New, Blissful Temple to Seafood in the Mission: ANCORA

Ancora’s SF sardines on pan con tomate (Photo: Courtesy Virginia Miller)

At the prime, heavily foot-trafficked location of Valencia between 16th and 17th Streets, Ancora (“anchor” in Latin) opened July 2, 2022, in the former Locanda space. It was opened by Andi and Joe Conte of Water2Table, the venerable sustainable seafood company that many Bay Area restaurants — and more recently, consumers, too — source from since 2011.