The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/09/26/this-week-in-food-7-bay-area-spots-make-50-best/The arrival of Via Aurelia, a new bottle shop comes to NoPa, North America's 50 Best list honors seven Bay Area spots, and Wilkommen says auf wiedersehen in the Castro, all in This Week In Food. This week we had news of the opening of Via Aurelia, the new fine-dining offshoot of Che Fico, coming next week to the Mission Rock development. The restaurant takes Tuscany as its inspiration, and you can expect plenty of pomp in the service, with the goal of making the dining experience a bit more theatrical, like it was in olden times. And there was the sad news of the passing of Joe Betz, the owner of House of Prime Rib for its latter 40 years. He was 86, and his son Steven conti

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