Shuggie’s, an immediate hit when it opened in the Mission District in 2022 and started serving pizzas out of ingredients that might have been tossed, announced today in an Instagram post, that it will close its doors on July 11.
Soon after Shuggie’s opened at 3349 23rd St. at Bartlett Street, the restaurant was named in Esquire magazine’s list of best new restaurants in America. The following year, Shuggie’s earned the same distinction in Bon Appétit magazine. The restaurant was also named in the New York Times twice, one in 2022 and again in 2025.
But those plaudits failed to turn into a sustained customer base…