Restaurant Rush, spring ’25
RESTAURANTS • The Nines
Nine recent notable restaurant openings for your booking pleasure. Additions or subtractions? Hit reply or found@itsfoundsf.com. For the full archives, click here.
Lobby Bar (Castro), Hotel Castro’s ground-floor bar flips into high-end cocktail spot w/ pão de queijo waffles, churrasco, lavender honey fries, walk-ins only
Meski (Tenderloin), Draymond Green-co-owned subterranean lounge w/ Nelson German-set menu of Afro-Caribbean plates, (intel below), reserve
Bar Brucato (Mission), Brucato Amaro-owners’ bar w/ great snacks, rotating pastas, steak, (intel), reserve
Side A (Mission), listening bar from Aphotic chef, short rib Parisian gnocchi, homemade donuts, reserve
Bar Shoji (SoMa, above), daytime cafe turns to Thai small plates and snacks in cinematically moody, high-ceilinged space at night, reserve
Turtle Tower (FiDi), cult-fave pho joint rises again as slick power lunch destination, reserve
Steps of Rome (North Beach), chic, nostalgic reboot of tourist spot closed in 2011, spicy rigatoni, fried pizza, reserve
Sirene (Oakland), seafood slam-dunk from The Morris owners, whip-smart wine list, reserve
Understory (Oakland), revival of shuttered brunch + dinner collective, malunggay pasta, chicken inasal, banana heart salad, walk-ins only