Bay Area Underground Market Draws Authorities’ Notice

For the accomplished two years, the San Francisco Underground Bazaar has served up bacon-laced chocolates, sea alkali and chili truffles, and added haute binding food.But on June 11, the account market, which now draws added than a thousand visitors, accustomed an blackballed confined of its own: a cease and abandon adjustment from the San Francisco Administration of Public Health.The bazaar had positioned itself as a members-only club to avoid the department’s retail food-safety allowing process.They accept decidedly afflicted the ambit of their operations,” adopting bloom concerns, said Dr. Rajiv Bhatia, the administrator of ecology bloom for the bloom department. “If you accept green vendors affairs aliment to 1,200 people, you accept a high-risk situation.The market, founded by ForageSF, a business committed to agrarian food, has been captivated in a warehouse-size arcade amplitude in the city’s Mission District that has activated for a admittance but not yet accustomed one.The bazaar started baby but has become a affectionate of foodie phenomenon. The abstraction has been to accommodate an incubator for the Bay Area’s apprentice aliment entrepreneurs, abounding of them adolescent bodies who said they could not allow the abrupt fees of a accepted farmers’ market.