The U.S. Supreme Court today denied the Golden Gate Restaurant Association's emergency application to halt the enforcement of San Francisco's current health care mandate, which they have sued to repeal. The decision means that the city will continue to...
From time to time we direct your attention toward restaurants of interest that are up for sale. It's rare, however, that we find one this big and fancy. Is someone really going to shell out $20 million for the...
It looks like the Broken Record, a bar/restaurant that has recently been gaining some culinary momentum may hit a stumbling block in its effort to expand its kitchen hours into the late-night. The Excelsior District dive with the patio...
Candle-light dinners are not only romantic, they are apparently environmentally friendly, and now sanctioned by San Francisco supervisors. At the same meeting yesterday at which they voted to publicly shame foie gras, the supes voted to temporarily lift the...
Everyone's favorite family-owned, low-cost beef emporium, the Palace Family Steakhouse, has been for sale for a while, the owners allegedly planing to retire once the building sells. If you're interested, the building's still available (for a cool $1,800,000), including...
It may look like an innocuous move — bit of non-binding legislation based in idealism — but city hall watchers are gearing up for some possible fireworks over Ross Mirkarimi's proposed resolution commending restaurants in the city that have...
In way more pun-worthy court news today, Henry Lee nailed a story about a restaurant in El Sobrante that will pay $250,000 to a woman who lost her fingertip in a broken chair. Joyce Palega lifted herself up and...
The local restaurant trade group fighting the city's health-care mandate has officially taken its case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court with an emergency application asking the court to stop the city from requiring businesses to pay...
The city's only rooftop bar (that we know of) is in trouble, as you may have heard, and now it's Facebook to the rescue, but The Snitch reports that this latest "save our bar" campaign may have its roots...
High-larious: Boxes of Kellogs' Corn Flakes with Michael Phelps' face on the front — the very same as the ones that were donated en mass to the San Francisco Food Bank earlier this week in the wake of the...
Barbecue fans, take note: If you've ever wanted to own an old-school, down-and-dirty San Francisco barbecue joint, or wanted to eat in one of the few remaining, please turn your attention to Jordan's House of Ribs. The Bayview staple...
A restaurant trade group's challenge to the city's mandatory health care law has gotten to the level of the United States Supreme Court, which opposition lawyers say they'll petition to hear the case. A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit...
The local clash between restaurant owners and the City of San Francisco over mandatory employee health-care is going to the U.S. Supreme Court after a federal appeals court ruled against opponents of a controversial city law. The 9th Circuit Court...
Brief Tonayense truck update (truckdate?): Embattled taco truck proprietor Ben Santana was due to go before the San Francisco Board of Appeals next Wednesday, March 11, to appeal the city's order that he move his truck away from its current...
Fans of the Tonga Room, which is slated for demolition in the Fairmont Hotel’s planned renovation, want to get it preserved as a historical landmark, a status assigned to only two other private building interiors in the city. If...
While we work on a full-length article on the burgeoning efforts to save the Tonga Room, we wanted you to know about resources that may be valuable if this is an issue close to your heart. The beloved tiki...
Niman pork two ways at Healdsburg's Dry Creek Kitchen After news broke on Sunday that Bill Niman has split from his Niman Ranch company and publicly declared he will no longer use their products, we wondered what the impact...
Perhaps his mother should have kept this man out of the kitchen, for safety reasons. But then Rubicon would never have existed. Our sibling publication, New York magazine's Grub Street, has a neat feature today, looking at what some...
Niman's products show up in restaurants and home kitchens. Trader Joe's carries these bacon-wrapped pork chops. After reading yesterday's San Francisco Chronicle article on Bill Niman's ouster from his famed Niman Ranch meat, we got to wondering how the...
Thanks to Boing Boing, we just came across some of the most distressing news to pass this desk in a long time. It seems the legendary Tonga Room, the tiki bar and restaurant in the basement of the Fairmont...