SAN FRANCISCO (AP) San Francisco’s iconic Cliff House restaurant that has served tourists and locals for more than a century from atop a hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean is closing its doors at the end of the year.
Dan and Mary Hountalas, the restaurant’s proprietors since 1973, said in a post Sunday on the restaurant’s website they are closing Dec. 31 because of losses brought on by the pandemic and a dispute over renewing their long-term operating contract with the National Park Service.
Built in 1863, the seaside restaurant has been a San Francisco institution and a top tourist attraction. It has gone through several transformations. The first modest, wood-frame structure was destroyed in a fire in 1894. It was rebuilt and fashioned after a French chateau that survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake but burned down the following year. The third and present Cliff House, neoclassic in design, was built in 1909.
Like losing Fisherman s Wharf - S.F. diners bemoan loss of Cliff House, though not its food
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA - OCTOBER 10: A view of the Cliff House restaurant on October 10, 2013 in San Francisco, California. Due to the government shutdown, the iconic 150 year-old Cliff House restaurant, a concessionaire of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, has been forced to close its doors until the government shutdown ends. The restaurant s 170 employees are being furloughed and it is estimated it will lose $10,000 a day. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)Justin Sullivan / Getty Images 2013
Ever since news broke Sunday that San Francisco’s landmark oceanfront restaurant, the Cliff House, would be closing its doors at the end of the year, reactions have poured in from diners who knew the place well.
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San Francisco s iconic Cliff House restaurant to close
by The Associated Press
Last Updated Dec 14, 2020 at 4:14 pm EDT
San Francisco’s iconic Cliff House restaurant that has served tourists and locals for more than a century from atop a hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean is closing its doors at the end of the year.
Dan and Mary Hountalas, the restaurant’s proprietors since 1973, said in a post Sunday on the restaurant’s website they are closing Dec. 31 because of losses brought on by the pandemic and not being able to renew a long-term operating contract with the National Park Service.
Here s the fiery, doomed history of San Francisco s Cliff House
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The Cliff House, circa 1900OpenSFHistory
From a dynamite-laden exploding schooner to earthquakes and numerous fires, here s a closer look at the institution s often doomed history, and its repeated rebirths.
In 1858, Samuel Brannan the man who shouted Gold! Gold on the American River! on the streets of San Francisco and became the first Gold Rush millionaire paid $1,500 for lumber salvaged from a shipwreck off the coast at Ocean Beach. It s said that he used the wood to build the first Cliff House on the cliffs at Point Lobos. Other sources say the first Cliff House was constructed a few years later by a man named Captain Junius G. Foster.