Old San Francisco speakeasy gets new life as a pop-up restaurant

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Remember when restaurants used to boast about how long they’d been in business? Now, it’s all about, well, now. Bricks and mortar permanence has given way to the shock of the culinary new. Food lovers chase food trucks, whose chefs in turn chase the next new trend, unshackled by high rents and overhead. Adventurous home cooks and would-be chefs run secret supper clubs—occasional, nomadic “restaurants” whose locations and menus are announced last minute via emails or text messages to diners. And now, chefs are taking a page from retailers, opening temporary pop-up restaurants. Continue reading “Old San Francisco speakeasy gets new life as a pop-up restaurant”