Quinn’s Lighthouse Restaurant & Pub, positioned in a historic lighthouse on the downtown Oakland waterfront, will shut after 4 many years in enterprise. A supervisor mentioned the final day will seemingly be January 31, 2024. (Google Maps)
Quinn’s Lighthouse Restaurant & Pub, a unusual maritime-themed restaurant positioned in a historic lighthouse on the downtown Oakland waterfront, will shut this week after 4 many years in enterprise.
A supervisor who answered the telephone Monday, named solely Grady, mentioned the final day will likely be Jan. 31: “If we’re nonetheless open, it would solely be half the day.”
The house owners weren’t accessible for an interview.
The Quinn Lighthouse has been a fixture in a sandy a part of the Oakland estuary since 1984. The unique constructing was in-built 1903 as an entrance gentle to the Port of Oakland, which was deactivated within the 1960s and moved to its location present, the place it was transformed right into a restaurant. Locals and passing sailors knew it for its basic seafood dishes, flooring lined in peanut shells, and seafaring songs.
Grady, who has labored there for practically 25 years, mentioned there have been many doable causes for the closure.
“It is too costly: the minimal wage goes up, meals prices are going up,” he mentioned. “The Warriors left (Oakland) and that killed us. The Raiders left, that killed us too. The A’s are horrible and that has been killing us little by little through the years. “Then Covid hit and with everybody working from residence, we don’t have as many company events that we have been counting on.”
Grady mentioned there’s somebody making an attempt to purchase the place, however he does not know if it’s going to reopen underneath Quinn’s identify.
To this point, there isn’t a vigil scheduled for closing day, however there’s already one on the Oakland Reddit, the place persons are sharing their recollections of the salty watering gap.
“I went to eat there right this moment and the waiter was about to cry,” one individual wrote. “The beers are usually not being restocked, so half the faucets are nonetheless accessible. “I actually want this slide would cease.”
One other mentioned: “I’ve type of ignored many of the closures I’ve heard about, however this one actually hits residence.”