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Radio Habana Social Club will transform to a coffee shop during the day starting later this month. The surrealist/Cuban bar and restaurant with evening hours opened in 1998 by self-described Dalista, Victor Navarrete, and Leila Mansur.
Since then, Radio Habana has been a destination for Mission District residents for Cuban food, sangria, wine, beer, and live music. As the businessโ menu once read, it was the โbest place for revolutionary talk.โ
Now, regulars Aziz Saeed and Sarah Zeidat will share the space and open Radio Habana Cafe during the day.
Aside from coffee and tea, Saeed and Zeidat, Yemeni and Palestinian, respectively, plan to offer pastries, a Middle Eastern flatbread with veggies, cheese or meat and a special coffee drink with dates.
โWe’re hoping to introduce that and then see how the community responds to it,โ said Zeidat.
Zeidat said Radio Habana Cafe will have its soft opening later this month. The owners plan to open seven days a week from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.
San Francisco supervisors voted unanimously on Tuesday to change the name of Cesar Chavez Street to Las Campesinas.
They will take a final vote next week in a process that began earlier this year when Mayor Daniel Lurie formed a working group to rename the street following allegations of sexual assault reported by The New York Times.
Rummage sale at the Mission Center for the Latino Arts on Saturday Nov. 14.
An Instagram post indicates everything from refrigerators to โlaser etching printeryโ will be on sale at the rummage sale at 2868 Mission Street, near 25th Street.
The center closed its doors early this year amid a financial crisis that left the institution with $400 in its accounts. Most of its staff had been laid off in January 2025.
The center is set to move to another location by mid-December as the city-owned building goes through a two-year renovation. A community meeting at the center on Tuesday Nov. 17 from 6 to 8 p.m., will update residents on the status of the search for a temporary home.
The Drawing Room is returning to Mission Street – this time to 2401 Mission St. at 21st Street. Multiple signs on the buildingโs large windows advertise the The Drawing Roomโs arrival in January but owner Renรฉe DeCarlo declined to share a date and other details.ย ย
The Drawing Room first opened at 3260 23rd St., between Mission and Valencia streets, in 2018 and operated there until 2021. DeCarlo opened a second location at 2675 Mission St. near 23rd Street, in 2019. That closed in 2020. DeCarlo then returned to the same spot in 2024 and remained open for 11 months.
Square vacated the former home of Lucca Ravioli at 1100 Valencia St., at 22nd Street.ย
The tech-backed company began a short-term lease in May last year, creating Square “Corner Store,โ with the intention to turn the space into a business and community hub.
Warrior Jimmy Butlerโs pop-up coffee โCiaoโ BIGFACEโ occupied the space last July and earlier this year. The York Street Collective occupied the space later last year.
It is not clear when the Square vacated the premises. The company did not respond to a request for comment.
Lahore Karahi & Pizza closed on Saturday after 28 years of business at 3083 16th St., near Valencia Street.
The owners Aijaz Ghani and Mehjabeen Sheikh are retiring, said the couple’s son, Shaheer Sheikh.
The couple operated the restaurant for nearly 30 years. It became a destination for curry, Pakistani and Indian food at the corner of 16th and Mission streets. Ghani and Sheikh opened the restaurant in 1998 as Al Hamra, but changed the name about 10 years ago after one of their sonโs restaurants, Lahore Karahi, closed in the Tenderloin.
