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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.

  • 4 days ago | sfstandard.com | Sara Deseran

    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. Jane the Bakery might not generate the buzz and lines of, say, Tartine or Arsicault. But since 2011, when it opened on Fillmore Street in Pacific Heights, it has been steadily producing some of the city’s highest-quality breads and pastries. And now it’s expanding to a surprising location.

  • 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 | Sara Deseran

    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. Two years after opening El Mil Amores, a brunch and lunch restaurant in the heart of the Mission, Andrea Becerra will launch a second location Friday. The new location of the Mexican restaurant beloved for its killer chilaquiles takes over the former Regalito Rosticeria space on 18th and Valencia.

  • 1 week ago | sfstandard.com | Sara Deseran

    This column originally ran in Wednesday’s Off Menu newsletter, where you’ll find restaurant news, gossip, tips, and hot takes every week. To sign up, visit the Standard’s newsletter page and select Off Menu. Happy World Hamburger Day! Yes, this is a thing, and it is today. On this fabricated holiday, it is worth asking: Is a restaurant a restaurant without a signature burger? After all, a burger — when it hits — can become the main draw, its reputation almost preceding the eatery itself.

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