SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Saison Cellar & Wine Bar Opening In June In SoMa A new wine bar offshoot of Saison is opening this spring a block away from the Michelin two-star restaurant on Townsend Street, and at the helm is Saison co-founder and sommelier Mark Bright.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chronicle Does List of Best Splurge Restaurants, Snubs French Laundry, Manresa, and Quince A big-city newspaper critic has to deal with the big-name, Michelin-starred places eventually, and it seems that Soleil Ho's tour of the Bay Area's more acclaimed, pricey spots is finally complete.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Saison and Angler Team To Launch Saison Smokehouse This Weekend With both restaurants shut down for the foreseeable future, the culinary team behind Angler and Saison is launching a to-go barbecue concept this weekend in the Angler space, using the restaurant's centerpiece hearth and live fire.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Saison Loses Chef Laurent Gras, Promises 'New Experience in 2020' Two-Michelin-starred Saison, which dropped down from three stars last year following the departure of chef and co-owner Joshua Skenes from day-to-day operations, is undergoing another transition as the new year begins.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin's CA Guide Is Out: Saison Loses A Star, LA Still Has No Three-Star Restaurants, and More LA can still be bitter at Michelin, and the big Bay Area headline is that Saison has dropped from three stars to two, largely because of the departure of executive chef and co-owner Joshua Skenes.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Angler Nominated For James Beard Award For Best New Restaurant The finalists for this year's "Oscars of food" are out, and as usual there are some Bay Area restaurants and chefs in contention.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two SF Chefs, Ravi Kapur And David Barzelay, Named <em>Food & Wine</em> Best New Chefs The prestigious annual honor of being named to Food & Wine's Best New Chefs issue will be going to not one but two local chefs this year, once again proving San Francisco is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Saison's Josh Skenes To Open New Restaurant With Sushi Chef Jiro Lin In addition to the aforementioned Asian fast-casual project Fat Noodle, Saison chef Joshua Skenes has got another, as-yet-unnamed side project in the works. As Eater reports, Skenes is on the hunt for a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin Guide 2015: Saison and Benu Become The First Three-Star Restaurants In The City For a couple of years it's been no secret that chef Joshua Skenes was aiming to make Saison the first Michelin three-star restaurant in San Francisco proper. Today, he got his wish, along
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Saison Chef and Umami Burger Guy Opening Fast-Casual Chinese Place Whoa. Big, and surprising, news from the food scene today: Acclaimed Saison chef Joshua Skenes is teaming with Umami Burger's Adam Fleischman to open a fast-casual Chinese spot at 2nd & Mission called
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Les Clos, A Wine Bar From Saison's Mark Bright, Opens September 20 Mark Bright, partner and wine director at Saison (178 Townsend), is just about ready to unveil his new, down-the-street wine bar spinoff Les Clos (234 Townsend), which we previously talked about back in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink There Is Now Another, Even Fancier Way To Eat At Saison Today Saison announced the launch of a chef's Test Kitchen series, utilizing a new, undisclosed space for exclusive, 8-person dinners on Saturdays, starting August 2. The test-kitchen/think-tank experience will feature an exclusive
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Finally Gives Saison Four Stars Though many in the food world have been raving about Saison and chef Joshua Skenes' cooking for years, local critic Michael Bauer was slow to come around to it in the beginning, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mark Bright Opening New Wine Bar In SoMa When night falls, and the startup bros trudge home to the Mission, all of Eastern SoMa/Mission Bay's eateries come to life — e.g., Twenty Five Lusk (underrated LA chic palace), Saison (as
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Coi Squeaks Into Top 50 Restaurants In The World Once More Yesterday marked the release of the annual World's 50 Best Restaurants lists as ranked by London-based Restaurant Magazine. The three Bay Area restaurants that have figured on here the last few years continue
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Top Chef' Alumna Heading To Saison The star-chef wattage in SoMa just got brighter, at least for those of you who consider chefs celebrities. Grayson Schmitz, who appeared on season 9 of Top Chef's Texas cycle, can now be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Saison To Host Super Star Guest Chef Dinners Joshua Skenes, the mind behind universally acclaimed SoMa joint Saison, will open his kitchen to a gaggle of noted chefs for a series of dinners this fall. Several of the chefs are currently
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Saison Is Second-Best New Restaurant In America, According To Bon Appétit Saison took silver in Bon Appétit's annual best-of listicle. Unfortunately, the magazine devotes too much attention to the restaurant's much-ballyhooed price point. The magazine's noted food critic Andrew Knowlton crunches the numbers: Let's
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 Sweet Relief: The Bathroom At Saison It is said, by some, that a chef can be judged by their roast chicken. The same could be said of a restaurant and its bathroom; the place where we find relief in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Coi Chef Goes Casual, Saison Gets Cheaper While boozing it up last night, we got into a simmering debate with a food writer over high-end tasting menus. Personally, we love them. The more intricate and fussier, the better. Why? Why
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Saison Finally Opening This Week The sociopathically anticipated opening of Saison, Joshua Skenes'' acclaimed restaurant, will happen on Friday. And we're thrilled. Everyone is thrilled. You should be thrilled. The new joint, moving away from the Mission, will
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Saison Not Opening Until February? [Update] UPDATE: According to the fine folks at Saison, they have a projected opening date of 1/15. So... fingers crossed for a January opening date! Gastronomes might have to wait even longer to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Saison Moving To SOMA Near Ballpark Joining such neighboring businesses as Happy Donut, McDonald's, Zeke's, and SFist headquarters, exemplary two-star Michelin joint Saison will pack up its belongings in the Mission and move to eastern SOMA by mid-December of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Saison Creators More Than Welcome To Invade SOMA SOMA/South Beach is in need of another gastronomic spark. And how. Chef Joshua Skenes and sommelier Mark Bright -- the men behind Michelin two-star Saison -- have signed some sort of legal-y
