Posted on 08/20/2020 10:54:38 PM PDT by Vendome
Opened in 1997, upscale Union Square restaurant Farallon was known as much for its wild decor as for its menu of tourist-pleasing seafood dishes. The restaurant shut its doors when San Francisco’s shelter in place began in March, saying then that it would reopen when it was “allowed to return to normal operating hours.” But with normalcy still a distant hope, the restaurant has closed for good, SF Gate reports, sending an email to workers saying that the spot will not reopen when the pandemic ends.
In recent years, the decor might have been more of a draw that the food itself. In 2010, then-Chronicle food critic Michael Bauer praised both the menu of sustainable seafood and the spot’s design (co-founder Pat Kuleto is a prolific restaurant designer, as well as the owner of numerous Bay Area restaurants), saying it “feels like an underwater fantasy” and described it as “the big fish of seafood restaurants.” By 2015, however, Bauer said, “I’ve always been enamored with the interior of Farallon,” but “given the price, it wouldn’t now be at the top of my list of recommendations.”
It feels obvious to say that if a spot’s primary draw is its dining room, it’s in a tough spot these days — with indoor dining on pause in San Francisco for an unknown length of time, venues are reliant on the loyalty of their patrons and the quality of their food to make it through this unprecedented period. Add to that the challenge of operating in Union Square, with tourism tanking and downtown workers at home, and it’s hard to see a way forward for spots like Farallon.
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“Strangers. All of us laughing and sharing.”
I wouldn’t be laughing and sharing knowing they were probably democrats.
“Great place to take a date”
If you don’t mind paying $25 for a drink and $100 for bottle of wine.
“Do they have payment plans?.....LOL!”
Put your dinner on layaway.
Still don’t get it, do you? The reason they are doing this to you is to prepare you. To get you used to what’s coming. Because they can.
When people don’t stand up, don’t stand together against injustice, this is what you get. You’ve got some surprises coming.
Hey, Tommy’s Joynt ain’t cheap. I had a basic ham sandwich in there like a year ago. I think it was like $11.
You know, when I was youngster I had a mildly apprehensive view of that place. Due to its psychedelic paint job and the word “Joynt,” the restaurant was a stoner operation, in my imagination.
Restaurants can’t survive if they are only partially open.
But hey - they still have Carl's Jr. :)
Dang!
I have a trip planned in to San Diego Oct 16 then driving up the PCH over several days to San Jose. Been a very long time since being there. I wonder if its worth it now with all the closings and brown outs?
Dunno
I keep thinking things will turn for the better
Picked the wrong year to quit sniffing glue...
Covid-19 is killing 85-year olds in nursing homes.
it's governments that are killing everything else.
The jellyfish lamps are amazing.
Another one where you’re fighting the tablecloth the whole evening.
A diseased looking man part is worse than a fly in the soup. Who’s idea what that?!?
Oh, it was a wonderful place to dine and be seen...
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