"The Castro has always been my favorite place, just because I know everybody there," said Fimbres, a nurse and well-known transgender activist. "It is a really exciting thing to see it coming back to life."Up the street at the restaurant Fable, co-owners Jon Vargas and Ramsey Garcia have moved a few tables onto the sidewalk, particularly during their weekend brunch service.
But they prefer to seat their customers in their backyard open-air patio, which allowed them to reopen for table service in early June after focusing solely on to-go orders since April."It was a tough two months.