There’s never a shortage of restaurants news in dining-obsessed San Francisco. Here are four haute restaurants, or sure to be haute restaurants once they open, with exciting news.

Lombard Street in the Marina may lack the pizazz of its parallel neighbors, Union Street and Chestnut Street, but it now has something very enviable: a sparkling new and spacious Barry’s Bootcamp—the largest on the West Coast.

Every Golden State Warriors fan, which is probably every one of you reading this unless you’re in Cleveland, knows Nicole Curran. She’s the most stylish lady in the team’s colors sitting courtside at every home game at Oracle Arena—right next to her fiance Joe Lacob—and she’s president of the Warriors Community Foundation. The former Washington, D.C. school teacher worked in the wine industry when she first moved west. In addition to knowing Napa well, she’s also intimate with the city and the South Bay—the couple resides primarily in Atherton and has a home in St. Helena. Therefore who better to share their guide to the San Francisco Bay Area than Curran. Here are her hautest haunts.

Calling all jetsetters: if you’re itching to use your passport this holiday season, here are four lovely European cities that are especially wonderful this time of year—along with our choices for the hautest hotel in each locale.

Fairmont San Jose, located in the heart of Silicon Valley, is offering the Ultimate Super Bowl 50 Package: eight tickets for an exclusive game day experience, plus extraordinary accommodations and indulgences for a truly memorable Bay Area getaway. The cost? Just $50,000 a night.

Northern California’s wait for Shinola, the Detroit-based design brand known for its handmade watches, bicycles and leather goods, is almost over! Just in time for holiday shopping, a Palo Alto store opens on Dec. 18. A San Francisco outpost is set to follow in late January.

San Francisco is overflowing these days with haute holiday events from fundraisers to benefit children to the swell set mingling with one another. Here’s a look at just a few of the events that have taken place this month.

Michelin-starred chef Michael Mina is teaming up with the NFL and NFL Foundation to create On The Fifty – A Charitable Dining Experience restaurant at RN74 in San Francisco. Fans will have the opportunity to receive a taste of Super Bowl hospitality and participate in an interactive charitable dining experience benefitting the NFL Foundation in the days leading up to The Big Game.

Musician Michael Franti may be on tour these days but that doesn’t mean the Bay Area native is too busy to pop home for good causes. He joined GLIDE for its Annual Holiday Jam: Love Matters on Dec. 3 at the Warfield Theatre, and on Dec. 7 he was in Berkeley for the unveiling of the new Claremont Club & Spa, a Fairmont Hotel.