A new speakeasy-style basement-level cocktail bar is opening Saturday night beneath Bodega SF, as The Felix brings Chinese- and Vietnamese-inspired cocktails to the Tenderloin.

The days of bars reopening and then closing again appear not to be over, as once-bustling Tenderloin/Civic Center cocktail spot Whitechapel (600 Polk Street) has decided to close temporarily once more due to flagging business, and it will operate temporarily as a private event space.

The Malaysian cuisine of Mahila will be reborn as Azalina’s, in the conspicuously-muraled Aviary building at Ellis and Leavenworth Street in September.

The nonprofit kitchen incubator La Cocina expands on their popular Tenderloin Municipal Marketplace with a new monthly Friday happy hour marketplace Ferry Fridays at the Ferry Building, with live music and mural painting.

A Vietnamese restaurant that was a big hit in the Tenderloin years ago is about to make a neighborhood comeback.

A pop-up pizza operation in San Francisco is about to move into permanent digs along the border of the Tenderloin and Civic Center neighborhoods.

Fast-casual chicken and rice restaurant Gai has opened its second location at 1001 Market Street (at Sixth), formerly Homeskillet.

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.

A trio of upscale Japanese restaurants is coming to Polk Gulch, starting with the opening of Sushi Sato today, November 2, in a new project by...

Home to “the largest Gin Selection in California” and arguably the nicest bathrooms in the Tenderloin, Whitechapel reopens its doors Tuesday night with a new executive chef and a new pool table, too.

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.

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.

Liholiho is temporarily moving the Dear Inga space on 18th Street, a new Japanese fine dining spot from a former Californios chef is taking the La Folie space in Russian Hill, and Oakland is getting a new ghost kitchen food hall.