One of the Castro's longest-running restaurants is celebrating a big birthday today.

After a year of vacancy, 16th Street is getting a new café that will appeal to the neighborhood's coffee, brunch, and wine fanatics.

Les Natali says he's ready for launch—if he can fill two managerial positions that have been open for more than a year.

A Thai restaurant will be moving in.

Mama Ji's, which recently celebrated its third anniversary, is a dim sum joint by day and a wok-fried Sichuan-style restaurant by night.

The contemporary Japanese spot from the owners of Sushi Ran is close to making its Castro debut.

Although the name change has raised some eyebrows, the Castro bakery's owner says he's doing everything he can to be compliant with formula retail laws.

After five years, chef Ryan Scott is closing Market & Rye at the end of August to focus his energy on the Castro's future comfort food tavern.

The cafe's owners said business dropped during the sidewalk expansion project in 2014 and did not pick back up.

Here's some more info on the menu and decor at the forthcoming comfort-food spot and bar, set to open later this year.

After being purchased two years ago, the long-running cafe is back on the market, and could become something else entirely.

Planning says that the team-up between the Castro bakery and the popular sandwich chain violated formula retail laws.

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