Ilna at Buddy in San Francisco

The residency

This is a weekly recurring restaurant pop-up residency hosted at Buddy, a San Francisco bar. The format centers on freestyle modern California-Lebanese and Levantine cuisine, and it operates as a standard à la carte dining reservation rather than a fixed upfront ticket.

Menu direction

The named dishes span seafood, dumplings, breads, rice, and dessert. Listed items include dry-aged beef yogurt dumplings with za’atar pepper crunch, kampachi or hamachi crudo, squid-ink pita with kishk labne and smoked trout or ikura, stuffed squash with Dungeness crab fried rice, uni dolma nigiri, and cardamom orange blossom Habibi Tiramisu.

Those dishes sit within the stated California-Lebanese and Levantine focus, with the residency format placing the meal inside Buddy’s recurring pop-up program rather than a separately ticketed fixed-price dinner.

Maz Naba and Buddy

Maz Naba is the chef and winemaker associated with Ilna and Augur Wine Co. The event description connects the project to his Lebanese roots, and Buddy is located at 3115 22nd St in San Francisco.

The event takes place at Buddy, which is identified as a bar. Exact timing and reservation details belong in the event information fields rather than the descriptive copy.