Au Revoir, Des Amis. Hello, Union Delaros-ish

Window sign at 2000 Union, the space formerly known as Cafe des Amis.

For awhile there, we had a mini Arrondissement going on Union Street. The shiny, short-lived Bistro Unique, petit magasin Chez Berlue triangulated with Cafe des Amis around Buchanan; Gamine, on the other side of Fillmore, served as a Left-Bank outlier.

Bistro Unique is now a sushi joint (which it used to be a couple of incarnations ago), and 2000 Union has been sitting vacant (again) since January 4. The Greenwich outpost of Cafe Claude is doing its bit to hold up Cow Hollow's Gauloise rep, and Chez Berlue is hanging on. About a week ago, we noticed these signs in the windows of the space formerly known as Des Amis. The folks who run Beretta, Delarosa and Super Duper are taking over. They've already de-Frenchified the windows.

The question remains, can a large restaurant space with rent rumored to be upwards of $25,000 a month make it in Cow Hollow, when all the dining heat these days is in NoPa, the Mission and other points south? Stay tuned.

UPDATE: Inside Scoop is reporting that Franck LeClerc is shuttering Cafe Claude's spot on Greenwich & Fillmore, after taking January off and getting lots of lucrative offers for the space. So if you have a hankering for Franch, Gamine stands alone...unless you want to cross Lombard and hit up Bistro Aix on Steiner.