Side Dish

Curtains
There're a whole lotta hipsters hitting the pavement with résumés in hand: The Mission's hub of hep done got shut down by the guv'ment. Bruno's -- a nightclub, lounge, and restaurant -- has been troubled for the past year. Its difficulties making ends meet became obvious earlier this year when a For Sale ad ran in the Chronicle, but now it seems the taxman wasn't getting his fair share either. So the G-Men hired a locksmith and put their own Schlage on the door. The sign says "temporarily closed," and Harry sure hopes so. Where am I supposed to go to hear great musicians like Bone Cootes, the Trailer Park Rangers, Club Foot, and Scott Amendola? That space is too fun to sit dormant the way it did so many years before.

Frogs' Legs
The squeaky-clean image-conscious Real Restaurants Group has a little mess on its hands: Just take a look at panoramabaking.com. Pan-O-Rama is the Real Restaurants-owned bakery that provides all the bread for the group's affiliated restaurants and a few retail outlets. Most industry-related businesses have pretty boring Web sites -- some photos, a menu or product list, links to friends. But not Pan-O-Rama! Its home page features an essay on the overinflated egos of French bakers, implying that their bread is complete hype compared with the sweat and tears that go into Pan-O-Rama products. The sarcastic, self-important writer even says, "Truth be known, in the annals of history [the French] have made much better prisoners of war than bakers."

Now that's a bit shocking, even to Sir Harry of Sass. Time to call in the spin doctors. Oh, and P.S. It strikes me as ironic that Pan-O-Rama devotes so much space to lambasting French bakers, then goes on to write that its own breads "are crafted in the Old World style" popularized by a famous Parisian bakery. Get your story straight, guys.

Barhopping
Blind Tiger opened this past weekend at 787 Broadway near Powell on the Chinatown side of the tracks. "Skylark" Steve E.'s lounge will reflect its location with a subtle Asian theme and a 22-foot-long mohair sofa. That's where I wanna sit. ... Max and Sam Young are expanding their gentle reach with a new space on Seventh Street between Market and Mission. The area, staked out by Six and Pow, is doing well and continues to grow.

Exeunt
Entros is exiting. The Seattle-based company, once dubbed "Chuck E. Cheese for the dot-com set," closed its San Francisco location this week, while the Seattle location will shut down at the end of January. A planned 10-location expansion was squashed by disappearing venture capital, and Entros' founders have decided to regroup. Harry told you they didn't have an ice cube's chance in hell, at least in the San Francisco market. But I trust we haven't heard the last of Stephen Brown and the Entros crew. I hear the space is already rented to an upstart start-up ....

Jingle Bells
Harry's gotta head out to buy some knickknacks for Christmas. Y'all take it easy on your fellow shoppers -- and have a fun and festive yule.

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