A restored 1941 post office at 220 Park Road in Burlingame has reopened as a 90-seat fine-dining restaurant built around one dramatic centerpiece: a tableside duck service for two that costs $80 and is capped at just six orders a night. The Old Post Office, from Bacchus Management Group, serves the dry-aged bird in four tableside rounds, and it has quickly become the dish diners are talking about.
According to almanacnews.com, the restaurant occupies a historic Art Deco-style former post office and seats 90 guests in its main dining room. The duck itself is dipped in a maltose solution and dry-aged for 10 days before cooking, the outlet reports, and the kitchen uses a custom oven in which six ducks hang from hooks and rotate vertically at once. The $40-per-person supplement serves two people and includes the bird's breast, a liver mousse, grilled legs and a bone broth, carved and plated right at the table. Eater San Francisco reported that the full duck service is one of four preparations built into the presentation.
A Historic Building With a Complicated Past
The building itself has its own backstory. Per sfstandard.com, the post office was built in 1941 and designated a historic resource by the city of Burlingame in 2020. Getting a modern restaurant inside it wasn't simple: as sfist.com notes, the entire structure was physically moved about 120 feet in 2023 to make room for an underground parking garage. Inside, original brass teller windows, post boxes and a bank vault door near the bathrooms were preserved as part of the redesign, according to an Almanac News newsletter.
The restaurant is the latest project from Bacchus Management Group, the hospitality company behind The Village Pub and Selby's, per the Almanac's reporting. The Almanac identifies Tim Stannard as Bacchus's owner and reports that a friend urged him to see the building in 2022. Executive chef Jonathan Granada, who joined Bacchus in 2025 and previously worked at Otium in Los Angeles alongside a former French Laundry chef, leads the kitchen; he described the menu as contemporary American, with sfist.com adding that it carries nods to Asia, Spain and France.
What's On the Menu Beyond the Duck
Dinner is built around a three-course prix fixe priced at $120, almanacnews.com reports, alongside a la carte options. SFist mentions a burger and fries, a New York steak and lobster among the offerings. A classic cocktail menu and the Postmaster's Bar round out the a la carte offerings, per the same outlet's account.
Lunch service is set to launch October 12, with a $55 menu running 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday, while brunch begins October 17 at $70, served 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday and featuring a buckwheat crepe with lemon ricotta, honey-poached cranberries and almonds, according to Eater. Dinner runs nightly from 5 to 10 p.m. Bacchus also has plans to build an outdoor patio and a 60-seat glass house addition, which the outlet reports is slated to open in April 2027.
Deep Wine List, Whiskey Bar and a Michelin Ambition
The bar and wine program lean into the building's mid-century roots. A whiskey bar stocked with around 300 spirits sits at the far end of the main dining room, almanacnews.com reports, while an archived account from archive.ph puts the opening wine list at 3,500 bottles from roughly 250 producers, mostly French and Californian, organized under subheadings for individual winemakers. About 95% of those producers are family-owned and family-run, according to the same report, which adds that by-the-glass pours start at $13 and half the bottles on the restaurant's Short List run under $100.
Stannard has Michelin on his mind, according to an Almanac News newsletter. The restaurant's early menu already leans on that old-school ambition, modernizing classic 1940s dishes while keeping tableside and flambé presentations alive, the newsletter notes — a throwback touch that fits neatly inside a dining room still wearing its original post-office bones.
