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The restaurant opened in August 2021. [2] Six months after the restaurant opening, it earned a Michelin star. [6] The chef-owner is David Yoshimura. [7] Yoshimura also won the Michelin guide's Young Chef Award for California. [8] [9] Next door is Bar Iris, the sister cocktail bar to Nisei which serves high end Japanese influenced cocktails. [10 ...
The Washington Square Bar & Grill was a landmark restaurant adjoining Washington Square in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood (Powell at Union streets). Known widely as the Washbag, so named by columnist Herb Caen as a play on words, it was a favorite gathering place for a generation of writers, politicians, musicians, and social elite.
Ernie's first chef and owner was Ernie Carlesso. At the time it was called Ernie's Il Travatore. Located at 847 Montgomery Street near Jackson Square, it was on the edge of the Barbary Coast, a red light district that had been known throughout the world since the 1850s for its brothels, saloons, opium dens, gambling and dance halls, and restaurants with discreet private dining rooms upstairs ...
Built in 1938, one year after the Golden Gate Bridge was completed, Round House Café is one of the oldest restaurants in the Bay Area. [1] It is a circular Art Deco building built by Finnish-American architect Alfred Finnila and overlooks the bay. [2] In 2021, a local coffee company, Equator Coffees, leased the site.
Slim's was a nightclub and music venue in San Francisco, California, which was opened by Boz Scaggs in 1988. Scaggs and his partners took over a vacant restaurant which was called the Warehouse and threw a party there on December 31, 1987, to celebrate before closing it to remodel, and the new venue opened on September 16, 1988.
The restaurant uses Masataka's nickname, Masa, for its title. [2] Upon its opening, the restaurant had a six-month waiting list for reservations. [1] Kobayashi was murdered in 1984, [3] [4] and sous-chef Bill Galloway ran the kitchen until Julian Serrano became executive chef. [2] [5] He was chef for 14 years.
After Tower's departure the restaurant was reopened briefly by new investors under the same name but with a less expensive, Mediterranean concept. [4] In 2004 it became the new location of San Francisco's Trader Vic's, which had been closed since 1994. The Palo Alto location of Stars became a branch of Wolfgang Puck's Spago Restaurant in 1997.
John's Grill serves steakhouse food [23] and seafood, and the owners have avoided change. [2] In 2020, a San Francisco Chronicle columnist characterized it as "filled with wood and leather surfaces, white tablecloths and old-school vibes"; [11] in 2021 another described the wood paneling as "dark like Havana cigars" and wrote that the restaurant seemed to have been "preserved in enamel ...