Chef-restaurateur Charles Phan, whose restaurant The Slanted Door is one of the highest grossing in the city and the country, is pulling the plug on his British pub-inspired concept The Coachman in SoMa after just ten months. The restaurant whose decor Michael Bauer said felt "like an amalgamation of [Phan's] failures" got less than stellar reviews and perhaps did not benefit from it's slightly hidden location next to the federal building at Mission and 7th — the same location that failed to spell success for Phan's previous project there, Heaven's Dog.

Phan also shuttered Wo Hing General Store on Valencia after less than two years in 2013, closed The Moss Room at the Academy of Sciences, and closed his Westfield Centre location of Out the Door after a flood the year before. The Wo Hing location, which had been the original Slanted Door, is now Urchin Bistrot.

As Inside Scoop reports, tonight (Friday) will be the last night for The Coachman, and it is closing due to slow business. Eater points out that Josh Sens of SF Mag also didn't particularly like the place.

Bauer's initial review found the cuisine uneven, with a particularly unappetizing, gray prime rib, and he politely declined to make unfavorable comparisons with the other British pub-inspired concept to open in SoMa, just a couple blocks away, in the last 18 months, The Cavalier. He also pointed out that Phan recycled much of the decor from his earlier restaurants, including Heaven's Dog which had existed there before, two large paintings from Wo Hing, and bringing the "honey wall" in from Out the Door.