"I LEFT MY HEART IN SAN FRANCISCO"
A little history
Or, What is a "San Francisco Restaurant"? One that serves cioppino?
Take a city map and read the names of the streets and the parks and most landmarks. This is as real a San Francisco restaurant as you are going to find. It is a Spanish restaurant in a Spanish city.
In late 1775, Captain Juan Bautista de Anza and his small troupe found a stream-fed fresh water lagoon in a sheltered valley inland from the just-established presidio and decided the spot was a suitable spot for a mission. That day being the Friday before Palm Sunday - the Friday of Sorrows - the encampment was named "Laguna de los Dolores" (Lagoon of the Sorrows).
On June 29, 1776, the settlers held a mass on the mission site; that was the official founding of San Francisco, then known as Yerba Buena (Good Herb, AKA mint), just in time for the big parade and barbecue.
Anyway, the big salt water was already named San Francisco Bay and what is now Benicia was a grant to two promoters who wanted to call their new development "Francisca". In early 1847, some Yerba Buena residents who found out decided they wanted that name, so they took Alcalde (Mayor) Washington A. Bartlett to lunch at Stars to discuss the matter. On January 23, Bartlett issued a proclamation stating that Yerba Buena would from then be officially called San Francisco.
I can't resist. I guess they don't make mayors the way they used to: changing the name of Army street to Cesar Chavez (mmm, another Spanish name) took a little more than a proclamation; and one of Willie's big accomplishments may turn out to be renaming a three or four block stretch instead of all Fillmore Street.
TIMO'S - numero uno (#1) on the map and otherwise - was born within walking distance from Mission Dolores, the heart of San Francisco. Before you leave your heart in San Francisco, come visit us in the heart of San Francisco.