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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I’m going to watch.
I recommend Killer Clowns from Outer Space.
Are you talking about the chick from AoD or ED2?
I got a pizza in Geneva for $75
Damn! You win.
My favorite hamburger place is Big Kahuna Burger.
My son-in-law was raised in Glencoe, Illinois. The late John Hughs shot a lot of movies in that general area in Chicago. One day he ( my SIL) gave us “The Tour” as I like to call it, taking us to locations where John Hughs shot movie scenes.
We saw the “Home Alone” house, the church used in the exterior shots of Sam’s sister’s wedding in “16 Candles”, the North Shore location by Lake Michigan where Cameron, from “Ferris Beuhler” laid down on the stone wall, comatose, after his dad’s car was wrecked. I sat in that very same spot.
He told us stories about sneaking out of the house late at night and watching scenes being shot.
Pretty cool.
I really didn’t like the Ferris Beuhler character, as he got away with EVERYTHING, but it was cool seeing all those locations.
Glencoe, Illinois
Evanston has some poor areas, but right around Northwestern University (NU), it’s breathtaking. Went back there not too long ago. NU had so many new buildings that I hardly recognized it.
Fixed it:
The strip of kakefront suburbs stretching from Evanston to Lake Forest are the most elite in the Chicago area.
Really fixed it. I guess my editing skills are slipping.....
The strip of lakefront suburbs stretching from Evanston to Lake Forest are the most elite in the Chicagoland area.
I owned it
AoD at the S-Mart at the end
The one Bruce kisses
Nice 👍
You, Jules, and “Big Brain” Brad…
Nice!
Angela Featherstone.
She quit cleaning up because they were having sex, right?
Jerry thought it was rather sophisticated.
They bought cleaning supplies.
AND gum!
The ending of AoD I can watch over and over.
Best part of the movie.
Lady, I’m going to have to ask you to leave the store!!
I have the DVD box set. That’s the fourth to last episode.
The one previous was Frogger, and the one after was the Puerto Rican Day parade.
I love the transition Ash makes between the two movies.
You don’t walk into a restaurant in SF and expect to pay any less…unless it’s Macdonalds
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