On Tuesday, celebrity chef Michael Mina and Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry celebrated the grand opening of their new Union Square restaurant Bourbon Steak and accompanying bar the Eighth Rule with a star-studded event. Mina, Curry and San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie kicked off the night by arriving at the new restaurant located inside the Westin St. Francis in style: via cable car. A portion of Powell Street was closed to make room for their dramatic entrance, reported KTVU-TV.
The glitzy affair marked Mina’s triumphant return to the spot where he opened the first Michael Mina restaurant in 2004, which later became a location of Bourbon Steak (it closed in 2016), as well as Curry’s first foray into the restaurant business. Bourbon Steak will serve seasonal California cuisine and seafood in an elegant space with green marble columns and botanical chandeliers, while the Eighth Rule is Curry’s bourbon-focused, speakeasy-style bar located across the Westin St. Francis lobby from Bourbon Steak. The Mina Group will actually operate the reservation-only bar, despite Curry being a business partner, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. (The Chronicle and SFGATE are both owned by Hearst but have separate newsrooms.)
Guests at Tuesday’s celebration included Ayesha Curry, rapper E-40, Michelin-starred chef Dominique Crenn and some of Curry’s Warriors teammates. The 500 people at the event dined on raw seafood towers, wagyu steak, truffle pasta and “caviar Twinkees” paired with bourbon-based cocktails, according to a news release.
“We want to bring energy to the city, we want to bring community, we want to bring fun, we want to bring culture,” Curry said in a speech at the event on Tuesday. “That’s what San Francisco’s about.”
Bourbon Steak and the Eighth Rule officially opened to the public on Friday.
More Food News…