A pop-up specializing in muffalettas, the large cold-cut-and-olive-salad sandwich originating in New Orleans and made with Sicilian sesame bread, will soon open its own brick-and-mortar shop in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury.

The bad news is that 24th Street Indian soul food spot Ritu just permanently closed. The good news is that replacement is already lined up, a new Greek food venture called Gyros and Tzatziki, from the co-owner of the Castro’s Gyro Xpress.

Coming soon to the space that was formerly home to Mission Cheese and then Korner Store at 736 Valencia Street is BoBop, a new Korean snack bar from the family team behind downtown businesses BibimBar and Matko.

Johnny Doughnuts is coming back to life again in SF about a mile away from their shuttered Gough Street shop at California and Fillmore streets. The doughnuts will start coming out of the fryer on Saturday, October 29, with the public grand opening starting at 7 a.m.

Pop’s Bar at 2800 24th Street was named a Legacy Business in San Francisco last month, adding it to the list of over 120 legacy restaurants, bars, and shops currently recognized throughout the city.

A San Francisco sandwich institution is closing and changing hands after today — Monday, October 24 — and fans of the place were clamoring to get one last sub before the lights go out.

Americana Eatery (532 Green St.), a modern diner specializing in all-day breakfast, opened earlier this month in the former home of Ethiopian restaurant Massawa.

Taste of Denmark — one of Oakland’s oldest family-owned businesses — announced over the weekend that it would be closing up shop for good. The bakery served its last pastries Sunday at 3 p.m., with people lining up to get one last treat from the dessert shop.

A chef who made a name for herself a decade ago by hosting dinners inside her apartment in San Francisco featuring the Malaysian noodle dish laska, a spicy noodle soup, has turned her hit pop-up business into a brick-and-mortar restaurant.

SoCal's Slater’s 50/50 will be opening up its first Northern California location in South San Jose at the Westfield Oakridge mall off Blossom Hill Road later this month.

A local couple with major Bay Area wine-and-dining connections is working to open a French-inspired wine bar on San Pablo Avenue in El Cerrito. It's been a bumpy road, from construction and permitting delays to a freak car accident, but the building at San Pablo and Stockton avenues is now in renovation.

After 10 years of serving tacos and Mexican-inspired cocktails in Cole Valley, Padrecito (901 Cole St.) has called it quits.

East Bay taco outfit Tacos El Último Baile, which has been evolving since its early days selling its delicious creations from a table outside an Oakland bar in 2016, is about to debut its own brick-and-mortar location starting Saturday.