Even in a national landscape littered with creative cocktail bars, with a new-school cocktail culture that is now two decades old and spawning still newer schools, San Francisco's Trick Dog remains a singular thing, and place.
The long-delayed and eagerly awaited casual Korean project from Michelin three-star chef Corey Lee (Benu, In Situ, Monsieur Benjamin) is making its debut Monday night in the Mission, and it's booking up very fast.
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Ordering delivery through an app like DoorDash or GrubHub saves the trouble of cooking and lets you be a little picky you can order from your favorite restaurant. But imagine receiving your food, sitting down to eat, and it tasting.
different. And then, following your gut, you learn that you’ve been duped by a fake, an imposter restaurant that stole its name. For many people ordering from two Japanese restaurants in San Francisco, that exact thing may have happened,
One restaurant, now styled as an izakaya called Chome, originally opened for delivery and takeout in the former location of Blowfish Sushi. Except it didn’t bother to change the name, awning, or logo at the start. Chome, operating as if it were Blowfish Sushi, served sushi to people ordering through apps like GrubHub, Postmates, DoorDash, and Uber Eats using the identity of a restaurant that closed in December 2020. Before it closed, Blowfish Sushi had been serving its neig
DoorDash and Grubhub removed imposter S.F. sushi listings. But diners remain skeptical of delivery apps
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A Grubhub driver waits for an order at an Oakland restaurant. After a story broke about an allegedly fake San Francisco restaurant, some Bay Area readers cast blame on delivery apps.Noah Berger / Special to The Chronicle 2020
Food delivery is reportedly growing to become a $365 billion industry by 2030, and entities from DoorDash to ex-Uber CEO Travis Kalanick are investing in millions restaurants that have no dining room but do have online pages for delivery.
But judging by reactions to a tale of an S.F. business allegedly impersonating two famous Japanese restaurants, many Bay Area diners still don’t entirely trust online food delivery operations. When the story ran, readers reached out to The Chronicle in shock. They were often quick to cast blame and call out other potential fakes, illustrating the Bay Area’s general paranoia over ghost kitchens,