News from the Heart & Soul of San Francisco
WHILE 30 YEARS can be more than a lifetime in San Francisco’s ever-changing restaurant world, Fillmore’s venerable Elite Cafe on July 14 will celebrate three decades of serving up New Orleans cuisine in its historic Art Deco home. And that’s only its third incarnation. The woody, warm and welcoming spot at 2049 Fillmore is rich…
With a vibrant design, smart graphics and an inventive menu almost entirely under $10, the Vietnamese sandwich eatery Bun Mee is ready for its grand opening today at 2015 Fillmore Street. The former ice cream shop has been transformed into a petite restaurant that promises a modern take on Vietnamese banh mi sandwiches — daily…
SALOONS | Chris Barnett Music is only one reason to go to Yoshi’s. There are five or six other “performances” most nights in the sweeping two-story showplace at 1330 Fillmore in the redeveloped jazz district. On the main floor facing the street is a 160-seat Japanese restaurant that made the Chronicle’s Top 100 list soon…
[nggallery id=10] It didn’t take a cynic to question the need for another coffee shop and cafe on Fillmore Street — especially one in the exact same spot, at 2123 Fillmore, where Bittersweet and Sweet Inspiration and several others had tried and failed — and next door to recent arrival Citizen Cake, a superstar of…
“I couldn’t do this without him,” Elena Basegio-Carpenter says of the Fillmore Bakeshop she and her father operate at the corner of Bush Street. “I wouldn’t do this without her,” her dad Doug tells Chronicle reporter and neighborhood resident Julian Guthrie. Read more: “No loafing around”
Fillmore’s newest establishment — originally to be called Sweet Jane, but now just plain Jane — is open for business at 2123 Fillmore. And there’s nothing plain about it. This location has been home to many other sweet shops: most recently the Bittersweet chocolate cafe and earlier Sweet Inspiration and half a dozen others. But…
New restaurants or food businesses are prohibited on upper Fillmore Street unless they replace a similar establishment. But that would change under legislation proposed by new District 2 supervisor Mark Farrell. Farrell made good on a campaign promise to propose changes to city law that would allow new food-related businesses on Fillmore to be approved…
“With the possible exception of New York, it may be said that San Francisco is the world’s best city for regional Italian food,” writes columnist Mark Bittman in Sunday’s New York Times travel section. Among the four places he highlights as his go-to spots: Delfina Pizzeria on California near Fillmore. “The best seats are probably…
SALOONS | Chris Barnett Bartenders come and go at Fillmore Street saloons. But at Florio, at 1915 Fillmore, the shot glass is rarely passed to a newcomer. Tara Burke, a ponytailed, all-American, girl-next-door type with a soft voice and swift hands, has worked the plank here for six years. Noble Harris, who seems aloof initially…
[nggallery id=6] Since the doors to Elizabeth Falkner’s new Citizen Cake finally opened on November 13, a constant stream of people pours in from the street — each one welcomed with the same cheery query: “Are you just browsing the desserts?” Some indeed are looky loos — to be forgiven for ogling the butterscotch miso…