>> my name is raymond fong. i'm 1 of the owners one of 3. wine impression is a wine shop made of people that were probably dedicated their life studying line. we open august 1990, 34 years. you wonder how wine impression came along? we couldn't figure the name. my wife said, i got it, you always make a impression, call it wine impression. i thought maybe she came up with the name because both of us our favorite period of modern art is impressionism. the buildings was built in 1948. it was one of the two, probably

three buildings built first in the whole shopping center before they did the shopping center, there was golden gate park. this cemetery ran from masonic to [indiscernible] the building next door is jointly owned. [indiscernible] was a want to be [indiscernible] and they were digging new pipes and everything into it and the owner came to me and he said, what are we going to do? what am i going to do. we are digging the pipes and found a coffin half way between the kitchen and i think your refrigerator. i told him what to do. i said you are not go toog say a word. if you do they will do a archaeological survey and you won't get anything built. all i know, it is still down there and [indiscernible] i saw the

article i said, wow, i came back from a visit from china 2016 and they were there when you welcome this [indiscernible] it is similar to the--in japanese and day of the dead. i decided to do [indiscernible] i have food in there. i can do all the things --[indiscernible] and realize the mistake. the problem is they want and need and a lot has to do is they don't dine iloan. alone. a average person is 3 to 4 bottles and don't dine alone, it is family squl friends and when they have social events they come to us. we this is how the community uses the wine and think where we are different. a lot of stores can sell a product and the product given by labels, we

sell the product, but i always say, we don't just sell a wine or product, we sell satisfaction with this. (music) >> i started the o was with a financing and had a business partner all ended up wanting to start the business and retire and i did was very important to me so i bought them oust and two weeks later the pandemic h-4 one of the moments i thought to myself we have to have the worse

business in a lifetime or the best. >> we created the oasis out of a need basically so other people bars and turning them into a space and when the last place we were performing wasn't used turned those buildings into condos so we decided to have a space. >> what the pandemic did for us is made us on of that we felt we had to do this immediately and created this. >> (unintelligible). >> where we would offer food

delivery services with a curbside professionalism live music to bring spectacular to lives we are going through and as well as employ on the caterers and the performers and drivers very for that i think also for everyone to do something. we had ordinary on the roof and life performances and with a restaurant to support the system where we are and even with that had terribly initiative and hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt had to pay our rent we decided to have an old-fashioned one we created club hours where you can watch to online and or be on the

phone and raised over one quarter of a million dollar that of incredible and something that northbound thought we could do. >> we got ourselves back and made me realize how for that people will show up if i was blown away but also had the courage but the commitment now i can't let anyone down i have to make the space serviceable so while this is a full process business it became much more about a space that was used by the community. and it became less about starting up a business and more about the heart of what we're doing. this building used to be a- and one

of the first one we started working on had we came out what a mural to wrap the building and took a while but able to raise the money and pay 5 artists to make a design around many this to represent what is happening on the side and also important this is who we are this is us putting it out there because satisfies other people we don't realize how much we affect the community around there when he i want to put that out there and show up and show ourselves outside of those walls more fabulous. and inspires other people to be more fabulous and everyone want to be more fabulous and less hatred and hostility and that is how we change the

>> >> >> my name is alex sinclair of willow on the green in san francisco. we are the only british tea shop on the west coast and focused on

high quality luxury goods from the u.k. and we have teas and baked goods. we came up with the name because willow is made with baskets and the parklett, a willow green and that is a picnic in the park. i have come up with the idea because i have lived in the neighborhood for a year. seven years ago we had a tea shop. during covid we needed to have a new flavor and rejuvenate the business. we are between two beautiful businesses. i realized with the shop opening next to the bakery, we had a beautiful tea shop in the area. we started with british teas and

want to support local tea makers in the local area. and once you have cheese and biscuits need tea and jam and lemon curd and chocolate and all of these parts basically imported from the u.k. our most popular products come from wales. it's an extra cheddar and next popular product is a jam made with alpine strawberry. so you get a taste of a nice strawberry. this is about supporting cheese makers and business in the area and women-owned businesses around the world and always want to support the community. we support concerts, we support

charities and come to the aid to those in need such as the british society and the san francisco society and the -- >> if you have never had british cheese, i recommend you come in on weekend. all of our staff are highly knowledgeable of all of our products and we are really passionate about what we do here and gives you a chance to explore our culture and food and our values. i encourage you to come to the inner sunset with a beautiful park to be young and academy of sciences here. come to the shop. we have beautiful baskets and blankets so you can enjoy this wonderful nature and you can support these wonderful businesses out here.

