Eater SF Classics Week: 2015 | Eater SF

"I met Marco Senghor, proprietor of Bissap Baobab, an 18-year-old West African/Senegalese restaurant and club in the Mission, and learned that he arrived in San Francisco in 1989 as Marc Olivier Senghor—the grandson of Léopold Senghor—and adopted the nickname Marco to create an independent identity. He settled in the Mission, discovered familiar ingredients like tamarind and hibiscus, found a welcoming, diverse community, and even moved into an abandoned building on 19th Street between Mission and Capp that temporarily served as his home and later became Little Baobab." - Eater Staff