Buzzy yet controversial Oakland restaurant closes for good

Buzzy yet controversial Oakland restaurant closes for good

Tacos served at Calavera in Oakland.  Alex M./Yelp Calavera, a buzzy yet controversial Mexican restaurant in Oakland’s Uptown neighborhood known for its wide assortment of mezcal, toasted chapulines and carnitas tacos, permanently closed on Saturday after just over eight years in business.  “This is not the way we wanted the new year to start, however, … Read more

Rosamunde defies troubled history, announces reopening

Rosamunde defies troubled history, announces reopening

Though it’s not very often that you hear about a positive “surprise turn of events” in the Bay Area’s post-pandemic restaurant scene, one classic outpost in the Mission District is slated to challenge the status quo and rise from the dead.  Rosamunde Sausage Grill, a decades-old German sausage house in San Francisco, originally planned on … Read more