Eating Out

Celebrate Summer With Boozy Events This Week

Summer is here, and while in the Bay Area it might not necessarily mean warm weather, it does mean that there will be plenty of festivities to celebrate. From cocktail-inspired gelato to restaurant celebrations and martini contests (making them, not drinking them), there are plenty of ways to kick o ... More >>

Peninsula Dining Update: New Burmese Superstar in San Carlos, Fancy Fried Fish in Half Moon Bay

Rangoon Ruby's unique take on Burmese cuisine has proved so popular after its rookie year in Palo Alto it's already opened up a sequel in San Carlos. The San Francisco pedigree is there, with the chef/owners formerly of the city's beloved Burma Superstar. It'll take a few visits to make your way thr ... More >>

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City Aims to Create Buffer Zone Between Restaurants and Food Trucks

The acrimonious battle between brick-and-mortar restaurants and food trucks might come to end this year if the Board of Supervisors adopts some zoning changes later this month. Under the proposed zoning changes, introduced by Supervisor Scott Wiener, food trucks will be able to park in new locatio ... More >>

Peninsula Dining Update: Half Moon Bay Restaurants Showcase Land and Sea

Consider it Navio 2.0. After a yearlong, million dollar remodel, The Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay's dining room Navio is ready for the summer season, complete with a sparkling new coastal theme. Chef Sean Eastwood returns with a seafood-focused menu, including fennel pollen-crusted local petrale sole ... More >>

Culinary Theatrics, Celebrity No Substitute For Good Food

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Manresa's New Lounge Menu: Elegant Bites for Under $50

An old Zen master's koan asks, "how many restaurants must do something before it is officially a trend?" I'm not into Zen, so I can't answer that question. Maybe Barry Zito knows. What I do know is that an increasing number of fine dining restaurants of the San Francisco Bay Area, like Saison and Th ... More >>

Pizzeria Delfina Set to Open Palo Alto Location

Pizzeria Delfina will open its fourth location on Emerson Street in Palo Alto in the fall, a spokeswoman told SF Weekly. Owners Annie and Craig Stoll signed a lease for a building formerly occupied by the Empire Tap Room at 651 Emerson Street, which closed in April, said Ashley Bellview, a spokeswo ... More >>

Peninsula Dining Update: Off the Grid Migrates South, Dinosaurs Brings Banh Mi to Pacifica

Off the Grid is now on in Daly City, bringing the roving food truck market to the Serramonte Center for the summer each Tuesday night, 5-9 p.m. Expect a wide array of weekly-changing vendors, including The Chairman with steamed bao buns, Me So Hungry with burgers, and the Rip Whip with barbeque. Ser ... More >>

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Peninsula Dining Update: Ike's and The Plant Cafe Move South, Filipino Chain Dining

Kenta Ramen is the latest entry into the intense pool of San Mateo area ramen shops. The new spot specializes in a spicy taro ramen with pork and tofu, but also offers 16 versions of ramen, udon, and soba. The mammoth menu covers many corners of Japanese cuisine. You can start with crispy chicken ka ... More >>

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1601 Bar & Kitchen: S.F.'s First Sri Lankan Restaurant Focuses on Small Plates

Food Truck Rally Review: SoMa StrEat Food Park

Our monthly review explores the city's food trucks gatherings, one at a time, breaking down each one with statistics, descriptions of the scene, and vital info to help you plan a trip there. Location: 428 11th (near Division) Schedule: Monday-Thursday, lunch: 11 a.m.-3 p.m., dinner: 5 p.m.-9 p.m.; ... More >>

Go to Burlingame and Eat a Lion

A new item on the menu at a Bay Area restaurant has pitted foodies against animal activists. Mokutanya Yakitori Restaurant in Burlingame is now serving lion's meat, which is reportedly as tough as the animal itself. The restaurant, which is known for its exotic meats, including peacock and swan, r ... More >>

Peninsula Dining Update: New Coastal Restaurants, a Hofbrau, and Pizza in Palo Alto

Just in time for the summer beach season, a few new destinations have opened up along the coast. In Pacifica, the 140-seat Puerto 27 is now open inside the Pacifica Beach Hotel. The Peruvian-style cuisine comes courtesy of Jose Calvo-Perez, most recently of Pasion in San Francisco's Sunset District. ... More >>

Wine Kitchen: Small Plates and Gentrification on Divisadero

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Pop-up Report: Rice Paper Scissors at Mojo Bicycle Cafe

The pop-up is the latest in a long tradition of trends which attempt to subvert the tropes of the restaurant system. Following in the footsteps of revolutionaries like gourmet food trucks and frozen dinners, the goal is to provide restaurant-worthy dishes outside the standard rubric of the restauran ... More >>

