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Cliff House Is Closing Forever
Residents Fight Back With Petition to Save Beloved SF Restaurant
The Cliff House restaurant in San Francisco is one of the city’s most beloved treasures, an architectural gem which has existed in one form or another for 157 years. Perched on a cliff above the Pacific Ocean in Land’s End, one of the most Westerly parts of the United States, the iconic restaurant has been emblematic of San Francisco for well over a century.
This week, however, the restaurant’s owners (who have operated it since 1973), announced that they would be forced to close the restaurant by the end of the year, as we result of the Covid-19 pandemic and challenges with the National Parks Service, which owns the land on which the restaurant is built.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the restaurant’s owners announced that the closure was due to the virus, but also to an alleged lack of support from the National Parks Service. According to a statement posted on the Cliff House website, the coronavirus pandemic is only the last straw in a series of ongoing challenges with obtaining a long term lease which would allow the restaurant to continue operating into the future.
In their words:
“We have been the proprietors of the Cliff House for 47–1/2 years and are probably the…