SF Restaurants, Food & Drink St. Vincent In The Mission Closes For Remodel And Rebrand As Wine Bar And Store Three-and-a-half-year-old wine-centric restaurant St. Vincent (1270 Valencia Street) has closed, as Inside Scoop reports, in order to remodel the space and turn it into more of a wine bar with a bigger retail
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 11 Best Wine Stores In San Francisco A good wine store requires several things: broad selection, outside-the-box options, value, convenience, and knowledgable, unpretentious staff. When it comes to wine, the quality and broadness of the selection might be subjective, but
Arts & Entertainment Seven Fun And Easy Weekend Staycation Ideas In SF Sometimes, there just isn't time or money for a real vacation. But you do realize that the city you live in happens to be one of the highest ranked domestic tourist destinations in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thieves Who Stole $300K In Wine From The French Laundry Still At Large A quick update in the wine theft case that rocked the food world back in December: As mustache twins Matier & Ross report, the thieves responsible, and the wealthy wine collector in North
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wines From December French Laundry Heist Recovered In North Carolina The huge cache of pricy wine that was stolen from The French Laundry on Christmas Day has mostly been recovered according to a new statement by the Napa County Sheriff's Department. As the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [UPDATE] French Laundry Robbed Of $300,000 Worth Of Fine Wine On Christmas Day Famed Napa Valley restaurant The French Laundry fell victim to a Christmas Day heist that only wealthy wine snobs can appreciate the gravity of. As Inside Scoop reports, a thief or thieves made
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 Man Allegedly Swipes 350 Cases Of Fancy Napa Wine Jose Pina , 31, sits in the clink today after being arrested for allegedly stealing a slew of wine worth over $400,000. He reportedly stole the wine from his place of employment: the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fruit, Vegetable, And Wine Prices Likely Going Up Due To Drought Central Valley farmers are already leaving at least a half-million acres unplanted this growing season due to the drought and lack of water being allocated to their farms, and you can count on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rosé: Still Hot After All These Years We've always had a soft spot for rosé, the pink-headed stepchild of white and red wines that's a regular fixture on the bridal shower circuit. So we were glad to see the Chronicle's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Preview: Pebble Beach Food & Wine What could be better than dozens of celebrity chefs standing around a resort golf course congratulating themselves on shaving black truffles over food? NOTHING. Coming up next, next weekend is the 6th Annual
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink How Do Wines Taste In Flavortown? Guy Fieri Buys Vineyard In Sonoma Culinary punchline Guy Fieri, host of the Food Network's Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, now plans on squishing his toes into the wine-making game. According to Press Democrat, the noted shouter purchased a five-acre
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink And Now, Tyler Florence On 'Late Night With Jimmy Fallon' Tyler Florence is one of the few celebrity chefs in the Bay Area to make it big and remain in the Bay Area. (So many leave for NYC or LA, alas.) The noted
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Do You Hate iPad Wine Lists? Local chef and entrepreneur Michael Mina doesn't want to pore over a wine list via iPad. Can you blame him? It is a bit much. When asked by Refinery29 if he considers himself
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rewinery: (Good) Wine Delivered To Your Door In An Hour Have you heard of Rewinery? It's a wine delivery service for San Francisco that delivers boutique wines to your house or apartment within an hour by bicycle. It's actually a pretty cool concept
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pork & Pinot Bash At Epic Roasthouse, June 30 Epic Roasthouse wine director Petra Polakovicova will pour several awarding-winning pinots, including Freeman Winery, Flowers, Calera, Cobb, Miura, Kutch, Goldeneye, and Freestone, just to name a few, as part of the waterfront restaurant's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Krug Champagne's Publicity Stunt At Burning Man Backfires Krug Champagne summoned the wrath of many Burners (almost one year later!) after they staged a crass publicity stunt involving "society bloggers" at Burning Man 2011. As many of you know, Burning Man
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Junk Food Wine Pairing At Maverick, 5/16 What we call a night in front of the TV watching Bad Girls Club, Mike Pierce, wine director and part owner of Maverick, will call a sugar-and-wine-soaked night to remember. What are we
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eat Here Tonight: 1/2 Price Wine At Luella's Starting tonight and every following Tuesday, all bottles of wine on Luella's wine list will be 1/2 price all night. Hardly a hipster haven (thank god), Luella's stands as a decent neighborhood
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Behold: Anchor Plaza And Taproom At AT&T Park Thursday's media day at AT&T Park also provided us with a look at the new Anchor Plaza and Taproom just behind the center-field scoreboard. The new stand will feature your favorite
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink An Evening Of Wine & Bondage Lets You Drink Wine From Dog Bowl, Taste Rope Do you like tasting some of California's best wines while getting tied up and slapped across the face? Of course you do. Which is why Femina Potens will host a night of wine
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wine Truck Overturns In Napa, Spills Bottles All Over Highway 29 Tragedy on a Napa valley highway this morning after a wine truck overturned on Highway 29, spilling glass bottles out on to the roadway. The crash occurred around 6:40 a.m this
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lady Gaga Vineyard Shopping In Sonoma? Rumor has it that Lady Gaga might be interested in buying a vineyard in Sonoma. SFist scribe and Grub Street editor Jay Barmann notes, "Following on rumors that Lady Gaga was house-hunting around
