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Ernie's

1900 establishments in California1995 disestablishments in CaliforniaAmerican companies disestablished in 1995American companies established in 1900Barbary Coast, San Francisco
Defunct French restaurantsDefunct restaurants in the San Francisco Bay AreaFrench restaurants in the United StatesItalian restaurantsRestaurants disestablished in 1995Restaurants established in 1900Restaurants in San Francisco

Ernie's was a restaurant in San Francisco, California. It debuted as a modest family-style Italian trattoria around the turn of the 20th century. It was located near the notorious Barbary Coast area of the city. In the 1950s it became known as a luxurious restaurant serving mostly traditional French cuisine. The interior had Victorian or fin-de-siècle bordello-like decor, featuring plush red wallpaper, heavy drapes, white linen, and formal waiters in black tuxedos. Writing in 1979, gastronome Roy Andries de Groot called it "unquestionably the most elegant, famous, finest, and luxurious restaurant in San Francisco and [it] is probably among the three or four greatest truly American restaurants in the country" that "can provide dinners of supreme elegance and luxury."When it closed in 1995, it was one of the few remaining restaurants of the kind that had once epitomized the celebrated San Francisco dining scene; among the others, some of them even older and as nearly well-known, were the Poodle Dog Restaurants, Jack's, The Blue Fox, A. Sabella's, and Amelio's. All of them are now gone, and only a few vestiges of the 19th century still remain in San Francisco: Tadich Grill, Sam's, and John's Grill; none of these, however, ever enjoyed the reputation for decadent, even illicit, pleasures that many of the others purveyed.

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Ernie's
Montgomery Street, San Francisco

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Montgomery Street 843;845
94133 San Francisco
California, United States
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