Since its opening in 2016, Glen Park’s popular One Waan Thai Restaurant has become a neighborhood fixture. As owner Alex Phanupong Prasertsith, a Bangkok native, promised the Glen Park News that year, the menu has continued to expand. He has also experienced challenges familiar to other San Francisco restaurateurs as the city makes its long, […]
Restaurants
New French restaurant to take the place of Modern Past on Chenery
La Cigale, a new French restaurant, is quietly taking shape at 679 Chenery Street, a storefront that formerly held Modern Past. Owners Joseph Magidow and Daisy Linden plan to open by mid 2025. The restaurant will feature cuisine of Occitanie, the region spanning southwest France and the Spanish Pyrenees. La cigale means the […]
Gialina owner: Glen Park is a tiny neighborhood fierce in its restaurant loyalties!
Gialina, Glen Park’s famed pizzeria on Diamond Street, has prospered over decades, weathering economic fluctuations, changing demographics and COVID-19. Tellingly, no sign proclaims the popular restaurant’s name. According to owner Sharon Ardiana, the “Gialina” on a front window disappeared during repairs at the restaurant at 2842 Diamond Street, which opened in 2007. The Glen Park […]
Glen Park restaurateur Manhal Jweinat sees brighter days ahead
Ten years ago, Glen Park was a destination for diners. Customers in 2014 regularly queued for pizza at Gialina, packed the bar while waiting at Le P’tit Laurent and reserved weeks ahead at Chenery Park. Today, it’s a different story. Gialina has briefer waits, Le P’tit Laurent is mothballed and Chenery Park is long closed. […]
A trip to Cambodia, less than a mile away!
Thanks to Nextdoor we’ve been apprised that a wonderful local restaurant is struggling and needs your patronage and support. It’s Angkor Borei, at 3471 Mission near Cortland, a short hop across the Bernal Cut for us Glen Parkers. Rather than reiterate its virtues as a modest eatery with great fresh cuisine, served by the most […]
The new P’tit Laurent, same as the old
Photos: Bonnee Waldstein It was a soft grand opening of Le P’tit Laurent, under the new ownership of local restauranteur Manhal Jweinat. It was a low key affair. Despite the plan to reopen the restaurant tonight, as of this afternoon, there was no sign in the window and the shades were tightly shut. But those […]
Laurent hosts soiree to bid Glen Park adieu
10th Anniversary Retrospective: Dear Glen Park, Happy New Year
To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. It was a clear chilly night in Glen Park on New Year’s eve. A number of people chose to ring in the new year close to home. Manzoni was open for […]