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This Miami Chef Is Opening a New Restaurant in a Quintessential San Francisco Building
A new restaurant from acclaimed Miami chef Bradley Kilgore is coming to San Francisco’s Transamerica Pyramid, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The yet-to-be-named restaurant won’t open in the Pyramid itself — instead, it’s located in a small adjacent building at the base, next to the restored Transamerica Redwood park. Other details are scant so far. Kilgore, originally from Kansas City, is a veteran of Michelin-starred restaurants Alinea and L2o.
The restaurant is just one part of the Transamerica Pyramid’s $400 million overhaul, which, according to the Chronicle, includes a new lobby, a restaurant on the building’s first four floors, a bar and lounge on its top floor, and a new location of the members-only Core Club, among other features. A grand opening is planned for September 12.
A popular Sonoma winery goes up for sale
Belden Barns, the Sonoma winery known for its laid-back farm setting and 125-year-old wishing tree, is up for sale at $10.9 million, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Founders Lauren and Nate Belden told the Chronicle that they’d chosen to sell to spend more time with family. The estate, listed on Zillow, includes a four-bedroom farmhouse, a fruit orchard, a produce farm, an in-ground swimming pool, 20 acres of vineyards, and a circa 1870 redwood barn, among other facilities.
The Amy’s Kitchen boycott comes to an end
A grassroots two-year boycott against Amy’s Kitchen has ended after the Petaluma organic foods company agreed to improve conditions for workers, including safety, pay, and health insurance, among other measures, KQED reports. Workers and activists have had a long, winding road to this labor win, including, most recently, eight months of negotiations with Amy’s executives. “We have to defend our rights when we see injustices,” Cecilia Luna Ojeda, who worked for Amy’s Kitchen for almost 20 years, told KQED. “And there is always somebody who has to be at the forefront.”
SF bartender places in national competition
Derrick Li, owner of San Francisco cocktail bars Dragon Horse and Blind Pig Speakeasy, has been quietly racking up national bartender competition wins, as shared in an Instagram post from Dragon Horse this week. Among the accolades are placements among the U.S. Bartender Guild’s 2022 and 2024 World Class West National finalists, and Li landed in the final Top 10 this year — it might be worth a stop into one of Li’s bars to see what the buzz is about.
The Cleveland Browns traded for an extended right tackle, former Houston Texan Tytus Howard, at the start of free agency as they began their rebuild of the offensive line that was awful in 2025. But Howard has played every position on the offensive line except for center, so if it’s all about getting your best five on the field, which it should be, there’s a chance Howard doesn’t play at right tackle in 2026.
While doing a mock draft on Peter Schrager’s podcast, former Tennessee Titans general manager Ran Carthon had the Browns drafting Miami (FL) right tackle sixth overall. He talked about the issue with Howard, but said Mauigoa could either take over the tackle spot or be a really good guard.
Carthon said he knows that Mauigoa would be one of their best five, whether it is at guard or tackle. Some will say that a guy who may be best at guard isn’t worth the sixth overall pick, and I have to disagree. You should draft the best football players, and Francis Mauigoa is my highest-rated offensive lineman and seventh overall. It might be at guard, but I have a good feeling that Mauigoa will find a home in the NFL as a high-quality offensive lineman.
Inventory of homes and condos across the coastal Miami mainland and Miami Beach and the barrier island markets fell in the first quarter, marking the first big inventory drops since 2023.
The Corcoran Group’s first quarter reports don’t cover all of Miami-Dade County, but they offer insight into how the coastal markets, which have a higher share of luxury properties, are performing.
In Miami Beach, Sunny Isles Beach, Bal Harbour, Bay Harbor Islands, Surfside, Miami Beach, Fisher Island and Key Biscayne, single-family home inventory dropped 15 percent annually to 398 listings, and condo inventory was down 13 percent to 3,919 listings.
On Miami’s coastal mainland markets, which include Aventura, Miami Shores, Upper East Side, Edgewater, downtown Miami, Brickell, Coral Gables and Coconut Grove, inventory slipped 4 percent to 4,584 condo listings and 555 single-family listings, down 6 percent year-over-year.
Here’s a closer look at the market:
Miami Beach and the barrier islands
Single-family sales rose 13 percent year-over-year to 85 closings, the first time they have increased since the second quarter of 2024. Condo closings rose 15 percent to 693 closings, the first increase since the last quarter of 2024.
Pricing dropped, with the median price of single-family homes down 4 percent to $3.5 million and the median condo price down 9 percent to $640,000. The average price per square foot was nearly flat at $1,119.
Still, buyers set records with their purchases. Billionaire Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg paid $170 million for the waterfront mansion at 7 Indian Creek Island Road, and Starbucks billionaire Howard Schultz paid $44 million, or $7,949 per square foot, for a penthouse at the Four Seasons Residences at The Surf Club.
Coastal mainland
Sales of single-family homes on the coastal mainland rose 16 percent to 220 closings. While markets like Coral Gables experienced declines in condo and single-family home sales, Coconut Grove home sales surged — up over 100 percent for single-family homes to 47 closings and up 55 percent to 87 condo closings. Condo sales rose 13 percent to 759 closings.
The median price of single-family homes across the coastal mainland rose 11 percent to just over $2 million. The median price of condos increased slightly, up 1 percent, to $602,000.
The priciest deals in the first quarter were the $32 million trade of 12 Tahiti Beach Island Road in Coral Gables, and the $19.8 million sale of a penthouse at Vita at Grove Isle.
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