A scion of a storied San Francisco restaurant dynasty recognized for its literary and political ties died out of the blue in Greece at solely 41 years previous.
The devastated household of Sydna Konstin, co-owner of the famed downtown hang-out John’s Grill, confirmed her demise in an obituary revealed Thursday.
Konstin, daughter of John’s Grill co-owner John Konstin, had been residing in Athens after rising up within the San Francisco Bay Space.
The trigger was coronary heart failure, her household mentioned.
She was a third-generation proprietor of John’s Grill, a 118-year-old Union Sq. restaurant recognized for its steaks, cocktails and big Election Day block events that draw hundreds of politicos, journalists and different locals with free wine and buffet meals.
The wood-paneled joint was established in 1908 and bought within the Sixties by Sydna’s grandfather, Greek immigrant Gus Konstin, who revitalized the area as a noir hotspot beloved by energy brokers, film stars, and authors.
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The restaurant performed a job within the detective novel “Maltese Falcon” by Dashiell Hammett, who was an everyday at John’s Grill.
These near the heartbroken Konstin household described Sydna as an joyful and heat hostess who drew massive crowds to John’s Grill, the place she would generally work behind the bar.
“She introduced individuals collectively and made everybody really feel higher simply by being there,” her brother, John Jr., mentioned in her obituary.
She was the “bubbles within the champagne,” a household spokesperson shared, noting their pleasure in her shared inheritance of the household enterprise.
“From the day I first held her, she crammed our lives with love, laughter, compassion, and a lightweight that would by no means be measured,” her father, John Konstin, shared in a Fb publish in July.
“She had a smile that would quiet your worries, a coronary heart that all the time discovered room for another person, and a means of constructing each particular person she met really feel like they mattered.”
She was working in actual property on the time of her demise on June 26, in line with her household.
