Though the name lost some luster after Michael Bauer eviscerated its questionable price point — later pulling the titular restaurant from this year's Top 100 — Michael Mina plans on opening two additional downtown locations. In June he will introduce Pabu Izakaya, a sushi and Japanese grill joint, and The Ramen Bar, following on the heels of the current ramen trend saturating the SF food scene.
This would bring Mina's total roster of San Francisco restaurants to a whopping seven. The Mina group manages 20 restaurants in total.
Most notably, the Mina folks plan on opening the two restaurants at 101 California, a building notorious for playing host to a 1993 mass shooting that claimed the lives of nine people, including the shooter, Gian Luigi Ferri.
Per Wikipedia:
On July 1, 1993, 55-year-old failed entrepreneur Gian Luigi Ferri (born December 29, 1937 as Gianluigi Ettore Ferri) entered an office building at 101 California Street in San Francisco, and made his way to the offices of the law firm of Pettit & Martin on the 34th floor. Ferri's reason for targeting the firm is unknown; it had advised him about some real estate deals in the Midwest in 1981, but had had no contact with him in the 12 years since. After exiting an elevator, Ferri donned a pair of ear protectors and opened fire with a pair of TEC-9 handguns and a Norinco NP44 (a Chinese-manufactured copy of the Colt M1911 pistol). He reportedly used a mix of Black Talon hollow point and standard ammunition, and used Hellfire trigger systems for the TEC-9 pistols. After roaming the 34th floor, he moved down one floor through an internal staircase and continued shooting. The attack continued on several floors before Ferri committed suicide as San Francisco Police closed in. Eight people were killed in the attack, and six others injured.
Though Ferri left behind an unintelligible letter, his reasons for committing the murders were never known.
