The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/08/22/this-week-in-food-alamo-square-gets-a-friulian-restaurant/A small restaurant devoted to the cuisine of Friuli (in Italy) comes to Alamo Square, San Francisco celebrates Tomato Week, and the Chronicle decides to do a blind bagel ranking, all in This Week in Food. I finally found out what is moving into the former Alamo Square Seafood Grill space, which was vacated last fall at 803 Fillmore Street (at Grove). It's called Polenta, a significant remodel is underway, and it's set to become a regional Italian restaurant at a neighborhood scale, in the vein of La Ciccia, except focused on the northern Italian region of Friuli. The wines of Friuli are a passion of owner Giulio de Monte Gaspardo, a former sommelier at Bottega in Y

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