- Burma Superstar restaurant group opening new SF spot
- SF Starbucks votes for union after long closure, plumbing issues
- Kezar Pub's sister bar quietly reopens, now in the Upper Haight
- Arrests made in fatal shooting of Bay Area food delivery driver
- The food truck that started a craze across Hawaii
- A new pizzeria by PizzaHacker alum heads to Berkeley
- Will Quiz Night with Peter Malone return? By Nico Madrigal-Yankowski
- It was when the four-legged plum appeared that I realized something odd was going on. I was drinking a modest burgundy, a Grenache blend that, in other circumstances, I might have merely thought "pretty good" - my usual assessment of a weeknight... By Craig Stoltz
- On a crisp fall day in 2019, I found myself on my hands and knees in a dreary office parking lot, feeling somewhat self-conscious, picking up acorns. The person responsible for this strange turn in my life was a lanky, gregarious landscape... By Gabriel Popkin
- If there's a kitchen task to be done, you can bet a store-bought shortcut exists. In many cases, that's fine! I'm not always going to make my own puff pastry or tortillas, and I'm a firm believer in prepped and chopped frozen vegetables, among... By Becky Krystal
- In November 2021, Joe-Jo Jennings was named employee of the quarter by the hospitality group behind the Grill restaurant, where he works as guest relations manager. His bosses sent him and a guest on a business-class Amtrak ride to New York, put... By Richard Morgan
- The restaurant is slated to open in October. By Susana Guerrero
- Apparently, cooler heads did not prevail. By Nico Madrigal-Yankowski
- While "nooch" is a relatively new term, nutritional yeast has been around for decades. According to NPR, the product hit shelves in 1950 and became popular with hippies in the late 1960s and 1970s. Since then, nooch has been a prized ingredient... By Aaron Hutcherson
- “There were so many products here in the ’60s. You’d smell every kind of spice.” By Steph Rodriguez
- "This news may be disappointing news to some fans of the burger, but as a mostly-vegetarian, I say good riddance." By Madeline Wells
- The dessert is a mashup of two classics. By Susana Guerrero
- Will another butchery take its place? By Nico Madrigal-Yankowski
- I don’t know about you, but I sure miss going to breweries. Remember what it was like? You just walked up to a counter, ordered a drink and then sat down — indoors? It was so easy. Those were the days. Friends, I hate to remind you we’re still far... By Alyssa Pereira
- While most bars in the Bay Area remain closed while awaiting a loosening of shelter-in-place orders, some are rolling with the punches, working on creative ways to open up to customers again. In many counties, current rules dictate that bars must... By Alyssa Pereira
- Remember my last newsletter, when I told you San Francisco was preparing to re-open outdoor bars in late June? Unfortunately, a surge in cases put a stop to that shortly thereafter, prompting Mayor London Breed to “temporarily delay the...
- The wait is over for frustrated San Francisco bar owners who have been waiting to open their businesses while the city's restaurants have been in operation in various capacities since March. On Monday, June 29, bars across the city can finally...
- What will taprooms and beer bars look like as they start to reopen? Will it be anything like what we remember? And moreover, will bar-goers act any differently with the looming risk of the coronavirus present? “That’s the million dollar question,”...
- Whether as an employee, a regular patron, or a traveling scout, beer bars, breweries, and pubs, have been at the center of my social and professional lives since I was legally allowed to enter them. These past two months are the first time in... By Sayre Piotrkowski
- What's next for bars? With so much changing around us, will the bar or brewery taproom of the future be anything like what we remember? Jim Woods, who founded and owns Woods Beer & Wine Co., will be watching the changes in consumer habits over...
- Stork Club, the longstanding dive bar and performance space in the Oakland neighborhood of Koreatown/Northgate, announced on their Facebook page on Tuesday that they'd be ceasing operations. By Michael Rosen