It looks like the shuttered 222 Hyde, which sort of replaced the Arrow Bar as a hipster haven with an active bathroom scene, is going for an about-face. SFoodie reported that they're re-opening with a vastly different vibe: They're...
The Ferry Building Farmers' Market opened for lunch today with street food vendors jockeying for attention with actual farmers. 4505 Meats was there with smoked hot dogs, Cap'n Mike came down from Marin to sell smoked fish sandwiches, and...
The New Montgomery outpost of Caffe Trieste seems to be splitting from the chain, calling itself the Roastery but still selling Trieste brew. An employee today said despite the new signage that went up yesterday, they're still under license...
A couple of openings and other updates to relay this morning: Tablehopper reports that Trademark, the new American grill in the former Voda space on Belden Alley, is due to open either Friday or Monday. However, they're playing it...
Il Cane Rosso, the new rotisserie and sandwich shop from Daniel Patterson and Lauren Kiino, is due to open July 13 in the old Mistral Rotisserie space in the Ferry Building. The pair first started working on Bracina, across...
Piazza Pellegrini's new cable car-shaped outdoor cafe won't debut this weekend as hoped, thanks to last-minute electrical, plumbing, and permitting delays. Instead, owner Dario Hadjian says he's going to debut the cafe on July 4 with a big, American-style...
Michelle Obama addresses volunteers at Bret Harte Elementary School while Maria Shriver looks on. Photo via ProComKelly/flickr. The Chronicle's Leah Garchik has an answer to the question lingering on everybody's minds after first lady Michelle Obama's visit last weekend:...
With Gay Pride Day around the corner, the Tenderblog reminds that one of the first instances of militant queer resistance went down three years before Stonewall, when transgendered people fought police at Gene Compton's Cafeteria in the Tenderloin. In...
The enigmatic Jai Yun has started serving lunch, which might be a good entry point to one of the city's most best regarded and most unusual destinations for high-end Chinese. Normally you go in here, you tell the waiter...
Chad Newton is one of those chefs who seems to really be happier in the kitchen than anywhere else. The Postrio and Baraka veteran took some time off after his most recent stint as executive chef at Urban Tavern,...
The ultra-sleek Sugar Cafe may seem a little out of place in the gritty Tenderloin, but considering its menu of paninis, fancy coffees and fancy cocktails, the move to start serving crepes for brunch couldn't be more fitting. Tenderblog...
A spokeswoman for Michael Mina dismissed out of hand a claim on the Center'd blog that San Francisco's biggest exporter of restaurants is considering shutting down his namesake restaurant. We contacted a few Mina representatives to ask about the...
The best table in the house at One Market is the one right next to the kitchen door. This may seem counterintuitive, but we're not talking about the dining room at all, rather the newly opened chef's table right...
According to Craigslist, Cafe Mozart is for sale. The Union Square classic that bills itself as "San Francisco's most romantic restaurant" is priced to move at $135,000. We didn't realize how venerable an institution this was, but according to...
Another day, another discounted bar menu debuts at a high-end restaurant. This trend rules, as it allows people with normal incomes to try the food at places we couldn't previously have afforded even a cocktail. Waterbar announced today that...
A visiting vegan blogger noted one of MPSF's favorite vegetarian restaurants, Golden Era, in a post today. P.h.d.licious also happened by "a [sushi] place at Post and Taylor," (we're guessing maybe Sakana?). This brings home the point that there's...
Do you ever feel like you’re always the last person to know about fabulous fooderies? Sure, we pretty much keep our ear to ground, but sometimes we swear we feel like we seriously missed a memo when it comes...
No salad as a meal has a couple photos and an enticing description of Le Sanctuaire, a Union Square cooking store so exclusive and low-profile that (should we be embarrassed to say this?) we didn't even know it existed...
A friend of ours was at a conference downtown at the Hilton yesterday and decided it would be a good opportunity for us to get lunch. Our first thought was to check out the much-talked-about Urban Tavern, but we...
Seller's Markets. We’ve been eating here a lot because it’s ridiculously close to our office and they promote freshness and sustainability and all that is good and right when it comes to food in the 21st century. But the...
