SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Scallion Fry Bread and Hot Honey Chicken at Arquet The bustling new restaurant Arquet has opened its doors in the former Slanted Door space at the Ferry Building. And Chef Alex Hong has gone from cooking subtle and delicate prix-fixe plates to bold and inspired, craveable modern dishes.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New British Gastropub, Dingles Public House, Opens Next Week In Hayes Valley At least a couple more new restaurants are expected to sneak open before the year is out, and one of those will be Dingles Public House, in the Civic Center-adjacent space in the ground floor of the Inn at the Opera.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: All Hail Quik Dog Jack's is making a comeback as a semi-private event space, Quik Dog debuts at Mission Rock, and Goose & Gander calls it quits, all in This Week In Food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: New Bars Coming Next Year The Quince and Cotogna team is opening Bar Coto down the street, the former Aphotic team has a cocktail bar coming down the pike, and Nyum Bai/Lunette chef Nite Yun has published a cookbook, all in This Week In Food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Cliff House Will Still Be Called ‘Cliff House’ When It Reopens, But Probably Won’t Reopen Until Late 2026 A trademark dispute has been resolved so the Cliff House can still be called the Cliff House when it reopens under new ownership, though apparently that reopening is now delayed until near the end of 2026.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: A Bunny Cafe? An upscale Filipino spot is set to take over the Sons & Daughters space on Nob Hill, YUJA Kitchen from an AL's Place alum opens in Rincon Hill, and North Beach is getting a bunny cafe, all in This Week in Food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: More Smashburgers JouJou coming along, Castagnola's makes a comeback in Fisherman's Wharf, and a smashburger pop-up goes brick-and-mortar in the Sunet, all in This Week In Food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Deep In Fall A Pearl 6101 chef branches out to Divisadero, a huge new dim sum restaurant opens in the East Bay, and MacKenzie Chung Fegan reviews Happy Crane, all in This Week In Food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Steph Curry's Bourbon Bar and Bourbon Steak Now Open Bourbon Steak makes its big, second debut, Arquet sets an opening date at the Ferry Building, and Nob Hill's Ciccino is becoming something new, all in This Week In Food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Mina's Luxe Bourbon Steak Redux Opens Friday, Along With Companion Bar From Steph Curry It's a fall season of splashy restaurant openings in San Francisco at last, after some quiet years on the restaurant scene. And among those is the revamp of Michael Mina's Bourbon Steak, in the grand ground floor spaces of the Westin St. Francis.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Palmer's Returns In Pac Heights Palmer's Tavern reopens after two years closed in Pacific Heights, Arsicault preps a fourth location downtown, and Memphis Minnie's may be permanently closed in the Lower Haight, all in This Week in Food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Spot For Reubens and Bagels Arrives In the Marina, With Jewish Deli-Inspired Cocktails Super Mensch, the latest venture by Causwells chef-owner Adam Rosenblum, is a labor of love and a return to his roots for Rosenblum, and it opened Wednesday next door to the Presidio movie theater.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wolfsbane, the New Dogpatch Restaurant From the Lord Stanley Folks, Sets Opening Date The new restaurant from the couple behind Michelin-starred Lord Stanley (RIP), Carrie and Rupert Blease, and their friend, chef Tommy Halvorson, is coming into focus, and the reservation books are now open.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bosco, the Newest Restaurant From The Absinthe Group, Debuts In SoMa Making its debut in the former Bellota space in SoMa, Bosco will be serving wood-fired meats, vegetables, and housemade pastas starting Thursday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Ama Set an Opening Date Ama sets an opening date at the Transamerica complex, sushi takeout hit Aji Kiji expands downtown, and Sunset Squares calls it quits, all in This Week in Food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ambitious and Fancy New Bakery-Cafe Parachute Debuts at Ferry Building A new bakery and cafe from the team behind Michelin-starred Sorrel, specializing in glistening viennoiserie and cheffed-up twists on classic French pastries, had its debut Thursday morning at the Ferry Building.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chinatown’s Sam Wo Restaurant Is Indeed Reopening, Hopes to Return to Late-Night Glory Sam Wo restaurant in Chinatown is set to reopen yet again this Friday, under the new ownership of two veteran Bay Area restaurateurs, after the 116-year-old favorite seemingly closed for good in January.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Souley Vegan Reopens, Shuggie's Reopens Sans Pizza Bosco sets an opening date, Shuggie's reopens with its new more ambitious menu (and low-ABV cocktails), and Souley Vegan has made a triumphant return in Oakland, all in This Week in Food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Brazilian Steak Comes to Polk Mister Jiu's brings back a la carte, Sabor Gaucho debuts in Polk Gulch, and the Chronicle critic reviews Nopa Fish, all in This Week in Food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Original Joe's Debuts Its First East Bay Location, In Walnut Creek Stalwart San Francisco Italian-American restaurant Original Joe's has just opened a huge new location in Walnut Creek, and the ribbon-cutting was Thursday morning.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hayes Valley Restaurant and Wine Bar, Shuttered Amid Influencer Dustup, Reopens as Bosque As was promised, the former KIS Cafe in Hayes Valley has been reborn a couple weeks on, with a fresh off-white paintjob out front, as Bosque.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Schlok's Bagels Opens Second Location In Financial District The second outpost of Shlok's Bagels & Lox softly opened Thursday morning in the Financial District, with a grand opening scheduled for Monday, August 11, and this time it's an actual shop you can walk into.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Farewell to Boulette's Larder One of the Ferry Building's OG restaurant operations has given up the ghost, Trick Dog has won a prestigious prize, and a new Korean cafe is coming to Dogpatch, all in This Week in Food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Mmm, Disco Fries Precita Social readies for its close-up, San Jose's famed Burritozilla is about to go extinct, and the Chronicle's restaurant critics have published dueling reviews of State Bird Provisions, all in This Week in Food.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hotly Anticipated Modern Cantonese Restaurant Happy Crane Sets Opening Date In Hayes Valley The much anticipated new replacement restaurant in the former Monsieur Benjamin space on Gough Street is getting set to open in two weeks.
