San Francisco, Bay Area restaurants that permanently closed last month
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Cosecha, at 907 Washington St., Oakland, closed at the end of March.Angela M. via Yelp
Throughout March, many Bay Area restaurants and businesses continued to close for good despite most Bay Area counties moving into the less restrictive orange tier of California’s reopening plan.
Two longstanding restaurants among the losses included Tyger’s Coffee Shop in San Francisco, which quietly closed on March 31, and Baja Cactus in Milpitas, which closed after 36 years in business.
Many businesses shuttered after an inability to agree on leases with their landlords. That was the case with 10-year-old cocktail bar Maven, which forever closed at the end of March but it’s just one of the many reasons these businesses shut down. Last month, former owners of Prairie, CatHead’s BBQ and The Stud talked about the different ways their restaurants or bars couldn’t survive the pandemic, and what
381 15th St. (at Franklin Street), Oakland
A lot has been written on the struggles East Bay LGBTQ+ bars face during the coronavirus crisis, but you wouldn’t know that by speaking with Valentino Carrillo.
The longtime nightlife promoter turned restaurateur opened his first business, East Oakland’s La Frontera Mexican Restaurant, in February 2020. Despite the pandemic, that business did well enough that he was able to use its profits to open his longtime dream: Que Rico, an LGBTQ+ nightclub that caters to Latinx patrons. That new bar and restaurant opens on Tuesday, April 13, with a limited menu of La Frontera’s greatest hits, including its best-selling quesabirria tacos.
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