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Damnfine Coffee permanently closed at 4033 Judah St. The beloved Black Jet Bakery will take its place. Photo by Junyao Yang on Dec. 9, 2025.
Black Jet Bakery, a beloved bakery in Bernal Heights, is opening its second location in the Outer Sunset at Judah and 46th Avenue as Black Jet Luncheonette.
It will take over the 325-square-foot storefront at 4033 Judah St., which was once home to Damn Fine Coffee. Before that, it was home to Trouble Coffee, which occupied the space for 15 years, and was credited with starting the toast craze.
For years, Black Jet Bakery delivered pastries to first Trouble and then Damn Fine. When Laura Seymour, Damn Fine’s owner, decided to close the cafe last October, the owners of Black Jet weren’t really looking for a second location — but it fell on their lap.
“It’s a beautiful space. We love the history of it and love the neighborhood, so why not?” said Black Jet co-owner Gillian Shaw Lundgren. “It’s a perfect fit.”
The Luncheonette is aiming to open in June, just in time for San Francisco summer. It will continue serving its “heavy-hitters” like sour cream coffee cake and the Pat Greaney, its signature breakfast sandwich on an east coast inspired Bulkie roll.
At the Outer Sunset location, the bakery will lean in heavily on savory items and have a rotating sandwich menu. Black Jet’s co-owner Max Newman, former chef and baker at Zuni Café, will be the mastermind behind that.
The owners, who signed the lease in January, are excited about the parklet in front of the Judah location. Here, customers can sit down and enjoy a sandwich, while its Bernal location doesn’t have any seating.
The owners have been seeking inspiration from fish and chips shops in London and want to go for the vibes of an old Italian deli. Shaw Lundgren’s 12-pound terrier named Gus — she takes Gus to the beach three times a week — may also have a special appearance in the store design.
With neighbors like the restaurant Outerlands, Woods and the surf shop Mollusk, Shaw Lundgren said, “We have everything that we could possibly need.”
La Linda, a Mexican cafe, opened at 2255 Taraval St. below a four-story apartment building. Photo by Junyao Yang on Feb. 26, 2026.
La Linda, a Mexican cafe at 2255 Taraval St, opened its doors in early December and held a grand opening with coffee and DJs on a Sunday last month.
Located below a four-story apartment building, the cafe serves breakfast burritos, cochinita pibil sandwiches, and tres leches concha french toast.
It endured a “slow” couple of months during the holiday season, when people went out of town and the winter storms kept residents at home, according to cafe manager Genaro Ruiz.
In recent months, business was “okay,” and mornings are much busier than dinner time, Ruiz said. Still, on a recent Thursday around 6 p.m., the restaurant was quiet.
Ruiz works another restaurant job at Embarcadero, and said business there is much better. “The problem is the economy,” Ruiz said. “There’s nothing you can do.”
Annual post-parade party at United Irish Cultural Center.
The Sunset District, once an Irish enclave, is getting ready for Saint Patrick’s Day.
This Saturday starting at 11:30 a.m., the annual San Francisco St. Patrick’s Day parade will take over Market Street, marching from 2nd Street and Market to Civic Center.
After the parade, the Irish United Cultural Center in the Outer Sunset is hosting its annual post-parade party from 2 to 11 p.m. (!) at 2700 45th Ave. There will be a corned beef feast, live bands and Irish dancing — and probably a lot of booze.
At the Little Shamrock in the Inner Sunset, the city’s second oldest bar (apparently after the Saloon in North Beach) opened in 1893, the festivities are also underway.
“Come throw down a pint or ten with us and let us make merry while we still can,” the bar’s Instagram post reads. Get to the bar on March 17, and enjoy the free corned beef, cabbage and potatoes, while supplies last.
District 4 Supervisor Alan Wong announces a “dumb law” contest on March 11, 2026. Photo by Junyao Yang.
Over at city hall, District 4 Supervisor Alan Wong announced a “dumb law” contest on Wednesday afternoon, inviting residents to submit “outdated, overly complicated, or simply unnecessary laws” by March 30.
Wong gave the examples of the city regulation on bread, which prohibits carrying bread through public streets in open baskets or exposed containers, and on chickens, which limit the number of fowls in residential areas to four, but didn’t specify hens or roosters.
“Some of these may be humorous or surprising, but many reflect real challenges people face on interacting with city governments,” Wong said, sitting next to supporter Frank Noto, co-founder of Stop Crime SF.
The winner, which will be announced in late April, will receive a certificate of recognition. Also, Wong said, “the dumb law might even get repealed.”
On social media, Wong’s constituents seem to have mixed feelings. Some were eager to share their fair share of dumb laws contributions, such as daylighting rules, parking tickets in one’s own driveway and even district-wide elections.
Others are more skeptical, saying it should be the supervisor’s responsibility to “weed out” and identify these laws.
“Maybe do the job, instead of outsourcing it to your constituents,” posted Tyler Stegall on Nextdoor.