Most Recently: Home Restaurant
Previously: Hideaway at Church Street Station; Rear End Bar at Truck Stop
2100 Market Street
San Francisco, California 94114
Status: vacant
History
Summary
| Name | Dates of Operation |
| Hideaway (at Church Street Station) | 1977 – 199? |
| Rear End Bar (at Truck Stop) | 1974 – 1976 |
Details
Several of the incarnations of restaurants at 2100 Market Street have included gay bars attached to it.
From 1974 to 1976, the 24-hour diner Truck Stop included a gay bar called the Rear End Bar, which reportedly attracted an attractive clientele. Then from 1977 to sometime in the 1990s, the restaurant was Church Street Station and its bar, Hideaway, was apparently popular with drag queens.
The restaurant has changed hands a bit since then – it was a Boston Market for a time, and briefly JohnFrank before becoming Home Restaurant. Home unexpectedly closed in 2011, declaring bankruptcy. The owners of the LookOut had attempted to purchase the restaurant from Home, which would have allowed Home’s creditors to at least receive some return on their losses, but the plan was scuttled when the California Bureau of Alcohol Beverage Control required that the LookOut procure a liquor license extension for the patio despite the fact that Home had been serving alcohol there for years. The LookOut owners decided the process would be too lengthy to be affordable.
The spot has been vacant ever since. Chipotle sought to take over the restaurant in 2013, but the SF Planning Commission, which had to vote to waive restrictions on additional formula retail chains coming into the Castro, chose to block the move.
In April of 2014, developers submitted a preliminary project assessment request to the SF Planning Department for a project that would entail demolishing the restaurant and replacing it with a 7-story, 64-unit apartment building with a 4,700-square foot ground-level retail space.
Sources
Bajko, Matthew S., “Castro serves up new dining scene,” Bay Area Reporter, September 29, 2011.
Bajko, Matthew S., “Political Notebook: Chipotle seeks OK for Castro location,” Bay Area Reporter, June 20, 2013.
Bajko, Matthew S., “SF commission foils burrito chain’s Castro plans,” Bay Area Reporter, June 20, 2013.
Barmann, Jay, “Home Restaurant Site In Castro Could Maybe Become 7-Story Condo,” SFist, April 15, 2014.
Leyland, Winston, Out in the Castro: Desire, Promise, Activism, Leyland Publications, 2002, ISBN 0-943595-88-6.
Lucchesi, Paolo, “Home Restaurant on Market closes, declares bankruptcy,” Inside Scoop SF, August 12, 2011.
McKenzie, Roy, “64 Apartments Planned for Old Home Location,” Hoodline, April 16, 2014,
Location
2100 Market Street, San Francisco
