Astrid Kane

San Francisco

Senior Editor at The San Francisco Standard

Articles

5 most exciting new restaurants, bars, and bakeries coming to SF in June

4 days ago | sfstandard.com | Lauren Saria |Sara Deseran |Astrid Kane

Want breaking Bay Area food news delivered to your inbox? Sign up here to receive Off Menu, where you’ll find restaurant news, gossip, tips, and hot takes every week. As the year approaches the halfway mark, San Francisco has already welcomed a slew of exciting new restaurants. In April, we saw the debut of Meski, an Afro-Latin spot from Golden State Warriors star Draymond Green, while May marked the opening of Jules, a Haight Street home for one of the city’s most popular pop-ups.
The Hot List: Our favorite restaurants and bars in SF right now

5 days ago | sfstandard.com | Lauren Saria |Sara Deseran |Astrid Kane

Want breaking Bay Area food news delivered to your inbox? Sign up here to receive Off Menu, where you’ll find restaurant news, gossip, tips, and hot takes every week. For anyone prepared to ask us, “Where should I eat tonight?” here’s our answer: the Hot List, our opinionated guide to the top restaurants and bars in San Francisco right now. Some of the picks are new and noteworthy; others are rediscovered favorites.
It’s been a whole year. What’s going on with Anchor Steam?

6 days ago | sfstandard.com | Kevin Truong |Astrid Kane

Through fencing at the old Anchor Brewing taproom in Potrero Hill, passersby can spot a branded, baby-blue, 1940s-era GMC truck at one end of a lot overgrown with weeds. Since July 2023, when Japanese beer giant Sapporo vacated the complex, both the monolithic off-white Art Deco headquarters at 1705 Mariposa St. and the taproom across the street have remained idle.
SF brewer Dave McLean to launch new brewery Hidden Splendor

1 week ago | sfstandard.com | Astrid Kane

San Francisco’s OG craft beermaker has reentered the chat. Dave McLean, who founded the famed brewpub Magnolia Brewing in 1997 and sold it to Colorado-based New Belgium two decades later, has announced he’s starting a new company, Hidden Splendor Beer. Fans of the bearded, bespectacled brewer’s piney, malt-forward beers can expect to see Hidden Splendor offerings on draft “here and there at bars and restaurants” this summer, McLean wrote in an email to supporters.
The Tenderloin’s turnaround is real. Step inside Pomeroy and see

2 weeks ago | sfstandard.com | Astrid Kane

Welcome to Swig City, highlighting the can’t-miss cocktails at the city’s best bars, restaurants, and clubs. The Tenderloin has always been a place for capital-C Characters, and Pomeroy Bar & Grill is quickly becoming one of the best places for them to hang out. The Tuesday after-work scene at the brand-new yet old-timey whiskey joint formerly known as Shovels, at Turk and Larkin streets, is decidedly eclectic. One couple requests another round of boulevardiers.
SF’s much-missed viral sushi spot is back — in former chain pizzeria

2 weeks ago | sfstandard.com | Astrid Kane

Barely three months after it shuttered, San Francisco’s gone-to-soon sushi sensation Ko is back from the dead — this time in a former pizzeria across town. It’s now called Party Pig, and its $25 all-you-can-eat-and-drink menu is nearly identical to its predecessor’s, right down to the warning to finish your food. Somehow, however, Party Pig is even cheaper than Ko — $19.95 per person during happy hour — and there’s hotpot, too.
Stonestown is now home to San Francisco’s sweatiest party

2 weeks ago | sfstandard.com | Astrid Kane

The lasers were coming for us, and we had to dash across the room without touching them. Sweat gathered at our temples, and an electronic voice from above commanded us to dodge the beams. It was like being at a tech-fueled rave or in a video game from the future. In reality, we were at the mall. Stonestown Galleria just opened up Activate, the first California outpost of a 40-location chain, and the newest interactive game venue in San Francisco’s most thriving retail center.
This SF neighborhood installed and removed 500 plants in one day

3 weeks ago | sfstandard.com | Astrid Kane

Sometimes you need to get off the internet and touch grass. Other times, grass alone isn’t going to cut it, and only a full-on jungle will calm the nerves. That’s what neighbors got to do Thursday in adorable but densely urban Cole Valley, where a tangle of greenery sprouted on the asphalt late in the morning. Barely 12 hours later, it was gone.
San Francisco restaurant Heartwood debuts free-martini lunch

3 weeks ago | sfstandard.com | Astrid Kane

Welcome to Swig City, highlighting can’t-miss cocktails at the best bars, restaurants and clubs in the city. Does anything in this life compare to the naughty pleasure of day drinking? It’s civilized yet slightly feral, with more than a dash of Sterling Cooper-era glamor. Granted, a lunchtime tipple may be considered classy if you’re rich and tacky if you’re not, but the danger of getting caught may be exceeded only by the thrill of getting away with it.
5 of the Bay Area’s hottest pop-ups are heading to Outside Lands

3 weeks ago | sfstandard.com | Astrid Kane

Taste of the Bay Area, Outside Lands’ food program, features 95 Bay Area restaurants serving more than 800 dishes. In a change from years past, the Polo Field will be home to several of the city’s hottest pop-ups amid festival standbys like Señor Sisig, El Huarache Loco, and Woodhouse Fish Co. Find Maz Naba's Cal-Labanese pop-up Ilna at Buddy on Sunday nights. | Source: Adahlia Cole for The StandardApart from Instagram sensation Poorboy Coffee, they’re all hybrid concepts.