Just in time for our latest taste of balmy spring weather, Sam's Anchor Cafe is reopening Thursday following an extensive six-week remodel that attempts to activate and brighten up the restaurant's under-used indoor spaces.
The Tiburon landmark, which dates back a century to around 1920, had seen some wear and tear in recent decades and was in sore need of a facelift, as Eater reports. Enter San Francisco-based ROY Design, who also designed interiors for A Mano in Hayes Valley and Barvale on Divisadero.
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The bright and clean facelift includes plenty of wood, leather, and white subway tile, and the popular deck space out back has been updated with a new railing, decking, tables, chairs, umbrellas, and an 80-foot heated bench for chillier weather. And the dining room now opens onto the deck with a big glass slider.
As always, there is still free popcorn, and Mai Tais.
The new all-day menu features the standards like calamari, oysters, fish and chips, and a lobster roll — with the addition of shareable cocktails in bowls like an Aperol spritz served with the prosecco bottle neck down in the bowl, and a pink lemonade with Tito's vodka. The brunch menu features the addition of chilaquiles, smoked salmon Benedict, and brioche French toast topped with bananas Foster.
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Sam's reopens Thursday, April 18, and hours, as before, will be 11:30 a.m. to midnight Monday to Friday, and 10 a.m. to midnight on Saturday and Sunday.