Saturday, the New Lun Ting Cafe on Jackson Street in San Francisco’s Chinatown had a soft reopening. The restaurant, which neighbors say is one the longest continuously owned restaurant in the city’s Chinatown, has been closed since late March when when a 76-year-old driver who was allegedly trying to park crashed into the business. A man who was delivering a carpet was killed in that crash, another person was injured, and the storefront was damaged.
The family-run business with a century of history in the neighborhood had to do major repairs in order to reopen.
Saturday, the restaurant reopened for customers, with the seating booths many remembered replaced with tables…