On Saturday at 3:30 p.m., the owners of wildly popular Middle Eastern restaurant Mazra in San Bruno made a long-awaited announcement on Instagram: The restaurant was reopening that night after a two-year closure. By the time the doors opened at 5 p.m., people were already waiting in line, many of them regulars Mazra owners and brothers Saif and Jordan Makableh know from growing up in San Bruno.
“It was so good to see some of those people after two years,” said Saif Makableh. “It’s unreal. We can’t even explain it.”
The San Bruno Mazra, which gained a fervent following for flame-licked kebabs and other Jordanian-inspired fare and landed the No. 2 spot on Yelp’s list of Top 100 Places to Eat in the United States in 2021, has finally returned in a completely overhauled space…