One of the city’s most impossible-to-land reservations is about to get even tougher. The Happy Crane — the modern Chinese restaurant that opened in August to widespread critical acclaim — is hosting four collaboration dinner events that will bring some of the country’s highest-profile Asian American chefs, restaurants, and bars to Hayes Valley in celebration of the Lunar New Year.
The schedule includes three ticketed dinners, including a Feb. 11 event with Sun Moon Studio, the Oakland restaurant that both The New York Times and Bon Appetit magazine named among the best in the country. The other two will feature Menlo Park’s Taiwanese-Korean restaurant Yeobo, Darling, which was lauded by Chronicle food critic MacKenzie Chung Fagen as being “in a class of its own,” and Good Morning 96, a much-anticipated restaurant from rising chef Gizela Ho. Those dinners will be held Feb. 25 and Feb. 4, respectively.
A fourth event will bring New York City’s 929, a moody cocktail den inspired by Cantopop and Mandopop, to The Happy Crane’s bar for a takeover and DJ set Feb. 21.
The Happy Crane chef James Yeun Leong Parry says he wanted to pull out all the stops for Lunar New Year, the biggest holiday of the year in Hong Kong, where he spent his childhood before moving to London…