Caleb Pershan

James Beard semifinalists for 2025 included restaurants from the Bay Area like Four Kings, Benu and more

A running list of Bay Area restaurants and bars that are fundraising for Los Angeles fire relief efforts

Elisabeth Prueitt, co-founder of Tartine Bakery, is building a new gluten-free community with her newsletter, Have Your Cake.

It’s almost time for happy hour on a foggy spring afternoon. Outside his popular San Francisco bar, Trick Dog, owner Josh Harris is meeting a group of about 20 people — not for drinks, but as they do every week, for a 5-mile run. They high-five in greeting and stretch in front of the bar’s parklet, many sporting black caps with their group’s name, the Bon Vivants Run Club. Some are Harris’ friends from the bar industry; others learned of the club from a note on Trick Dog’s cocktail menu, or from…

We’re asking readers how they feel about the cost of dining out generally and how their habits are changing.

Little Star Pizza on Divisadero Street is caught in a limbo familiar to many San Francisco restaurants. Revenue at the Chicago-style pizzeria was down about 18% last year compared with 2019, owner Brian Sadigursky said. So after nearly 20 years in business, he lined up a new tenant to take over the space and announced his intention to close. But that replacement fell through, and so did another. Now Sadigursky is stuck making pizza until his lease expires in September, unable to pay himself a s…

At least one new Bay Area restaurant will be added to the 2024 Michelin Guide for California. In a preview Tuesday morning of its final selections, to be released in a later month, the famed guidebook revealed that 7 Adams in San Francisco would be included in its next edition. It was one of 10 California restaurants mentioned in the preview, and the only one from the Bay Area; the rest were in Los Angeles, including pasta hotspot Funke and pizza parlor Quarter Sheets. The preview did not indi…

The James Beard Foundation released this year’s list of semifinalists for its prestigious chef and restaurant awards Wednesday morning, with names from the Bay Area in categories from outstanding chef to outstanding bar. The James Beard Awards are among the most important restaurant accolades in the country, often described as the Oscars of the food world. Last year, while a number of Bay Area restaurants made the semifinalist list, just three moved ahead to become finalists — the fewest since t…

The best restaurants to eat and drink in Bernal Heights, from Michelin-recommended Mexican to top pizza and beer.

In the Bay Area beverage world, 2023 was undeniably the year of the wine bar. While once stuffy and staid, with bulky glasses and boring cheese plates, a flood of new bars from the Marina to San Jose has remade the genre. Now, they’re likely to boast raucous music and tiny INAO-style glasses brimming with natural wine. But the 14 best new bars of 2023 offered plenty of variety, too: See Napa’s new tequila hotspot and Berkeley’s new hub for one of the region’s best breweries. And cocktails, with…