Grand opening! CUBITA Cuban Restaurant // SF
Cubita opens to the public June 6th 4-9pm.
Address: 2516 Mission St., Mission
Featuring DJ Leydis spinning.
Cubita, a new rooftop bar, is opening & supporting CubaCaribe.
- For the month of June Cubita will give CubaCaribe 50% of the proceeds of the Canchánchara cocktail. Please go, drink and send ALL YOUR FRIENDS TO DRINK IT TOO!!!!!!!
- We are looking forward to continue to partner in different ways with this new Cuban bar in our beloved Mission district.
El Techo is reborn as Cubita, a Cuban-inspired “rooftop” bar and restaurant.
Cubita will open June 6 at 2516 Mission St., formerly the home of El Techo, an oft-packed Mission District rooftop bar with sweeping views of the city.
After 13 years, the city’s favorite rooftop bar and restaurant, El Techo, served its last pitches of margaritas in May.
This Friday, it reopens as a bar that’s same-same but different: It’s still owned by Adriano Paganini, the city’s most prolific restaurateur (Beretta, Tailor’s Son, Wildseed, and many more). It still has panoramic Mission views and Latin vibes. But now the menu and design have a Cuban bent.
Expect yuca rellena with ground beef and raisins, plantains in many iterations, a whole fried fish with beans and rice (arroz congri), and — of course — a Cubano sandwich. Cocktails will range from the dramatic, such as the Havana Heat (dark rum, passion fruit, lemon, and maraschino liqueur, all set on fire) to classics like a mojito and Cuba libre.
It’s the latest project from Back of the House, a Bay Area restaurant group that ran El Techo as well as Argentinian steakhouse Lolinda on the building’s ground floor and popular spots Super Duper Burger, Flores and Beretta.
Owner Adriano Paganini has wanted to open a Cuban spot for years. Recently, it hit him: He could convert the 12-year-old El Techo, which despite its intended direction as a Latin American complement to the downstairs Lolinda turned into a Mexican bar where people ate tacos and, he said, “were drinking margaritas by the gallon.”
