The Ferry Building is getting a luxe neighbor on Wednesday: an eco-friendly waterfront hotel with a splashy farm-to-table restaurant. The new hotel, 1 Hotel San Francisco, is the first in the Bay Area from international luxury hotel chain SH Hotels & Resorts. It takes over the former Hotel Vitale on […]
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It was two days before RH was to welcome more than 1,000 guests to its new showroom at San Francisco’s Pier 70 for a March opening party, and CEO Gary Friedman was eating French toast in the building’s glass-enclosed Palm Court restaurant. He was not pleased. “Over-cooked on the outside […]
The bustle is on during a recent afternoon at BJ’s Restaurant in Beacon, and owner Barbara Sims rakes some jumbo chicken wings through a pan of coating before dropping them in a metal basket. The kitchen is soon popping with the inimitable sound of chicken frying, and a regular customer […]
PINE PLAINS, N.Y. — It’s a fantasy many New Yorkers share: Move upstate, restore an old house, escape the noise of the city. But Clare de Boer, who will open her first solo restaurant, Stissing House, on Thursday, knows this isn’t some romantic endeavor. “It’s cute until you sign the […]
Every restaurant set to open this year in San Antonio has a silent partner: the pandemic. From the lofty ambitions of Allora, Arrosta and Ladino at the Pearl to scrappy projects like Wild Barley Kitchen & Brewery and The Beignet Stand on Broadway, COVID has delayed construction schedules, knotted the […]
The servers at Semma walk around in long-sleeve black T-shirts printed with a white logo that says Unapologetic Indian. This is a reference to Unapologetic Foods, the company that runs Semma along with Dhamaka and Adda Indian Canteen. It’s also the group’s slogan, a vow to offer cuisine that pulls […]