We are now closed.
Thank you to everyone who supported us during our brief tenure in downtown San Mateo.
It was a pleasure serving you!
Experience Swing Shift
Our Philosophy
As Bay Area residents living amidst so much diversity and great ethnic food, our idea of comfort food doesn't always align with the traditional concept based on the cuisine of the deep south of the United States.
Sure, we may have cravings for fried chicken or mac & cheese, but we also dream about tacos, ramen and pho.
The way we eat is changing. Our palates are now global.
And it really is hard to decide on one cuisine.
Swing Shift is for your group of friends who can’t come to a consensus, for that Tinder date who hasn’t told you what they like to eat, and for your lovely, but picky family.
Hospitality and Restaurant Industry Friends - this one's for you, too. Join us after you've finished the swing shift at your restaurant and enjoy being taken care of after you're done taking care of your guests.
Urban Comfort Food
No one restaurant can serve all the things we want to eat, but our menu offers a little bit of a lot of cuisines.
For those times when you want the best of the best
food cultures
- slurp-worthy noodles, juicy burgers, street-style tacos -
we've got you covered.
Come explore our selection of the most crave-worthy dishes that are as diverse as we are.
This is our comfort food, Bay Area.
All the Drinks
Beverages for everyone!
From zero-proof mocktails, to low-ABV mixed drinks, our restaurant serves a wide variety of cocktails to suit every taste and tolerance level.
Not imbibing and not into cocktails? We have a large selection of wine alternatives and non-alcoholic beers.
Wine lovers can choose from a lovingly curated list of all organic, biodynamic and/or sustainable wines.
Beer aficionados - we see you, too.
Our Team
Swing Shift proprietor Yvette Yong is a seasoned restaurant industry veteran with experience as a general manager, bar manager, director of food & beverage for hotels, senior level director in multi-concept food establishments, and as co-owner of the former Lure, San Mateo.
She has been dreaming about opening this restaurant for over five years and is thrilled to bring a brand new dining concept to the mid-Peninsula.
Yvette was also lucky enough to have two good friends and highly respected professionals in the industry help with her lofty goal of encapsulating the Bay Area dining scene in one small restaurant space
Chef Jon Sears, former chef-owner of both the Dining Room in San Mateo and Epicurean Events lent his expertise with food recipe development.
Duggan McDonnell, former owner of Cantina in San Francisco, renowned mixologist and author of Drinking the Devil's Acre, helped us launch a sophisticated, yet approachable, low- and no-ABV cocktail program.