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For fans of food that’s spicy, sour, and acidic, there’s nothing quite as satisfying as Thai cuisine. That is, assuming diners explore all that the Southeast Asian country’s food has to offer beyond familiar dishes such as pad thai and yellow curry. In San Francisco, Thai food fans have a broad range of restaurant styl
This is a curated list of the Bay Area’s most notable and permanent restaurant and bar closures, with new updates published once a week. See a closing we missed? Then drop us a line. For more news, check out our list of restaurants that closed earlier in August. September 22 SOMA — Southern fine dining restaurant Prelu
In Romi Trower’s native Australia, hand rolls are everywhere. There are strip mall hand rolls, major chain brand hand rolls, hand roll kiosks, and boutique restaurants that sell uncut nori rolls stuffed with tuna or fried chicken or raw salmon. The food is “so unbelievably popular,” Trower says, that it’s not far-fetch
It’s sweater weather once we get past the required September heatwave(s), and with the chiller temps comes a new Fall 2026 class of restaurants. Among the forthcoming openings is a modern Japanese restaurant with Michelin-starred cred, an all-day Southern Italian restaurant from the A16 team, plus a stunningly remodele
Many have traveled up to the tiny village of Glen Ellen, just north of Sonoma, since 2012 solely to visit the Glen Ellen Star. Chef Ari Weiswasser cut at institutions like Daniel, Picholine, and the French Laundry. Now, he’s cooking classically California-inspired cuisine, often over a wood fire, that strips classical
On Saturday, June 20, the restaurant known as Anomaly closed. Chef Mike Lanham took to Instagram to explain the closure, citing health reasons as a contributing factor. But what happened behind the scenes was diagnosed as burnout. For 18 months, Lanham says, he pushed past his limits; he refused to accept it and “hit t
Nikkei cuisine has grabbed a foothold in San Francisco’s dining scene, thanks in part to restaurateur John Park’s trio of Kaiyo restaurants. The Japanese-Peruvian restaurant first launched in its Cow Hollow location in 2018; that opening was later followed up with the splashy debut of Kaiyo Rooftop in 2022, a rooftop b
If you had the chance to try Elvira Varela’s cooking while she was still serving it from her home kitchen in East Oakland, consider yourself lucky. Now that her restaurant, Cenaduria Elvira, is a permanent space just north of Jack London Square, the rest of us finally have a chance to catch up. Central to […]
Saam is the first-ever U.S.-based restaurant from acclaimed chef Thitid “Ton” Tassanakajohn, known for his Michelin-starred Bangkok restaurants Le Du and Nusara. This is a much more casual endeavor than those two restaurants, offering a glimpse into Tassanakajohn’s style of food at an approachable price (and without th
In case you didn’t already know, La Palma Mexicatessen, the crown jewel of 24th Street with its unmistakable multi-colored midcentury logo, is San Francisco’s only remaining large-scale masa molino — and you can taste it in every huarache, sope, and tamale the place churns out. There’s something about a restaurant that
If you want evidence of San Francisco’s ongoing bistro fixation, look no further than Marina Beach, a tiny new restaurant serving South Asian dishes with natural wine. It’s a fitting name for the new restaurant; Marina Beach is located on Buchanan Street in the Marina, and is also a callback to where owner Murugan Guna
For Dante Javar, Matrix in San Francisco holds some special memories. The lounge from then-mayor Gavin Newsom’s PlumpJack Group and Paul Getty opened in 2000, taking over the historic rock venue founded by Marty Balin of Jefferson Airplane. Matrix evolved from its days as a live rock venue to an ultra-lounge in the 200
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