Over the holiday weekend, multiple Castro neighborhood bars and restaurants announced they would be temporarily closed due to the recent surge of Covid-19 infections brought on by the Omicron variant.

With just two days left until Christmas, it’s still not too late to grab a libation at any one of these Bay Area pop-up bars that exude all the seasonal cheer.

A boutique brunch pop-up just got the keys to its new forever home at Harrison and 18th Streets, as Poppy will bring its Australian brunch stylings to the Mission this summer.

Hoodline has rounded up a full course of tempting prix-fixe meals at various price points in San Francisco and the East Bay.

What was once a SoMa pop-up restaurant in 2019, SF Chickenbox has since grown into a fully-fledged eatery with a permanent location at 464 Broadway. But without needed renovations, the North Beach business could go the way of the dodo bird. 

A space-age makeover is underway at the new bar Mothership, in the former Virgil's Sea Room location, with an out-of-this-world curated craft cocktail menu.

The Castro's newest Italian restaurant Vico Cavone officially opens this weekend in the former Firewood space at 4248 18th Street, after two weeks of a soft opening.

Rose Pizzeria — the East Bay pizza joint that was initially expected to debut earlier this summer — will open Wednesday, December 1, at 1960 University Avenue in Berkeley with pizzas that focus on thin crusts made from “heritage grains” and topped by high-quality ingredients.

Lena Turner would not let the Japantown mall closures end her run, as the 91-year-old has opened a new omakase spot Sushi Aoba.

La Cocina, the beloved and award-winning kitchen incubator, is set to host its first in-person event since the pandemic began: a holiday pop-up at the Tenderloin's La Cocina Municipal Marketplace.

Hi Neighbor Restaurant Group is hoping to capitalize on the nearby music and culture scene that is crawling back to life in Civic Center, and pivoting the former Corridor to become more of a cocktail bar.

San Francisco-based Réveille Coffee's Castro location at 4076 18th St. (at Castro) has permanently closed after seven years, while four other locations remain open.

Many people worried in the last year that a restaurant loved by tourists and tech workers inside San Francisco’s Ferry Building had served its last dish, but we now have further assurance that that is not true.