After more than 50 years of free wine pours, a classic S.F. restaurant may close

Pacific Café, a 51-year-old San Francisco restaurant known for classic seafood dishes and complimentary wine pours, may soon serve its last crab cakes and Parmesan-encrusted halibut filets.

Co-owners Frank Gundry and Ross Warren plan to retire by the end of the summer and have put the restaurant up for sale for $195,000. The venerable restaurant at 7000 Geary Blvd. may close permanently if there is no buyer by the owners’ last day, which remains to be decided.

Gundry, 77, started telling longtime customers of his and Warren’s planned retirement over the weekend. He posted a letter in Pacific Café’s front area, where customers waiting for a table are treated to a glass of wine…

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