The Michelin-recognized Thai restaurant served its last San Francisco meal June 21. Two months on, the only building permits on file at the Valencia Street corner predate the closure — no new tenant-improvement filing has been pulled, and no new business has registered there.

On the corner of 24th and Valencia, the Thai restaurant Funky Elephant served its last San Francisco meal on Sunday, June 21. The team announced the closure on Instagram, thanking customers and pointing them to the Berkeley location, after three years at 1270 Valencia St, as first reported by WhatNow↗ (external source, opens in a new tab) and KRON4↗ (external source, opens in a new tab). The owners, chefs Supasit Puttikaew and Nanchaphon Laptanachai, gave no official reason. Their original spot, at 1313 Ninth Street in West Berkeley — the one that earned Michelin recognition in 2022 — stays open.

The question a neighborhoods desk asks is what comes next, and the public record so far says: nothing new. The only building permits on file at 1270 Valencia St predate the closure — older construction items, none tied to a new tenant — and as of Aug 22, no new tenant-improvement or alterations permit has been pulled since Funky Elephant went dark in June. No new business registration for the address turned up either. Whoever takes the space, if anyone has, has not yet filed to change it.

That absence is its own signal on a corridor that turns over fast. The Mission has logged 49 eviction notices in the past 90 days and about 2,500 requests to 311 in the past week, according to DataSF — a neighborhood in constant motion. A corner that changes hands usually leaves a paper trail within weeks. This one hasn't yet. Someone walking past 1270 Valencia tomorrow will find what they'd have found in June: a dark storefront, and no sign of who takes it next.