Until this spring, the two best-known dining rooms on the 2300 block of Chestnut Street were dinner rooms. At 2300 Chestnut, Ristobar served handmade pasta and cocktails for 22 years. A few doors west, at 2359, the last tenant was L'Mida, a Moroccan restaurant.
Both addresses are now being organized around breakfast. One cafe already pours espresso from 7 a.m., and the other, due this month, is being built around coffee, pastry and a printed newspaper. On this block, the change in 2026 is less about which restaurants are new and more about what time of day the street is built for.
The 2300 Block, Then and Now
The two street numbers put both spaces on the same block. Here is how each has changed this year.
| Address | Previous tenant | 2026 tenant | Morning service |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2300 Chestnut St. | Ristobar, Italian restaurant and wine bar, 22 years | La Boulangerie inside ERIA Marina | Open daily, 7 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. |
| 2359 Chestnut St. | L'Mida, Moroccan restaurant; earlier Chestnut Street Bakery | Scout, from the team behind Norcina and Frankie's | Planned early coffee and pastries, seven days a week |
Each row has a history that explains where the block is heading.
The Corner That Began as a Café
The Ristobar corner is going back to how it started. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that before Ristobar, 2300 Chestnut was Emporio Rulli Gran Caffè. Gary Rulli, the Larkspur baker behind Emporio Rulli, later remodeled the café into a full-service restaurant and wine bar. Ristobar's final service was on Memorial Day, May 25, 2026. Its announcement said the address would "continue in a new direction through a partnership with Eria Events."
That direction was ERIA Marina, an events and hospitality venue. It held a launch evening on June 13, 2026, built around fire, performance and a signature cocktail. The daily business at the address, the part a neighbor can walk into on a Tuesday, is a cafe. La Boulangerie, the bakery founded by French baker Pascal Rigo, runs a cafe inside ERIA Marina. According to La Boulangerie's locations page, it is open daily from 7 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., with brunch and spritzes on weekends.
The cafe held a public grand-opening brunch on Saturday, September 12, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., with pastries, espresso drinks and live music. The bakery's menu covers breads and sweet and savory croissants. That makes the corner a 7 a.m. stop for the first time in years, after more than two decades of being known for what it served after dark.
An Oven That Waited for the Right Tenant
The second address also has a bakery in its past. The San Francisco Standard reported that 2359 Chestnut once housed Chestnut Street Bakery. Kait Bauman, the chef behind Scout, was a regular there and had long had her eye on the space, largely because of its oven. She told the Standard there are not many wood-fired restaurants in the Marina besides her own Frankie's. Her preferred wood is almond, which she said burns hot with a clean, smoky flavor.
Scout's own description starts the day early. Scout's website promises coffee, fresh pastries and the daily paper in the morning, lunch on weekdays, brunch on weekends, and dinner that runs late on weekend nights, seven days a week. Bauman described the morning room to the Standard this way:
"It's a place where you can sit and have a cup of coffee — if you have the luxury of meeting friends over coffee — and a pastry at the table. We want physical newspapers in there."
The evening menu is more ambitious. The Standard listed late-fall and early-winter dishes including a rabbit roulade, ember-roasted pumpkin with zucchini-cashew babaganoush and chile agrodolce, and grilled prawns with chile butter and burnt citrus. Bauman trained in Italy, so pasta is on the menu as well. The list includes charred leek agnolotti in a Parmesan-leek brodo, fig-stuffed gnocchi with duck liver, and mafaldine with braised short rib. A pastry chef will bake everything in-house, including a sourdough served with smoked tomato-mussel butter.
From Pierce Street Nights to Chestnut Mornings
Scout matters for the block partly because of who is opening it. Bauman and her partner Angelo De Lorenzi have built their Marina business around the evening, a short walk off Chestnut on Pierce Street. Here is how it has grown:
- 2021: Norcina opens at 3251 Pierce St. It is an Italian restaurant known for handmade pasta and oven-roasted prosciutto pizzas.
- February 13, 2026: Frankie's opens quietly at 3213 Pierce St. The Standard calls it a cocktail bar with an elaborate martini program, where guests choose their garnish and get a chilled sidecar. It also serves Negronis and bar bites such as lobster rolls and sirloin-guanciale skewers. The bar is named for Frank, the couple's golden Labrador.
- Early November 2026: Scout, targeted for 2359 Chestnut St. This is the duo's first all-day venue. Its cooking moves from Italian to seasonal California food, with a wood-fired grill at the center.
The Standard described Frankie's and Norcina as "nocturnal" businesses and set Scout up as their all-day opposite. The team plans to bring some of its showmanship along. Bauman mentioned a bone-marrow luge she once served at Norcina, and said Scout's version will come with California sparkling wine on the side. The team that built a following around martinis and late dinners chose a former bakery on Chestnut for its third project, and it is planning to open that room early in the day.
A Weekday Morning on the Block, Early November
Timing is the practical detail. La Boulangerie is open now at 2300 Chestnut from 7 a.m. every day. As of late October, Scout's website still said "Opening Fall 2026" and that reservations would open in mid-October. The Standard's reporting points to an early-November debut. Before planning a coffee meeting around it, check scout-sf.com for the confirmed opening day and hours.
Once both are running, weekends on the block look different too. The two addresses will each serve weekend brunch. La Boulangerie closes at 2:30 in the afternoon, while Scout plans to stay open into the night on weekends.
Shops farther east on Chestnut have changed this year as well. The Swiss sportswear brand On had opened a store at 2061 Chestnut by late August, selling footwear, apparel and accessories. Nearby, SF YIMBY reported in February that plans for 2055 Chestnut changed from a 49-unit residential building to a four-unit retail project, with the parking lot facing Lombard staying in place. No construction timeline had been set.
If a new morning on Chestnut has you thinking about which Marina blocks fit how you actually spend your day, The Warrin Team would be glad to talk it through with you over coffee. Request a Private Consultation, and we will share what we are seeing street by street.
