Posted on 10/14/2022 2:24:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Last Thursday, I walked into a different universe. A fountain gently poured streaming water over its marble edges at the center of a pristine restaurant. A chandelier twinkled above, shimmering gold light on the gleaming white tiled floors. Four miniature palm trees guarded the fountain like rooks on a chessboard. The opulent Beaux-Arts architecture of this joint screamed a different level of wealth than I was accustomed to.
And I was just there to eat a burger.
The Palm Court at RH, at 590 20th St. in San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood, is a luxurious restaurant that is strangely inside of a Restoration Hardware home-furnishings store (rebranded RH in 2012). The whole space feels more like Beverly Hills than the historic blue-collar neighborhood.
At the grand opening of the restaurant in March, celebrities such as Jessica Alba, Steve Kerr, Alexandra Daddario and others lined the grand staircase in the foyer for photo ops. It was a red carpet-style opening 383 miles north of where it should have been.
The gaudiness of wealth on full display as so many San Franciscans struggle through the hardest of times in the City by the Bay feels a little unnerving to this born and bred city kid. With each passing day, it feels like the city is less like the one I grew up in. It disheartens me that corporate and tech money is winning. I feel powerless to help change it.
The restaurant portion of RH sits on the first floor of the four-story “mansion,” which is divided into sections of mock living rooms, bedrooms and dining rooms to display the high-priced interior decor for sale. (Online, the cheapest item I found was a pack of pillow cases for $145. This was in the “Final Sale” section.)
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The restaurant in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was Chez Quis.
I was in Iceland at “The Chuck Norris Grill”.
It’s essentially a bar, with bar food.
I got a cheeseburger with fries.
I did the conversion...$42 for a cheeseburger at a bar.
SF and Hawaii have nothing on Reykjavik.
I was tempted to spend my entire stay in the room just to justify the cost, but I went for a long stroll instead.
Beautiful but PRICY.
I was gonna worka job in Finland but perdiem would allow you to starve there
ha!
and me thinking Five Guys is too pricey
good burgers but man oh man
$40 for 2 people
I’ll take a double w/grilled onions at In-N-Out.
$4.95.
I’m frankly not sure what point this guy is trying to make.
So there’s an expensive restaurant that serves a comically overpriced hamburger. This is not new.
What is relatively new is the smell of feces and urine and general decay that permeates the entire city. That might be a bigger existential problem than a snooty restaurant, which SF has had for centuries.
Sounds nice, but pricy!
I was in Luxembourg City and we decided to hit up McDonalds.
The cashier was a super hot blonde chick.
I ordered my food, which included beer and paid for it.
I’m just standing there, and she says I’ll bring out to you.
I almost fainted.
She brings me the food, and it was like the food in the pictures. It was awesome.
The city had no homeless or thugs. No litter or graffiti.
Cookout has awesome burgers. Carolina chain, IIRC.
I like my extra extra extra onions raw on my In-N-Out cheeseburger. There’s no other way for me.
do they have a 5 dollar shake as well?
The burger’s OK but a cone of fries will cost you twenty buckaroos. It’s the truffles that make them expensive. My local MickeyD’s offered to put some fungus on my fries for free but I turned them down...
A burger, fries, and a beer would cost about the same in Boston, if not more, with all the taxes they collect.
I never go to any US cities as thugs have ruined every single one.
Thanks for the info though. Just another reason to never go.
WAITSTAFF: Sir, this IS San Francisco. We have to work with what we have, and we have lots of that. And it IS near at hand, too.
“You’re Abe Froman...the Sausage King of Chicago?”
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