Oyster Point Runs on Two Schedules, and Farewinds Just Joined the Weekday One
October 15, 2026
October 15, 2026
Since early October, anyone in South San Francisco can walk into Farewinds at 357 Oyster Point Blvd. and order a $16 butter chicken thali with a bay view. That holds Monday through Friday. The food court serves from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., and the market and coffee counter close at 3 p.m. On Saturday morning the place most likely to be open at Oyster Point is the public park run by the San Mateo County Harbor District, along with the beach, the pier and the Bay Trail.
Oyster Point's newest amenities keep office hours. The older shoreline keeps park hours. November pushes the two even further apart.
The Mercury News reported on October 5, 2026, that Farewinds is now open to the public. It had already been serving tenants of the surrounding office and life science buildings for several months. Bon Appétit Management Company and Kilroy Realty run it together. The food court serves Indian, Asian and Mediterranean-inspired lunch menus from Chef Francisco Melchor, and the market sells grab-and-go meals and coffee.
The menu covers a whole weekday lunch at mid-range prices:
Kilroy's announcement presented the opening as a move toward the wider city. In the statement quoted by the Mercury News, Kilroy CEO Angela Aman called Farewinds "an important new gathering place that serves both our campus community and the broader South San Francisco community."
The schedule tells you which community it was built around. The Farewinds homepage lists Monday through Friday hours and no weekend schedule. Its events page is for booking private events rather than listing public ones. The lounge and the event spaces overlooking the bay are real features. For a resident, though, Farewinds is a place for a weekday lunch or a midmorning coffee.
Farewinds isn't the only thing at Oyster Point that follows the workweek. The ferry and the campus food trucks do too.
The SF Bay Ferry's South San Francisco route is a good example. Under the timetable in effect through October 30, 2026, westbound boats reach Oyster Point at 7:45, 8:45 and 9:45 a.m. and at 5:15 p.m. Eastbound boats leave at 3:30, 4:20 and 5:30 p.m. There's no weekend service on the current schedule. The terminal has 35 free parking spaces, no overnight parking, and restrooms at the terminal and on the boats.
Food trucks follow the same calendar. Oyster Point Marina Plaza's October 2026 food truck schedule lists weekday appearances only. It doesn't say whether visitors who aren't tenants can buy from them.
The campus also has its own shoreline features. Kilroy's Oyster Point campus site lists a Bay Trail, a park and a beach among its amenities. The site doesn't say which of those spaces are open to the general public, or when. So everything built for the people who work at Oyster Point runs on their schedule, and that includes the lunch counter, the boat, the trucks and the landscaped grounds. Opening Farewinds to the public added the city to the guest list without changing the hours.
Head toward the water past the campus, and the schedule changes. The San Mateo County Harbor District lists Oyster Point Marina and Park as open to the public every day from 6 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. As of its current listing, every activity is marked open, including the charters, the launch ramp, the fishing pier, the picnic and barbecue areas, the boat wash, public parking and the restroom at the pier.
Here's what the district lists at the park:
The Bay Trail turns the marina from a place you drive to into a starting point. According to MTC's Bay Trail description, the route heads north through Oyster Point Park and Marina to Oyster Cove Marina, then follows a perimeter trail and bike lanes to the Sierra Point and Brisbane marinas. The paved walk from Oyster Point to Sierra Point is about 4 miles.
Heading south, the trail runs through San Bruno Point Park, over the Colma Creek bike and pedestrian bridge, and then along Airport Boulevard and North Access Road. MTC notes that the Bay Trail isn't complete around SFO. From the marina, you can head north toward Brisbane or south toward the airport on the same path.
The marina is also a working harbor on weekends. Stephen Crevelli Sportfishing lists Oyster Point Marina as its home base, at Dock 14 by the public launch ramp. It advertises half-day and full-day trips and says it holds Harbor District commercial permits. Deadliest Kast Fishing advertises private six-person charters out of the same marina, fishing both the bay and the ocean. Rates and availability change, so check with the operators directly.
Oyster Point is also a known windsurfing spot. A 2019 draft Bay Area boardsailing plan described a formal launch here, with rigging lawns beside the ramp. It also warned that offshore winds, submerged rocks and other obstacles make the site suitable only for advanced riders. That plan was written before the newest marina and campus construction, so treat it as background rather than current launch guidance.
For one month this fall, the weekday side of Oyster Point gets smaller. SF Bay Ferry will suspend the South San Francisco route and close the terminal from November 1 through November 30 for dredging in the Oyster Point channel, with service expected back on current schedules December 1, 2026. The agency says this kind of dredging happens every five to seven years, based on water depth surveys, and that it's working with the Harbor District on the project.
If you park a bike or scooter at the terminal, the agency says all of them have to be removed by the end of service on Friday, October 30. Anything left after that will be taken away and has to be reclaimed in the East Bay. For the month of the closure, SF Bay Ferry suggests BART to South San Francisco BART with a transfer to the Commute.org Oyster Point or Utah Grand shuttles, or BART to Glen Park and the Genentech transit connector.
The park side has a fixed date in the middle of that quiet month. The city's 53rd annual Thanksgiving 5K Fun Run is on Saturday, November 21, 2026, at Oyster Point Shoreline Park and the Bay Trail.
The city's page describes the course only as running "along the scenic Bay Trail" and doesn't include a map.
Put the two schedules together, and Oyster Point works best when you plan around them:
Waterfront amenities like these, and the schedules they actually keep, are part of how we read different corners of South San Francisco. If you're curious how Oyster Point's growth fits into the rest of the city, Daniel Choi is happy to talk it through over coffee, including at Farewinds on a weekday. Schedule a free consultation whenever it suits you.
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