After seven years, Jeanty at Jack's foldedThe city's highest-profile closures last month were Jack Falstaff and Jeanty at Jack's. PlumpJack Group announced the closure of Falstaff, its SOMA fine-dining outpost, in April -- its Balboa Café (3119 Fillmore at Greenwich) remains open, and the company is focused on reconcepting and remodeling PlumpJack Café (3127 Fillmore at Filbert) by the end of the year or early next (see previous blog entry). The shuttering of Jeanty at Jack's on Friday, May 22
SF institution Jeanty at Jack's closed Friday nightChef Phillippe Jeanty blamed the cost of doing business in San Francisco for Friday's closure of Jeanty at Jack's, one of the city's oldest restaurants. The announcement that the Sacramento Street restaurant would cease operating came late Friday afternoon, surprising many. This morning, Jeanty suggested to SFoodie that the bleak economy - coupled with city-mandated business expenses - combined to kill off the eatery.
"I went back and forth on
razorpsyche via FlickrCan the old Jeanty at Jack's give rise to a new Jack's?Efforts by the former general manager of shuttered Jeanty at Jack's to open a similar restaurant in the historic building are looking 50-50, according to Luc Chamberland. "I think there's still a possibility we can work something out," said Chamberland, the former GM, though he acknowledged being at the whims of a bleak market.
On Monday, Chamberland met with ex-Jeanty at Jack's chef and owner Philippe Jeanty. Jeanty o