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A report by Dana Eastland. There’s a follow-up to the October opening of Klyde in Union Square. It’s called 398 RESTAURANT & BAR, and, like Klyde, it’s in the Hotel G but is a separate project. Klyde’s Sam Fechheimer is the chef here, as well,…

Big news on 18th Street: replacing chef de cuisine Brian Gremillion, who was at ~DELFINA~ for four years, is Edward Higgins, most recently at Bix. His background includes NYC’s Craft, Hearth, and Insieme, plus Ekki at the Four Seasons Hotel in Marunouchi, Japan, and Palo Alto’s Quattro. Chef-…

An update on Daniel Patterson and Roy Choi’s LOCO’L for you: they are opening their first location of their fast-food concept right in the Tenderloin, at Turk and Taylor to be exact. I drive by that corner often and have noticed a lot of construction, and wondered…

Well, it turns out we didn’t have all the correct information in our piece last week from the Burma Superstar team on their new project in the Mission. However, we got some new intel this week, so here’s an update for you. The new restaurant is actually going…

Back in August, we reported on the new La Capra Coffee in SoMa from the brothers Rosenthal of Town Hall, Salt House, and Anchor & Hope. Their expansion in the neighborhood continues, with a new pizza joint called JERSEY. As the name would suggest, it’s a New Jersey-style,…

Up on Potrero Hill, French restaurant ~CHEZ PAPA BISTROT~ is closing at the end of the month. Owner Jocelyn Bulow says he plans to keep the corner space, according to Scoop, but no word on what might be up his sleeve. His other restaurants, Chez Maman and Papito, each have…

Your weekends are about to get dim-summier and rowdier with the arrival of the bottomless dim sum weekend brunch at ~CHUBBY NOODLE MARINA~, starting Saturday January 3rd. For $37 (plus tax and tip), you will have 90 minutes to enjoy bottomless dishes and four or five beverages, too, ranging…

A report by Dana Eastland. The plot keeps thickening at the former CAFE DU NORD space and the SWEDISH AMERICAN HALL, the multilevel entertainment, food, and beverage complex on Market in the Castro. As reported in October, many partners are involved, with a few different projects. A Basque-inspired restaurant,…

The artist formerly known as Dine About Town is back, but this time it’s called SAN FRANCISCO RESTAURANT WEEK and is presented by the Golden Gate Restaurant Association instead of San Francisco Travel. It runs from Wednesday January 21st through Friday January 30th, and there have been a few…