An offshoot of one of San Francisco’s most beleaguered restaurants has closed after nine scandal-plagued months.
Hamburger Project (opens in new tab), which replaced the sushi-centric Handroll Project on the corner of Guerrero and 18th Streets in the Mission last August, has shuttered. Owner Tan Truong confirmed the decision. “We just weren’t getting traction there,” he said Tuesday afternoon. The news was first reported (opens in new tab) by Eater SF.
That may be a considerable understatement. The smashburger restaurant’s demise comes approximately six weeks after a viral incident in which a neighbor spotted raw beef (opens in new tab) left on the sidewalk and posted it to Reddit…