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Round House Café is a
Built in 1938, one year after the Golden Gate Bridge was completed, Round House Café is one of the oldest restaurants in the
cafe
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and diner
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in the Presidio
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of San Francisco, California next to the Golden Gate Bridge
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History
Built in 1938, one year after the Golden Gate Bridge was completed, Round House Café is one of the oldest restaurants in the Bay Area
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. It is a circular Art Deco
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building built by Finnish-American architect Alfred Finnila and overlooks the bay.
In 2021, a local coffee company, Equator Coffees, leased the site. The diner was renovated in 2012 and the gift shop was then removed as a new, official gift shop has been included in the adjacent plaza renovations.
See also
*Presidio of San Francisco
The Presidio of San Francisco (originally, El Presidio Real de San Francisco or The Royal Fortress of Saint Francis) is a park and former U.S. Army post on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula in San Francisco, California, and is part ...
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