Are San Francisco restaurants too loud? A new app helps diners navigate the noise
Thanks to a weeklong survey, an app that measures the noise level in bars and restaurants can now...
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Ultimate Guide: The best restaurants around Union Square
As the holiday shopping frenzy approaches peak levels, here are our dining picks if you’re...
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Brutti ma buoni — ugly but good — is a favorite Italian expression, and a pretty fair summation...
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Marshawn Lynch’s new restaurant and lounge, Rob Ben’s, opens this week in Emeryville
Christmas stockings hang on the wall near the entrance of Rob Ben’s, Marshawn Lynch’s new...
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Shake Shack’s first Bay Area restaurant opens Dec. 15 in Palo Alto
Less than a year after announcing its West Coast expansion plans, Shake Shack will open in Palo...
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Life after Blue Bottle? Family’s cup runneth over with new San Francisco home
“It really feels like the lottery,” says Caitlin Williams Freeman, pastry chef and founder of...
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Shed in Healdsburg to close at the end of the year
Shed in Healdsburg will shut its doors at the end of 2018, closing the book on a charmed...
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Tacos Oscar’s unlikely road to success in Oakland? Follow the T-shirt
If you follow Tacos Oscar’s Instagram feed (@tacososcar), which is how most of its fans would...
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Soleil Ho named the San Francisco Chronicle’s new restaurant critic
The San Francisco Chronicle has named Soleil Ho, a nationally recognized food journalist and...
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The real story behind the NBA’s love of Napa Valley and Bordeaux
When you’re a wine writer, you don’t expect opportunities to watch NBA players like Steph Curry...
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Che Fico spinoff Theorita to close on Divisadero
Less than six months after opening on Divisadero as the city’s most talked-about pastry shop and...
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Kendejah is Bay Area’s first Liberian restaurant, and it’s just the first step
Before you order at Kendejah — before you even ask questions about the dishes on the menu, in...
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While sommeliers feud, a deeper wine debate looms
Judging from my Instagram feed over the last 72 hours, the most thought-provoking wine article on...
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A mini Filipino food tour in Daly City with a pro
This is A Million Plates, The Chronicle's regular column about immigrant food in the Bay Area,...
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In a tiny bar kitchen in Oakland, Mikey Yoon creates his version of diner fare
Mikey Yoon has a thing for American cheese. It’s not just that the melted texture makes for the...
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Mac’d, San Francisco’s mac and cheese chain, is turning to Eatsa’s automated technology
If it’s good enough for quinoa bowls, surely it’s good enough for mac and cheese. That seems to...
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North Beach’s Albona Ristorante Istriano to close after 30 years
San Francisco’s Albona Ristorante Istriano will close at the end of 2018, following 30 years in...
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Omnivore Books’ Celia Sack shares her favorite Bay Area cookbooks of the past decade
Whether you’re looking for the latest Ottolenghi title or a vintage copy of Madame De Lyon’s “The...
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Namu Gaji quietly veers toward vegan. Will its customers notice?
You may not notice much of Namu Gaji’s menu is now vegan unless you’re counting up the tiny signs...
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San Jose’s neediest families shun food banks and rely on a church’s Mexican pastor
In the subterranean hallway of a San Jose apartment building, pastor Gerardo Vazquez knocks on a...
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