Popular Tenderloin pizzeria Outta Sight may be outgrowing its Larkin Street storefront, but pizza may or may not even make it on the menu at the owners' new venture a few doors down, which will be called Reggie & Maude's.
The name is a nod to Reggie Gamble and Maude Spencer, two pioneering madams in the Tenderloin who led a sex workers' rights movement in 1917 as the city was trying to evict brothels, as Mission Local reports. And owners Eric Ehler and Peter Dorrance — both former Mister Jiu's chefs — say they plan to reopen the space at 460 Larkin as a dive bar with value-oriented prices and "top tier" bar food.
As Dorrance summed it up, "Wouldn’t that be cool if you could get a burger that’s really good, and a martini, for $20 bucks?"
They have not said whether their excellent pizzas will be available at the bar — not even the Tavern Pie?
The Larkin Street space was most recently home to Pomeroy Bar & Grill, but you may remember it as Irish pub Shovels pre-2025, and/or Harrington’s Harry Pub, which was its name for many years. And it's on the same block as the Outta Sight pizza shop that debuted four years ago, following Ehler's successful pandemic pop-up run at Fig & Thistle in Hayes Valley.
Outta Sight, which has received Chronicle raves and counts many fans, already expanded with a second location in Chinatown, at 643 Clay Street, which opened in January 2025.
The opening timeframe for Reggie & Maude's isn't totally clear — "hopefully sooner than later" was the line on the Instagram post about it. And, Ehler and Dorrance add, "we love the TL and want you to love it with us [heart emoji]."
And they likely don't want the place to stay dark long, as reportedly it's become a regular hang for UC Law students, whose campus is a short walk away.
Pomeroy Bar & Grill closed over the weekend, with owner Mark Yatabe telling Mission Local that it was closing because his partner wanted out of the business, and he wasn't interested in managing things on his own.
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