San Francisco - Food & Drinks

The Duggan family, who own two Original Joe's locations in San Francisco and Daly City and Little Original Joe's, which opened late last year in West Portal, are preparing to open another restaurant in their home neighborhood — but this time it will be Mexican-American food, instead of Italian-American.

This is going to make some Zeitgeist regulars and people who live near Safeway Heights and the edge of the Mission very sad, but Hoodline regrets to inform you that the KFC/Taco Bell at 200 Duboce Avenue (at Guerrero) has transitioned to being just a KFC, so no more tacos.

The Eagle Tavern, or as it's most recently been known the SF Eagle (398 12th St.), was given landmark status by the SF Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, becoming the third LGBTQ bar site in San Francisco to get the historic landmark distinction.

Wednesday will be Tacolicious’ initial dog meetup happy hour on Chestnut Street, with gourmet dog dishes served, and they’ll try to make fetch happen at their locations too.

Mission District cocktail bar Dalva, and its crafty back speakeasy the Hideout, have used the pandemic upgrade to upgrade their floors, furniture, washrooms, and more.

The Vault Steakhouse — an upscale steakhouse by Hi Neighbor Hospitality Group — is set to begin serving downtown diners tomorrow, October 1, inside the 555 California Street building.

There's now a petition and multiple news stories about the fight to allow local burrito favorite El Farolito to open a new location in North Beach, which would be the brand's 12th in the Bay Area.

Hoodline has the scoop on where to celebrate Oktoberfest in San Francisco, the South Bay, and the East Bay.

The sushi rolls, sashimi bowls, and flaming fish fillets of Elephant Sushi are on their way to Hayes Valley, as the cult-hit sushi spot hopes to open this October at the former home of shuttered Little Gem.

The new Spanish/Mexican-influenced restaurant Copas on Market (2223 Market St.) is now open in the space formerly occupied by Nomica and Izakaya Sushi Ran.

Estiatorio Ornos, a Michael Mina restaurant at 252 California Street, is the next iteration for the storied space that used to house Mina's eponymous restaurant.

Well-loved, 11-year-old Dogpatch ice cream shop Mr. & Mrs. Miscellaneous (699 22nd St.) is remaining open as an ice cream shop, however its co-founder and owner, Annabelle Topacio, has sold it to a new owner, and its name will be changing to Sunday Social come October.

Upscale Neopolitan-style pizza place Fiorella will open its third San Francisco location Monday, their first to have a hard liquor license and a rooftop deck.

Both the Cliff House and Louis’ Restaurant locations will be getting new restaurant tenants, but we won’t know who they are until all sorts of National Park Service red tape and bureaucratic hurdles get worked out.

Cozy Castro bar Last Call (3988 18th St. at Sanchez St.) is set to reopen next week under new ownership after a 17-month hiatus caused by the shelter-in-place restrictions.

Pastrami sandwich shop Hot Johnnie's is now open at 4077 18th St., in the former Nizario's space, and it has a surprise back patio.

Frjtz, the go-to place for Belgian-style frites and waffles that first opened in the year 2000 on Hayes Street and later had locations in the Mission and Ghirardelli Square, has now ceased to even be a delivery option, which it had been for the past two years. 

After COVID restrictions tampered down their 10th anniversary last year, Mission Street’s craft beer and mimosa destination celebrates Thursday night with the Sycamore's 10 (+1) Anniversary Party.

The 2021 Michelin Guide for California, the company's first guide for the state in two years, is set to be released in late September. And ahead of the release, Michelin inspectors on Wednesday revealed 10 Bay Area honorees in the new category of "New Discoveries."

The Pacific East Mall in Richmond is working to turn more than a half-dozen empty storefronts into the area's "first indoor Asian night market" with a renovation and the arrival of new Pan-Asian eateries.

The Mission District space formerly home to Namu Gaji and more recently Namu Stonepot (499 Dolores St.), across the 18th & Dolores intersection from Dolores Park, has gone dark, marking the second closure for Namu Stonepot this summer.

Church and Market wine bar Fig & Thistle Market (691 14th St.) has now become Millay, under the same ownership, with more of a focus on the wine bar aspect.

With former employees claiming they’re still owed more than $50,000, SoMa’s swanky Bar Agricole plots its reopening under a supposedly more equitable “sociocracy” model.

After a five-day-long soft launch, the AAPI-owned bakeshop officially opened this past Sunday on Larkin Street — debuting its collection of beautiful, Instagrammable desserts.

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.