Flour + Water Pizzeria is back in action, this time in a prime space on Columbus Avenue. The restaurant, which was formerly located on Valencia in the Mission, moved into the former Rose Pistola space in late June, bringing back a menu of red and white pizzas; starters including meatballs and mozzarella sticks; and soft serve ice cream with various toppings for desserts. If you’re looking to grab a pie or big slice to-go, pop around to the Pizza Shop off Stockton. 

San Francisco diners may know chefs Laura and Sayat Ozyilmaz as the couple who opened Noosh restaurant and helped make it one of the city’s hottest restaurants before their abrupt departure in 2019. Now they’re back as chefs and first-time restaurant owners of Dalida, a modern Eastern Mediterranean restaurant in the Presidio. The menu spans classics like a fattoush salad and kibbe plus less traditional ingredient combos like a sea urchin tahdig topped with smoked trout roe. 

Holbrook House is the wildly ambitious all-day restaurant now serving coffee, eggs, sandwiches, salads, Champagne, and caviar in the newly renovated atrium at One Sansome. The restaurant, which is open to the public for breakfast, lunch, and dinner — and can flip into a private event space at night — aims to be both luxurious and approachable for downtown workers, whether they’re looking to start the day with a Craftsman and Wolves pastry and a coffee, or end it with a tableside martini and a plate of mussels.

San Francisco diners are likely familiar with Adriano Paganini’s Back of the House restaurants, which include El Techo, a Mano, and local mini-chain Super Duper Burger. But his latest gets more personal, drawing inspiration from his childhood summers spent near the Ligurian Sea. Corzetti, located inside Hotel G near Union Square, serves seafood-centric and regional fare including seafood and shellfish ciuppin, a seafood stew similar to cioppino; pansotti in salsa di noci, a stuffed pasta filled with greens; and fazzoletti al pesto, a handkerchief-shaped pasta common in Liguria.

As of mid-March, there’s a new spot for coffee, espresso, fresh pastries, and other daytime fare in Lower Pacific Heights. Mattina comes from a familiar face in the neighborhood: Chef Matthew Accarrino has been pushing out plates of fresh pasta at SPQR for years now but this new cafe will serve food and drink from sunup to sundown. The all-day menu includes fresh pasta and wood-fired proteins such as a sirloin steak and a hefty pork chop.

Chef Anthony Strong, the pasta savant known for his time cooking at Pizzeria Delfina, Locanda, and Prairie, opened his carb-y noodle destination Pasta Supply Co. in late March. There’s a counter where you can grab a bevy of fresh shapes including big sheets, tightly rolled garganelli, and spring-y filled options in several varieties to take home. For dine-in, offered from 5 to 9 p.m. seven days a week, order your vegetable sides and bowls of fresh noodles at the door before grabbing a table.

Four years after its previous location was destroyed in a fire, a beloved San Francisco destination for dim sum has returned. The San Francisco Chronicle has the full story of HK Lounge Bistro’s big comeback. It’s open for lunch and dinner on the ground floor of a resident highrise at 99 Rausch Street in SoMa, and the menu resurfaces many fan-favorite dishes including crispy baked pork buns and steamed har gow. 

A pair of vets from Michelin-starred Sons & Daughters struck out on their own to open Kiln, a tasting menu restaurant “highlighting quality ingredients, minimalism, and technique,” per a press release. The restaurant takes over the former Cala space at 149 Fell Street where the Civic Center neighborhood meets Hayes Valley. The full 18-20 course tasting menu costs $225 with an option for an abbreviated 8-10 courses at the bar for $135. 

At long last, the doors are open at Sandy’s, the much-anticipated New Orleans-inspired sandwich shop from Peterson Harter, a native of the Big Easy and a muffuletta expert. Harter started Sandy’s during the pandemic as a pop-up business so the Haight Street shop marks a big jump into a permanent space. To start, the menu includes muffuletta piled high with prosciutto, mortadella, soppressata, provolone, and spicy olive salad, which can be ordered by the quarter- and 1/8th-slice. There’s also a vegetarian version, chocolate chip cookies, and drinks (the nonalcoholic kind).

Berkeley Thai restaurant Funky Elephant has made do with its small space for years — but as of this summer, they’ve expanded to the city with a new, larger space. The menu remains largely the same, full of crunchy party wings; yum kai dao, or fried egg salad; and the popular Pad Thai Old Skool. Beer and wine round out the offerings for the dinner-only restaurant on Valencia. 

Since announcing plans for a permanent restaurant back in late 2022, chef Dontaye Ball has had fans salivating over Gumbo Social’s big move to the Bayview. Well, the wait is over as of June 3, when the restaurant celebrates its grand opening and debuts a menu of “build-your-own” gumbo, plus soul food favorites including red beans and rice, black-eyed peas, and po’boy sandwiches.