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A new year, a new crop of exciting-looking restaurants popping up around the Bay Area. In Livermore, a pair of sushi-restaurant vets are opening a raw bar that highlights local sakes. A sprawling food hall with a dozen restaurants is scheduled for downtown San Jose, an oyster bar with whole cracked Dungeness crabs is coming to Oakland's Jack London Square and a Sicilian joint based on good ol' momma's cooking is launching in Danville. In no particular order, here are the 10 of the most eagerly anticipated restaurants expected to make their debut in 2024, and a couple more inchi...

Frances Catano and Joe Tomaszak have long been fans of the raw bars, with their bountiful array of oysters, clams, mussels and sushi. "We live out here in Sunol and have worked in San Francisco for 10 years or so," says Catano, "and sad to say we don’t have anywhere here in this area that we can pop in before dinner or on a sunny day for raw-bar bites." This fall, they hope to plug that hole in Tri-Valley seafood coverage with a restaurant where people can slurp down oysters, munch tasty bread and butter and savor a nice glass of wine – or in this case, sake. Cured: Fis...