The Chatterbox

At first, this headline reads like some very odd or mistaken news. But after chatting with Daniel Patterson Group director of operations Ron Boyd, it starts to make good sense. It ends up Boyd, a San Francisco native, and his girlfriend Kim Alter, another DPG chef, have been fans of…

By Dana Eastland. CAPUTO, the new restaurant from Marin-based Boca Restaurant Group that we mentioned last month, is now open in South Beach. The food is rustic, trattoria-style Italian with a California sensibility, from chef-partner Sam Ramadan. The kitchen is centered around the wood-fired grill, where much of the food…

By Dana Eastland. As previously reported on tablehopper, Adriano Paganini’s restaurant group is opening a second location of DELAROSA in Yerba Buena Lane downtown. The new location officially opened on Monday October 19th and offers casual, Roman-style dining. The menu is intended for group dining, with plenty of dishes…

Back in July, we reported on WISE SONS (Evan Bloom and Leo Beckerman’s) upcoming commissary kitchen, production bakery, and Wise Sons Bagel. They’re opening a new space on Fillmore, and we wanted to let you know that things are moving along. Yay. The 2,200-foot space is built…

Yesterday the upcoming ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE CINEMA AT THE NEW MISSION broke the internet (well, the local one) with its announcement that it was going to be selling tickets to the new Star Wars: Episode VII: The Force Awakens, which will coincide with their grand opening, on Thursday December 17th. Exciting…

We’re happy to report Jon Darsky has made some progress with his brick-and-mortar DEL POPOLO location coming to 855 Bush Street; he plans to open mid-November, ideally before Thanksgiving. Before that happens, he’s running a couple of pop-up preview dinners with Feastly on Wednesday October 28th and Thursday…

By Dana Eastland. Lovers of khao man gai, or the Thai version of Hainanese chicken rice, will be very excited to learn that there is a new San Francisco outpost specializing in the simple yet complex dish. It’s called ROOSTER & RICE, and Yelpers report that they are now…

As we reported last week, yesterday was the last night of the Burger SF Monday pop-up at Cease & Desist from the Causwells fellows (Alvin Garcia and chef Adam Rosenblum), as they ramp up to open their very own brick-and-mortar location in February 2016. We knew is was going to…

Some updates at ~1760~: they have formally announced that the chef is Carl Foronda (previously a sous at Sushi Ran), who joined the team after the departure of opening chef Adam Tortosa at the end of 2014. Foronda is integrating some inspiration and dishes from his Filipino heritage, including a…

~CHINO~ is launching weekend brunch this Saturday October 24th. The menu from chef Ron Pei includes xiao long bao ($13), as well as plenty of other items to make your weekend awesome. You’ll find additional dumpling choices, like the insane foie gras XLB soup dumplings ($24) and the morning…