In-N-Out has filed an application to take over a former Burger King in South San Francisco, adding to your In-N-Out pitstop options just south of the city.The Chronicle caught the application going into South San Francisco’s planning department, which shows In-N-Out taking an interest in 932 and 972 El Camino Real. The location is near a Safeway and a major intersection — at Westborough Boulevard — and sits near McDonald’s and Taco Bell locations.A new In-N-Out here would mean there would be three options for getting your Animal Style Double-Doubles and fries within San Francisco and a few miles of…

Estrellita’s Snacks, a new family-owned brick-and-mortar restaurant in the Tenderloin, has come a long way from its origins as a street vending operation on Mission Street. Maria del Carmen Flores, the matriarch behind Estrellita’s Snacks, started in El Salvador, selling pupusas and fruit on the streets with her mother, Rosa Flores Rodriguez. Amid the Salvadoran civil war in the ’80s, Maria moved to Oaxaca, Mexico, where she ran a restaurant focused on Oaxacan cuisine. Struggling to make ends meet, Maria relocated to San Francisco in 1997, securing a job at a hotel. In 2003, she brought her daughter Estrella Gonzalez…

HALF MOON BAY — In a culinary-star-studded ceremony Monday evening, the Michelin Guide International solidified California’s reputation as a dining mecca, reaffirming all six of the state’s three-star restaurants (two more than New York), honoring 13 restaurants for two-star cuisine and praising hundreds of others for impressive cooking, affordable meals or high sustainability standards.The event was held on the Bay Area coast for the first time, at the Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay.Three restaurants joined the ranks of two-star honorees at the event. Two of them — Aubergine in Carmel and Sons & Daughters in San Francisco — were elevated from…

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — A weekend food festival left a lot of attendees with a bad taste in their mouth.The “West Coast Taco and Beer Festival” promised a fun event with unlimited tacos and bottomless beer samples.That’s not what attendees tell 7 On Your Side they got.PREVIOUS STORY: Underwhelming experience at SF taco and beer festival leaves attendees calling for refundsHundreds of people attending the West Coast Taco and Beer Festival in SF Saturday were met with a long line leading to underwhelming expectations.Now, event organizers say they’re taking refund requests.”The festival, the event organizer was trying really, really hard…

The promise of “bottomless tacos” and “unlimited sample pours” of beer attracted hundreds to a weekend food festival at The Midway. But instead of going home with full stomachs, attendees were hangry and disappointed that the West Coast Taco & Beer festival was a bust.Aaron Wolfson, 51, of Pleasant Hill, said he expected the $60 tickets he bought for his family to cover unlimited tacos from dozens of vendors. Instead, there were just four merchants selling tacos. Meanwhile, the craft beer samples were limited to “little, tiny pours,” he said.“There wasn’t one happy person there. Everyone felt scammed,” he told…

First things first: Emmy’s Spaghetti Shack isn’t going anywhere. That being said, the business is changing ownership. An eagle-eyed tipster and Emmy’s regular recently noted some slight changes including a new website and a handful of new menu items. As it turns out, Emmy’s bartender Michael Irish bought the business and officially took over on Wednesday, July 31, as first reported by Broke-Ass Stuart. It’s perhaps the best case scenario for the sale of a longtime San Francisco favorite; Irish saved up and was in the market to buy and run his own bar, and Emmy’s founder Emmy Kaplan wanted…

Before she opened Linda’s Ocean Nails, Chris worked at another nail salon down the street for 10 years alongside her mom while also working part-time at Wells Fargo. After majoring in accounting at San Francisco State, she decided to open the nail salon instead of becoming an accountant so that her mom could work for her and get the treatment she deserved. “I came back here and I decided to run the place myself because, you know, with the language barrier, my mom’s English was not that well, and I see her struggling with the business she’s at,” she remembers.…

And so it has finally closed, the portal to another dimension, the 24-hour purveyor of eggs and cigarettes and baked goods that claimed to be donuts, the David Lynch film come to life right here in San Francisco. I’m talking, of course, about Silver Crest, the donut shop on Bayshore Boulevard that improbably stayed open for over 50 years, becoming a San Francisco institution. Along the way, it also became a restaurant and bar, a hangout for drunks, a set for photoshoots and at least one music video, and a late-night “Heyyy, you wanna see something really weird?” double-dare for…

The neon sign outside of Silver Crest Donut Shop will no longer shine brightly at night — the long-running 24-hour restaurant and bar is now closed as of Monday, July 29, the San Francisco Standard reports. Since the news broke, it’s been a crowded field of news articles displaying both appreciation and candor around the mythos of this restaurant at 340 Bayshore Boulevard. The interior of the doughnut shop has been described as “something from a David Lynch film” or a “portal to another dimension.” “Hard to pinpoint exactly when the clock stopped,” a 2023 Alta profile reads, “but judging…

Fortunately, there are places in this town that still deliver this kind of attentive and elegant hospitality. Bix certainly does. So does Boulevard, the 1994-born restaurant on the Embarcadero where I let a staff member graciously guide me from my seat through the dining room, all the way to the stairwell leading to the bathroom — even though I already knew the way. Another prime example: At a recent birthday dinner at Foreign Cinema, which opened in 1999 in the Mission, a handwritten card from owner Gayle Pirie greeted us at the table.  As a professional restaurant-goer, I acknowledge that dining at…