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San Francisco
SF bars and restaurants begin checking for vaccination proof at the door
With anxieties rising about the Delta variant and the current surge of COVID cases, more SF bars and restaurants are going to start carding — looking for your vaccine card along with your ID. Read More
San Francisco Mission North Beach SoMa
News from the Bay 'hoods: Folsom Street Market weekend, Park Tavern to renovate, and more
Most of the Bay Area is masking back up, at least in some situations, and tensions are high as COVID cases and hospitalizations tick up. But things continue to reopen, and events are still happening. Read More
San Francisco Polk
San Francisco's new Maison Danel teahouse serves up French delicacies (with a side of SF lore)
Maison Danel, a new French bakery and tea salon from the owners of the long-running Baker Street Bistro, serves up classical continental delicacies in an elegant Belle Epoque-esque setting on Polk Street. Read More
San Francisco Mission
Mission Updates: The Handroll Project moves into AL's Deli space; The Jelly Donut reopens after long closure
We have news of a taker for the prominent corner space that was briefly home to AL's Deli (598 Guerrero St.), and beloved doughnut spot The Jelly Donut at 24th and South Van Ness is finally back alive. Read More
San Francisco Mission
Bar Part Time, a natural wine bar with upbeat party vibes, takes Thieves Tavern space
A new wine bar with dance bar aspirations is coming to the former Thieves Tavern space at 496 14th Street (at Guerrero), and it's called Bar Part Time. Read More
San Francisco Castro Duboce Triangle Mission
Game On: Castro arcade bar The Detour hits the restart button
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. Read More
San Francisco
Milk Bar arrives in the Bay Area with Peninsula delivery, SF pop-up shop on the way
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. Read More
San Francisco SoMa
SF Eagle set to reopen in SoMa for Pride Weekend
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. Read More
San Francisco Divisadero Mid-Market
SSP Beer Hall debuts in former Perennial space — "the first beer hall and NFT gallery in the world"
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. Read More
San Francisco Union Square
Shake Shack opens at Westfield Centre food court on June 28
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. Read More
San Francisco Embarcadero
Ferry Building farmers market celebrates ‘Juneteenth on the Waterfront’ Saturday
Black-owned food businesses serve up Juneteenth feasts by the Bay at this weekend’s Ferry Plaza Farmers Market. Read More
San Francisco Nob Hill
The Tonga Room sets reopening date in July
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. Read More
San Francisco Financial District Mission SoMa
News from the Bay 'hoods: Marlowe sets July date for reopening, Old Jerusalem is back, and more
As (some of) the masks come off, here's some news this week about more things reopening in SF and elsewhere around the Bay. Read More
San Francisco Ingleside
The Hello Kitty Cafe Truck is coming to Stonestown Galleria on Saturday
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. Read More
San Francisco North Beach
30-year-old North Beach staple The Stinking Rose seeks new owner to reopen, keep it going
The Stinking Rose (325 Columbus Ave.), which opened in 1991 in North Beach and maintains a loyal clientele of tourists and garlic-loving locals, has been closed throughout the pandemic. And now we learn that it won't reopen unless a new owner steps in and wants to keep the concept going, with the original owners deciding to retire. Read More
San Francisco Divisadero SoMa
Namu Stonepot closes its Divisadero location; team set to open unnamed food hall — with pizza! — in SoMa
Namu Stonepot (553 Divisadero) is no longer serving its loco moco bowls and stonepot rice from the Divisadero space where it's lived since 2017, but the menu is still being served at Dolores and 18th, and will be appearing at a new food-hall concept the team is opening soon on 9th Street. Read More
San Francisco Mission
Osito, a tasting-menu restaurant centered on live-fire cooking, aims for October opening in the Mission
Osito, a much-delayed restaurant with a celebratory, communal tasting-menu concept centered around live-fire cooking of meat and fish, is finally taking shape and aiming for a fall opening at 2875 18th Street (at Florida). Read More
San Francisco Tenderloin
Tenderloin bar crawl will hit up five neighborhood bars on June 15th — and includes a treasure hunt
In celebration of California’s Big Reopening Day next Tuesday, a Gold Rush-themed bar at 460 Larkin Street is teaming up with four other Tenderloin watering holes for a joint bar crawl that will be held the same day. And yes, there will be treasure maps involved. Read More
San Francisco Hayes Valley
The Brixton is expanding to the former Stacks space in Hayes Valley
We all knew that the Stacks space (501 Hayes St.) at the corner of Octavia and Hayes likely wouldn't stay empty for long, and as the pandemic wanes we learn that the owners of Cow Hollow's The Brixton (2140 Union St.) are set to open a new location — their third — there in the coming months. Read More
San Francisco Castro
Italian restaurant Vico Cavone headed to Castro's former Firewood space
A new Italian restaurant called Vico Cavone will be opening this fall inside the former Firewood space at 4248 18th Street, helmed by a former server at Poesia. Read More
San Francisco Castro
Boutique natural wine shop Bottle Bacchanal set to fill another Castro storefront vacancy
A new boutique wine shop, Bottle Bacchanal, has proposed to take over the former eyewear store Specs in the City & Cheaters Too at 4126 18t St. (between Castro and Collingwood streets). Read More
San Francisco Castro Duboce Triangle
After 14-month hiatus, Castro neighborhood bar Moby Dick reopens
After a 14-month pandemic-induced hiatus, Castro neighborhood bar Moby Dick (4049 18th St.) reopened its doors today at 1 p.m. Read More
San Francisco Hayes Valley
New wine bar with its own sashimi bar, Le Fantastique, Coming to Hayes Valley
The Hayes Valley/Mid-Market environs are about to get a new and unique sounding restaurant/wine bar called Le Fantastique, from the team behind Bird Dog in downtown Palo Alto. Read More
San Francisco
Bay Area restaurants will hold 'Dining for India' fundraiser to raise funds for India COVID-19 relief efforts
In light of India’s catastrophic second Covid-19 wave, ten local Indian eateries have partnered together to donate 50% of their sales on May 25 toward COVID-19 response efforts in India. Read More
San Francisco North Beach
Tosca Cafe reopens its historic dining room for the first time in two years
After nearly two years of being totally dark, the 102-year-old Tosca Cafe (242 Columbus Ave.) is opening its doors again this week, having undergone its second light remodel and refurbishing in the last decade. Read More