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Mario Cortez

Mario Cortez

Food and Restaurant Reporter at San Francisco Chronicle

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Recent Articles

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Why did one of the last remaining restaurants leave downtown S.F.’s troubled food hall?

Cheezy’s Artisan Pizza owner David Jacobson had expanded inside IKEA’s embattled San Francisco food hall. Now, after a dispute, his pizza restaurant is closing its Saluhall location.
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The baker behind some of the Bay Area’s fluffiest Japanese milk bre...

A popup bakery favorite is settling down in the East Bay.
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This ritzy Wine Country city’s only drive-thru restaurant is closing

A longtime burger drive-thru open in St. Helena since 1966 — one of the city’s only chain restaurants — will close.
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The East Bay’s first H Mart is opening later this month

After years of feverish anticipation, H Mart, the hugely popular U.S.-based Korean supermarket chain, is ready to open in Dublin.
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S.F. Chinatown restaurant known for late-night feasts closes second...

The popular Cantonese restaurant Taishan Cuisine, among the 2025 class of the Chronicle’s Top 100 Restaurants list, has closed its second location, in Ingleside.
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Caltrain to dedicate electric train to Pelosi to mark decades of tr...

Caltrain is renaming a train in its electric fleet after Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, who is retiring after 38 years in Congress.
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Popular sandwich shop closing in S.F.’s Mission District after thre...

A 30-year-old shop best known for its Philly cheesesteaks will close for good in San Francisco’s Mission District after its landlord declined to renew its lease.
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Photo of raw beef left outside popular S.F. restaurant draws contro...

The restaurant, which has been part of a viral controversy in the past, said staff disposed of the raw meat and does “not condone leaving it outside like that.”
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This Bay Area carnitas sensation is opening its first restaurant

The popular Oakland carnitas specialist is part of a post-pandemic boom in regional taco styles across the Bay Area.
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A rowdy, 153-year-old Bay Area dive bar shuts down

A Contra Costa County city loses a longtime dive bar, plus more Bay Area restaurant closures.
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A pioneering Bay Area vegan restaurant closes after more than 30 years

This 31-year-old restaurant will shutter after making waves with its fine-dining approach in Oakland. It’s the latest in a string of prominent Bay Area vegetarian and vegan restaurant closures.