Let's see, what's the food sect ballyhooing over this week. Let's see... ah, here we go: Joseph Humphrey's Dixie. Continuing the trend of southern comfort cooking, Humphrey's new joint in the Presidio features, according to Eater, things like "chicken and dumplings rendered with Marin Sun Farms poultry and ricotta gnudi." Which, sweet Jesus on the cross, sounds downright amazing. Grub Street goes further by noting the following beauties on the menu: [R]oast rabbit with bacon, black cod with bourbon and red miso, and twists on southern comfort foods like 'dirty rice-style' risotto; chicken-fried quail with a roasted-garlic waffle; and halibut with sassafras and sea urchin remoulade."

We have never had a chicken-fried quail with a roasted-garlic waffle, but we will probably order five of them when we make it over to the Presidio and hit up Dixie. Anyway, you should totally check out the place. Not only for the esteemed menu and siren-song genre of cooking, but it also boasts a restaurant name that doesn't make you roll your eyes into the back of your skull.


Dixie: 1 Letterman Drive (near Chestnut and Lyon), S.F., 11-a.m.-11 p.m., 415-829-3363