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San Francisco’s iconic Stinking Rose restaurant to reopen Monday at new location

One of San Francisco’s cheesiest restaurants has found a new home and will reopen on Monday after being thought to be gone forever.

“Reopening Monday 24th January. We are pleased to announce that we will be reopening in a new location – 430 Columbus Ave,” the restaurant’s website said in a statement. “We look forward to serving you.”

The new location is just one block from Columbus from the previous location, in the space where Calzone’s Restaurant used to operate. Calzone’s was run by the same group of owners as the Rose.

Opened in 1991 in the heart of North Beach, The Stinking Rose — affectionately named for the ancient Roman term for garlic — soon became a bustling, eclectic spot on Columbus Ave.

“They season the garlic with food,” wrote the SF Examiner in a glowing review, which revealed the restaurant uses 1.5 tons of garlic a month. Inside, the world’s largest garlic braid meandered through the restaurant, and a mini mechanical garlic factory lined the walls.

Owners Jerry Dal Bozzo, who grew up in the neighborhood, and Dante Serafini became successful restaurateurs in the Bay Area in the ’90s, running Calzone’s, The Franciscan and Frankie’s at Pier 43 in Fisherman’s Wharf, The Dead Fish in Crockett, and Salito’s Crab House and Prime Rib in Sausalito next to their flagship on Columbus.

The restaurant was so successful that they opened a second Stinking Rose in Beverly Hills (this place appears to still be closed).

After almost 30 years in business, the North Beach location closed in March 2020, like almost every other San Francisco eatery. The outlook seemed bleak when Dal Bozzo put the house on the market in June last year. The reservation site OpenTable has even changed its status from “temporarily” to “permanently closed”. But after a change or heart, owners will move to the calzone’s space down the block.

“We treated it with garlic,” co-owner Jerry Dal Bozzo told the San Francisco Chronicle. “We brought some of the decor from the Stinking Rose, so it’s a different garlic restaurant… Hopefully people will like it.” (SFGATE and the San Francisco Chronicle are both owned by Hearst but operate independently)

Stinking Rose will reopen on January 24th at 12pm with a shorter menu. 430 Columbus Ave.

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