— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |
Just four days after Bacon Bacon was forced to close their Haight cafe for making an entire city block reek like a pan-fried slaughterhouse (allegedly), Brick & Mortar Music Hall was effectively shut down by an incredibly shady Entertainment Commission ruling that found the club to be too loud for neighbors. But with new soundproofing installed and an appeal of the Entertainment Commission's ruling on file, Brick & Mortar must be feeling pretty confident about their future, as they recently invited the smelly lepers from Bacon Bacon to open up in the club:
In the coming weeks, Bacon Bacon is going to return to a brick-and-mortar setting — appropriately, within the friendly confines of the Mission’s Brick and Mortar Music Hall.
On June 12, Bacon Bacon will be offering lunch on weekdays from 11am – 2pm. Beginning July 1, Bacon Bacon will be doing all the bar food for all Brick and Mortar events; the menus will be very similar to the Bacon Bacon truck menu. Perhaps just as importantly, Angelus will be able to use the kitchen at Brick and Mortar to do prep work for the truck.
I'm sure this outcome is exactly what the neighbors had in mind when complaining. Nice.
(But, really, how many people are going to want to see a show in a sweaty club that stinks like a pork pit?)
[SFGate]
Comments (8)
i’ll buy that for a dollar! fuck yeah down with neighbors! get buck! fight the power! exclaim.
Hmmm… I’m glad to see Brick & Mortar (sort of?) triumphing over its nay-sayers, but I was a diner waitress all through high school and college. I remember all too well the feeling of disgusting, greasy film on my skin at the end of a shift, thanks to the aerosolized burger grease. Consequently, this makes me MUCH less likely to want to go to shows there. Maybe they’ll do a better job of venting meat grease than the places I worked, but I’m skeptical.
Can’t say I particularly like the smell of pork being fried, but it’s great that B&M decided to fight back.
Did you read the SFWeekly story and comments that were linked here when this came up? I took two things from it. First, that the neighbors had real, longstanding complaints. Second, that the B&M owner, who referred to himself in third-person and seemed to ignore those complaints, was either a douchebag, a sociopath, or both.
Was there something fishy with the investigator’s side business? Absolutely. But it seemed like a smokescreen to distract from the actual reasons for the permit problem. So I’m not sure B&M is “fighting back.” Seems like they started it.
They could have legit complaints, but I have a hard time buying that given this city’s history of NIMBY complaints against successful businesses.
Regardless, you shouldn’t buy a house behind a nightclub and then complain about noise. That’s ridiculous.
Remember this gem of a human?
Nope. Never stepping foot in a smokehouse for hypertensioned swine fat to hear music.
Awesome! Brick and Mortar was always a great venue, and the smell of bacon makes pretty much anything even better. I am psyched.