Coming Soon: San Francisco Tavern on the Green

The renowned Central Park restaurant, Tavern on the Green, is opening a second location in San Francisco's central business district in the summer of 2009. The new eatery will feature 30,000 square feet of interior space; it also will have a 13,000-square-foot terrace, overlooking the city's Yerba Buena Gardens, where patrons can dine al fresco.

Tavern on the Green, which first opened in 1934, was shuttered in 1974 — only to be leased by Warner LeRoy and revived in its current incarnation about two years later. Since Mr. LeRoy's death in 2001, his daughter, Jennifer LeRoy, has been running the restaurant, situated off Central Park West at 67th Street.

"The City of San Francisco, with its vibrancy, diversity and passionate dining culture, combined with the perfect setting on a park in the heart of the city, is simply too good to be true," Ms. LeRoy said, according to the San Francisco Business Times.

Tavern on the Green's chief operating officer, Michael Desiderio, said that the menu would feature fresh and local ingredients, as well as California wines. An executive chef for the San Francisco restaurant has not been named.