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
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Side parts and skinny jeans, sure. But Gen Z has mischaracterized their elders drinking habits, in this week s Drinking with Esther newsletter
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Monique Pascual, Jwahir Leaks, and Amber Fretwell taste wine at The Prisoner on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019, in Saint Helena, Calif.Paul Kuroda/Special to The Chronicle
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For the year of the ox, Bay Area s food community is grounding itself
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Water buffalo, whose milk is used to make Italian style mozzarella di bufala, at the Ramini facility in Tomales. The buffalo have rock star names like Pat Benetar, Van Morrison, and Chris Isaac.Jason Henry / Special To The Chronicle 2015
We’re entering this new phase in the lunar calendar, which has come along with a palpable period of mental and physical fatigue among a lot of people I know. The year of the rat has left many with feelings of cynicism, exhaustion and grief, and rightfully so, considering everything that we’ve endured until now. But I’m finding comfort in knowing that we’re entering the year of the ox or in the Vietnamese version of the zodiac, the water buffalo. The buffalo’s steadiness and determination are grounding forces: antipodes to the chaos and instability of the previous year.