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 day we did this, we drove by the “Home Alone” house, and it was a MESS. It was barely recognizable, there was a fence in front of it, the front yard was all weeds. Kind of shocking to see that. This was the summer before the Christmas season where they advertised renting it out for Christmas.
They must’ve done one helluva cleanup job.
Icelands entire economy just about is tourism based. No one that lives there eats out.. prices are ludicrous
I stayed in most times for food, and slept at a Airbnb.
In the mid 1980’s the Leave it to Beaver house was about 3 houses down from the Munsters house
Universal Studios back lot
Indeed. A $30 burger spells doom for San Fran but not the filth and degeneracy of Gamorrah on the bay.
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