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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So how big a tip did he leave?
That better be a damn good shake for 5 dollars! Love that movie.
More of a Bad Daddy’s burger guy myself.
I weep for the future.
They’re good too.
This is George Peterson, Chicago PD...
You can calculate the number of police officers,
Count No of street intersections....multiply by 4 (3 shifts and a crew on rest)
“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.”
indeed ... all of his so-called “nostalgia” took aim at a ritzy restaurant and not one word about what’s REALLY destroying SF, namely epidemic street crime and legions of drug addicts and mentally ill camping on very surface of every piece of public property, including sidewalks and using the same as open-air toilets ...
and really, given the stupid prices for extremely crappy McD’s burgers, thirty bucks for a gourmet burger wasn’t out of line, particularly since they were able to cook the burger rare/medium rare, which means they fresh-ground their own burger mix ... it’s impossible to get a burger cooked like that at one of the big national chains because they don’t trust their employees to safely handle hamburger, so compensate by cooking their burgers into little charcoal patties ...
I would love to go there when they have the F1 race.
Not THAT guy!
I’m Abe Froman!
The Sausage King of Chicago!
Yeah, that’s the ticket!
(I weep for the future)
I remember when that was just a line in a movie 🎥.
Now, it’s reality.
“Don’t think twice. It’s understanding that makes it possible for people like us to tolerate a person like yourself.”
WOOHOO!!
Yep...
I’m a philosopher!
And a humanitarian!
“Simone” went on to become Buffy the Vampire Slayer. (the movie)
She's still got it.
She was perfect for that role
Truth be told, Ferris was a lying, manipulative little jerk.
Who had to bum rides.
The screen name came about when I saw the Save Ferris band on TV just the day before or so.
Still, the greatest scene in the movie is.....
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