Bar Shiru News Today

The wide, wonderful world of Japanese cuisine is on the East Bays menu.

Ask longtime Oakland residents for the geographic constraints that define the city's Uptown district, and you'll hear everything from the sliver of space between 14th and 17th streets to the blocks that stretch from 12th to 25th. Ask them when it first received the moniker Uptown (despite being loca...

Crime is hitting downtown Oakland restaurants and bars hard, leading to businesses getting dropped by insurance companies and others installing security gates.

Jason Justice and Justin Cayou are spreading the communal joy of hearing music in high fidelity.

Hi-fi bars, a Japanese genre in which jazz records are played on a high-quality sound system, are suddenly proliferating in the Bay Area. Here’s why.

Wagyu steak specialist Marc Zimmerman and his Ittoryu Gozu chef de cuisine are set to open a casual offshoot restaurant called Yokai, in the former Salt House space in SoMa.

A likely deluge of new COVID cases is on the horizon for the Bay Area, due to the Omicron variant and despite widespread vaccination.

Bay Area restaurants and bars are closing temporarily again due to confirmed and...

April 18, 2021 Sipping a strong drink outside with friends, jazz music in the air, you could almost forget the pandemic—except for masks dangling around everyone’s chins. Telegraph street in downtown Oakland, California has been closed to auto traffic through a program called flex streets, allowing watering holes like Bar Shiru to set up their tables in the avenue for socially-distanced service. To limit menus, credit cards, or cash from passing back and forth between customers and servers,...