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While excited about the opportunity at Chase Center — “it’s just surreal, it seems too good to be true,” Barakat said — she also thinks the Warriors’ decision to highlight the region’s top food and drink purveyors is not surprising.
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The premium lounges will offer “tiered levels of luxury experience,” Jeffers said, including “butler-passed hors d’oeuvres and really nice wine and cocktails in the JP Morgan Club and the courtside lounges. The Bay Area has over 30 Michelin-starred restaurants. People know good food; they have expectations and our goal is to try to surpass them.”
“The more earned revenue we can bring in, the more youth we can serve, which we’re very excited to do,” Goines said. “Besides the extra revenue, if we become known as one of the must-go places in San Francisco — if we’re full in the restaurant every night, or known as the place to host your private corporate event or training — that is going to be huge.”
To reflect the “incredible diversity” of the San Francisco Bay Area and its preferences for “authentic, seasonal” cuisine, Bauccio said the company worked with the Warriors to create a program called Taste Makers, inviting small businesses from the neighborhood to apply for a spot.
Among those chosen: Yvonne Hines, whose Yvonne’s Southern Sweets bakes cookies, cakes and pies in San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood; Earl Shaddix, also of Bayview, who produces Earl’s Brittle peanut brittle; JP Reyes and Kristen Brillantes of Sarap Shop, a SoMa food truck serving Filipino American comfort food; and Cassandra Chen, creator of CC Made artisanal caramel popcorn and a member of the Chase Entrepreneurs of Color Program and the San Francisco community development nonprofit Working Solutions.
Another Taste Makers participant, Old Skool Café, is a nonprofit supper club in the Bayview, where at-risk youth create, cook and serve “international soul food” as well as provide live entertainment. At Chase Center, Old Skool will have a stand offering a meatball po-boy, a West African peanut butter chicken stew, baked mac and cheese squares that can be eaten by hand and sweet potato pie, according to founder and CEO Teresa Goines, who said the exposure as well as additional income should be significant.
“Because the Warriors wanted something different and very unique, and they were so passionate about quality and trying to reach out to the community, I thought this would be a great fit for our brand,” said Fedele Bauccio, co-founder and CEO of Bon Appétit. “This is an opportunity to do something that has never been done before — creating this ever-changing, living food story, working with community partners and benefiting not only cooks but also farmers, ranchers and food artisans — making this arena very, very special.”
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by John Smith
Scheduled to open Sept. 6, Chase Center will feature carts or menu items from a dozen local food entrepreneurs; stands from a half-dozen well-established restaurants in the region, including San Francisco’s Tacolicious and Sam’s Chowder House in Half Moon Bay; and six Bay Area brewers and cocktail specialists, supplementing larger distributors’ offerings.
This kaleidoscope of hometown talent stems from the Golden State Warriors’ partnership with a national firm based in Palo Alto: Bon Appétit Management Company. In addition to operating several celebrated restaurants in San Francisco, Bon Appétit feeds the employees of many of Silicon Valley’s household names, and San Francisco Giants fans at Oracle Park, well known for its gourmet culinary offerings. Bon Appétit is also working with Levy Restaurants, which served Warriors fan at its old Oakland home, Oracle Arena, to leverage its technological expertise.
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The same appears to true at the all-access portions of the arena. Bon Appétit is also bringing in more established small restaurateurs and brands with regional ties, including Big Nate’s BBQ, a revival of the Warriors Hall-of-Famer’s barbecue business started in San Francisco; Hot Dog Bill’s Burger Dog, a delicacy formerly only available to patrons of two private golf courses, the Olympic Club in San Francisco and Silverado in Napa; born-in-San-Francisco Tony G’s pizza from Tony Gemignani; and Bakesale Betty, an Oakland fixture renowned for fried chicken sandwiches with spicy coleslaw, the creation of Australian immigrant Alison Barakat.
Alicia’s Tamales
Taste Makers participant La Cocina, a San Francisco nonprofit that provides affordable commercial kitchen space to low-income women entrepreneurs, selected Alicia’s Tamales to be its first representative at Chase Center.
Owner Alicia Villanueva developed her catering business at La Cocina in 2015 before moving to Hayward the following year.
Based on family recipes from Mazatlan, Villanueva’s tamales for Chase Center will come “in a nice variety of flavors,” she said, from traditional chicken with salsa verde to a new vegan nopalitos (prickly pear cactus) tamale.
“It’s a huge dream and a big blessing for my kids and my team who are working here for me,” Villanueva said. “We are so, so happy.”
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Also huge: the number of cooks and kitchens preparing fresh food at Chase Center. According to Mark Jeffers, Chase Center’s culinary director, “anywhere from 160 to 200 cooks” will be cooking from scratch nightly, working with Taste Makers to produce freshly prepared food at some 37 stands.
“Essentially, they’re full kitchens, overengineered to stand alone without support from a main kitchen,” he said. “It’s more à la minute cooking than anywhere you’re going to find.”
“This is what the Bay Area is — celebrating what is special here,” Barakat noted. “Bon Appétit is taking that spirit and saying, ‘Let’s give these family-run businesses that have worked hard an opportunity to share their talent and their food with a whole lot of people.’ ”
Below is a sampling of some of the food vendors and beverage partners that will offer a taste of the Bay Area at Chase Center:
Bon Vivants Hospitality
The firm behind San Francisco’s acclaimed Trick Dog and Bon Voyage! cocktail bars, founded by Josh Harris and Morgan Schick, will be training Chase Center’s bartenders.
“We are putting together a cocktail and spirits program that brings many of the principals that you see in bars and restaurants in the outside world — including high-quality ingredients, point of view and great hospitality — and tailors that to an arena setting across the multiple outlets in Chase Center,” Harris said.
“All of the cocktails are designed to include great brands and fresh ingredients, constructed in ways that create efficiencies for bartenders to serve a large amount of guests in a short amount of time,” Harris said.
Although still working on the menu at press time, an example of this will be a version of a spicy Paloma, featuring Avion Silver Tequila, Ancho Reyes chile liqueur, lime, salt and grapefruit soda.
San Francisco Bayview native Tiffany Carter shares a special connection with Chase Center.
“I used to park there when it was nothing and work on my business plan,” she recalled.
Now set to open a California seafood kiosk in the new La Cocina Municipal Marketplace in San Francisco’s Tenderloin later this year, the Boug Cali owner was running a popup on Third Street when she successfully applied to the Taste Makers program. Her jerk chicken nachos and garlic shrimp noodles will be part of the initial lineup.
“(It) is a great opportunity for a small business owner,” Carter said. “It’s beyond everything I can imagine.”
Boug Cali
Located just two blocks from Chase Center, the brewpub at 19th and Third streets will be one of four Bay Area craft breweries (plus one local sake maker) showcased at the arena.
Owner Greg Kitchen said he and brewer Michael Paine recently designed a Chase Center exclusive, the City of Haze India Pale Ale, a lower-alcohol session IPA.
“It will probably be only several days old when it’s put on tap, so it will be the freshest in the arena, and a beer that will appeal to all of the fans going to the arena’s sporting and concert events,” Kitchen said.
Triple Voodoo Brewery
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