The lengthy saga of Mission District Senegalese meals staple Bissap Baobab has had a tumultuous previous few years. The unique Bissap Baobab closed in 2019, effectively earlier than the pandemic, over proprietor Marco Senghor’s legal problems over immigration status. Bissap Baobab’s Oakland location closed later that year. The remaining Little Baobab at nineteenth Avenue did emerge from pandemic closures, although has stored irregular hours, and Mission District neighbors had been not entirely receptive to Senghor’s plans for a brand new Massive Baobab within the former Lupilandia house at 18th and Mission Streets.
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However that years-long curler coaster experience has resulted in a tender touchdown, and now a tender opening. The brand new Massive Baobab just lately opened for breakfast and weekend brunch service, although the colourful storefront at 2243 Mission Avenue bears the unique identify “Bissap Baobab.”
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Proprietor Marco Senghor tells Hoodline that dinner service is scheduled to begin subsequent Thursday, September 15.
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So in the interim, Massive Baobab is only a espresso and breakfast cafe. However that breakfast menu is available online, and its the handiwork of Margaritas Coffee. 
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The Massive Baobab dinner menu isn’t but accessible. However based on a recent Big Baobab profile from Eater SF, “Senghor included vegetable- and cassava-based dishes into Massive Baobab’s menu. Fufu (pounded cassava) options prominently, however with a twist. Fairly than a easy, hearty mound in a sea of stew, Senghor’s model resembles the consistency of polenta, studded with shredded spinach and chunks of candy plantain. It’s served with yassa, a mustard-based onion sauce cooked with flaky fish, grilled rooster, plump shrimp, or seasonal greens. He’s additionally been toying with a recipe for a fufu burger, which he hopes so as to add to the menu as soon as it’s perfected.”
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And whereas Massive Baobab technically doesn’t have a parklet, it does have an out of doors eating space, a “entrance patio” if you’ll. That space permits bicycle parking, and in some instances, apparently even motorbike parking
