San Francisco, Bay Area restaurants that permanently closed last month
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Cosecha, at 907 Washington St., Oakland, closed at the end of March.Angela M. via Yelp
Throughout March, many Bay Area restaurants and businesses continued to close for good despite most Bay Area counties moving into the less restrictive orange tier of California’s reopening plan.
Two longstanding restaurants among the losses included Tyger’s Coffee Shop in San Francisco, which quietly closed on March 31, and Baja Cactus in Milpitas, which closed after 36 years in business.
Many businesses shuttered after an inability to agree on leases with their landlords. That was the case with 10-year-old cocktail bar Maven, which forever closed at the end of March but it’s just one of the many reasons these businesses shut down. Last month, former owners of Prairie, CatHead’s BBQ and The Stud talked about the different ways their restaurants or bars couldn’t survive the pandemic, and what
Bay Area Bubble Tea Shops Face Imminent Boba Shortage
Plus, Bissap Baobab Oakland has closed, for good this time
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Bubble tea fans, be warned shops in the Bay Area (and the rest of the U.S.) are facing a boba shortage, due to a massive backlog of shipping containers stuck at ports on the West Coast. The backlog is impacting nearly every product that comes from Asia to the U.S., according to MarketWatch, but the boba shortage is the result of “a perfect storm,” Oliver Yoon, vice president of sales for Boba Direct, told Business Insider. That’s because in addition to boba balls stuck at the ports, so are shipments of raw tapioca starch, an essential ingredient for suppliers that make their own boba in the U.S. The industry-wide shortage is already starting to hit Bay Area shops, with Andrew Chau and Bin Chen of Boba Guys warning they may run out at their cafes in the next week, and that they expect availability to be “in flux for several months.” [Mark