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SPQR Goes Raw

The restaurant from chef Matthew Accarrino adds a weekend raw bar with seafood offerings Jun 23, 2025, 6:59 PM UTC SPQR is known for its pastas and Italian dishes, but now the Lower Pac Heights restaurant will feature a new offering dubbed The Bar by Accarrino's, per SFist. On weekends from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., a menu will highlight raw bar classics such as oysters, crudo, and hush puppies; there will also be mussel soup and a 'hot shellfish donut,' plus a half-ounce white sturgeon caviar option if you're feeling spendy. Coffee options will also be available — as well as non-seafood-based, powdered or cinnamon-sugar doughnuts — plus Negronis, mimosas, beer, and house wines by the glass or carafe. SFist also caught the news that Sushi Zone on Market Street will close as of Saturday, July 12. The restaurant has been a staple at 1815 Market Street for 28 years, and a Facebook post from the restaurant states that the landlord 'decided not to renew our lease, making us leave the space we've called home for nearly three decades.' The post goes on to say that the closure is 'just a pause' as the owners look for a new location for the business. The new Bingo Street Cafe opened the week of June 16, the San Francisco Business Times reports, pouring specialty lattes, matcha drinks, and chai at 225 Bush Street, the former location of a Bluestone Lane cafe. The menu features some South Indian touches to the drinks, per the Times , with Mysore filtered coffee, turmeric lattes sweetened with jaggery, and ginger cardamom chai. A second location is allegedly in the works, but the Times was not able to confirm with the owners prior to publish. This summer, the restaurant group behind Flour + Water will host a trio of acclaimed West Coast restaurants in San Francisco for a guest chef dinner series. First up is a collab with Portland's Xiao Ye, with chef Louis Lin and partner Jolyn Chen joining the Flour + Water team for a dinner on Tuesday, July 15. Diners can expect dishes such as khao soi-inspired pasta or kanpachi crudo with strawberry rhubarb nuoc cham, per a press release, with the dinner running $139 per person with optional wine pairings for $65 (reservations are available via Resy). Next up, the team behind Bar Le Cote in Los Olivos will pop up at Penny Roma on Monday, August 4, with a third yet-to-be-revealed dinner collab at Flour + Water Pizzeria set for October.