If you have lived in Marin for more than a couple of summers, you know the pattern. A restaurant gets announced, the sign goes up in a storefront window on Magnolia or 4th Street, and then nothing happens for eighteen months. Sometimes the project quietly dies. Sometimes it opens as something else. This summer is different, and not because Marin suddenly got trendy. It is different because a specific cohort of operators with San Francisco résumés picked Marin at the same moment the county's biggest civic weekend leans into a once-a-generation theme. The result is a summer where the food story and the event story are actually the same story: people who could have gone anywhere chose here, and they are opening in time for the crowd that will already be out.
Here is where the pieces are landing, town by town, with enough detail to plan around.
San Anselmo: A Rooftop That Looks Straight at Mount Tam
The most consequential opening on the county's calendar this summer is Tu Tap, in the former Kientz Hall space at 625 San Anselmo Avenue.
