Looking for a new venue to host your next event? Here are the most anticipated San Francisco restaurants, corporate event venues, hotels, conference centers, and party rooms to open next year. These new and renovated San Francisco venues will accommodate groups large or small for private and corporate events, conferences, meetings, weddings, business dinners, teambuilding activities, cocktail parties, and more.
1. Spin, the ping-pong-theme restaurant and bar owned by Susan Sarandon, is headed to San Francisco. The sixth location of Spin is anticipated to open in the SoMa district this winter. The location will have two bars, 16 ping-pong tables, a full kitchen, and private rooms for events.
2. Chef Dominique Crenn will open brasserie-style restaurant Antoinette in Berkeley at the Claremont Club & Spa in early 2016. The historic hotel was recently acquired by Fairmont Hotels and Resorts, and the restaurant upgrade is part of a property revamp.
3. Hotel Via San Francisco is slated to open in South Beach in the spring. The independent boutique hotel will have modern decor, advanced technological features, and green operations and initiatives.
4. Portuguese restaurant Uma Casa is slated to open in early summer in San Francisco’s Noe Valley. The restaurant from chef Telmo Faria will offer a 75-seat dining room as well as a private dining room with room for 20 guests around a large communal table. The space will be decorated with trinkets and photos from Faria’s grandparents.
5. Itani Ramen will open in Oakland in January. The 49-seat noodle bar will offer five types of ramen, along with beer and sake. The interior, designed by Abueg Morris Architects, is inspired by Japanese simplicity and historic Oakland with a long concrete-topped bar, steel shelving, and the building’s original columns and terrazzo floor.
6. The current owner of the San Francisco Armory, adult film site Kink.com, plans to convert a portion of the space into an event venue. The 40,000-square-foot Drill Court is slated to become a live music venue in early 2016. The space’s capacity will be 4,000 guests.
7. Chef Brandon Jew plans to open his newest project, Mister Jiu’s, in Chinatown in early 2016. Located in the former Four Seas space, the 125-seat restaurant will offer traditional Chinese dishes with local California produce, such as steamed cod with ginger broth.
8. Chef Michael Chiarello's NapaStyle will close in January for a revamp. When the Napa venue reopens in mid-March, it will be transformed from a retail environment to a destination for Italian food lovers. NapaStyle’s new space will offer a wood-fired pizza bar, a juice bar, a custom wine blending lab, a brewery, and a full-service mozzarella bar.
9. Michael Tusk and Lindsay Tusk of Quince and Cotogna restaurants in Jackson Square plan to open a new restaurant across the street from their existing restaurants. The 2,000-square-foot venue will be a bit more casual. It will open in the former Barrique wine bar space, and the goal is to open by the spring.
10. The team behind Le Marais Bakery & Bistro plans to open a new 5,000-square-foot location in Ghirardelli Square in the spring. The French boulangerie-inspired restaurant will have a first-floor enclosed terrace and a second-floor dining room offering bay views, with total seating for about 115.
