Hayes Valley Restaurant and Wine Bar, Shuttered Amid Influencer Dustup, Reopens as Bosque

Prominent SF chef Luke Sung says viral scandal with influencer has tanked career and family, blasts TikTokker for not doing her homework

Luke Sung, 52, shared his side of a tense exchange at Kis Cafe in Hayes Valley, where “micro-influencer” Karla Marcotte, @itskarlabb on TikTok, claimed she was allegedly belittled by the James Beard award-nominated chef over her follower count last month, according to a video posted to her platform.

Hayes Valley Restaurant and Wine Bar, Shuttered Amid Influencer Dustup, Reopens as Bosque

As was promised, the former KIS Cafe in Hayes Valley has been reborn a couple weeks on, with a fresh off-white paintjob out front, as Bosque. The restaurant at 609 Hayes Valley is back open, with the name Bosque on a front window, with the same warm wood interior and almost the same menu it had when it first opened in May.Owner Eric Lin has expressed a desire to move on from a recent controversy involving his former partner, Luke Sung, who also …