San Francisco, CA
Cherished SF Chinatown bakery to close after 27 years
Washington Bakery & Restaurant, at 733 Washington St., San Francisco, will shut after 27 years.
After 27 years in San Francisco’s Chinatown, Washington Bakery & Restaurant is closing its doorways. The restaurant introduced on Instagram that its final day will likely be April 23.
“After 27 years, we’re past grateful for all our clients, organizations, the neighborhood, our crew, household, and associates who’ve supported us all these years,” learn the put up. “Thanks from our household to yours.”
The cafe at 733 Washington St. was a Chinatown favourite for pineapple buns, wonton noodle soup, baked pork chops, salt and pepper hen wings and different Hong Kong-style delicacies.
In 2018, proprietor Tilly Tsang advised her daughter, Chelsea Hung, that she deliberate to promote the restaurant and retire. So Hung determined to depart her tech job in New York Metropolis and take over the household enterprise. In July 2021, Hung additionally took over her father’s restaurant, close by Cantonese seafood restaurant the R & G Lounge. Earlier this 12 months, Hung advised KTVU that working two eating places throughout the pandemic was a problem, however that she hoped to guide each in direction of even higher success.
“The large half is the way you overcome these challenges,” she advised KTVU. “I really feel like if I am ready to do that and survive throughout a pandemic for each eating places, I feel I can do something.”
The explanations for the closure stay unclear — SFGATE couldn’t attain Washington Bakery & Restaurant at time of publication.