First Taste: Sergeant Ma brings inventive Asian-influenced California cuisine to the SF waterfront.

San Francisco has no shortage of high-traffic restaurants with enviable water views. But a restaurant that actually makes you feel like you're on the water? That's another story.Tucked along Mission Creek Channel, where the water is calm and the city feels a little farther away, Sergeant Ma is making the most of its unusual address. The latest from Hi Neighbor Hospitality—the restaurant group behind Trestle, The Vault, and 7 Adams—this new neighborhood hot spot pairs Asian-influenced California cuisine with a sprawling indoor-outdoor space that feels more like a waterfront resort than a San Francisco restaurant.The entrance at 185 Berry Street is notably understated. By day, the building's expansive coworking space (Water's Edge) provides a cafe, meeting rooms, phone booths, and a billiards room to local hybrid workers. Come 4pm, laptops give way to happy hour cocktails Monday through Friday, and the after-work crowd swaps Zoom Rooms for outdoor fire pits. It was during this transition