This Week In Food: Spider-Man In Marin?

Hadeem is headed to the Lower Haight, 15 Romolo gets ready to reveal its two-year remodeled look, and Miami chef Brad Kilgore has snagged the former Leo's Oyster Bar, all in This Week in Food.

The Lower Haight will be getting a new California-Jewish restaurant from chef Spencer Horovitz, who will be going brick-and-mortar with his three-year-old pop-up Hadeem. As the Chronicle reports, he's moving into the space at 682 Haight that is now occupied by Otra, which has announced it will close in December. The spot will feature Horowitz's signature dishes including his ultra flavor-bomb, Sichuan-inspired take on dolmas, his gnocchi "matzoh ball" soup, smoked harissa chicken, and his scallion pancake knishes. It sounds like he's aiming for a mid-winter opening, or maybe spring 2027.

One of the earliest, speakeasy-adjacent, high-end cocktail spots to arrive in San Francisco in the early aughts wave of SF cocktail mania was 15 Romolo, which actually opened its doors in 1998 on that tiny alley off Broadway in North Beach (and the bar itself dates back to 1912). Tablehopper has the details on the rebirth of 15 Romolo following a two-year remodel and a slight ownership shuffle — Greg Lindgren and Jon Gasparini remain partners in the business, with Gasparini bringing in his wife Kelly Anne, and the couple are now doing the day-to-day operation with their son, Giovanni Gasparini, serving as chef. Some Basque influence will be back from the olden days — in this building that is the Basque Hotel — as well the house meatballs, and there will be a presa pork sandwich, a chophouse steak sandwich, and multiple veggie items as well. Cocktails will keep to hew to the classics, and well crafted originals.They're aiming to open in the next two weeks.

Miami chef Brad Kilgore has apparently not given up on San Francisco, with the Chronicle reporting this week that following the abrupt May closures of Ama by Brad Kilgore and Cafe Sebastian at the Transamerica complex, Kilgore is the new taker for the recently shuttered Leo's Oyster Bar space at 568 Sacramento Street. The restaurant will again be seafood focused, with a raw bar/oyster component, and named The Bonacker, with an opening planned in early 2027. The place sounds more geared toward the business lunch crowd, with lobster rolls and fried fish sandwiches, but we'll see.

A celebrity sighting of a very casual, more LA nature — grabbing a takeout salad versus having a celebratory meal while in town — happened in Marin County this week, bolstering rumors that Tom Holland and Oakland native Zendaya recently bought a home in Tiburon. Holland, who's coming off a summer in which he starred in the season's two biggest blockbuster hits, Spider-Man: Brand New Day and The Odyssey (Zendaya is also in both), was spotted grabbing salads on Tuesday at MIXT on East Blithedale Avenue in Mill Valley, and offered to take a selfie with the staff. The couple have also been reportedly spotted at downtown Tiburon restaurants Salt and Pepper and The Caprice, and they're probably happy about the fact that they're not being recognized very often. Per a source who spoke to the Daily Mail, Zendaya sometimes wears wigs or hats to disguise herself, and "There are a lot of older people here, the median age is like 50, so they don't even know who Zendaya and Tom Holland are. Most of the people in Tiburon don't see films like Spider-Man."

We got the news Friday that Bacchus Management Group (Spruce, La Contessa, Village Pub, Selby's) is opening a splashy new spot in Burlingame called The Old Post Office — in what was a 1940s-built post office that ended its useful life in 2014. The main dinner menu will be a $120 prix fixe, with options therein, in a contemporary American vein, and a more casual menu, including a burger, will be available in the Postmaster's Bar. The place opens October 1, and reservations can be found here.

Al Pastor Papi, the small, Mexico City-style taco shop that opened its first brick-and-mortar outpost near Union Square last year as part of the city's Vacant to Vibrant program, has announced it will close at the end of the year. Owner Miguel Escobedo tells KRON4 that he appreciated the city's help and getting him a year-and-a-half lease, but new owners have taken over the building and he could not afford the rent they want to charge.

And between two critics at the Chronicle they still don't seem to be able to manage even a new review every two weeks, let alone every week — didn't Michael Bauer used to do two per week, with one update of an older restaurant on Thursday and one new one on Sunday? But maybe soon? Meanwhile, Bauer will be in conversation with new head critic MacKenzie Chung Fegan next week at a Gray Area event... stay tuned for insights from that.