THE MISSION’S STORIED BEAUTY BAR HAS CLOSED AFTER 25 YEARS

One of the Mission District’s most popular — or most annoying, depending on who you ask — bars has closed after more than two decades on the corner of 19th and Mission streets. Beauty Bar managing owner Aaron Buhrz shared the news with staff over the weekend via text, SFGATE reports, and though he could not be reached for comment, the Chronicle confirmed the news with former general manager Matt Stout this week. Stout told the paper the bar’s closure is due to “unsustainable, increasingly slowing” revenue.

These days Beauty Bar can accurately be described as a dive, often bustling with revelers drinking their way around the neighborhood on weekend nights. But when the bar opened in 1999, part of a chain that also operated locations in New York and Los Angeles, the bar attracted customers with a sparkly, pink, retro-inspired decor, and patrons could order $10 martinis and get a manicure. More recently, the bar has made headlines for less positive happenings; in 2016, a woman leaving the bar was abducted, and in 2019, gang members executed a man after he left the bar.

Downtown SF’s rotating restaurant spins again

It’s been nearly two decades since Equinox, the rotating restaurant atop the Hyatt Regency San Francisco stopped turning. But according to the Chronicle, the restaurant will resume its rotation this week. The restaurant isn’t reopening, but the hotel has fixed the mechanism that allows it to turn. This week, a select group of hotel customers can experience the turning restaurant space, and the hotel plans to host a reopening evening on May 1.

Proposed law would require folic acid in tortillas

A proposed California law would require folic acid be added to products made with corn masa flour in the state. Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula (D-Fresno) proposed Assembly Bill 1830, which would “require that producers add 0.7 milligrams of folic acid to every pound of masa, and that this addition be reflected in the nutrition label,” per the Mercury News. Folic acid can prevent birth defects and helps babies develop, but public health data indicates “Latinas are less likely to take folic acid in the early weeks of pregnancy or before becoming pregnant when compared to other racial or ethnic groups,” the paper writes.

Plate lunches land on Taraval Street

Hawaiian-style plate lunches will be available in the Outer Sunset over the next two weeks. Per a post on Instagram, pop-up Huns Hawaiian Plate Lunch will be at 3560 Taraval Street on Wednesday, April 17 from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. serving Spam musubi, guava chicken, and shoyu pork. The pop-up will return the following Wednesday, April 24.

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