Restaurants

03 Jul 2023

One Big Night At This Bernal Heights Fine Dining Restaurant

PHOTOS AND WORDS BY ANDY SAMWICK I have been noticing the growing trend toward tasting menus some restaurants are taking. At Marlena, my companions and I indulged in an exceptionally lavish encounter with the restaurant’s current prix fixe menu. My friends were from out-of-town but had once lived here a

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09 Nov 2022

10 San Francisco Restaurants to Visit Before You Die

Say you have one day left to live (or worse, you have to move back to Missouri). Which San Francisco restaurant would you visit on your way out? I fished recommendations from multiple Reddit threads and Twitter arguments so you didn’t have to. Feelings about these eateries may shift faster

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27 Jan 2024

The San Francisco Beer Passport is Here!

Step into a world of adventure with the San Francisco Beer Passport. There’s no better way to explore San Francisco than to literally drink it in. This passport is amazing! Each one contains 27 coupons to buy one beer, get a second beer FREE at 27 of the finest locally

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18 May 2022

Stop Blaming Servers for Restaurant Prices!

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last several months, you probably know that inflation in our country is at it’s highest point since 1982. Seriously, the last time inflation hit this hard, Olivia Newton-John was singing about Jazzercise and E.T. was phoning home about it. Prices are

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15 Sep 2021

Want Separate Checks at the Restaurant? Here’s the Deal.

I’ve got a dirty little secret and it’s an unpopular opinion for most servers to have: I am a fan of separate checks. Let me clarify. As a server, I’ve had several credit cards tossed in my general direction at the end of service with customers assuming I have kept

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14 Sep 2021

Contra Costa County to Require Vaccination or Test Proof at Restaurants, Bars and Gyms

In a little more than one week, Contra Costa County customers will have to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination or a negative test if they want to eat inside a restaurant, drink in a bar or work out in a gym, among other things. San Francisco and the city of

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30 Jun 2021

Angry White Men Block COVID Relief For Women & POC-Owned Restaurants

Everyone remembers how the COVID-19 economic relief PPP loans were taken advantage of by large corporations, and big companies beat out small, local businesses to get a bigger pile of that money. A New York Times analysis of loan data found that “Black- and other minority-owned businesses were disproportionately underserved

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19 May 2021

SF’s Cheapest Michelin Star Restaurants, Ranked

San Francisco nightlife is back, and that means the return of Date Nights for all of us fully vaccinated hotties. If you want to buy your date a fabulous full-on Michelin Star dinner but you’re on a COVID-challenged budget, we’ve calculated the 5 cheapest Michelin Star-awarded San Francisco restaurants and

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28 Apr 2021

Restaurants Are Short Staffed and It’s NOT Because People Are Too Lazy to Work

As the weather warms up and more Covid vaccinations are getting into arms, plenty of people are feeling more comfortable venturing out into the world of restaurant dining. However, staffing those restaurants has become a huge challenge. The New York Times, CNN, and NBC’s Today Show have all written about

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