Nation's Giant Hamburgers opened a new location at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, taking over the former Madame Tussauds site, with extended opening hours for Fleet Week.

Steph Curry teams up with Michael Mina for the upcoming revival of Bourbon Steak and new whiskey bar, The Eighth Rule, in San Francisco, promising a unique dining and drinking experience.

The Che Fico team just dropped their most expensive restaurant yet inside Visa's Mission Rock headquarters, complete with individual sound controls at every table. This isn't your neighborhood Italian joint—it's San Francisco fine dining's dramatic comeback.

The Castro Starbucks (4094 18th Street), locally called Bearbucks, will permanently close after nearly 30 years in the neighborhood.

After a little more than six years in the Castro, indoor/outdoor beer garden and restaurant Willkommen (2198 Market St. at Sanchez) has announced it will close.

The pre-dawn jolt that sent thousands of Bay Area residents scrambling from their beds Monday morning marked the region's strongest earthquake in nearly three years. With its epicenter just blocks from UC Berkeley's campus, the 4.3 magnitude quake delivered a wake-up call that many longtime residents hadn't felt since the magnitude 5.1 tremor near San Jose in 2022.

This Izzy's Steakhouse location is set to close on October 4th, ending a two-decade legacy, but their other location will continue to serve Bay Area patrons.

Two Bay Area restaurants, Minnie Bell's Soul Movement and Sun Moon Studio, were named in Bon Appétit's top 20 new restaurants of 2025, celebrated for their culinary excellence and community significance.

East Brother Beer Co. will open a taproom at the Metreon in San Francisco, featuring a selection of craft beers and activities like pool and darts. The space will also include an outdoor patio overlooking Yerba Buena Gardens.

Bosco, a new Italian restaurant by the Absinthe Group, has opened in the former Bellota space in San Francisco, offering Northern Italian cuisine with a Bay Area twist.

Health inspectors found rodent evidence scattered throughout a popular Financial District chicken spot where office workers had been grabbing lunch daily. The closure added another name to San Francisco's growing list of restaurants brought down by pest problems this year.

The Parisian restaurateur who built a Mediterranean empire along the Embarcadero just landed the Ferry Building's most impossible-to-get restaurant space. His summer 2026 concept will complete a waterfront dining triangle that's been years in the making.

Castro residents walking by former seafood restaurant Fisch & Flore (2298 Market Street) over the weekend might have noticed the outdoor firepits have come back on, and seen customers inside the space.