Walnut Creek’s mainstay Yacht Club restaurant is signaling its surrender – much to the chagrin of regulars who came to rely on the establishment’s commitment to fresh ingredients, good seafood and an inventive bar.
Co-owners Ellen McCarty and Kevin Weinberg delivered the bad news just recently and their faithful clientele are making plans for last visits and Manhattan-fueled goodbyes. It was not immediately known who gets the signature fiberglass Mako shark who prowled the space.
The restaurant hosts gave retirement as their reason for giving up the helm of Walnut Creek’s signature seafood establishment, signaling they’ll haul down their colors on Wednesday, May 7 – a date marking the restaurant’s 29th anniversary.
“We have talked with others who wished to keep WCYC sailing,” McCarty/Weinberg wrote in their farewell dispatch, “…but this craft was built with our blood, sweat, and tears, and we knew that if someone else took the helm, she might not weather any new storms that could come her way.”
The hosts said another restaurant will take up residence at their 1555 Bonanza Street location, but offered no immediate clue as to who the replacements might be.
Part of those changes you have been talking about?
Noooooooo!!!!
Good restaurant and nice people and sorry to see them go.
Sorry, I never understood why I was called the Walnut Creek ‘Yatch Club”. Seemed odd to me. So we never went there.
Y’aught to’ve given it a shot. I hear fish is good for irony deficiency. I think it’s spelled, “YOT,” though.
^^^ *ought
(speaking of irony)
Yotting regachta.
Many a great meal was had there. Thank you to the Weinberg’s and their team for a great run.
Nooooo!! We love your restaurant and the staff and especially the food. So many good times at WCYC
Lots of good memories from dining and drinking there.
And no one could be the price on their lobster special.
Firestone 11R
Another consequence of ca min wage laws. This won’t be the only longtime staple that’s going to fail.
Wait, the staff were being overpaid, and lunch/dinner at the Yacht Club dinner is/was a “staple”? Have you ever considered other costs, you know, rent?, cost of capital?, insurance? What about the cost of actual staples? bread, potatoes, eggs, rice, and beans?
Perhaps you are blinded by the truthiness. The overpaid staff is likely splurging on daycare, eggs, rice, and beans. They don’t typically eat at the kind of places that they work, except when it is part of the compensation package. Is the survival of a restaurant for the affluent consumer as important, more important, than the survival of those who make it happen? Honestly? Should we be wishing for bots? That may be the future, but I don’t wish for it.
And, if you choose to say that this is not a restaurant for the affluent, consider that my generation of working class didn’t eat at restaurants except for special occasions. Is this generation of working people wealthier? NO!
Objectively, no! Did the owners cite labor costs for their closure….? Why, no. YOU invented that.
Sad to see them go. Good luck in their next project