{"id":303333,"date":"2026-05-06T23:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T23:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/303333\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T23:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T23:19:08","slug":"the-transamerica-pyramid-shutters-a-trio-of-restaurants-from-chef-bradley-kilgore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/303333\/","title":{"rendered":"The Transamerica Pyramid Shutters a Trio of Restaurants From Chef Bradley Kilgore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">FIDI \u2014 With the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/realestate\/article\/transamerica-pyramid-sale-price-21954768.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sale of the Transamerica Pyramid to Yoda PLC<\/a> comes the shocking news that chef Bradley Kilgore\u2019s trio of restaurants \u2014 Cafe Sebastian, MadLab, and Ama \u2014 has all shut down as of Monday, May 4, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablehopper.com\/newsletter\/this-weeks-tablehopper-coast-to-coast\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tablehopper<\/a> reports. The news was shared with Transamerica tenants in a letter from property management, reading in part, \u201cThis transition reflects the new [owner\u2019s] long-term redevelopment vision for Three Transamerica as well as to all the F&amp;B outlets in the Transamerica Complex. We thank Mr. Kilgore and his team for the creativity and dedication they brought to the property, and for the culinary experience they created for our community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Kilgore issued a statement thanking his team and, in contrast, shares more details on the closings: \u201cWhen ownership changed, the required rent to continue operating became unaffordable. This, combined with the fact that they plan to demolish the building where the restaurants are, made it impossible to continue.\u201d The statement goes on to say that Kilgore Hospitality Group is exploring next steps in San Francisco. Cafe Sebastian opened in November 2024, followed by MadLab in December 2024, and Ama in September 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FIDI \u2014 With the sale of the Transamerica Pyramid to Yoda PLC comes the shocking news that chef&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,25471,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-303333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-san-francisco-restaurant-closings","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303333","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=303333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}