SFist Goes to the Oyster Bar at the Farallon Restaurant
Every once in awhile, SFist likes to get out of their little burrtito ghetto and enjoy the finer things of life. Like the new oyster bar at Farallon. Put into the restaurant in November, they finally have the thing up and running. So it was yummy seafood, more oysters than we could know what to do with, and the spending of lots and lots of money. And more money on top of that. Did we say it was expensive?
How's this for expensive: the Maine lobster roll brioche was $18. It was pretty good, though. As was the rest of the meal-- pricey but good. We also learned way more about the different types of oysters than we ever thought we would.
We got the Grand Fruit de Mer for $50. The plate was basically a cornucopia of shellfish-- lobster, oysters, and shrimp. Somewhere, our rabbi was sighing. The shrimp was huge, the oysters didn't make anyone sick, and the lobster was, well, we hadn't had lobster in a long time.
The shrimp, by the way, was so big and plentiful all we could think about was that scene in The Blues Brothers where they tried to harass their trumpet player into joining the band. We almost felt like turning to the people next to us and asking them how much for the women.
That thing to the right, by the way, was the $18 lobster brioche
The bar that puts the bar in oyster bar.
Meet Lobby the Lobster
Our desert, the Warm el rey chocolate pudding cake with salty peanut-caramel ice cream and peanut brittle. This was stupendously good.
We loved their jellyfish-like light installations