The new year has brought some exciting changes to the Third Street Corridor, home to the largest concentration of Black-owned businesses in San Francisco. Among them: An Ethiopian cafe, a sprawling bakery commissary (with, perhaps, the possibility of freshly baked goods before they hit the market), a 24-hour sandwich spot, and barbecue dreams.
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The Tallio’s Coffee storefront will sling coffee again
The former Tallio’s Coffee storefront at 4732 Third St. at Oakdale Ave., will soon be pulling coffee again later this year. Mellay Menelik, who leased the space, plans to run an Ethiopian-style coffee shop on the site, serving coffee with a side of injera. The new coffee shop will start with to-go service and then expand to a sit-down cafe with limited seating. Menelik also owns Moya, a popular Ethiopian restaurant in SoMa.
Craving sandwiches at 3 a.m.? No problem.
6273 Third St. at Ingerson Avenue is now a 24-hour takeout window named La Colonia. Anyone craving a corned beef sandwich with a side of fries, a chicken torta, waffles, coffee, or Strawberry Crush can order online at any hour, and pick it up at the storefront’s window.
Bernal Bakery is coming to Bayview
Bakery fans — and fans of bakery scents wafting through the neighborhood — will be pleased to learn that Bernal Bakery will open a large-scale commissary at Oakdale Avenue and Rankin Street. Nearby residents and industrial workers can soon expect the smell of fresh bread to waft through the streets. It is unknown whether the shop will sell baked goods out of the commissary, which requires a special permit. The bakery currently sells out of its storefront at 521 Cortland Ave., and at farmers’ markets around the Bay Area.
In other news, All Good Pizza’s prayers for an alcohol license at 1605 Jerrold Ave have been answered. Expect a full menu of Italian-style cocktails in addition to a standard beer and wine menu, and, of course, Neapolitan-style brick oven pizzas.
A photography exhibit by Chris Buck — featuring Chris Buck
If you’ve stopped by Cafe Alma, at 888 Innes Ave. recently, you may have noticed that the current exhibit at the cafe and community space is dedicated to portraits of subjects who share the photographer’s name: Chris Buck. One of those subjects, an urban forester and Bayview resident, will have a discussion with the photographer this Saturday Jan. 17 from noon until 3 p.m. An exhibit of Buck’s photo series will be on display at Cafe Alma until the end of the month.
Free crafting lessons at Bayview’s Linda-Brooks Burton Library
Among the many free arts and crafts activities held by the Bayview’s Linda-Brooks Burton Library at 5075 Third St. this Sunday at 2 p.m., teens and adults can partake in a free class on hot glue embroidery and create their own wearable art. Participants are encouraged to bring their own items to bedazzle, but a limited quantity of tote bags are available.
A beauty salon’s transformation into a barbecue restaurant
In other business brewings, according to Earl Shaddix, the director of the nonprofit Economic Development on Third, Chef Kimberlee White has leased a long-empty beauty salon at 4928 Third St. at Quesada. She plans to transform the former beauty parlor into her first brick-and-mortar barbecue restaurant, Phatwood Smokehouse Deli. It will likely be a long time before the space finishes renovations to transform the former salon into a restaurant, but, until then, you can dream of platters of smoked ribs, and support Papa Rudy’s food truck (on Third St. between Newcomb and Oakdale, and a few other locations)…