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Everything You Need to Know About Those Clear Plastic Dining Domes in Mint Plaza - Eater SF

A meal in the $1,400 tent will run you at least $200

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Everything You Need to Know About Those Clear Plastic Dining Domes in Mint Plaza - Eater SF

By now, you’ve likely heard about the clear tents erected for outdoor diners at Hashiri, a Michelin-starred, kaiseki-style restaurant in SoMa’s Mint Plaza. The story of the enclosures, which have been monikered “quarantine bubbles,” “sushi domes,” and “igloos” by various publications, has dominated the local food world news cycle since Thursday afternoon, eliciting headlines from almost every local publication that’s still in, well, publication.

With such a bounty of discourse around a set of tables with a tent on top, all that’s left to do is to sift through that conversation for what revelations might be found within those clear, plastic tents. Here’s what you need to know:

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