A Load of Bullshead
Quite suddenly last week the restaurant Bullshead, located across the street from Delano's IGA, shut down and vacated its space. The sign posted in the window blamed the closure on a lost lease, but gives no further details on the sudden closure.
This was a shocker for us, since Bullshead always seemed to have a good flow of customers in to sample its buffalo and non-buffalo offerings. It had the advantage of having more than one San Francisco location, theoretically giving it some of the advantages of a (mini) chain. Another point on its side was that it was one of the few restaurants in the Castro dedicated to red meat, making its closure just one week before the Hairrison Street Fair even more ironic and poignant.
So during my years visiting and living in the Castro this location has now seen 4 restaurants:
- Bullshead
- Tallulah
- Due Ragazzi
- Ristorante Incontro
Is this another cursed location for small businesses?
Finally, the title of this post is a reference to my little bit of idiocy dating back from when this restaurant opened. I saw the sign, and in my mind read it like "Bull-shead". Never mind that "shead" isn't a word, I guess I just have a profane mind.
Bullshead, we're sorry to see you go, and we're curious what brave soul is going to give this odd space a try next.
Comments
I loved the Rib Eye they served. I remember when that place was called "Fanny’s" it was a sort of Cabaret type place. Then it was "Ryan’s Charcutrie" for many years. When will folks learn upstairs restaurants need a gimmick or an elevator?
Personally, I'd looove to see a charcuterie or butcher in there...
-R
Ah, a good butcher! That's been on our wish list forever.... Wouldn't that be great where As the Suds Turns was, instead of another quarter-acre of Walgreen's pharmaceuticals?
I'm glad to see the slaughterhouse move away.
I talked to one of the people working on the inside and he said they were going to do "American food" and "pasta." Sigh. I give them six months - tops.
Having lived next door for the past 13 or so years I've developed a few opinions about what does (and hasn't) work(ed) and what would. I've never shared these with the new lessors cuz I'd imagine they'd just be a bit defensive and I do have to live next to them week in and week out.
Frankly, if it doesn't fill a nitch that isn't already filled and isn't a cut above, very few people are going to make the long, arduous trek from Castro to (almost) Diamond <gasp!> to check it out. Tallula was the first restaurant since Ryan's to be, in my opinion, both of those things and more.
We miss you, Harveen!