A mixed bag of San Francisco restaurant closures for March: two neighborhood Thai spots, a vodka bar offering over a hundred different vodkas on Belden Place, a relatively short-lived Hawaiian place in a Japantown mall, and Bong Su, a glamorous upscale Vietnamese restaurant whose excellent cocktails graced our Best of SF issue in 2007. (Bong Su's sibling, Tamarine, lives on in Palo Alto.) Bong Su (311 3rd Street, at Folsom)Honu's Islands Grinds and Bar (Buchanan Mall, 1737 Buchanan at Sutte
Azie was one of 2009's early casualtiesMany assumed that 2009 would shape up as the year of the restaurant closure in San Francisco, and there have been notable failures: Azie, Bong Su, Jack Falstaff. But the large-scale collapse you might be expecting if you read the business pages hasn't occured, at least not yet. At the same time, with some half a dozen restaurant openings in the past week alone, the mood in restaurant circles is hardly bleak. What's going on here?
The director of the Golden
T. PalmerEloise and Dennis Leung: A sweet couple.DeLise Dessert Café (327 Bay at Powell), which opened Oct. 16., is a new venture from Dennis and Eloise Leung, pastry chefs for the shuttered Bong Su."They let us create whatever we wanted," Dennis Leung told SFoodie of the couple's former employer. "It was a really great place to work." But the Leungs have a lot to celebrate these days. Besides opening their
first café, they're also expecting their first
child next month.T. PalmerChocolate a
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