probably the last time in Chinatown, and Papa Noodle brings some new quick-service noodle bowls to downtown.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Barcelona Bar Star Pops Up In SF Horn Barbecue is headed to Sacramento now as well, the Castro is getting a women's sports bar, and Oakland's Bombera wins an East Bay honor, all in This Week in Food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: End-of-Year Goodbyes Hard Knox Cafe closes its original location in Dogpatch, Lobby Bar is changing owners in the Castro, and The Forge is moving from Oakland's Jack London Square to Rockridge, all in This Week in Food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Five-Year-Old Bagel Business Daily Driver Is Closing Its Doors Daily Driver, the wood-fired bagel bakery and creamery that launched in San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood in 2019, just announced it is closing down its two remaining locations.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yellow Moto Pizzeria Calls It Quits on Valencia Street When even a once-popular pizzeria can't make a go of it on Valencia Street, you know things must be slumping on the once-buzzy corridor, as we hear of yet another end-of-year closure.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Post Thanksgiving Edition A new Palestinian restaurant is coming soon to Noe Valley, Thomas Keller is closing his Yountville Mexican spot after this weekend, and downtown Oakland has a new cocktail bar — with pickles! — all in This Week In Food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Acclaimed Oakland Restaurant Daytrip Is Calling It Quits, Owners Say Costs Are Too High In another disappointing end-of-year closure announcement in the local restaurant world, a restaurant that won national accolades is shutting its doors in Oakland after three years in business.
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.
