Dumpling Kitchen opened its second SF location Wednesday in the former Puerto Vallarta-themed Papi Rico restaurant space, which closed in 2019 after less than two years.

The Broken Record was more than a cult-hit whiskey bar, having shepherded pop-ups Gentilly and Chicano Nuevo into brick-and-mortar restaurants, but the 50-cent PBR destination is closing October 15.

The long-vacant Castro storefront at 2295 Market Street (at Noe), will soon be occupied by Salvadoran restaurant Los Amigos, which opened a Mission District location in 2019.

The new, bigger and better Bissap Baobab has soft opened with their breakfast menu, with the dinner menu slated to start on Thursday, September 15.

An oyser pop-up propietor with no formal training is getting ready to open a restaurant focused on raw oysters in Oakland’s Temescal neighborhood in a few months.

With kitchen alums from French Laundry, Lazy Bear, and SingleThread, the new Big Alma Bar Américain makes exquisite dining affordable with half-price fare during happy hour.

Pizza-making champion Laura Meyer is getting ready to open her own Bay Area pizzeria, on Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley.

San Jose is expected to get a massive new Vietnamese market that is unlike anything the Bay Area has ever seen.

The Iron Chef, Masaharu Morimoto, is about to open Momosan Santana Row as part of his sake and ramen chain, which has locations in New York City, Seattle, Waikiki, and a few other cities.

A fried chicken chain that has items that are so hot they’ve sent people to the emergency room has opened its third Bay Area location.

A Folsom Street mainstay with a dangling cow statue since 1987, Holy Cow has closed, but is being rebranded into some sort of “VIP bottle service” club called Eve that’s opening this weekend.

The fine dining restaurant that went from a constantly sold-out pop-up in an apartment to a brick-and-mortar location in uptown Oakland appeared to be expanding this week, but the deal for a space in San Francisco has fallen through and that announcement was premature.

A small restaurant in the Tenderloin that has developed a significant following thanks to delivery apps and its mouthwatering burgers and highly-regarded breakfast sandwiches is opening a second location in the Mission.