A full year and a half since RNM turned off the lights at 598 Haight Street, Maven is ready to throw 'em back on.
Tomorrow night, the bites-and-booze-pairing concept restaurant will officially open to the public with dinner service beginning at 5pm. If you've noticed activity in the space recently, it's because Maven has been hosting several nights of preview events for investors, press, and food industry notables. The preview nights are partly intended to introduce the restaurant to the world, but also to work out any kinks before officially starting regular service. Many details of the restaurant remain consistent with what we previewed in November. The menu features some tasty-sounding small plates that will change with some frequency -- scallop crudo, savory winter tart, and Chinatown duck sliders are on the debut roster -- ranging from $9 to $12. Some more standard bites and larger plates are also on the menu, with one dessert and one cheese plate to round things out. Each dish has one cocktail and one beer/wine suggestion to accompany it, though you're of course able to mix and match as you please (or forego the booze altogether, if you prefer). As for the space, feverish work in the past few weeks has brought it all together as originally envisioned. We're talking communal tables, redwood bar tops, and a cozy fireside loft upstairs. And perhaps the most striking feature: a living wall above/behind the bar. Here's a little treat: a time-lapse video Maven sent us earlier this month of the wall being installed: For more glimpses inside Maven, check out a photo gallery over at Eater. Or, just swing by tomorrow night to see (and taste) for yourself. Maven will be open seven days a week from 5pm until midnight. Weekend brunch service is, quoth their website, "coming soon."
Tomorrow night, the bites-and-booze-pairing concept restaurant will officially open to the public with dinner service beginning at 5pm. If you've noticed activity in the space recently, it's because Maven has been hosting several nights of preview events for investors, press, and food industry notables. The preview nights are partly intended to introduce the restaurant to the world, but also to work out any kinks before officially starting regular service. Many details of the restaurant remain consistent with what we previewed in November. The menu features some tasty-sounding small plates that will change with some frequency -- scallop crudo, savory winter tart, and Chinatown duck sliders are on the debut roster -- ranging from $9 to $12. Some more standard bites and larger plates are also on the menu, with one dessert and one cheese plate to round things out. Each dish has one cocktail and one beer/wine suggestion to accompany it, though you're of course able to mix and match as you please (or forego the booze altogether, if you prefer). As for the space, feverish work in the past few weeks has brought it all together as originally envisioned. We're talking communal tables, redwood bar tops, and a cozy fireside loft upstairs. And perhaps the most striking feature: a living wall above/behind the bar. Here's a little treat: a time-lapse video Maven sent us earlier this month of the wall being installed: For more glimpses inside Maven, check out a photo gallery over at Eater. Or, just swing by tomorrow night to see (and taste) for yourself. Maven will be open seven days a week from 5pm until midnight. Weekend brunch service is, quoth their website, "coming soon."
