Many Bay Area chefs saw pop-ups as a pit stop. The pandemic changed that FacebookTwitterEmail 1of7 Kim Truong, and her husband, Jorge Islas, in Frank Grizzly’s Kitchen in San Francisco, with son Oden Islas Truong, 2, playing nearby.Sarahbeth Maney / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of7 Nicole Marin prepares a dish for her Baja Mexican pop-up, Hermanita, in 2019. After working in restaurants for years and seeing the pandemic unfold, Marin is no longer interested in opening her own brick-and-mortar.Juan Manuel TéllezShow MoreShow Less 3of7 Jorge Islas prepares an order of the popular quesabirrias at Frank Grizzly’s Kitchen in San Francisco.Sarahbeth Maney / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less