SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Three Wounded In Shootings Overnight In Oakland Three people were wounded in two separate shootings in East Oakland; automated speed cameras are coming sooner than we thought to SF; and Chronicle critic MacKenzie Chung Fegan asks "what happened" to Tosca Cafe.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Downtown Restaurant Possibly at Risk Due to Ongoing Legal Battle Between Former Partners In Park Tavern The demise of Park Tavern, which was one of the bigger restaurant-closure stories of recent months, looks like it could potentially take other dominoes with it, as owner Anna Weinberg faces a major financial judgment against her from a former business partner.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tosca Cafe Reopens for Outdoor Dining (For Real) in North Beach, Under New Owners The saga of North Beach's landmark Tosca Cafe — which eight years ago appeared in danger of closing forever, only to be saved once, close again, and be saved yet again by a well known trio of new owners last year — is turning another page this week.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tosca Pivots To Outdoor Dining Pop-up In SoMa In lieu of putting some tables out on the sidewalk, the Tosca 3.0 team has opted to do an al fresco family-style pop-up in the parking lot of the former St. Joseph's Church, now the St. Joseph's Art Society, at 10th and Howard.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tosca Cafe Offers Family Meals; Mister Jiu's Opens Drive-Thru 'Grocery' Over in North Beach and Chinatown, a couple of prominent restaurants have just joined the takeout and delivery game during this pandemic lockdown. Both Tosca and Mister Jiu's are doing full meals, cocktails, wine, and pantry items for takeout.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tosca 3.0 Opening Delayed Until March, Space Used For Private Events For Now The legendary and beloved Tosca Cafe in North Beach won't be making it open by year's end, as the team continues to wait for the liquor license to officially transfer from the previous ownership.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tosca To Reopen By Winter Under New Owners Nancy Oakes, Anna Weinberg, and Ken Fulk Boulevard chef Nancy Oakes and Marlowe/Park Tavern restaurateur Anna Weinberg are joining forces to reimagine Tosca Cafe as something in between the legendary dive bar it once was and the polished culinary destination it became.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tosca Restaurant Closes In North Beach After Six Years Once a shining example of combining modern cuisine with preservation of a beloved, historic space, Tosca Cafe has served its last delicious meatballs as of Saturday night. The bar remains open, but possibly not for long.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Lena Dunham Noshed At Tosca, An Update On Cosentino's New Project, And More You hopefully heard the big news about the Frances spinoff, and the item about the upcoming Mission Chinese/Commonwealth spinoff with lots of environmentally progressive bells and whistles called The Perennial. Well, here's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tosca Gets The NYT Treatment New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells has started, as of last year, doing a "Critic on the Road" series in which he offers up mini-reviews of notable restaurants around the country, without
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Lusty Lady Has Been Gutted, Will Become New Cocktail Bar From Tosca Crew In the roughly six months since the Lusty Lady slid her partitions closed for the last time, the noted North Beach worker-owned peep show has been stripped of its former neon glow. In
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tosca Landlord Just Wants A Less Surly Bar Owner Tosca Café, the classic North Beach watering hole threatened with eviction after allegedly not paying rent for the past decade or so, was officially served an eviction notice by landlord and strip club
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Legendary Tosca Cafe Faces Eviction From Strip Club Magnate In terms of drinking holes going down the drain in San Francisco, the city has managed to band together long enough to save the Tonga Room, and maybe even make some improvements on
SF News Sean Penn Pow-Wows At Tosca With Those Hostage Hikers Released From Iran In case you missed this tid-bit back in September, when hikers Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal were finally released from that Iranian prison where they sat for two years: Sean Penn claims some
