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Quick, name all the Japanese beers you can. ... If your list started with “S” and ended with “apporo," maybe you should take a walk with us... To Hitachino, a new beer and Wagyu spot (yes, from that Japanese brewery of the same name) that’s now soft-open for password-only preview reservations between Nob Hill and the Tenderloin. Check it out. Until
You know how your favorite meal is breakfast? ... and lunch? ... and dinner? ... and also brunch? Well, that’s totally going to work in your favor at Brown Sugar Factory, a new place on Valencia that serves every meal of the day, every day of the week. It’s open now, here’s the slideshow, and here’s the menu. You and your breakfast buddy/lunch partner
Picture yourself in a jungle surrounded by lush green foliage. The sun shining on your face. Ice-cold sangria in your hand. Pork adobo tacos on your plate. ... Okay, so it’s not a jungle. And the foliage is actually a giant outdoor mural. But the sun, sangria and tacos are still very real. At Mestiza Taqueria, a new Filipino/Mexican mashup of a spot with
The phrase “ice cream weather” means different things to different people. Take you, for instance. You won’t touch the stuff unless you have to put on a light sweater first. Pretend that’s totally on purpose and make your way to Salt & Straw, the beloved Portland-based provider of frozen delights that just opened its first San Francisco location in
Brown sugar chai-spiced bacon. Yeah? Okay, great. We’ll take your approval as our cue to say more breakfast-related words now. Starting with an introduction to Navi Kitchen, Top Chef alumna Preeti Mistri’s new Oakland restaurant that’s now open for breakfast, with lunch coming next week and dinner (hello, Indian pizza) not far behind. Here’s the
This is about lunch. Lunch that the chef from Blue Plate created. This is about freedom. Freedom from lunches that the chef from Blue Plate did not create. This is about City Counter, the new lunch and happy hour spot inspired by the workaday lunch counters of yore. It’s open now and can be witnessed within the pages of this slideshow. You’ll step in
In the immortal words of Ron Swanson, “Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing." Taking that advice to heart is the Meatball Bar, a new FiDi lunch spot that’s focusing on serving you spherical foods and... mostly just spherical foods. But also beer and wine. Anyway, it’s open now and you should check it out here. Bring some work people along and
Getting a reservation at Rich Table is nice. But it’s also kind of difficult. And since difficult doesn’t fall in line with your core Friday values, we’d like to present a solution. Step right up to the counter at RT Rotisserie instead. It’s a casual new soup, sandwich and, yes, rotisserie spot from the people behind Rich Table, and it’s open now in Hayes
Park days are here. Which calls to mind an age-old dilemma: how do you eat the Bulgogi beef you so desperately crave in an acceptable on-the-go format? Answer: put it in a burrito. Or better yet, have the fine people at Saucy Asian do it for you. It’s a casual new Korean-like spot that opens Monday in the Castro and is about to make your life so much
So you’re going to wine country. … That was the kind of sentence that normally leads to some type of flowery elaboration. But today, it simply leads to the Charter Oak. It’s an elegant new family style restaurant in the old Tra Vigne space, it’s open now, and you’ll want to frequent it no matter the scenario. Scenarios like… Aunt Lydia is in town from
