A space that was home to one of the most popular restaurants of the first dot-com boom, but which has since become a bit of a cursed spot ever since, is on the market again, as Uptown Almanac shows us. That would be the high-ceilinged industrial restaurant space at 500 Florida, which is currently home to Cuban spot Caña.
Caña moved in a couple years back, expanding from its original, and still running, Oakland location. But apart from salsa brunches, the restaurant has perhaps not taken off the way some other neighbors right down Florida Street have (Salumeria, Central Kitchen, Trick Dog). And Caña remains open for now, but it sounds like they may not last the year if someone scoops this up.
Once upon a time, this was home to Gordon's House of Fine Eats, helmed by chef-owner Gordon Drysdale, and opened in the heady days of early 1999. As Michael Bauer wrote recently, looking back on it, "The poster child for that heady time was this restaurant in what was then known as Multimedia Gulch."
Most of the tech world has moved to SoMa now, and this neighborhood has become more quietly residential, if still not completely gentrified at the edge of Potrero Hill, with the added bonus of the new Heath Ceramics headquarters and Blue Bottle location, and the coming arrival of a Tartine Bakery café.
In any event, you can now buy the turnkey business/lease for $350,000, as you can see here on Craigslist.