Handroll Project Closes After Three Years, Pivots to Hamburger Project

The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/08/27/handroll-project-closes-after-three-years-pivots-to-hamburger-project/The team behind Ju-Ni has given up on its fun and seemingly popular sushi handroll concept at 18th and Guerrero, and the location will now become a second Hamburger Project. Change is coming once again to 598 Guerrero. Talk of the persistent curse on the space seemed to subside after the solid eight-year run of Izakaya Yuzuki (2011-2019), but the next tenant, the much-buzzed-over AL's Deli from AL's Place chef Aaron London, only lasted eight months before London, presciently, closed the place ten days before pandemic lockdowns began in March 2020, citing a lack of sufficient customer volume. After Handroll Project moved in in the spring of 2022, things