Lori Baker and Jeff Banker, owners of the two-month-old Baker and Banker in Pacific Heights, are not the ones to break a winning streak. They're the third pair in a row to run a successful restaurant in the same spot on the corner of Octavia and Bush. The first was the Meetinghouse, John Bryant Snell and Joanne Karlinsky's bistro, famous for its warm biscuits and playful American fare. Then in 2003, Michael and Lindsay Tusk turned the space into Quince, source of some of the best pastas on the West Coast. The Tusks refined their food and service until they earned a Michelin star, then decamped for a larger, more soigné space north of the Financial District this winter. Baker and Banker quickly moved in after them, opening for service Dec. 1. Who knows what rituals they've had to enact to keep the streak alive — wearing lucky underwear, sacrificing a chicken on the doorstep — but it... More >>>