“Do you want to buy a restaurant?” was the question that a friend put to Dan Levin a year ago. His immediate answer was no. The restaurant was Bearing West, a seafood spot on Taraval Street in the Sunset, and the friend was its owner, John Giuffre. But Levin couldn’t help but mull over the idea.
“I kept thinking about it, like, ‘OK, well, actually, I’ve been doing this for 30 years,’” he says. “It’s about time I got a brick-and-mortar.”
Levin joined forces with Danny Tasker, another friend from the food-and-beverage world, and chef Edwin Olson came on board shortly after. Their project, a counter-service rotisserie spot called Bare Bones (opens in new tab), will have a soft open on Oct. 29. A full opening is slated for early November…