Chef of groundbreaking Filipino pop-up Pinoy Heritage is opening a new San Francisco restaurant
Called Abacá, Francis Ang s new restaurant is slated to debut this summer
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Turon with matcha, banana and passion fruit at Pinoy Heritage in San Francisco. Chef Francis Ang will bring his modern Filipino cuisine to his first brick-and-mortar, Abacá.Patricia Chang / Special to The Chronicle 2019
Francis Ang, who has been at the forefront of the Bay Area’s modern Filipino food scene for years with his pop-up Pinoy Heritage, is opening his first full-blown restaurant this summer in San Francisco.
Billed as a contemporary Filipino-Californian restaurant, Abacá will reside inside the Kimpton Alton Hotel, a new boutique hotel opening in May near Fisherman’s Wharf. Abacá is slated to open after the hotel’s debut, likely in late June or July.
. On Saturday, shop locally made goods at West Coast Craft s outdoor market on the waterfront at Fort Mason. (Courtesy of West Coast Craft) 28 Fun Things to Do This Week (4.19.21)
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New Belgium Brewing, the Colorado brewery best known for Fat Tire amber ale, has officially landed with an explosion of beer and bicycles in the Bay. Taking over the big space from Little Creatures in Mission Bay, this is New Belgium’s first official presence with a taproom in SF, and the brewery’s first full restaurant. It officially opens this Friday, April 9, which luckily for baseball fans, is the exact same day as the Giants’ first home game of the season, just a peanut’s throw away in neighboring Oracle Park.
New Belgium was employee owned for many years, but it falls under a giant brand these days: Lion in Sydney, a subsidiary of Kirin in Japan, now owns New Belgium, Magnolia, and Little Creatures. Fortunately, they have hired a few local ringers to consult on this new location: Head brewer Ramon Tamayo, coming from Russian River Brewing Company and Anchor Brewing, will be crafting a few local beers, and Laura and Sayat Ozyilmaz, the founding chefs of Noosh, mastermi