(SFChronicle) Francis Ang, who has been at the forefront of the Bay Area’s modern Filipino food scene for years with his pop-up Pinoy Heritage, is opening his first full-blown restaurant this spring in San Francisco.

Billed as a contemporary Filipino-Californian restaurant, Abacá will reside inside the Kimpton Alton Hotel, a new boutique hotel opening in May near Fisherman’s Wharf. Abacá is slated to open shortly after the hotel’s debut.

While San Francisco is home to a number of traditional Filipino spots and creative pop-ups, Abacá will likely be the city’s first higher-end Filipino restaurant. It’ll feature some well-loved dishes like sisig fried rice from Pinoy Heritage’s pop-ups, which included inventive sit-down tasting menus, traditional kamayan feasts and casual bites at breweries.

The range demonstrated by the pop-ups will show up at Abacá, too. It will serve homemade noodles such as crab pancit and grilled skewers inspired by Filipino street carts, such as local asparagus with salted duck egg gribiche. There are also fried snacky items like vegetarian lumpia that would pair well with a cocktail. And entrees such as crispy octopus with cherries and rib eye bistek with preserved calamansi could be served family-style or coursed out for individual meals.

The restaurant will also serve breakfast daily with Filipino baked goods such as ensaymada, a flaky pastry that’ll come in both savory flavors, such as salted egg, and sweet ones, like ube. Espresso drinks will get a special touch; a roasted white chocolate flat white brightened with yuzu. Weekend brunch blending Filipino flavors with classic American staples is also in the works.