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  • Posted 7/7/09 on Grub Street SF

222 Hyde Dance Club to Become 222 Hyde Pizza Joint

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...

Filed Under: downtown and waterfront
  • Posted 7/2/09 on Grub Street SF

Ferry Building Farmers' Market Now Vendors' Market

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...

Filed Under: downtown and waterfront
  • Posted 7/1/09 on Grub Street SF

Caffe Trieste Now The Roastery

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...

Filed Under: downtown and waterfront
  • Posted 7/1/09 on Grub Street SF

Downtown Openings Going Strong This Weekend

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...

Filed Under: downtown and waterfront
  • Posted 6/30/09 on Grub Street SF

Last Things First: Lauren Kiino on Il Cane Rosso and Bracina

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...

Filed Under: downtown and waterfront
  • Posted 6/26/09 on Grub Street SF

Cafe Pellegrini to be Born on Fourth of July

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...

Filed Under: downtown and waterfront
  • Posted 6/26/09 on Grub Street SF

Michelle Obama's SF Dinner

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:...

Filed Under: downtown and waterfront
  • Posted 6/25/09 on Grub Street SF

Before Stonewall: The Compton's Cafeteria Riot

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...

Filed Under: downtown and waterfront
  • Posted 6/22/09 on Grub Street SF

Jai Yun Serves Lunch

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...

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  • Posted 6/11/09 on Grub Street SF

"My Hands are in Everything:" A Chat with Fish & Farm's Chad Newton

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,...

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  • Posted 6/10/09 on Grub Street SF

Sugar Cafe Gets Into The Brunch Game

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...

Filed Under: downtown and waterfront
  • Posted 6/1/09 on Grub Street SF

Michael Mina Rep Denies Shuttering Rumor

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...

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  • Posted 6/1/09 on Grub Street SF

Dine In The Kitchen At One Market

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...

Filed Under: downtown and waterfront
  • Posted 4/8/09 on Grub Street SF

Cafe Mozart For Sale

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...

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  • Posted 2/17/09 on Grub Street SF

Waterbar's New Bar Menu

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...

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  • Posted 1/7/09 on Grub Street SF

New Year's Breeds Vegetarians: Here's Where You Can Eat

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...

Filed Under: downtown and waterfront
  • Posted 9/10/08 on Grub Street SF

Muracci's Japanese Curry

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...

Filed Under: downtown and waterfront
  • Posted 9/10/08 on Grub Street SF

Le Sanctuaire: Food Implement Porn At Union Square

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...

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  • Posted 8/27/08 on Grub Street SF

Sultan Indian Reigns Supreme

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...

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  • Posted 8/19/08 on Grub Street SF

Missing the Mark[et]?

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...

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