SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Julius' Castle, the Long-Shuttered Cliffside Telegraph Hill Restaurant, Readies for Fall Reopening The historic and storied Julius' Castle, overlooking the Bay on Telegraph Hill, is finally opening its doors to the public again this year, after a decade and a half of rumors and neighborhood squabbles.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Big Four Makes Big Return This Month on Nob Hill at the Revamped Huntington Hotel As we were getting periodic news in recent months about the reopening of the 104-year-old Huntington Hotel, the big question for those of us who won't be booking thousand-dollar rooms there has been when the moody restaurant and lounge known as The Big Four would be back open.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Slanted Door Group Says Restaurant Will Return to Valencia Street Next Year A little over a year after the unexpected death of founder and chef Charles Phan, The Slanted Door Group is ready to get rolling on realizing his vision to return to the Valencia Street space where it all started.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sons & Daughters Debuts New Digs, In the Former Osito Space, This Weekend Michelin two-starred restaurant Sons & Daughters, which transitioned in recent years from modern California cuisine to New Nordic under executive chef and co-owner Harrison Cheney, is about to transition again into much larger, swankier digs in the Mission District.
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 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 The Cliff House Won't Reopen This Year Due to 'Unanticipated Repairs' Some unexpected infrastructure problems with the Cliff House building have caused a delay in its reopening, and the new operators are now aiming for 2025 to reintroduce their new concept for the place.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Verjus Makes a Long-Awaited Comeback Birdbox's fried chicken sandwiches are making a comeback at a pop-up, Quince's sister wine bar Verjus is finally reopening, and Oakland's Burdell makes a splash on the national stage.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yep, The Slanted Door Is Returning to Its Original Spot on Valencia Street We called it back in May, and it has come to pass: Chef Charles Phan is bringing The Slanted Door full circle back to its original digs in the Mission District, five years after closing the restaurant at the Ferry Building.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Horn Barbecue Reopens Friday In Old Oakland, In Matty's Old Fashioned Space Chef Matt Horn is moving his Horn Barbecue operation into the restaurant space he opened last year as Matty's Old Fashioned, and while some Matty's menu items will carry over, Matty's Old Fashioned is no more.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF’s Phenomenally French Restaurant Jeanne d'Arc In Union Square Has Reopened After a Four-Year Closure The very authentic French restaurant Jeanne d'Arc inside Cornell Hotel de France has been closed since 2020, but has reopened under new ownership, and its Old France interior and art serve a feast for your eyes while you feast on French cuisine.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink And Suddenly, Rosamunde Sausage Grill Announces It Will Reopen This Weekend Sausage fans (and Tuesday night trivia lovers) rejoice! Rosamunde Sausage Grill just announced they’re reopening at their 24th and Mission Street restaurant this Friday, which will be just 17 days after they appeared to close permanently.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Quince Set to Reopen In Three Weeks With Smaller Dining Room, More 'Personal' Menu From Chef Michael Tusk One of only three three-star restaurants in San Francisco, Quince, is reopening later this month following a renovation that was billed as lasting six months, but has stretched on for nearly eleven.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink After Two Years as Rotating Pop-Up Venue, Lord Stanley Returns In October In Slightly New Form The formerly Michelin-starred Lord Stanley on upper Polk Street will be reborn this fall with a new chef in the kitchen, and a slightly different concept from the one it had before shuttering during the pandemic two years ago.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Don Ramon's Lives! Beloved Mexican Restaurant to Be Reborn at Embarcadero Center After financial woes forced the closure of beloved, 41-year-old, family-run SoMa Mexican restaurant Don Ramon's in March, we thought that was probably it. But surprise! The Ramirez family apparently has a deal to move into a new space at Embarcadero Center.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Petit Crenn Reopens For Prix Fixe 'Pop-Up' In Hayes Valley The reservations went fast, but the good news is that Dominique Crenn's cozy Hayes Valley restaurant, Petit Crenn, is coming back alive for the first time in three years.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Park Tavern Set to Reopen In North Beach, Following Lengthy Renovation While open briefly during the pandemic, North Beach's once bustling brasserie Park Tavern has been closed for more than a year and a half. But that is about to change — and there's a new executive chef in the kitchen.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mister Jiu's Reopens After Renovation With New Tasting Menu Format Acclaimed Chinatown restaurant Mister Jiu's, which closed temporarily in January for a remodel, has reopened and chef Brandon Jew is going a new direction with the menu.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Liholiho Yacht Club Readies For Reopening at Long Last On Tuesday, November 22, Liholiho Yacht Club will make its debut for the third time — after originally opening on Lower Nob Hill in early 2015, pivoting in the pandemic to take over the 18th Street space that had housed a defunct sister restaurant, and now finally returning to its original home.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Delfina Reopens Wednesday After Lengthy Closure and Remodel, With New Bar (and No More Roast Chicken) Longtime Mission staple Delfina, which has been open as an outdoor restaurant with Pizzeria Delfina pizzas and some limited menu items for some months now, is finally reopening its remodeled and expanded dining room this week.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trio of New Restaurants Open Thursday at Cavallo Point, Including the Mediterranean-Inspired Sula Over on the other side of the Golden Gate Bridge, in the Before Times, Cavallo Point was known as a semi-secret spa, date, and special-occasion spot — with its restaurant Murray Circle enjoying a number of years of critical acclaim.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Causwells Reopens In the Marina With New Look, New Menu, and a 'Dirty Tequila Martini' Eight-year-old restaurant Causwells in the Marina District just closed for a two-week remodel and a revamp of its entire menu, and while there is still that popular cheeseburger, there's some more adult stuff to find there as they reopen Tuesday night.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin Starred Marlena Re-Debuts In Bernal Heights With Remodeled Space Marlena, the Bernal Heights restaurant that won over Michelin inspectors after making a mid-pandemic debut in the summer of 2020, has just reopened after closing earlier this year for a remodel.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Liholiho Yacht Club Sets Reopening For October (or 'By November') Fans of Chef Ravi Kapur's homemade SPAM and short rib steam buns can rest assured that Liholiho Yacht Club is indeed making its promised return this fall, nearly a year after closing in its temporary digs on 18th Street.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Kin Khao Reopening at Last, In Mid-September It's been two and a half years without Kin Khao in Union Square — though Dogpatch residents had a brief pop-up to enjoy that ended last summer — but now the Michelin-starred Thai restaurant is returning at last.
