Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Buzz Machine
Whole Lot of Restaurants Freshening Up These Days
Posted
By Jonathan Kauffman
on Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 7:29 AM
The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene.
We're still in the restaurant industry's slow month. That means a lot of downtime for renovations, pick-me-ups, and new directions:
- According to SFoodie, Tres Agaves is closing until Mar. 3 to remodel. Inside Scoop adds that the bar-restaurant is renaming itself Tres to separate it from the Tres Agaves tequila label.
- Live SoMa learns that ThirstyBear is closing for remodeling until Friday, Feb. 25.
- Eater and Grub Street tag-team to inform us that the wine bar connected to Saison, Decantr, is closing until Mar. 1 to tweak the concept. Wine stays, cooked food goes ― it'll be mostly a raw bar.
Feast reports on the opening of My Ivy (1901 Divisadero, at Pine, 567-9443) in Pacific Heights. The pitch: neighborhood Thai.
Lastly, a new chef: According to Inside Scoop, Radius in SOMA has hired Matt Kerley, last the chef of Magnolia, to run its kitchen.
Tags: Decantr, Radius, Saison, ThirstyBear, Tres, Tres Agaves, Image
