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SO, APPARENTLY, ONE OF SAN FRANCISCO’S HOTTEST NEW RESTAURANTS MIGHT BE HAUNTED
Several staff members at Handroll Project say they’ve experienced paranormal
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by Lauren Saria Oct 17, 2022, 9:00am PDT
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It started with a shift report. “Eziquiel met a ghost last night in the break
room,” it began, going on to detail how a dishwasher at the Mission’s hit new
sushi restaurant Handroll Project was closing up when he spotted someone in the
basement break room. The person had long hair and was dressed in black, sitting
in a metal chair facing away from the door. The dishwasher did a double take —
surprised to find someone down there since it was so late and most staff had
left already — only to find the person gone. He ran upstairs to a co-worker and
asked if he’d seen anyone come up the stairs before him. No, he was told,
everyone else is outside already.
In the days since that incident, Geoffrey Lee, one of the partners behind the
restaurant, has been on the case, investigating the ghostly apparition in an
attempt to find out whether or not the buzzy restaurant really might be home to
a ghost resident. “I went down a rabbit hole,” Lee says, adding that he’s never
been one to give much weight to ghost stories. “But I almost don't want to know
the answer.”
It turns out the October 8 ghost spotting isn’t the only unexplained happening
to have gone down at the restaurant, Lee says. Someone else reported having the
lights flicker on and off for no reason; another member of the team said a
plastic container flew across the room on its own. Sometimes, the restaurant’s
Wi-Fi goes out suddenly. Lee says that even though he’s never felt anything
strange during the many hours he’s spent in the space, which is situated on the
high-profile corner of Guerrero and 18th streets, locals have repeatedly told
him there’s something off about it. “I always remember people saying in the
neighborhood, oh this place is cursed,” he says. “I’m thinking, restaurants fail
all the time, that's just what it is.”
Now, he’s not so sure.
Longtime San Francisco residents might remember that before 598 Guerrero Street
was home to one of the city’s hottest sushi spots and before it housed chef
Aaron London’s short-lived AL’s Deli, the space was home to a Latin-inspired
bistro called Platanos. The business had a troubled history, as former San
Francisco Chronicle food critic Michael Bauer described in a 2006 review: “It’s
a story of murder, failed ambitions and redemption.”
According to a 2003 story by a pair of Chronicle staff writers, on the night of
February 5, 2003, Platanos executive chef Carlos Perez died not far from the
restaurant, which had opened only three months prior. A fight had broken out
between the chef and a resident nearby over the loud music Perez was playing in
his parked car late at night. Following the unexpected death of the restaurant’s
chef, the business struggled, closing for a period before reopening under new
ownership.
After unearthing this dark piece of history associated with the restaurant, Lee
thinks he may have found the identity of Handroll Project’s resident phantom.
He’s not sure yet if it’s a friendly spirit or a less welcoming one — Lee’s
still trying to wrap his mind around the idea that the restaurant could be
haunted at all. “It’s just too crazy,” he says. “Customers have been saying, the
veil between the living and the dead is very thin right now because of Halloween
and Dia De Los Muertos and I’m like, I’m not trying to hear that stuff,” he
says.
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