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Anna Larsen

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Catching Up with a Few of Our Favorite Bay Area Seafood Wranglers.

Siren SeaSA is Anna Larsen’s “obsessively curated” seafood subscription service modeled after a traditional community-supported agriculture (CSA) membership (boxed fruit and vegetable delivery) program and sonamed after her operatic talent. Each week’s catch comes straight from the boat directly to subscribers with only minimal handling along the way.

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Tim Archuleta

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Catching Up with a Few of Our Favorite Bay Area Seafood Wranglers.

Ichi is one of the few sushi bars in San Francisco where tradition takes a stand and Chef Tim Archuleta’s impeccably sourced seafood is best enjoyed without the obligatory dunk into a saucer of soy and wasabi.

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Ernie Koepf

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Catching Up with a Few of Our Favorite Bay Area Seafood Wranglers.

In the 1920s, a million pounds of herring were harvested annually from the San Francisco Bay, all of it for human consumption. Fisherman Ernie Koepf is hoping to revive that tradition by beginning once more to offer the local herring catch to restaurants and consumers alike.

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Nov08

The Village & The Valley: Contigo

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After 15 years in the Bay Area, Brett Emerson knew 24th Street was special. With a suburban atmosphere, a farmers’ market and neighbors who valued ecofriendly practices, Noe was the ideal location for his solo project. The Valley was also his home. And it was a controversial move.

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Nov08

The Village & The Valley: Kasa

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While pregnant, Anamika Khanna didn’t dream of pickles or ice cream. “I wanted thali with all the fixings,” she says. “But there wasn’t anywhere I could go to eat it.” That was the beginning of Kasa, an Indian restaurant serving crave-worthy meals at a taqueria pace and price. Before the baby bump, though, there was Kellogg business school at Northwestern University, near Chicago, where Anamika’s husband, Suresh, became friends with future business partner Tim Volkema.

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Nov08

The Village & The Valley: Starbelly

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Adam Timney is not swayed by hype or hearsay. When asked to be the head chef in a seemingly cursed location, Timney took on the challenge with enthusiasm. And while the term “California Cuisine” makes some chefs squeamish, as a fifth-generation Golden Coaster Timney owns it proudly. “My menu pulls from all the cultures we have here,” he says. “So even though the term is kind of a cop-out now, at Starbelly it is the real thing.”

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Nov08

The Village & The Valley: Frances

Pin It Missing a birthday is a major faux pas, especially when it is your own. But in Melissa Perello’s case, it was the perfect gift. “We were just too busy to celebrate,” she says, reflecting on two successful years since opening Frances in 2009.

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Nov08

The Village & The Valley: Samovar

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The corner of 18th and Sanchez was once home to an Internet café where customers plugged in and zoned out, or grabbed a cup of joe and hurried off. But when Jesse Jacobs took over, he one-eightied the coffee shop into a tea lounge, replacing jolts of energy with quiet pauses. “It was a statement about slowing down,” he says. “It was a testament to changing times.”

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