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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 1 week ago | sfstandard.com | Lauren Saria

    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. Ingi “Shota” Son knows how to put on a show. At The Shota, his one-Michelin-starred omakase counter, he and the other chefs have been known to break up the 17-course meal by impersonating a decapitated tuna.

  • 2 weeks ago | sfstandard.com | Lauren Saria

    Eat Here Now is a first look at some of the newest, hottest restaurants around — the ones we think are worth visiting. We dine once, serve forth our thoughts, and let you take it from there. Do not go to Wayfare Tavern 2.0 looking for novelty or an epicurean thrill. However, if you’re a middle manager in charge of finding a suitable dinner option for a diverse group of coworkers, then you’ve found a winner.

  • 2 weeks ago | sfstandard.com | Lauren Saria

    Elmer Mejicanos had no plans to shut down his popular low-ABV cocktail bar Lilah just seven months after it debuted on Chestnut Street in the Marina. But the beverage director and his business partner, chef Adam Rosenblum, got a deal they couldn’t refuse: about $150,000 for a Type 47 liquor license, which would allow them to sell a full menu of high-proof liquors, instead of just beers, wine, and low-proof spirits. “As soon as we heard the price, our jaws dropped,” Mejicanos says.

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