Le Marais Bakery & Cafe in the Castro is becoming Bistro Le Marais, and they're opening a Grande Creperie window on the 18th Street side in back of the existing restaurant.

An annual barbecue competition and food festival that started in 2016 is coming back for its fifth year this weekend, after taking two years off during the pandemic.

A three-alarm fire on Tuesday afternoon did significant damage to a three-story apartment building at 901 Divisadero/1640 McAllister. 

Plants by Rare Device (505 Divisadero), the plant store that opened in November 2021 as Plant House by Rare Device, is closing on Monday, July 18, after just eight months in business.

"Ultimately this was a decision rooted in wanting to offer the best possible dining experience with the resources at our fingertips while maintaining as much of the original Frances character as possible," Perello says.

César, the 24-year-old tapas bar next door to Chez Panisse, is closing in two weeks, on July 23. But this likely isn't the end of the North Berkeley neighborhood favorite — which had its own crew of regulars who only sometimes might patronize the more lauded restaurant next door.

The Castro's fine-dining gem Frances (3870 17th St.) reopens Thursday night (June 23), after a months-long remodel, and after remaining mostly dark since March 2020.

A new location of Scott's Chowder House has made its debut at 1325 Fillmore Street, in the space formerly occupied by Afro-Caribbean restaurant Isla Vida, which closed in 2019, and before that Black Bark BBQ.

A nonprofit has formed specifically to thwart plans by Another Planet Entertainment to remake the interior of the historic Castro Theatre to be more conducive to live music events — and specifically the group wants to stop a plan to remove all the seats from the theater's main level.

Two people were shot and one was killed Wednesday morning onboard a Muni train traveling between Forest Hill and Castro stations.

A new Indian restaurant has just debuted on the Divisadero corridor, Curry and Kabab, in the former Wine Kitchen space at 507 Divisadero.

By the end of summer, Johnny Doughnuts plans to be open in the former Smitten Ice Cream space at California and Fillmore, next to Pizzeria Delfina.

The Slanted Door pop-up, featuring new dishes in testing, will be happening in UC Berkeley Wurster Hall on nine nights, Wed-Fri, in the second half of June, and reservations are now available.