The SF Examiner reports that Sinbad’s restaurant, a decades’ old waterfront icon, may soon serve its last shrimp cocktail. The restaurant’s landlord, the Port of San Francisco, is expecting the restaurant to vacate by March 21, 2015, as the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission plans to demolish Pier 2 that month, allowing construction to expand the ferry terminal in 2016.
That is, unless the Stinson brothers – the restaurant’s owners – are successful in evoking the “no harm, no foul” doctrine, to continue operating until the City breaks ground on construction.
Charles Stinson was also briefly involved in an attempt to reopen a restaurant in the San Francisco historical landmark, Julius Castle, at the top of Telegraph Hill. That effort resulted in, among other things, the decision Julius Castle Restaurant Inc. v. Payne (2013) 216 Cal.App.4th 1423, where the First District Court of Appeals analyzed fraud in the inducement of commercial lease agreements.
