Baker and Banker filling Quince space

Replacing Quince at the corner of San Francisco's Octavia and Bush streets soon will be Baker and Banker. An earlier report said the new restaurant would be called Brown Butter.

Veteran restaurateurs Lori Baker and Jeff Banker (left), who are married to one another, will open in the space that Quince left as it moved to 470 Pacific St.

A help-wanted advertisement for a sous chef in Craigslist Tuesday evening revealed the restaurant name and additionally said:

"Baker and Banker will be a welcoming neighborhood restaurant serving distinctive but approachable food made with care and based on produce and meats from local producers with whom they have long-standing relationships. All breads and pastries will be made in-house and a bakery is planned on the site in the near future."

No surprise that the restaurant will have an in-house bakery; Lori Baker has produced an array of pastries at various locales in the city for years.

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Eating out until July 2013

San Francisco is said to have more restaurants per capita than any other U.S. city. That's 4,200 eateries, according to a story in today's San Francisco Chronicle.

Do the math to see that you could eat out for every meal and not repeat a restaurant for three years and 10 months.

How's this for Day 1? Breakfast at Town's End Restaurant & Bakery with a view of the San Francisco Bay, lunch at the Nook on Russian Hill and dinner at Quince in Pacific Heights.

Just 4,197 menu perusals to go.