This Week In Food: Ama Set an Opening Date

The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/09/05/this-week-in-food-ama-sets-opening-date/Ama sets an opening date at the Transamerica complex, sushi takeout hit Aji Kiji expands downtown, and Sunset Squares calls it quits, all in This Week in Food. Ama, the much-awaited new Italian-Japanese from chef Brad Kilgore, is opening in just a few weeks at the Transamerica Pyramid — not in the building but across the Redwood Park in the adjacent 545 Sansome, known as Three Transamerica. The grand opening is set for September 24, and the reservation books are now open. Kilgore teases dishes to the Chronicle this week like squid-ink arancini filled with tamari, soy sauce and mushroom; a citrus-miso king salmon, served over lobster-tomato bisque; and his signature soft-boiled egg h