Sydney Town Tavern Sticks to Basics Done Well in the FiDi

Just around the corner from the Transamerica Pyramid comes the new Sydney Town Tavern, a reference to Barbary Coast days when exiles from Australian penal colonies populated San Francisco. It's hardly a wretched hive of scum and villainy in there, though. In fact, it's a fairly ordinary sports bar ... More >>

Art and Food Join Forces at SFMOMA's Collaboration With Hip S.F. Restaurants

SFMOMA may be closing for renovations on June 2, but the it's not slacking on its well-established relationship between food and art in the meantime. In honor of the closing of the exhibit Ben Kinmont: Prospectus, the museum is partnering with restaurants like State Bird Provisions, Rich Table, Bar ... More >>

Bottle Rock: Napa Festival's Attempt To Combine Food, Wine, and Music Falls Short

It seems like a good idea on paper: Throw a music festival in wine country where guests can go wine-tasting and sample some of the region's best restaurants in between musical acts. That was the focus of Bottle Rock, a new festival thrown in a park in downtown Napa that combines stadium-filling rock ... More >>

Hard Water: Charles Phan's Exciting Expansion Into Southern Food

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New Tumblr Reviews Restaurant Bathrooms Along With Food

In the hypersaturated world of Bay Area food blogs and restaurant reviews, it can be hard to find a new angle. But some enterprising local has started a new type of restaurant review Tumblr, Table and Throne, which reviews restaurant bathrooms as well as the restaurants themselves, thus combining ... More >>

Health Check: Are More S.F. Restaurants Grand Opening or Grand Closing?

The San Francisco restaurant scene is constantly plagued with closures. Since the beginning of the year, we've lost solid places such as Masa's, Tommy Toy's, Solstice, Shanghai, Kan Zaman, and Wo Hing General Store. Luckily, S.F. is also blessed with a seemingly endless run of restaurant openings. H ... More >>

Padrecito: Mexican Cuisine Gets a Makeover in Cole Valley

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First Impressions At Tribune Tavern

When the Tribune Tavern opened two weeks ago in Oakland, I was excited. Firstly, it's a tavern, under a newspaper. A place for wirey and haggard journalists, gatekeepers to the misery of the world, to roll down their sleeves and commune. Wingback chairs, scotch, Jimmy Stewart (maybe?). Halfway throu ... More >>

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American Bao Bar: Pop-Up Combines Asian and Southern Cuisines

Top 10 Breakfast Sandwiches in San Francisco

If you want to be technical about it, any sandwich consumed first thing in the morning is a "breakfast sandwich," but we know what you're really after as you roll groggily out of bed: oozing, melted cheese, fluffy scrambled or fried eggs, optional (but not really) meat of choice, all encased by swee ... More >>

Small Touches Go Far at Waraku

Last summer, Japanese restaurant Men Oh Tokushima Ramen opened its second American location on Geary Street in San Francisco, followed by a hot pot spot called Shabuway. Its new Japantown sister spot Waraku provides similar quality and value. Located in the former Bushi-Tei restaurant space (Bushi T ... More >>

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Saint Frank: Bringing the Story of Coffee to Russian Hill

Tax Relief: The Best Tax Day Deals Around Town

Ugh, taxes. Amirite? The only silver lining to tax day being just around the corner -- besides the fact that it will be over for another year, of course -- is that restaurants and bars begin to offer tax season discounts and sometimes freebies in commiseration. The list isn't super-long right now, b ... More >>

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Cult Classics: Vegetarian Restaurants With a Religious Philosophy

Bouncer Conducts Field Research at Soma Restaurant & Bar

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Kronnerburger: Succumbing to the Cult of the Burger

Pop-Up Planner: The Best Temporary Restaurants, March 29-April 5

Waffles & Whiskey Happy Hour When: Fri., March 29, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Where: Rye Cost: Waffles $5; cocktail $8 The rundown: Roving wafflemaker Chrissy's Waffles is now doing a "Waffles & Whiskey Happy Hour" every Friday night at Rye. This Friday will pair a bacon doughnut waffle with a Crimp's Buck cock ... More >>

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Stock in Trade: Pork-Mad in the Marina

The Evolution of Mission Chinese Food's New York Counterpart

Not that we're a total Mission Chinese Food groupie or anything, but when the restaurant opened a second restaurant on the Lower East Side of Manhattan last May, we were literally the first customer through the door. It opened with about 80% of the same menu items as what can be found in San Francis ... More >>

Cana: Cuban Food in the Mission Gets Buried Under Basic Mistakes

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South: Charles Phan Expands His Empire

House of Pancakes: Chinese Restaurant in Parkside Specializes in Different Kind of Hotcake