This week, yet another restaurant boldly moved into 598 Guerrero St. in San Francisco, despite the Mission District location’s many years of proving how cursed it is.

The owners of Handroll Project, the location’s most recent tenant, will reopen the restaurant as Hamburger Project Two — a second location for the burger spot at 808 Divisadero. Handroll Project took over the high-ceilinged space on the corner of 18th Street in 2022 and survived just over three years, having taken over from AL’s Deli, which soldiered on there for just eight months until March 2020. (At the time of that departure, owner Aaron London told Eater, “It just never really hit the mass appeal to make that model make sense.”)

Remarkably, AL’s Deli wasn’t even the shortest-lived restaurant to occupy 598 Guerrero. Tha

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