>> >> (music). >> hi, i'm emmy the owner of emmy's spaghetti i offers working that with some kind of fine dining and apron and feeling stuffy and in the 90s in san francisco it was pretty pretense in a restaurant in the restaurant scene i want to it have a place to have a place for

my friends to guess i started the restaurant a no better place the outer mission spaces were available that's when i opt in two 10 he start with all people and work with them and the events they create one of the events we do every year and backpack give away and give piaget away and a christmas part with a santa and bring 5 hundred meatballs and pa get and we're like in the mission not about them knowing where the food comes from but a part of the community. and my restaurant emmy's spaghetti and fun banquet and san francisco not the thing

that everybody knows about we stay under the radar we show the showcase i take it food and we started to eat we wanted to have comfort food and that a claims friend from i take it and helped me create meatballs and dealing evolved over the years in the beginning one plate of spaghetti and a meatball we tried to make the portions as big as they could be. and now we have quite a few types pasta dishes with a la begin and meat sauce or have a partition to a lot of food we are at a pointith all the

favorites i don't change the menu often 0 i eat here so much but everything is fresh your cocktail menu is the best it's ever been one thing on the menu our magazine ghetto we change the flavor one of the fun things it is served in the historically we're known emmy's spaghetti as a friendly place and when i opened i wanted my friend to be welcome and other parents to be welcomed and it is very for this is a place for families especially in san francisco and this is where though hold their celebration important i mean you're coming to a family restaurant and you're coming for o to a fun place i love being the owner and pretty sure my

life i enjoy running the psta spaghetti place i hope to be here a while we'll see how it goes we everyone is a friend we're hoping you'll be a [music]

>> opening this space with my sister, and being able to continue the very deep literary lineage that exist in the mission is part of the fabric of the neighborhood. this is neighborhood of poets and litary readings. you see the writers from the neighborhood, their books are here. paul flores books are here. --that is what we are doing, keeping the litary lineage alive and going, you know? [music] >> san francisco is actually the only place that i can do

this. in its quite way, something i can actually do that is a benefit. sure, i like to open up a really cool well curateed spot. it would be beneficial but not the same beneficial it is here. when i say young folks that remind me of us, when we were that young, and they come in here, they can relax. nobody is following them around like they are going to steal anything. that means they can be a little more free and little more of themselves and i can do some small thing that helps them do that and that is part of what lets me know i'm doing exactly what i want and need to do. [music] >> we have events here that

focus on the deep neighborhood history here on the artists and writers. if you look now there is antany, his exhibit and focus is on neighborhood people. artists muralist, the space was basically a gift given to us in a really weird way. we had to work our asses off for, but it was that opportunity for me that chance to be that link in the long literary chain of the neighborhood. it is a blessing to be here. [music]

[music] >> my name is lana. i am part owner of the excelsior coffee. my roll with excelsior coffee is pretty much the [indiscernible] i do a lot of the back-end operating procedures and a lot of customer front facing, a lot of customer outreach, naerbd outreach, but for the most part the coffee is it driving force of the community. i have been here in the excelsior district for 11 years.

