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Some fast bites: Heena Patel of BESHARAM at Minnesota Street Project has parted ways with Daniel Patterson’s Alta Group (a mutual decision) and has assumed full operational control of the restaurant. She will be making some changes to the concept, becoming more family-friendly in format, plus some other tweaks.…

Last week, I had the incredible good fortune to attend the pre-opening party of DANDELION CHOCOLATE’s new factory, café, and retail shop in the Mission. It’s a staggering, 28,000-square-foot space designed by Chris Harrelson of architecture firm Gensler. The building is quite a beaut: it’s 107…

Dim sum fanatics (and Instagram stunt food aficionados) have been eagerly anticipating the opening of PALETTE TEA HOUSE (no relation to Palette in SoMa), and it’s now open in Ghirardelli Square (in the former Waxman’s space). Eater reports there are “127 seats in the main dining room, 19…

Folks living in SoMa and Giants fans will soon have a new location of THE BRIXTON to dine at, due to open Friday May 3rd. The first location is on Union Street in Cow Hollow, which opened eight years ago, and is currently getting renovated. Hat Trick Hospitality (Adam Snyder,…

Some great news about local chefs and pop-ups finding permanent spaces, starting with Shawn Naputi and general manager Shawn Camacho of the Guamanian PRUBECHU, who are moving into the former Aster space (they had to leave their previous location on Mission St. when their rent got jacked up). With the…