Locals don’t exactly flock to downtown San Francisco in regular times, and certainly not post-pandemic as Union Square and neighboring Tenderloin are hit the hardest. But numerous changes have been bringing downtown (slowly) back. The newest is Corzetti, just opened in the new Hotel G off Union Square on August 14, 2023.
It’s the latest from Adriano Paganini’s Back of the House, Inc. group behind many SF restaurant staples, including a Mano, Beretta, Delarosa, Flores, Starbelly and Super Duper Burger.
Like Paganini’s The Tailor’s Son in Pac Heights, Corzetti is more personal, showcasing the seafood-centric cuisine of Northern Italy’s Ligurian coast where Paganini spent summers growing up. He hails from just outside Milan in the Lombardy region, but Liguria is a neighboring region just north of Tuscany and home to beloved Cinque Terre, the five magical villages I stayed in during a month I spent in Tuscany.