Folks in the South Bay looking to eat out will find a selection of prixe-fixe meals and other limited-time specials at downtown San Jose eateries through July 18.

Castro arcade bar and restaurant The Detour is set to reopen Monday, July 5, after hitting the pause button in October and temporarily closing due in part to COVID-19.

Brewing company Gordon Biersch has had a presence in San Jose’s Japantown district for three decades, and now it appears it will stay in its same location for decades more.

Milk Bar in New York City, which has been slowly building a nationwide empire through direct shipping, now appears to believe the Bay Area could play a key role in its expansion.

Food lovers in the South Bay have a new menu to explore thanks to Hotel Citrine in Palo Alto, which just recently opened to overnight guests on San Antonio Road.

The new drive-through Taqueria El Mezcal in San Pablo has everything you didn't know you needed to satisfy your munchies (and then some).

Just in time for Pride Weekend, SoMa LGBTQ+ bar SF Eagle (398 12th St.) has announced it will reopen Friday after an 15-month pandemic induced temporary closure.

As businesses in Mid-Market and SoMa slowly come back to life, the Namu Gaji/Namu Stonepot/Sunset Squares team of Dennis Lee, David Lee, and Daniel Lee are opening up SSP Beer Hall (59 9th Street). Also, there's a Sunset Squares Slice Shop opening on Divisadero, in the former Namu Stonepot space.

Starting next week, San Franciscans don't have to go to Cow Hollow to get your Shake Shack fix. The chain is opening its second San Francisco location in the heart of downtown, at the Westfield San Francisco Centre mall (845 Market St.), just a hop and a skip from the Powell Street BART station.

Black-owned food businesses serve up Juneteenth feasts by the Bay at this weekend’s Ferry Plaza Farmers Market.

SF's kitschiest Tiki bar experience, The Tonga Room at the Fairmont Hotel (950 Mason Street), will be welcoming guests and people who just want to Instagram the rainstorms starting July 9.

As (some of) the masks come off, here's some news this week about more things reopening in SF and elsewhere around the Bay.

Say hello again to the Instagram trap on wheels known as the Hello Kitty Cafe Truck, which holds court all day Saturday at the Stonestown Galleria.