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ByImageCaptionCloseFacade of the Creamery, a restaurant and coffee shop popular with technology startup founders and venture capital investors in the South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood of San Francisco, California, October 13, 2017.&nbsp;(Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)Facade of the Creamery, a restaurant and coffee shop popular with technology startup founders and venture capital investors in the South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood of San Francisco, California, October 13,SF coffee shop and famed tech meeting hub The Creamery to close permanentlyBack to GalleryAfter 12 years in SoMa, during which time it became a hub for all things tech, The Creamery will close permanently today.Owner Ivor Bradley confirmed the news to SFGATE Friday morning, saying the coffee shop's lease has expired and — in the midst of a global pandemic that has ravaged the hospitality industry — they won't be renewing."We would like to thank our regulars, and commuters, and our SoMa residents, and our Giants fans for all there support over the years," Bradley said.Located kitty-corner to Caltrain's 4th and King station, The Creamery's lore is well documented. Business Insider its most common customers were "various venture capital fund owners and Michael Arrington, former editor of TechCrunch," Arrington — now a venture capitalist — noted in that his firm, CrunchFund, "has probably closed ... more deals there than anywhere else," and The San Francisco Chronicle described it as "deal central" in a 2012 piece, "where members of San Francisco's tech scene congregate and caffeinate in equal measure."RIP The Creamery; where I made my 1st VC pitch!Right ax from Caltrain, it was a legendary spot - for a time most startups were in the city but investors still down south, so The Creamery was a great spot to meet VC's, increasingly less important as VC's moved offices to SF. — Sheel Mohnot (@pitdesi)Word of the closure spread quickly on Friday morning, with journalists and venture capitalists alike lamenting its closure including The Verge's Silicon Valley editor Casey Newton, who tweeted a short eulogy to the beloved SoMa haunt, calling it "one of the tech world’s favorite gathering places during the early 2010s tech boom."RIP to the Creamery, one of the tech world’s favorite gathering places during the early 2010s tech boom. I’ll miss it. — Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton)Fast Company tech editor Harry McCracken likened it to NYC's media power brokering mainstay Michael's. "I haven’t actually BEEN to the Creamery in a long time, but will miss it. As Michael’s is (was?) to NYC media types, it was to the SF tech world."I haven’t actually BEEN to the Creamery in a long time, but will miss it. As Michael’s is (was?) to NYC media types, it was to the SF tech world. — Harry McCracken (@harrymccracken)The Creamery opened in 2012, 16 years after Bradley first arrived in San Francisco. An Irish immigrant, Bradley also owns the next door Iron Cactus.Grant Marek is the Editorial Director of SFGATE. Email: grant.marek@sfgate.com | Twitter: @grant_marek

ByImageCaptionCloseFacade of the Creamery, a restaurant and coffee shop popular with technology startup founders and venture capital investors in the South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood of San Francisco, California, October 13, 2017.&nbsp;(Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)Facade of the Creamery, a restaurant and coffee shop popular with technology startup founders and venture capital investors in the South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood of San Francisco, California, October 13,SF coffee shop and famed tech meeting hub The Creamery to close permanentlyBack to GalleryAfter 12 years...

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