An upstairs spot above two unassuming Mission-Bernal restaurants has reportedly been a hotbed of unpermitted late-night after-hours parties complete with gambling machines for the last two months, and City Attorney David Chiu is investigating.
At 3259 Mission Street (near 29th Street), you will find a greasy-spoon but affordable and delicious Chinese restaurant called Jasmine Tea House. Next door at 3261-A Mission, there’s a Yucatán-style Mexican restaurant called Aurora, with hand-painted menus and prices that even undercut the taquerias.
And above these two, there is what looks like a standard upstairs-apartment residential unit. But according to City Attorney David Chiu, that upstairs unit was operating as “an illegal after-hours club,” that based on a November 30 visit, “had a bar (with what appeared to be alcohol), a DJ blasting music, disco lights, and what appeared to be two gambling machines.”…