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2 weeks ago | 
sfstandard.com | Sara Deseran |Lauren Saria |Astrid Kane
The countdown has begun: There are exactly seven days until the official kickoff of summer. While San Francisco may not be known for its heat index, it is known as a city that never takes a warm day for granted. When the temps soar to 70 (which, for here, is roasting), suddenly, the best restaurant patios are full, the beaches are packed, and the parks are draped with pale humans who really should be reapplying sunscreen. So, when the fog clears and the wind dies, keep this list in hand.
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3 weeks 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.
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3 weeks 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.
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4 weeks 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.
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4 weeks ago | 
sfstandard.com | 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. San Francisco’s seemingly limitless appetite for sushi doesn’t extend only to daintily plated omakase or monstrous, all-you-can-eat portions crammed into a 90-minute window.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