the idea behind excelsior coffee spouted 6 years ago out of the need for community space and coffee. excelsior coffee to me is a cornerstone of the neighborhood. next to this iconic mural on excelsior along with the legacy businesses. we decided that this corner of san francisco on the southeast side of the mission is the place we like to be. i know you see a lot of eththetics of motorcycles behind us. a lot of people ask, what's up with the motorcycles behind you? motorcycle and classic cars are a big yite of our upbringing so the idea was to connect to this neighborhood from classic cars to low riders to motorcycles and my husband is is a high school teacher that teaches

automotives and history. we love the history of motorcycle engineer and design. for us it was more like a talking point and connection. honoring that and that is also the driving force between who we are and the make-up. i think what separates from other coffee shops is that, we are serving a community that has been here for a decade before us, and i think it is really special that there is a vortex of non english speaking communities here. between my husband and i, we represent many cultures. i'm [indiscernible] he is black, his mexican and through our cultures is how we connect with people in the excelsior. to speak their languages, and i think honoring our culture background through coffee and pastry. excelsior coffee, we are at

4495 mission street on mission and excelsior in the excelsior district. call excelsior coffee in your face excelsior. we are open 7:30 to 4 p.m. for now. [laughter] [music] >> started with a community at the secret gardens is down the block. was about food, culture and it was a success and something we thought we could keep going and yeah, the space opened up and we are like, lelts let's

give it a try. we have been artists all our lives and ewoo wanted to continue to do our art and make art accessible. >> we grew up here. i went to school up the street and elementary school down the street. [indiscernible] really important to us and our upbringing, like the location malters. >> this feels like home and for us to be able to contribute to our home and add something and just kind of bring a really fun and artistic vibe to the neighborhood. it is a blessing for us. >> all that is left is creative studio gallery. we have a shop where we sell merchandise and art and now we are shifting into a creative space and studio where we have different smaller projects with artists we worked with in the past. >> we have workshops and teach monthly classes . >> combines designing and creating and

sketching and refineling that and make it in a final product. that is how i got into art. >> i was really interested in the [indiscernible] just being able to capture stories was important to me and my art was make up at the time. i was using color and make up to express my is lf and documenting it. >> we started mostly as a gallery. we throw group art shows or feature local artists and they put art on our walls and we also pop up events. trying to get a network of artists going and creatives going to get together and just kind of show out and show off and do fun projects. we get to bring people we worked with in the space and to the events and projects and continues to grow. >> our current instillation is [indiscernible] women of the resistance. we were fortunate to have alexa

also known as lex-[indiscernible] so, to be able to have her work featured was an honor. really wanted to show [indiscernible] and i think she was really able to capture that. >> we designed a lot of stuff how we are feeling and colors we are vibeing with and that is how we do our creative process. >> we feel we are a beacon in san francisco. i feel we sprelshize in screen printing so if you need something screen printed you can count on us or a art show, you can count on us as well. [music]

[music] >> sarah duncan the honeer chef here. alexa and i own this location today. we are wem omen in business. we started this location in san francisco about 5 years ago, and previous--had a kitchen in the back on geneva avenue. we moved over here about two years into that venture and opened this one november of 2019. i grew up in east texas and [indiscernible] bbq venture and wanted to do something different here which is our new orlean style. gentilly is a district in new orlens that remeans we of the excelsior. [indiscernible] i lived out

here for 17 years. alexa also lived in the neighborhood and we wanted to stay in excelsior. we think people enjoy. there isn't a lot ofication food left in the city. there used to be before covid so we wanted to do something the city wasn't already flooded with. gumbo is your traditional style new orleans style stew. we have a nice dark rich broth. pulled chicken, shrimp [indiscernible] the other popular items are fried chicken, a grilled mac and cheese. cajun green beans. number two seller. san francisco is a special city. it got a very big food driven industry. it is very hospitality friendly. i feel like especially in the

restaurant industry, me being a chef it is a pretty male dominant world out there, and i think it is really special the two of us have been able to come together as women and open this restaurant four months to the day before shutdown and keep the doors open still. we put a lot of love into this place. we try to make it feel you are walking into someone's living room where you are comfortable. we are at 482 mission street. welcome to check our lovely environment and have a cocktail

>> ready? okay. good evening and welcome to the july 10, 24 meeting of the board of appeals. vice president lemberg will preside joined by trasvina and jose lopez is the clerk tonight and and the needed legal advice. the controls is the legal assist >> the city departments will be presented before tht board. corey taik teague representing planning and kevin acting chief building inspector. guidelines the board request you silence sdpoens