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Round House Café seen next to the Golden Gate Bridge Built in 1938, one year after the Golden Gate Bridge was completed, Round House Café is one of the oldest restaurants in the Bay Area . [ 1 ] It is a circular Art Deco building built by Finnish-American architect Alfred Finnila and overlooks the bay. [ 2 ]
In Search of the Perfect Meal, by Roy Andries de Groot, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1986, ISBN 0-312-41131-6, "The Finest Regional Dish in America", pages 238–245.De Groot was a Dutch-born gourmet and bon vivant who wrote about food and drink for many years after World War II in a variety of magazines and newspapers as well as writing several books.
Thunderpussy operated two San Francisco restaurants in the 1960s: the one at 1398 Haight Street (at the corner of Haight and Masonic), which bore her name, featured a late-night delivery service and erotic desserts such as "The Montana Banana", which was an unsplit banana, representing a phallus, served "erect" in a food service "boat" with two ...
Sam Wo (traditional Chinese: 三和粥粉麵; simplified Chinese: 三和粥粉面; Jyutping: Saam1wo4 zuk1 fan2min6; pinyin: Sānhé zhōu fěnmiàn, literally "Three Harmonies Porridge and Noodles") is a Chinese restaurant located in San Francisco, California. The restaurant's first location on 813 Washington Street was famous for being a ...
The restaurant uses Masataka's nickname, Masa, for its title. [2] Upon its opening, the restaurant had a six-month waiting list for reservations. [1] Kobayashi was murdered in 1984, [3] [4] and sous-chef Bill Galloway ran the kitchen until Julian Serrano became executive chef. [2] [5] He was chef for 14 years.
The restaurant was grossing $90,000 monthly during its first year of operations. [5] By the end of 1978, Victoria Station had 97 restaurants, all company owned. [6] The chain was designed to attract members of the baby boom generation. The theme of the restaurant was loosely based on London's Victoria Station.
In 1989 author Ron Fimrite, [7] one of the softball team members, wrote The Square: the Story of a Saloon, describing the restaurant's place in San Francisco's cocktail culture. [8] In 1990 the partners sold the restaurant. Ed and Mary Etta, with Sam Dietsch as a silent partner, opened a larger restaurant, Moose's, on the opposite side of the ...
After Tower's departure the restaurant was reopened briefly by new investors under the same name but with a less expensive, Mediterranean concept. [4] In 2004 it became the new location of San Francisco's Trader Vic's, which had been closed since 1994. The Palo Alto location of Stars became a branch of Wolfgang Puck's Spago Restaurant in 1997.