Mama's (restaurant)

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Mama's is a family-owned restaurant in San Francisco, California, located in the North Beach neighborhood. It lies off Stockton Street and Filbert Street, adjacent to Washington Square. Founded in 1967, Mama's serves breakfast, brunch, and lunch, and has its own bake and gift shops. The restaurant specializes in omelettes and sandwiches, and has a bakery that sells homemade jam, fresh baked bread, and pastries.

Mama's founder, Michael Joseph Sanchez, was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, and moved to San Francisco with his family as an infant. Sanchez served in the military in World War II, and arrived home afterward, where he met his future wife, Frances Lent. Sanchez and Lent married in 1946. He started the a produce company where he imported limes from Mexico, before opening a sherbet shop at the corner of Filbert and Stockton streets in 1952, where present-day Mama's is located now. Twelve years after the start of the sherbet shop, Sanchez remodeled the shop into a restaurant and named it Mama's in honor of his wife. The breakfast menu of Mama's gained the restaurant's quick success. In the following decades, Sanchez opened and closed several other restaurants, including a second Mama's restaurant, which closed in 1997. Michael Sanchez retired from the restaurant business in 1997, leaving the restaurant to his son and daughter-in-law to operate. Sanchez died on August 31, 2008, in Marin County, at the age of 84.^[1]

Mama's serves a variety of breakfast courses, such as omelettes, Eggs Benedicts, French toast, and pancakes. Lunch items include sandwiches, burgers, entree salads, and side orders such as homemade fries, bagels, yogurt, and fresh fruit. Beverages include lemonade, cranberry juice, apple juice, grapefruit juice, soft beverage sodas, lattes, hot chocolates, and alcoholic beverages ranging from wine to beer.^[2]

Mama's Bake Shop sells carrot cake, poppy seed cake, homemade jam, brownies, and Kugelhopf. The bakery items are available for pre-order, and can be pre-ordered in 48 hours in advance. During the holiday season, Mama's Bake Shop items can be sold in a gift basket.^[3]

Mama's is located at 1701 Stockton St., at the edge of Washington Square Park. The restaurant is easily accessible by MUNI and cable car.^[4]

Mama's is open from Tuesday to Sunday, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., and is always closed on Mondays.^[4]

In a June 2010 USA Today article, restaurant guide Zagat recommended Mama's for its Northwest omelette.^[5] Zagat also mentioned Mama's for "pancakes that are as light as a feather - close to perfect.” The restaurant has been also recommended by food critiques from KQED's Check, Please! Bay Area, Time's travel guide, and the Travel Channel.^[6]

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