Grand Lake Kitchen’s co-owner, May Seto Wasem, confirmed the feeling I had after a recent dinner at the restaurant’s new location in Noe Valley. “In the first seven days of being open, we’ve had people come in five times,” Wasem said.
The second I walked inside it felt as if GLK had always been there. Across the dining room from our cozy blue booth, a couple of kids, their parents and a grandmother celebrated a birthday. The mess they left behind looked like the Sex Pistols’ home away from home. Throughout the restaurant, everyone seemed perfectly at ease.
Comfort food is defined by what’s on a plate and confirmed by how a place makes you feel. Wasem runs the two East Bay locations of GLK and the new space in San Francisco with her husband, Dave. She told me the location, on the corner of 24th Street and Church, makes it feel like it’s always been part of the neighborhood…