Tai Er has quietly soft‑opened a second Bay Area restaurant at Westfield Valley Fair in Santa Clara, bringing its famous suan cai yu to the mall and a pair of Valley Fair‑exclusive dishes.

Marisa Williams' Sol Bakery opens this Saturday in the Panhandle, bringing NYT‑praised guava tarts and sourdough-forward pastries to a tiny six-seat shop.

Caché is expanding from the Inner Sunset to a Financial District outpost this fall, funded in part through a community bond sale.

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Heidi Barrett has opened La Sirena’s first public tasting room in Calistoga, pairing small-production wines with a gallery of her paintings.

George + Kin's opens next Sunday in Bel Aire Plaza, folding family Japanese recipes into diner staples like milk‑bread French toast, katsu parm and curry udon.

Home Eat is expanding into Union City’s Central Plaza, taking over the longtime Rose Garden Restaurant space. The chain lists the new location as “coming soon” at 33348 Alvarado‑Niles Rd.

Yummy Pizza at 709 O'Farrell was ordered closed after inspectors found live and dead cockroaches and multiple health-code failures. The permit is suspended pending pest-control paperwork and a reinspection.

The team behind Tanzie’s opens Nudi Blue at 2049 San Pablo Ave on April 9, serving Chiang Mai teas and creative high‑tea sets by day and a planned raw seafood bar at night.

After three decades on Balboa Street, Eat Americana will close on April 12; owner Tony Lai cites health reasons and neighbors say it's like losing a family member.

Oakland’s Millennium, a stalwart of plant-based fine dining, will close its Rockridge dining room on May 16 after nearly 32 years. Owners say they may reopen in a smaller, sustainable form.

SF health inspectors walked into North Beach Thai restaurant New Thai Elephant and found rodent droppings behind customer booths, on the tea prep tray, on the dish machine drain board, and in six other distinct locations — plus live cockroaches, a dead rat on the floor, condemned food, and a broken refrigerator. The facility is closed, and an abatement conference has been scheduled.

Hardware Coffee Co. will take over the former Papenhausen Hardware at 32 West Portal Ave, adding a cafe and florist and targeting a late‑April opening.