The Chatterbox

Folks in the Uptown Oakland area will be happy to know a second location of multi-roaster coffee house MODERN COFFEE is opening, and whaddya know, they’re opening in another historic building, this time in the Leamington Building (on 19th Street, very close to the newly opened Drexl Bar). It’…

After hitting a few delays, the team behind SHAKEWELL in Oakland are happy to announce they are officially opening on Thursday July 10th. In our original piece, we noted that owners Jen Biesty and Tim Nugent are opening their eclectic Cal-Spanish concept on Lakeshore Avenue in Oakland. You can look…

Two big openings are happening simultaneously at 101 California Street: PABU and THE RAMEN BAR from Ken Tominaga (of Hana in Rohnert Park) and Michael Mina. Let’s start with The Ramen Bar first, the more casual of the two, which just opened yesterday (Monday June 30th). Tominaga’s ramen…

After blowing things up for their grand opening this past weekend, CHUBBY NOODLE MARINA is now open for regular business. Chef-owner Pete Mrabe keeps fine-tuning and tweaking the 12-item menu, which has a few dishes in each section (noodles, seafood, meat, and dim sum). The dim sum picks include chicken…

Here’s some big news on the San Francisco restaurant scene: chef Loretta Keller has sold her beloved ~COCO500~ to partners Anna Weinberg, James Nicholas, and Jennifer Puccio of Marlowe, The Cavalier, and Park Tavern. The corner space, which housed Keller’s Bizou before Coco500, will become the new location…

Some big changes at Outer Richmond’s izakaya mainstay, ~OYAJI~, namely that chef-owner and top dog boozer Hideki Makiyama has sold the restaurant after something like 11 years of holding it down and is said to be returning to Japan. He is reportedly going to try to open something in…

A few chef changes around town: first up, chef Adam Tortosa has left ~1760~ after nine months on Russian Hill—there is no word yet of his replacement (via Eater). Fans of Ricky Yap’s sushi at AKIKO’S RESTAURANT will be sorry to hear he has moved on, “citing…

Back in May we reported that Adam Mesnick of Deli Board and 1058 Hoagie was going to be closing 1058 HOAGIE after two years and switching it to a new concept, RYE PROJECT. We hope you got your last hoagie fix over the last couple months, because 1058 Hoagie is…

We’ve been trying to get some intel on this place for a while now, and it looks like Hoodline caught the opening of STREET TACO from owner Victor Juarez. He also owns Chilango, Casa Mexicana, and Azteca, and it looks like the new spot is offering classic choices like…

The newly reopened ~BIG 4~ is now open for lunch Mon-Fri 11:30am-2pm. The lunch menu highlights classic dishes, including deviled eggs ($7), chicken liver mousse ($7), a burger ($14), and Cobb salad ($10/18). Check out the whole menu here and start plotting your next business lunch, you tycoon.…