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• Fun new vegan upscale American classics

Citizen Fox is a bar and restaurant that is supposed to be opening in a permanent location soon, but for now is doing some events and is open for pop-ups on Friday nights and Sunday mornings in a temporary location near the permanent home in the Mission. The temporary location is actually a really nice restaurant space, with beautiful wood interior, full bar, ~5 booths and 2 long communal tables for seating, and an open kitchen. I've seen Citizen Fox at some other events such as the Streat Food Park's Vegan Sundays, and the food then was not super impressive. I have also heard that at one such occasion, they bought non-vegan bread and served it to vegan customers without informing them, which is not cool. However, when I went to their pop-up location for a Sunday brunch, the food was really good. It was upscale in the sense of being carefully prepared, well-balanced and a lot of effort put into the cooking. The environment was casual though -- we were seated on stools next to other diners. We got drinks which I felt was not good value, a very tiny mimosa (half a champagne glass full) for $8 if I remember correctly. Also, I would not recommend the package prix fixe that you can buy ahead of time, it didn't seem to be a good value compared to just ordering off the menu. I recommend you go to a pop-up for the food! Be prepared to sit quite close to strangers; it'll be worth it. 4 stars for now -- hoping to upgrade to 5 once the location/hours/etc settles.