This week’s Inside Scoop column tackles the class of 2014 restaurants that are headed to San Francisco and the greater Bay Area.

Included in that bit of crystal ball-gazing is news of Bartlett Hall.

Bartlett Hall is a 140-seat restaurant, bar and lounge taking the place of the now-closed Santorini’s Mediterranean Cuisine, which was one of those Union Square-adjacent spaces that you’ve walked by a million times without a second thought.

The chef will be Emmanuel Eng, last seen at Maverick, who will put his creative twists on a shared modern bar bites and flatbreads in the bar/lounge and a more traditional menu in the dining room. The bar area — complete with fireplaces — will feature barrel aged cocktails and innovative cocktails; there are also two private dining rooms.

Bartlett Hall will also be a microbrewery, featuring three fermentation vessels in a seven-barrel system. The fledgling Golden Gate Brewing Company will be brewing there, and the beer will be directly piped to the tap system. The Bartlett folks expect to start with two to three house-brewed beers on tap, with more to come, hopefully. Exhibition windows will showcase the brewery to the public.

The 3,000 square foot space has been completely gutted to the core, revealing a building built in 1914, with stylized moldings and industrial steel columns.

Designer Michael Brennan has been hired to lead the remodel.

Emmanuel Eng.

“I like the idea of a ‘hall.’ For me, it’s multi-purpose. It doesn’t just bring to mind only a brewery, or a bar, or a diner. It’s multi-functional,” says Brennan.

“We’re trying to create this urban meeting place area,” adds general manager Zach Seymour.

And how about that name?

It’s a reference to Washington Montgomery Bartlett, the 20th mayor of San Francisco (1883 – 1887). Bartlett was an original 49er, sailing out to San Francisco during the 1849 gold rush. He brought a printing press with him, and upon arrival, became a newspaper publisher here. According to the state library, he also published the first English-language book ever printed in California, titled California as It Is and as It May Be or a Guide to the Gold Region. A lifelong bachelor, he became the governor of California after his apparently successful turn as San Francisco mayor. Even though he died nine months into his term, Seymour points out that Bartlett was considered the honest governor in an era of corruption.

Bartlett Hall is planned to open in spring 2014.

Bartlett Hall: 242 O’Farrell Street, between Powell and Mason