Grub, now closed, at 758 Valencia St. between 18th and 19th streets. Photo by Joe Rivano Barros.

Grub, the brunch spot on Valencia Street that had Yelpers raving about bottomless mimosas, has closed down just months after a reopening in the fall of 2015, according to its website.

The restaurant owners could not be reached for comment, but employees nearby said Grub, located at 758 Valencia St. between 18th and 19th streets, closed sometime last week and that it was sudden.

“It was kind of booming as a brunch place,” said Sean Santos, the manager of Paxton Gate nearby. “We’re bummed, we liked ordering from them. It was good American greasy food, you could get like a mount of tater tots, and there really isn’t anything like that [here].”

Santos ate at Grub two days before it opened, he said, and knew some of the employees there. He said the closure was unexpected and unannounced. The restaurant’s doors are locked, and the space inside has been emptied out of everything but stacks of chairs.

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Joe was born in Sweden, where half of his family received asylum after fleeing Pinochet, and then spent his early childhood in Chile; he moved to Oakland when he was eight. He attended Stanford University for political science and worked at Mission Local as a reporter after graduating. He then spent time at YIMBY Action and as a partner for the strategic communications firm The Worker Agency. He rejoined Mission Local as an editor in 2023. You can reach him on Signal @jrivanob.99.

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