Outta Sight Pizza Takes Over Former Dive Bar in Civic Center
The pizza chain Outta Sight Pizza is expanding with a new location in San Francisco's Civic Center. The company is acquiring the space formerly occupied by the dive bar Shovels.
- The founders of Outta Sight Pizza, Eric Ehler and Peter Dorrance, met while working at the Michelin-starred San Francisco restaurant Mister Jiu's. - Outta Sight began as a pop-up in 2020 before opening its first permanent location on Larkin Street in 2022 and a second in Chinatown in January 2025. - The new establishment will be a dive bar named Reggie & Maude's, a tribute to Reggie Gamble and Maude Spencer, who were leaders in the Tenderloin's sex workers' rights movement in 1917. - The location at 460 Larkin Street has a long history as a bar, previously operating as Pomeroy Bar & Grill, and before that as an Irish pub named Shovels. - The previous managing partner of the bar decided to sell because his business partner wanted to exit the venture, and he did not want to manage it alone. - While the new bar will be run by the Outta Sight team, they have not confirmed if their popular pizza will be on the menu, stating they will focus on affordable, "top-tier" bar food. - The new bar is located on the same block as Outta Sight's original Tenderloin pizzeria. - In June 2025, Food & Wine magazine named Outta Sight Pizza one of the "10 Must-Visit Pizzerias in the United States."
