The Mexican dinner destination helped turn the Lower Haight into one of the city’s most exciting dining neighborhoods. | Source: Chris Behroozian for The Standard
Published Sep. 9, 2026at6:00am
The upscale Mexican restaurant Otra (opens in new tab) on Haight will close in early December, owners Nick Cobarruvias and Anna Sager Cobarruvias confirmed to The Standard. The staff was alerted to the news early this week.
Cobarruvias and Sager Cobarruvias say the decision comes in part so they can focus more energy on their two kids and salsa macha business Chingonas (opens in new tab). (opens in new tab) But what sealed the deal was a usual summer slowdown that was a bit too slow. They hope Otra will continue in some form, though they’re not sure what that will look like. “It’s reflective, if anything,” Cobarruvias says. “There’s no real smoking gun. It’s good to go out before you’re forced out, so to speak.”
The serendipity of it all echoes how Cobarruvias and Sager Cobarruvias ended up there in the first place. The Otra location became available thanks to their landlord’s familiarity with the couple’s first restaurant, Son’s Addition, which closed in 2021. It was there that Cobarruvias’ cooking exploded into the San Francisco scene with fresh-made masa wrapped around summer squash and pickled onion, and grass-fed, white cheddar burgers slathered in bacon-onion marmalade.
Otra’s masa-centric menu includes heirloom corn totopos with refried black beans and salsas. | Source: Chris Behroozian for The Standard
The couple signed the lease for Otra in January 2020, and the pandemic launched them into an experience that required constant flexibility. (One day, Cobarruvias remembers, the oven overheated, and every dish and glass in the restaurant exploded.) But during the last six years, the couple saw the neighborhood — they lived just two blocks from Otra for years — mature into a true dining destination. Ultra-hip cocktail bar Stoa opened kitty-corner to the restaurant in 2023, followed by Bar Jabroni next door in 2024. Pizza hot spot Jules opened three blocks away in May 2025.
A new tenant has already signed a lease on the space; details will be announced soon. Cobarruvias says he loves the new operator and is happy to see the Otra space end up in good hands. As he and Sager Cobarruvias wind things down, they plan to continue serving tacos on fresh corn tortillas, mezcal margaritas, and some of their greatest hits: all-stars from menus past and dishes that didn’t make sense to keep for the long term but dropped jaws when they were available. Maybe they’ll open another restaurant down the road. For now, they’re excited to spend holidays with their kids.
“I’m not hanging up the spurs,” Cobarruvias says. “We’re fucking lucky, dude. I say it every day.”
OtraOpening hoursOpen daily 5-10 p.m.
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