) … Maybe you could tell us about the history of the Old San Francisco Steak House next. The girl on the swing and the blocks of cheese at every table are locked in my memory bank. I understand lawyer Michael Rizik may have been one of the owners.looked into an unrelated anecdote that came with this question, about a series of unfortunate events during the construction of the HemisFair Tower, culminating in a lawsuit.
To achieve that end, he and Dan Anthony made a trip across the country and even up into Canada visiting fine restaurants, where they “pick up one idea here, another there. Many of the very best they found in San Francisco, so they hit upon the idea of calling the eatery here the Old San Francisco.” Originally, the partners — by then including Boldt — “were going to lease in La Villita, where the Little Rhine Steak House was located for years,” Blond said. But the space at 231 S. Alamo St., across from the HemisFair grounds, “proved too small for the three guys’ ideas,” which include private dining rooms and a membership club to circumvent state laws against liquor-by-the-drink, which persisted until 1971.