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is the associate editor for the Northern California and Pacific Northwest region writing about restaurant and bar trends, coffee and cafes, and pop-ups.
This is a list of the Bay Area's most notable restaurant and bar openings, with new updates published once a week. Did we miss something great? Please, drop us a line.
August 7
TENDERLOIN — Japanese and Filipino restaurant Ox & Tiger is back. At first, the buzzy Jones Street restaurant will offer three-course prix fixe menus on Sundays and Mondays with reservations available on Tock. In an Instagram post, owners EJ Macayan and Hitomi Wada write they took time off to welcome their child Mamushi. Macayan cut his teeth at Rich Table prior to his pop-up gone restaurant.
HAYES VALLEY — Happy Crane lives in the former Monsieur Benjamin as of Friday, August 8, marking one of the city's most-hyped debuts. The upscale Gough Street restaurant aims to be a destination for fine dining Chinese-style dishes. Self-trained chef James Yeun Leong Parry made sure to include a spruced-up riff on sesame balls, too, made to look like a Ferrero Rocher.
MISSION — After 17 years, Adriano Paganini's Beretta on Valencia Street got a fresh look and reopening on Sunday, August 3. There's a new Italian retro-modern look and a suite of stuzzichini and antipasti from longtime chef Fredy Lopez.
NOE VALLEY — Ingredients opened quietly on Noe Street during the last week of July. The restaurant comes from chef Shuk Dev Tamang who cut his teeth at the Expansion Culinary Institute in Kathmandu. Head here for a variety of dishes including half-roasted chicken and Australian-inspired racks of lamb.
OAKLAND — The Temescal District plays host to the second location of Korean restaurant Mugunghwa. It opened in late June, per the Mercury News, and is a minimal aesthetic hotspot for grilled meats and fried rice.
SAN RAFAEL — Chef Jun Takeda's Japanese restaurant MaruJun opened with Kyushu home-style dishes and Edo-mae sushi techniques, per an email release from the business. The restaurant quietly opened in early April 2025.
CAMPBELL — Bay Area Detroit-style pizza parlor boomtown business Square Pie Guys has gone south. Tuesday, August 5 marked opening day for the business's first South Bay outpost. This marks the fourth location and this one comes with a SPG soda fountain! There'll be burgers, too, a throwback for longtime fans.
YOUNTVILLE — Chef Rebecca Weitzman's Clementine opens on Thursday, August 14 with a big ol' summer-friendly patio. The main attraction though are fruity margaritas and dishes straight off the wood-fired grill.
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