{"id":150080,"date":"2026-01-26T15:28:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T15:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/150080\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T15:28:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T15:28:06","slug":"a-prominent-castro-restaurant-space-is-coming-back-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/150080\/","title":{"rendered":"A prominent Castro restaurant space is coming back to life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph-block article-body undefined text-left\">By the time the 56th annual Pride Parade marches up Market Street in late June, one of the Castro\u2019s most beloved restaurant spaces will have reopened, ready to join the celebration.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block article-body undefined text-left\">This summer, the wedge-shaped space at the corner of Market and Noe that housed Cafe Flore for 45 years until its closure in late 2019 will reopen as Parasol at Flore, a California-Mediterranean bistro bar from local hospitality pro Jacob Paronyan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block article-body undefined text-left\">In addition to being a partner and general manager at Boulevard, the 33-year-old fine-dining restaurant on the Embarcadero, Paronyan owns Union Street wine bar Roaming Goat, which is known for hard-to-find Armenian and Georgian varietals and a menu of Mediterranean cuisine. \u201cParasol will serve approachable, California cuisine with Mediterranean flair,\u201d Paronyan says, \u201cso it\u2019s kind of the reverse of Roaming Goat, which is Mediterranean and Middle Eastern flavors with California ingredients.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block article-body undefined text-left\">Paronyan hopes Parasol will fill the void left by the closure of Cafe Flore, which was the Castro\u2019s unofficial neighborhood hangout. To that end, he plans for Parasol to offer a casual, counter-service experience by day; a buzzy, high-energy brunch on weekends; and a slowed-down, full-service dinner. And with the <a href=\"https:\/\/sfstandard.com\/2025\/11\/04\/newly-renovated-castro-theatre-drops-amazing-concert-lineup\/\" data-post-id=\"ac816428-db7a-414d-a33a-93cfd95e1501\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Castro Theatre reopening in March<\/a>, Paronyon hopes to serve tourists visiting the neighborhood. \u201cWe\u2019ll definitely not be leaning into a fine-dining aspect,\u201d he says. \u201cBut I hope it will be somewhere in the realm of Starbelly across the street, which has been there for 15 years, or maybe a step or two below Zuni.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block article-body undefined text-left\">The space was most recently occupied by Fisch &amp; Flore, a seafood-focused restaurant and bar that opened in April 2024 and closed less than a year later. The owners did a substantial renovation, including installing a fire pit and glass windbreaks on the triangular patio, so Paronyan will make few design changes before reopening as Parasol. Over time, he plans to incorporate a Mediterranean-inspired palette of coral and deep pink and lean into the \u201cgreenhouse aspect\u201d of the dining room, which has floor-to-ceiling windows.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block article-body undefined text-left\">The goal is to be open in time for Pride month. \u201cI have to be open by June,\u201d Paronyan says, \u201cbecause Pride is going to be a marathon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By the time the 56th annual Pride Parade marches up Market Street in late June, one of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[27769,21856,8456,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-150080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-cafes","9":"tag-castro","10":"tag-restaurant-openings","11":"tag-san-francisco","12":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","13":"tag-san-francisco-news","14":"tag-sf","15":"tag-sf-headlines","16":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}