Blondie's Pizza closes SF location, plans Pleasant Hill restaurant

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Less than a month after Blondie's Pizza was forced to temporarily shutter by the San Francisco Department of Public Health, the slice house at 63 Powell Street has closed for good.

The storefront, plagued in recent weeks by a "severe cockroach infestation," briefly reopened after a couple days of cleaning, only to quickly close again. As of this writing, "For Lease" signs now hang in the window of both the pizza restaurant and the next door former storefront of Rasputin's Music, a sister establishment run by the same owner.

At the time of its initial closure, Blondie's had a health score of 74, and vowed to open up again. "We're really doing our best; we're really hard workers," a man named Steven (presumed to be an employee) told Hoodline. "We're really trying to open at 100 percent and correct everything. I want our customers to come back."

According to the San Francisco Department of Public Health, Blondie's on Powell "did not have other violations that resulted in their recent closure of business," meaning the closure was a decision made after it was initially shut down.

welp, looks like blondies SF is hella closed. inside totally scraped clean. pic.twitter.com/vsx2ERzfoS — alyssa pereira (@alyspereira) May 31, 2016

And though Blondie's briefly shuttered its Berkeley spot too, the pizza minichain isn't calling it quits yet. According to its website, a new location is heading to Pleasant Hill, although according to that city's Business License Department, the necessary permit to open a restaurant hasn't yet been filed.

Calls to Cushman & Wakefield, the real estate agency facilitating the lease of the San Francisco restaurant, have not been returned.

Edit: Blondie's briefly closed its Berkeley location, but it now appears to be reopened.

Alyssa Pereira is a staff writer for SFGATE. Follow her here on Twitter.