The past 72 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the
San Francisco restaurant scene.
Inside Scoop's Paolo L. learns that a pair of Shanghai 1930 staffers are planning to open Pudong (2029 Market) in the former Mecca space. The pitch: Shanghainese food with French accents.
Humin at Tenderblog snaps a shot of the dueling signboards outside Wrap Delight (426 Larkin), a Vietnamese banh mi shop now selling tacos and burritos as well. Is this, you ask, the first Mexican-Vietnamese restaurant in San Francisco? No, it is not.
also has some good news for anyone not living in Santa Cruz — Charlie
Parker, a Manresa alumnus recently profiled in the NYT for his food at
Bonny Doon's Cellar Door, is going to become the chef at Plum, Daniel Patterson's Oakland restaurant.
