The grand opening of Marco Senghor's Bissap Baobab, or "Big Baobab," last September was supposed to be a love letter to the people who'd helped him back onto his feet after a grueling pandemic.Senghor closed the first iteration of the restaurant in 2019, using the money to cover legal fees for an immigration case, and spent the deepest days of the pandemic using the kitchen at his smaller restaurant, Little Baobab, to prepare meals for unhoused people when shelters and other food centers were strained for resources.The owner of the pan-African restaurant and nightclub invited San Francisco supervisor Myrna Melgar and several other city officials and hired an Aztec dance crew to perform for the Big Baobab reopening.
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