San Francisco restaurant scene.
Grub Street's Jay B. posts another signature pre-open walk-through slide show (exclusive!), this time for Benu, opening next Tuesday. You can almost taste the neutral color scheme, in shades of $$$. Oh, and before you put that browser away, click through the serene emptiness of just-opened B³. It'll be the last time you see it free of bros.
P. Lucchesi (Inside Scoop) sniffs out salumi in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood, next to A Coté. The former Citron space is morphing into Enoteca Molinari (5474 College, enoteca-molinari.com/). The pitch: Italian small plates, no lack of wine. Now where have we heard that before?
Scoop keeps it Oaklandish. When older-than-dirt bakery Neldam's closed a few weeks back, it seemed like cherry-custard Danish had disappeared forever from Telegraph Avenue. Not so, reports P.L.: A group of Neldam's workers has formed a co-op with the landlord to open A Taste of Denmark in the same space (3401 Telegraph). Could be open as soon as two weeks from now.
And Eater's Carolyn A. spends an hour scrolling through a pro-am collection of early(-ish) reviews of TyFlo's Wayfare Tavern. Oops, missed a small one.
