A driftwood and timber décor sets the tenor for a locally sourced Thanksgiving feast at San Francisco’s Outerlands restaurant in this photo series by award-winning lensman Todd Hido. Owned by husband-and-wife team Dave Muller and Lana Porcello, the eight-table eatery was conceived as a space in which the nearby creative community could gather, work and grab a bowl of hot soup in the foggy Outer Sunset district. It quickly became one of the most dynamic culinary destinations in San Francisco, with people coming from around the Bay Area—and the world—to sample chef Brett Cooper’s inspiring yet comforting dishes. Muller and Porcello opened Outerlands in 2009 after befriending John McCambridge, whose radical surf store and gallery Mollusk first defined the windswept creative identity that now echoes through the neighborhood. “Our house became the other half of the shop, and people were always coming over and getting surf boards or suiting up,” Porcello explains of the venue's intimate genesis. “The back window became a kind of service counter, so if we were cooking we’d say, ‘Oh you’re here, well, have a little of this!’” Their Thanksgiving tradition is appropriately home-grown.  “We do a stay-in-the-city meal for everyone who can’t go home,” says Porcello. “People from the neighborhood come and cook here, too.” For this early holiday feast, speckled castelfranco lettuces with sliced persimmons and candied chestnuts were passed around with family-style platters of tender Brussels sprouts and fermented onions, cranberry and almond and magnums of 2008 Baker Lane Vineyards Estate Syrah. A black cod strewn with fennel flowers was served in place of the traditional turkey—this outlying area may have evolved and expanded over the last seven years, but it still derives its elemental character from the ocean.