In this 2004 photo, chef Luke Sung, left, stands with fellow restaurateurs in San Francisco. Recently, Sung found himself at the center of a social media firestorm. (Carlos Avila Gonzalez / San ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) – A new wine bar in San Francisco has has announced that its chef is “no longer” with the restaurant amid fallout from an ill-fated collaboration with a TikTok influencer. On ...

A celebrated San Francisco chef claims a viral TikTok scandal with an influencer who visited his restaurant for a collaboration video has shattered his career and left his family needing to “heal” — ...

Paolo Bicchieri is the associate editor for the Northern California and Pacific Northwest region writing about restaurant and bar trends, coffee and cafes, and pop-ups. “I loved the city as a kid,” Wu ...

In 2025, Charles Thornton’s childhood home in San Francisco went viral on TikTok. He and his siblings were holding an estate sale at the 1870s Victorian—where their mother had lived for five decades ...