Almost 10 years after first hitting Bay Area streets, Filipino fusion truck Señor Sisig will open its first-brick-and-mortar in San Francisco.

Señor Sisig’s Evan Kidera confirmed the news to Inside Scoop, saying the new restaurant is slated to take over 990 Valencia St., the former Mission District home of Blue Fig, a coffee spot that closed in 2018. The Señor Sisig crew also has a pending liquor license transfer for the space. He said the space is in good shape so it needs very little work. If all goes according to plan, the restaurant could be open by April or May, Kidera said.

Kidera said the restaurant will be “an extension of the truck.” The Valencia Street space is relatively small, he said, with outdoor seating, so it mirrors the experience folks have at the truck. The menu will also be the same as what it offered at the trucks — sisig, fries, nachos, burritos and salads.

“We don’t want to change that experience too much. People normally come to the truck and get something, then they go find a spot to sit down outside. Here, we have a parklet so it’s kind of the same thing,” he said.

Señor Sisig came to prominence in the Bay Area back in 2010, around the same time the California food truck scene was only just beginning to bloom. Founders Kidera and Gil Payumo, inspired by what Roy Choi of Kogi Korean taco truck fame was doing in Los Angeles, found a reconditioned Chinese food truck and decided to build their own brand through sisig burritos, tacos and nachos.

Around that same time, unlike the boom in Thai, Vietnamese and Korean restaurants the Bay Area was witnessing, Filipino food was was only beginning to hit the prime time.

As of 2019, Señor Sisig is an elder statesmen in the food truck scene. And meanwhile, Filipino food is a movement in the local restaurant landscape behind places like FOB Kitchen and Likha in the East Bay, two of the best new Bay Area restaurants of 2018.

For Señor Sisig, the new shop has been roughly a decade in the making. All the while, Kidera said he knew their first restaurant would be in the Mission, which was part of the reason he and his business partner took their time in selecting a space.

Señor Sisig currently has six food trucks patrolling the Bay Area, one of which is located on 18th and Valencia in the Mission, a stone’s throw from the new restaurant.

“The brick-and-mortar just has to be an extension of what we’ve already built,” he said. “We are a food truck. We started as a food truck. And we’ll always be a food truck.”

This story was updated to include quotes from Señor Sisig’s Evan Kidera.

Justin Phillips is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: jphillips@sfchronicle.com