T&T Supermarket opens San Francisco store, its fourth U.S. location in two years

T&T Supermarket opened its newest location in San Francisco on Nov. 5, in a 50,000-square-foot space that was once a Best Buy. Lines reportedly started forming at 4 a.m. For the 8 a.m. Opening.

The store is the chain's fourth U.S. location in two years, following two stores in Washington state and one in San Jose, California. It is also the first U.S. T&T with a cafe, serving drinks such as ube latte, black sesame latte and dragonfruit lemonade.

Inside, the store carries about 200 vegetable varieties and 17 kinds of mushrooms, along with fresh fish, seafood and meat. The in-house T&T Kitchen offers more than 20 dishes at a self-serve hot food bar, and shelves include Taiwanese sticky rice rolls, Baby Bear Bao, baked goods, packaged snacks, Japanese matcha products and Korean and Japanese skincare.

A customer who had waited in line told ABC News the wait was worth it. Another, speaking to local media, said the store is famous for its wontons and crepes. A Reddit user on r/bayarea wrote that the store is "clean" and its prices "good," and that there was no proper Asian grocery store in their area before.

The site had been vacant for nearly a decade. The store used San Francisco's PermitSF program to speed approvals, and T&T CEO Tina Lee has said the program delivered the fastest U.S. permitting process she has seen.

T&T's Newark store is now expected in winter 2027, and a Millbrae store is also planned. The chain's first Bay Area store opened at San Jose's Westgate Center in June 2026. T&T is owned by Loblaw Companies.