f{"id":32704,"date":"2024-04-04T13:13:08","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T20:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=32704"},"modified":"2024-04-04T13:13:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T20:13:17","slug":"fisch-flore-to-softly-open-tonight-in-the-castro-in-the-51-year-old-cafe-flore-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/04\/04\/fisch-flore-to-softly-open-tonight-in-the-castro-in-the-51-year-old-cafe-flore-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Fisch & Flore to Softly Open Tonight In the Castro, In the 51-Year-Old Cafe Flore Space"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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3 APRIL 2024\/SF RESTAURANTS, FOOD & DRINK<\/a>\/JAY BARMANN<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After four years of being closed and variously boarded over, the former Cafe Flore space at Market and Noe streets comes alive again tonight as Fisch & Flore<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new sustainable seafood restaurant and bar will be softly open Wednesday starting at 4 pm, and owner Serhat Zorlu told Hoodline<\/a> that there will be an opening reception with light bites and a cash bar. This is timed to coincide with the return of the Wednesday Castro Farmers’ Market, which was on its winter hiatus the last few months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I’m happy we’re opening,” Zorlu tells Hoodline. “I’m happy when I hear people say they can’t wait for Fisch & Flore to open.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The front patio at Fisch & Flore now features a fire pit, as well as glass windbreaks all around the exterior fence. The kitchen has also been expanded, an ADA-compliant bathroom has been added, and the bar and dining room spaces have been remodeled, as Hoodline reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The remodeled bar at Fisch & Flore. Photo by Steven Bracco\/Hoodline<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The temporary mural of the late Heklina<\/a>, who died one year ago today<\/a>, came down with the shoring wall around the building on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fisch & Flore will be open for dinner only, to start, and no menu has yet been put online. Daytime and brunch service will follow at some point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tablehopper has some menu details<\/a>, which sound pretty good! In addition to staples like fried calamari and fried smelt, there will be $5 oysters on the half-shell, raw or grilled (6 for $23); baked clams with lime, pistachio, orange, vanilla beans, cardamom, and tarragon vinegar; smoked tuna tartare; and branzino ceviche with cucumber gazpacho and plantain chips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The consulting chef is Tim Luym, who was the chef at long-gone Poleng Lounge in NoPa, and then at Attic in San Mateo. He’s working with Turkish-born chef Efe Top\u00e7uo\u011flu on the menu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The well loved Cafe Flore first opened in the space in 1973, and Zorlu had intended to have Fisch & Flore open last year, in time for the restaurant’s 50th anniversary. As Hoodline reported<\/a> last summer, the start of construction was delayed by permitting issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cafe Flore closed in late 2019<\/a> as former owners Terrance Alan and Luke Bruner focused their attention on opening Flore Dispensary<\/a>, a cannabis store across the street. A prep kitchen behind the dispensary, that had long been used by Cafe Flore to supplement its limited kitchen space, will continue to be used by Fisch & Flore, per Hoodline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was an aborted plan<\/a> to reopen Cafe Flore during the pandemic, for outdoor dining, in mid-2020. And then new owner Zorlu took over the space in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The arrival of this new seafood option in the neighborhood comes just after longtime neighborhood spot Catch closed its doors<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Cafe Flore before it, Fisch & Flore will offer cocktails and a full bar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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