→ TOOTHSOME: On a quiet block of Balboa Street, Boa’s (Outer Richmond, above) stealthily started pouring coffee late last month, with a full lunch and dinner menu available as of last week. Fable owners Ramsey Garcia and Jonathan Vargas have turned the spot — for years a training lab for dental techs — into a glowing, warm destination that serves a slate of pillowy panuozzi (as defined by Garcia, “basically an open calzone”) and delivers sparkling wine in repurposed Napoli tomato tins. It's fun, witty, cool, and unlike anywhere else on the west side. There’s not a website or posted hours, but Garcia told me they’re aiming for 8a-8p daily. Walk-ins only. –Eve Batey
→ EDGE OF GLORY: San Francisco has been without an oceanside restaurant since 2020, when the Cliff House, Louie’s, and Seal Rock Inn closed their respective doors. Alfred Schilling, a 70-something chef and chocolatier who’s lived in the Richmond for the last 30 years, reopened the latter last week (Vista Del Mar, above). The menu reflects his French heritage — house-made pain de campagne and tomato Provencal on every plate. Schilling hasn’t done much to update the half-century-old dining room, where Hunter S. Thompson almost surely dined while jamming out Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72; its classic wood details and etched glass dividers remain. Schilling and team are definitely still getting their bearings, so patience is required. But they just added local Dungeness to the menu, which — along with that view — makes up for a lot of early-days bobbles. Walk-ins only. –Eve Batey