After 30 years of serving duck-leg confit and onion soup with bubbling gruyère, Mathilde French Bistro in SoMa will close Dec. 31, according to Lina Yew, who owns the restaurant with her husband.
As the lights go dark at Mathilde, however, Yew’s other French restaurant, L’Ardoise in Duboce Triangle, will serve a glitzy New Year’s Eve menu of caviar cream puffs and filet mignon.
“L’Ardoise is still doing great,” she said. As for Mathilde’s, well, it was the right time: “I had kept on feeling like I didn’t want to be a quitter, but then when I hit 30 years, I decided, I think it’s OK for me to stop.”