{"id":473714,"date":"2026-09-24T02:06:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T02:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/473714\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T02:06:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T02:06:29","slug":"southern-fine-dining-spot-prelude-has-closed-its-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/473714\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Fine Dining Spot Prelude Has Closed Its Doors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph u67w0ti va4xi81 va4xi80 e8cira1\">SOMA \u2014 Southern fine dining restaurant Prelude served its last boneless chicken wings and grits on Saturday, September 19. Nestled in a ground-floor space at <a href=\"https:\/\/sf.eater.com\/venue\/114622\/the-jay-hotel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Jay, Autograph Collection<\/a>, chef Celtin Hendrickson-Jones brought his approach to Southern grandma fare to the restaurant, adding touches from his time working at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikusteakhouse.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Niku Steakhouse<\/a> and two-Michelin-starred <a href=\"https:\/\/commisrestaurant.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Commis<\/a>. The space is expected to shift over to a new concept, <a href=\"https:\/\/sf.eater.com\/openings\/213611\/san-francisco-bay-area-anticipated-fall-restaurant-bar-openings-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shinka<\/a>, in October. 333 Battery Street, San Francisco<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph u67w0ti va4xi81 va4xi80 e8cira1\">SOMA \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/yanksing.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yank Sing<\/a> has closed its 101 Spear Street location after 27 years inside the Rincon Center as of Sunday, September 20, the <a href=\"https:\/\/sfstandard.com\/2026\/09\/14\/yank-sing-rincon-center-closes-dim-sum\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Standard<\/a> reports. Almost in the same breath, it must be mentioned that Yank Sing\u2019s other location at 49 Stevenson Street remains open, lest you get the wrong idea. It seems the beloved dim sum spot\u2019s lease at the business center has \u201crun its course,\u201d per the Standard, but otherwise there are still siu mai, pork buns, honey walnut prawns, and more, just five blocks away. 101 Spear Street, San Francisco<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph u67w0ti va4xi81 va4xi80 e8cira1\">BERKELEY \u2014 The owners behind long-running Berkeley landmark <a href=\"https:\/\/www.triplerock.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Triple Rock Brewery and Alehouse<\/a> announced they are shutting down the storied bar in December 2026, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bars\/article\/triple-rock-oldest-brewpub-close-22435887.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SFGATE<\/a> reports. The property, owned by brothers John and Reid Martin, will then be put up for sale or lease, they say. The bar first opened by the Martins in 1986, and they are now \u201cconsidered founding fathers of America\u2019s brewpub movement,\u201d per the news outlet. 1920 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph u67w0ti va4xi81 va4xi80 e8cira1\">PINOLE \u2014 Longtime East Bay folks like me may be saddened to learn that <a href=\"https:\/\/ristoranteduerose.net\/#\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ristorante Due Rose<\/a> is closing in late October, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berkeleyside.org\/2026\/09\/11\/eggys-ristorante-due-rose-sweet-potatoes-up-beet-closed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">East Bay Nosh<\/a> reports. The restaurant held down that corner of the strip mall for 24 years of pasta, pizza, and red wine. (Some may remember the location as a Round Table Pizza before that.) 1596 Fitzgerald Drive, Pinole<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOMA \u2014 Southern fine dining restaurant Prelude served its last boneless chicken wings and grits on Saturday, September&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,25471,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-473714","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\/473714","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=473714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}