Post #20337 by thejab on Mon, Jan 20, 2003 1:09 PM

shipwreckjoey wrote:
"My only other good cherry experience was in San Francisco when I was 13 and I got to have Cherries Jubilee at the imortal Hungry Eye while on a family vacation. Hey, is that place still there, I'm ready to go back."

The historic Hungry i in North Beach closed years ago but its name lived on at a strip bar near the orginal location. Sadly, the club recently removed the old sign that said "hungry i" in lower case kooky typeface and replaced it with a boring generic backlit sign with an ugly typeface.

Story of the hungry i and pictures of old (first page) and new (click on "detail I") signs:

http://www.mistersf.com/farewell/fwhungryi.htm

If it's Cherries Jubilee you want you don't have to travel to San Francisco. Head over to the Imperial House by Balboa Park. It's the last bastion of 50s-era continental cuisine in San Diego (since Mister A's was "modernized"). They have plenty of flambe dishes on the menu including Steak Diane, Cherries Jubilee, and Bananas Foster!

http://www.imperialhouse.net/