San Francisco – from www.sfappeal.com – You remember Heaven, the North Beach strip club City Attorney Dennis Herrera’s been hot to shutter since July, when he said it was “a public nuisance, having allegedly violated city codes and having been cited for prostitution.”

Today Superior Court Judge Charlotte Walter Woolard granted his motion to shut it down, effective immediately. In a release sent by his office, Herrera says “Today’s ruling should send a message to other would-be operators of illegal businesses that even ‘Heaven’ is subject to temporal laws here in San Francisco…. It’s regrettable that this business chose to expend so much effort to flout the law rather than to follow it, and that a preliminary injunction was necessary to shut it down.”

Herrera’s move was actually a response to a suit Heaven filed, claiming they were the victims of unfair and selective enforcement because of their unwillingness to bribe police.

Will folks miss Heaven? Speaking of bribery, a quick scan of its one star Yelp reviews suggests otherwise. Yelper Jenni C, for example, says

i guess the deal with this place is, u just come here and get “dances” from girls without the cover or the show or any class at all. we sat around long enough to see 2 girls walk out of those rooms with clients and one of them introduced herself as “cici” motioning at her c-sized twins. then she exclaimed, “let’s see some money!”

Calls to Heaven club owner Peter Lambertson were not returned at publication time.