Golden Gate Restaurant Association

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 >>

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 >>

"Warriors on the Waterfront" Rally Catches So-Called Allies Off-Guard

The battle for -- and against -- the Golden State Warriors' proposed waterfront arena is heating up. So it wasn't a surprise to see a group calling itself "Warriors on the Waterfront" throwing a noontime rally on the City Hall steps today. Unless you're a member of the group's "steering committ ... More >>

Bear Necessities: S.F. Prepares for Hard-Drinking Football Fans

SF Chefs: Picks and Advice for Navigating This Week's Sprawl of Events

SF Chefs, the annual food/wine/spirits festival presented by the Golden Gate Restaurant Association, will be held in various San Francisco locations from July 30 to August 5. We've filled our tummies and worn out our shoes at this well-produced celebration since its inception in 2009. It was huge th ... More >>

Is the Recession Over for San Francisco Restaurants?

The national unemployment figures may be dropping at the speed of glacier erosion. But in one segment of the San Francisco economy, at least, the recession may be over. The Bay Area restaurant industry's sales figures are returning to their pre-2008 levels, the Chronicle reported late last week. And ... More >>

Rocky Road: Food Trucks Clash with Downtown Businesses

Plastic Bag Ban: How Much Outreach Do You Really Need?

Ross Mirkarimi's bag legislation may have just gotten the sack​Mom. Apple pie. Patriotism. No politician who doesn't wish to receive a crash course in the joys of seeking employment with the private sector will dare find him or herself on the wrong side of these notions -- and the political goals ... More >>

The Chronicle and the GGRA Go After Food Trucks

Yesterday, the San Francisco Chronicle published a flawed story about the negative impact that food trucks are having on surrounding restaurants. The Chron story, which makes the owner of Chronicle-reporter watering hole Tempest Bar its primary character, reports that the spread of food tr ... More >>

S.F. Restaurants Are Not Required to Serve Free Tap Water

bterrycompton​This week at SFoodie we were wondering whether restaurants are required, by law, to serve tap water for free. It's a simple enough question, but it took a surprising amount of digging to figure out the answer. The Internet provided a few thousand people asking the same question ... More >>

Nancy Pelosi Didn't Help S.F. Restaurants Get Health Care Reform Waivers

Republicans are just paranoid​Washington Republicans say they're shocked --  shocked that San Francisco restaurants obtained healthcare reform waivers handed out last month by the federal Department of Health and Human Services. They've even spun a conspiracy theory that says Congresswoman Na ... More >>

Fresh Eats: Midwestern Smash Burgers Shine, Food Trucks Get Pushback

Objections to Doc's of the Bay Just the Start of Pushback Against Food Trucks

John BirdsallDoc's of the Bay rolled up for lunch in Emeryville Tuesday. Will it get the chance to do the same in S.F.?​Last week, Haighteration blog's Andrew Dudley opened the window onto a brewing battle mounted by some Divis neighbors to keep startup burger truck Doc's of the Bay from obtai ... More >>

The Year in Food: Street Food Gets Serious

Chris MacArthurMobile vending went legit in 2010, thanks to events like Off the Grid Fort Mason Center.​Twelve months, ten storylines: It's SFoodie's annual look back at the year in food. La CocinaAugust's S.F. Street Food Festival drew huge crowds to the Mission.​What burst onto the sc ... More >>

Supervisors Pass Streamlined Rules for Street-Food Vendors

bkusler/FlickrSupervisor Bevan Dufty.​The Board of Supervisors yesterday unanimously passed legislation that streamlines rules for mobile vending, making it easier and cheaper to be a legal street-food vendor in San Francisco. At the Tuesday meeting, the Supes took up rules changes that in pas ... More >>

Tickets Go on Sale for Newly Populist SF Chefs 2010

Sam PrestianniOpening gala at last year's SF Chefs. Food. Wine. fest. ​It's back, only with a clipped name and a populist new image. Last year's inaugural SF Chefs. Food. Wine. festival took over Union Square for four days in August. Organizers tried to wrap the fest in Aspen-grade Food & Wine ... More >>

Supreme Court Won't Hear Challege to Healthy San Francisco

​The U.S. Supreme Court this morning delivered a major victory for gun ownership rights -- and also denied to hear a challenge to San Francisco's universal health care plan. So if you're uninsured and shot within city limits, this is your lucky day.

Curried Favors

City Attorney Releases List of Restaurant Workers with Tainted Safety Certificates

jwrb/FlickrWorkers at Burger King will have to re-certify.​The San Francisco City Attorney's office has released a list of workers whose food safety certification are invalid as the result of a scandal involving questionable testing and certification procedures by two or three Department of Pu ... More >>

If 2009 is the Year of the Restaurant Closure, Why Are There So Many New Openings?

Azie was one of 2009's early casualtiesMany assumed that 2009 would shape up as the year of the restaurant closure in San Francisco, and there have been notable failures: Azie, Bong Su, Jack Falstaff. But the large-scale collapse you might be expecting if you read the business pages hasn't occured, ... More >>

Supreme Court Sends S.F. Restaurateurs' Order Back -- No Emergency Order For You!

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy today informed San Francisco restaurant owners that he found their legal petition to be cold, undercooked, and full of gristle -- before sending it back. Kennedy spurned the Golden Gate Restaurant Association's application for an emergency order that would have ... More >>

An Odd Tradition: Thousands of Dollars Flood to Winning S.F. Supes After Polls Close -- From Their Enemies

Joe EskenaziSupervisor John Avalos admits that taking post-election donations from former political enemies looks bad -- but having a massive campaign debt is badYou'd think making a donation to a San Francisco supervisorial candidate would be a bit like a horse race: You make your "bets," you cheer ... More >>

A Real Wild One?

Sometimes even restaurateurs don't know the difference between wild and farmed fish.

State of the Cart

Join us as we map the street food scene and find out why there aren't more vendors in this most food-involved and temperate of cities.

Car-Free My Knee: Peskin Aims to Pull Yoga Mat Out From Under Newsom

MarketWatch on Healthy SF: A Dollar Fee? You Gonna Eat That?

US Supreme Court to SF Restaurant Association: Pay Up!

Reservation Scalpers

TablePronto's service gets mixed reviews from restaurateurs

The Daly Show

Even in a summer of discontent for San Francisco progressives, bad-boy supervisor Chris Daly remains unbowed

Ill-Conceived Law

Stealth Dollars

Questionable political donations are flowing into the city's most controversial political race

Lesson Learned

Beaten in the mayor's election, S.F. lefties vow to sign up absentee voters for future campaigns