If you already live here, you don't need another list of Cortland Avenue's greatest hits. You need to know what's changed since last summer, what still runs on the schedule your neighbors have kept since 1947, and which parts of Bernal Hill will punish you for showing up unprepared in July. Bernal's summer compresses onto roughly six blocks of one street and one 26-acre hill, and the value of living here is knowing exactly how those pieces fit together this year.
The Cortland openings that actually shifted the block
Two additions have changed the dinner map on Cortland in a way that matters if you're deciding where to send visiting friends.
The first is Precita Social. It comes from Greg Lutes, who has been running