This Week In Food: Deep Fall

A beloved Bernal Mexican restaurant is expanding to the Chase Center, a rising star chef s new spot has found a home on Upper Fillmore, and Jupiter Room appears close to opening on Upper Polk, all in This Week In Food.Beloved Bernal Mexican spot El Buen Comer is expanding with a second location in Thrive City at the Chase Center. As the SF Business Times reports, they are moving into the space vacated earlier this year by the short-lived Taco Primo which was from the folks behind The Snug and Little Shucker. El Buen Comer chef-owner Isabel Pazos tells the Business Times that she s hoping to open the new location by early December.Over in Japantown, the luxe Thai tasting menu spot at the Kimpton Hotel Enso, hed 11, which I sang the praises of in 2024, is pivoting to a more casual concept, becoming a new location of downtown sister restaurant hed Very Thai. As the team explained in an email, much of the restaurant team will remain in place, but they decided that as dining habits have c