Eat Americana, a 30-year old diner staple in the Richmond District, closed for good in April. SFGATE reported that the restaurant’s owner, Tony Lai, has retired. When he opened the restaurant in 1996, he served a mix of Vietnamese and Italian dishes; in 2016, he hired a new chef who revamped the menu with diner classics, such as buttermilk pancakes and breakfast burritos. (SFGATE and the San Francisco Chronicle are both owned by Hearst but operate independently.)
Dutch Door Donutsclosed its Healdsburg location on April 26, the business announced on Instagram. The shop opened in September, offering doughnuts fried to order then topped with vanilla glaze, rosemary garlic butter or chocolate, among other flavors. The original Dutch Door location in Carmel-by-the-Sea remains open.
The closing of the downtown City College of San Francisco campus means the end of Educated Palate, the pastry shop run by students enrolled in the school’s baking program. (Classes are moving to the college’s Ingleside campus). The space held its final bake sale on April 16, offering croissants, buns and bread. Educated Palate operated as a restaurant until the COVID-19 pandemic.
One of the Bay Area’s all-you-can-eat hot pot restaurants has closed. A Facebook user shared a photo of a note taped to the door at Supreme Pot in Daly City announcing its closure after seven years. “Looking back we are so incredibly grateful for the laughs, the celebrations and the community you helped us build,” the note reads. The restaurant is looking to reopen at a new location, according to the note…