SF food news: El Buen Comer heads to Thrive City, hed 11 becomes hed Very Thai
A Mission Street favorite is moving to the Chase Center plaza, and several other San Francisco openings and changes are coming.
By the Bay Area Brief staff · Edited by Seamus McKenna · · 3 min read
Mission Dolores Park and the downtown San Francisco skyline on a clear day. Photo: 4300streetcar / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 (cropped, resized and color-graded). Archive photo of the area; not a photo of the events in this story.
El Buen Comer, chef-owner Isabel Pazos's Mexican restaurant that spent 10 years on Mission Street, is moving into the former Taco Primo space at Thrive City, 1 Warriors Way, Suite 205. It's aiming to open in December.
Other items from SFist's weekly food roundup:
hed 11 will serve its last dinners on Oct. 30 and reopen as hed Very Thai on Nov. 13.
Good Morning 96, from Gizela Ho, is planned for early 2027 at 2235 Fillmore St.
Jupiter Room at 2065 Polk St. is targeting late 2026.
In the North Bay, Michael Warring in Vallejo closes Dec. 5 and plans to reopen in Benicia.
Saam received a starred review from the San Francisco Chronicle.
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