SHŌ Restaurant, San Francisco’s first NFT membership-based club, will open in 2023
The newest San Francisco club you want to be a part of is relatively inexpensive—if you’ve got dot-com money. For the rest of us, that’s a $300,000 membership we probably won’t indulge in. It is for the SHŌ restaurant, which will open in 2023 in Salesforce Park, a roof garden in the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco. As reported by FunCheapSF, it’s the first NFT-based restaurant and private club to open in the city, and while memberships start at $7,500, it’s, er, expands to $300k per year.
SHŌ Group’s flagship restaurant for Japanese cuisine will sit in the middle of the 5.4 acre rooftop terrace which is free and open to the public. This beautiful green space with a “living roof” appears on many San Francisco’s “to do” lists with its botanical offerings and an art installation with 247 geysers that spray water in coordination with the buses moving on the street 70 feet below.
But this salon will not be free and will take up square meters in the otherwise free park. Billing itself as a “culinary entertainment and nightlife experience,” SHŌ will introduce American diners to Irori cuisine, prepared with local ingredients on a 40-square-meter fireplace fueled with charcoal and kindling. This will recreate the rustic farm dining that Japanese farmers have done for centuries to create umami-rich food. There will also be a sushi bar, and tapas and small dishes on the menu.
The restaurant and the club’s expensive memberships are based on NFTs, verifiable on the blockchain and resold. Membership will have three levels, all of which provide access to the members-only menu, a 24-hour concierge who makes reservations and arranges courtesy transportation, and the private lounge located on the roof level of the restaurant (ie the roof of the restaurant). the ceiling).
On the middle level you also get Omakase meals with celebrity guests, brainstorming sessions and educational programming. In the top tier, you’ll get unspecified benefits in addition to a “highly curated” trip to Japan, the company’s press release says, with access to things regular riffraff don’t get to visit.
In addition to the restaurant, there will be a SHŌ market for Japanese food on the building’s ground level. SoMa diners in the neighborhood will be able to grab a freshly made bento box for lunch or grab-and-go salads, sakes and other take-out treats.
So why buy in now? You can be a founding member with lifetime global access membership and access to all future SHŌ Group rollouts.
Looks like we need to borrow some money – can you spare a few hundred grand?
