SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Next Mina Test Kitchen Revealed, Boozy Taco Bell Opens, And More This week the SFist food bureau was abuzz with plenty of news. There was word of the highly anticipated Cala's soft opening, Betelnut's closing, LA fast-casual chain Lemonade flirting with at least one
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Expanded Alembic Unveiled, Chefs Leave Keystone and Hog & Rocks, And More This week was full of food development, from the upcoming opening of Dat Spot on Potrero Hill, the rebranding of SliderBar as Ovok, and news about the new pastry chef at cruffin-famous Mr.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Half Orange Opens Beer Garden, Mission Pie Bakes Off, And More This week there's been plenty of goings on in the food news department. For starters, the team behind the Financial District's Sens have announced that Market Street sequel Barcha will open on the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Mathilde Debuts, Oro Arrives, Sliderbar Rebrands, And More Tablehopper reports on the debut of Mathilde, the replacement for Le Charm that we mentioned was coming a couple months back. Only there was some misinformation it turns out that new owner Mathilde
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: The Chron's Best Food Trucks, Mission Bay HQ Brewing For Réveille Coffee Co., And More This week over at the SFist food desk, we took a tour of the new Bon Marché which opened for realz today, did a little rumor-mongering re: La Boulange re-opening/rebranding, and shed
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: The Keystone Debuts, The Alembic Gets A New Chef, And More In addition to the big news this week that AL's Place got named the number one best new restaurant in the country by Bon Appetit, Bon App also named ABV the country's best
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Eat Drink SF Arrives, Biergarten Holds Its Ground, And More This week in Bon Appetit's best food city in the country (no big deal), we had word of a new opening in the Twitter building, Cadillac Bar & Grill (where you can get
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: The Advocate Debuts In Berkeley, Coco Frio Arrives In The Mission This week brought us our first peek at Petit Crenn in Hayes Valley, which makes its debut next week, and some new details about Volta, the new French-ish brasserie on its way to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: A.G. Ferrari Foods Closes In The Castro, Outside Lands Karaoke With Morimoto, And More This week, Oakland's La Borinqueña Mex-icatessen celebrated its last in business. After four generations of tamales made "with love and lard," the family has decided to retire. Chino, the Tacolicious take on dumplings,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: David Kinch's The Bywater Arrives In Los Gatos, Alamo Drafthouse Gets A Bar Guy, And More This week's food news was pretty rich, between the closing announcement from Urchin Bistrot, the important update on Wise Sons Bagel, the taker for the Abbot's Cellar space, and our discovery of ShakeDown
SF News This Week In SF Food: Trestle Team Signs On For Mid-Market, And Basically Everyone Quits At BDK This week, the SFist food desk had news on Tsk/Tsk, an interim bar takeover from the Bourbon and Branch team, debuting tonight on Divisadero. Meanwhile on Market Street, there was word of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: The Hilton Reopens Its Top-Story Restaurant, Crafty Fox Debuts, and More Over the last few days we've had news of Black Bark BBQ coming to the Fillmore, more Sonic Drive-Ins on the way to the East Bay, Hapa Ramen doing a late-night pop-up, and
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 This Week In SF Food: Little Gem Coming To Hayes Valley, Omakase Arrives In SoMa This week was a little light on big food news, apart from the opening of Dirty Water and Anthony Bourdain popping up in town and chowing down on some oysters and prime rib.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Smitten Ice Cream Opens On California Street, KitTea's Cat Cafe Purrs To Life Next Week Though the San Francisco Chronicle's Restaurant Critic and Executive Food and Wine Editor Michael Bauer insists that he takes great pains to maintain his anonymity and hide his face, could it be possible
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Lord Stanley Opens On Russian Hill, Hubert Keller Pops Up, And More This week in the food scene we learned more about Jason Fox's Oro, headed to Mint Plaza, and caught the name of the bar replacing Truck, which will be called The Wooden Nickel.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Globe Closes, Local Brewery Opens, And A Quinoa-Centric Lunch Spot Looms This week, SFist learned that Chef Michael Mina will be taking over the short-lived second location of Cafe Claude in the Marina to open a pop-up inspired "test kitchen" for those within his
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Epic Roasthouse Becomes Epic Steak, New Bar The Treasury Debuts, and More Guess who's in town this week? The great Jeremiah Tower has been stopping in to see friends like chef Mark Franz at Farallon, resurfacing after parting ways with Tavern on the Green in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Jessica Largey Leaves Manresa, Vive La Tarte Opens In SoMa, And More There were two pesky issues in the Castro this week: Quickly following Mandu shutting down for health issues (and reopening as Janchi, their second rebranding in three months) we had news that Posh
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Forgery Debuts In SoMa, The Empire Room Opens in Civic Center, and More This week's big opening was Belga in the Marina, and there was the smaller, quieter opening of Acquolina over in North Beach as well. Other than that, the big headline this week was
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Blue Bottle Bows Out At Ferry Building Farmer's Market, Plans Two New Locations San Francisco raked in a few awards from the James Beard Foundation this week, so first, congrats all around on those. We also heard an update on Bon Marché Brasserie from AQ restaurateur
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Meadowood Welcomes New Chef De Cuisine, Tacorgasmico Opens, And More This past week was marked by a fire that has temporarily shuttered Liverpool Lil's in the Marina, and the announcement of the reopening of the famed, 100-plus-year-old Sam Wo in Chinatown. Also there
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Trestle Nears Opening, MOMA Dumps Blue Bottle For Sightglass, And More What a merger: Tartine Bakery and Blue Bottle Coffee have joined forces, or rather, Tartine has become a part of Blue Bottle. This way, Tartine will get to expand operations to Blue Bottle's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Empire Room Arrives This Month, <em>Top Chef</em> Is Coming, And More Besides this week's big openings of Aatxe and Octavia, and the big news that Del Popolo is getting a brick-and-mortar spot on Nob Hill, here's what else has been going on, food-wise, around
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: The Chairman Brick and Mortar Arrives Monday This week brought the menu for Lark, a new spot from chef-owner Coskun Abik of Dunya that we've been tracking as it prepares to open in the former Brandy Ho's space on Monday.