(We will dearly miss Scharffen Berger, due to depart the Bay Area soon)Today, Eater SF summarizes a grim start to the year for the local food scene. "The Shutter" lists 25 different restaurants that closed in January alone in San Francisco, and one additional spot in the South Bay. Perhaps worst of all is the news that Scharffen Berger and Joseph Schmidt will be leaving the Bay Area sooner rather than later, as SFGate sadly reported last week. However, Eater also meticulously tracks the opening
brotherfromanothermother/FlickrPostrio went dark in mid-June.Yes, restaurants are closing in San Francisco, but it does seem that for every place that closes, another one or two spring open. (And no, they're not all fancy pizza joints.) There are other hopeful signs. Some locations of shuttered restaurants already have plans for new tenants, or the eateries themselves are slated to reopen elsewhere.
June's highest-profile closure was 20-year-old Postrio, Wolgang Puck's S.F. outpost in the Presc
dixiehu/FlickrThe Schmidt store in the Castro shut down last spring.Dig this chocolate goss: A new chocolate shop is opening in the shuttered 16th Street retail store that was the original home of Joseph Schmidt. Schmidt (and Scharffen Berger) parent Hershey Co. closed the shop last spring; there were rumors that a Scharffen Berger shop would open in the space. But today, TasteTV is reporting via press release that Saratoga Chocolates (owned and manned, so to speak, by Mary Loomas) will s
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